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Migration and community in Bronze Age Orkney: Innovation and continuity at the Links of Noltland
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March 2022

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Hazel Moore

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Graeme Wilson

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Mairead Ni Challanain

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The remarkable archaeological record of Neolithic Orkney has ensured that these islands play a prominent role in narratives of European late prehistory, yet knowledge of the subsequent Bronze Age is comparatively poor. The Bronze Age settlement and cemetery at the Links of Noltland, on the island of Westray, offers new evidence, including aDNA, that points to a substantial population replacement between the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age. Focusing on funerary practice, the authors argue for interconnecting identities centred on household and community, patrilocality and inheritance. The findings prompt are consideration of the Orcadian Bronze Age, with wider implications for population movement and the uptake of cultural innovations more widely across prehistoric north-western Europe.

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... Dispersals of various groups, mostly associated to the Corded Ware culture, carried this steppe-related ancestry into different parts of Europe Brunel et al. 2020;Dulias et al. 2022;Furtwängler et al. 2020;Haak et al. 2015;Lazaridis et al. 2022a,b;Linderholm et al. 2020;Malmström et al. 2019;Mathieson et al. 2015;Moore et al. 2022;Papac et al. 2021;Patterson et al. 2022;Saag et al. 2017Saag et al. , 2021Villalba-Mouco et al. 2021). In the western Mediterranean area, the Iranian Neolithic/ Levant component can also be tracked in Bronze Age island populations in the Mediterranean and south-eastern Iberia as part of the local Neolithic ancestry (Fernandes et al. 2020;Lazaridis et al. 2017;Villalba-Mouco et al. 2021). ...

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Ancient genomic research - From broad strokes to nuanced reconstructions of the past
Migration and community in Bronze Age Orkney: Innovation and continuity at the Links of Noltland

Antiquity