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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Human fossils that were genetically analysed in this study were found on the Dutch coast and dated from around 11,000 to 8,000 years ago. They originally came from Doggerland, a now submerged land under the North Sea, where European hunter-gatherers lived.

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National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) modified by Michelle O‘Reilly

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