An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Ancient Mediterranean (Leipzig, Germany) and the University of Bologna (Italy) has reconstructed, for the first time, the genetic and social profile of a Protoapennine community that lived in northwestern Calabria around 3500 years ago. The findings provide unprecedented insight into the population history, kinship patterns, and cultural practices of a Protoapennine community, a cultural horizon attested in Southern Italy around the Middle Bronze Age, whose remains were found in the archaeological cave of Grotta della Monaca.