article_snippet.sent: Dr Iain Mathieson, a geneticist at Harvard University in Massachusetts who led the work, said: 'Ancient DNA makes it possible to examine populations as Ancient DNA were before, during and after adaptation events, and thus to reveal the tempo and mode of selection.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers looked at ancient DNA extracted from 13 individuals buried at archaeological sites in the Great Hungarian Plain - a region known to have been at the crossroads of cultural change in European prehistory.
article_snippet.sent: the samples were dated from 5,700 BC to 800 BC, ranging across the Stone, Copper, Bronze and Iron Ages. '
article_snippet.sent: The study, which is also published on the open access site BioRxiv, compared the genomes obtained from the remains of 83 people found at archaeological sites across Europe along with the genomes of modern Europeans.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Chris Stringer, a leading anthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, said: 'This research adds yet more surprises to the remarkable complexity of population relationships in prehistoric Europe being uncovered through ancient DNA. '
article_snippet.sent: This data is fun because This data shows how much recent evolution has taken place.'