Cultural affiliation accounts for most of the spatiotemporal variation in burial rite practices
Elisabetta Canteri, Robert Staniuk, Adrian Timpson, Peter Schauer, Jelena B. Bulatović, Maria Ivanova, Samantha Reiter, Helene Agerskov Rose, Jan Kolář, Mark Thomas, Fernando Racimo, Stephen J. Shennan
The paper analyzes the relationship between spatiotemporal cultural variation and genomic data to determine how cultural affiliation influences burial practices.
bioRxiv · May 28, 2026 · PreprintGenetics