Areni 1 Cave Trench 1, Chalcolithic Period, late 5th millennium BCE. The pots contained food offerings and three of them each had a secondary burial of a child which were included in the study and their genomes indicate the early appearance of Eastern hunter-gatherer ancestry in West Asia. (IMAGE)

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Areni 1 Cave Trench 1, Chalcolithic Period, late 5th millennium BCE. The pots contained food offerings and three of them each had a secondary burial of a child which were included in the study and their genomes indicate the early appearance of Eastern hunter-gatherer ancestry in West Asia.

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Areni 1 Cave Trench 1, Chalcolithic Period, late 5th millennium BCE. The pots contained food offerings and three of them each had a secondary burial of a child which were included in the study and their genomes indicate the early appearance of Eastern hunter-gatherer ancestry in West Asia.

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