Genomic History of Neolithic to Bronze Age Anatolia, Northern Levant, and Southern Caucasus

@article{Skourtanioti2020GenomicHO,
  title={Genomic History of Neolithic to Bronze Age Anatolia, Northern Levant, and Southern Caucasus},
  author={Eirini Skourtanioti and Yılmaz Selim Erdal and Marcella Frangipane and Francesca Balossi Restelli and K Aslihan Yener and Frances Pinnock and Paolo Matthiae and Rana {\"O}zbal and Ulf-Dietrich Schoop and Farhad Guliyev and Tufan I. Akhundov and Bertille Lyonnet and Emily Hammer and S. Nugent and Marta Burri and Gunnar U Neumann and Sandra Penske and Tara Ingman and Murat Akar and Rula Shafiq and Giulio Palumbi and Stefanie Eisenmann and Marta D'andrea and Adam Benjamin Rohrlach and Christina G Warinner and Choongwon Jeong and Philipp W. Stockhammer and Wolfgang Haak and Johannes Krause},
  journal={Cell},
  year={2020},
  volume={181},
  pages={1158-1175.e28}
}
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