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Genetic insights into Brazil’s ancient shell mound builders

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An ancient genomics study of Holocene human individuals in Brazil provides hard-won data that illuminate the early history of population settlement in South America

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Fig. 1: A 4,500-year-old sambaqui named Morro do Ouro (Babitonga Bay, southern Brazil).

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  1. Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), ICTA-ICP, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    André Carlo Colonese & Krista McGrath

  2. Department of Prehistory, Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    André Carlo Colonese & Krista McGrath

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Carlo Colonese, A., McGrath, K. Genetic insights into Brazil’s ancient shell mound builders. Nat Ecol Evol 7, 1179–1180 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-023-02134-5

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