%0 Journal Article
%A Mittnik, Alissa
%A Massy, Ken
%A Knipper, Corina
%A Wittenborn, Fabian
%A Pfrengle, Saskia
%A Carlichi-Witjes, Nadine
%A Deeg, Heidi
%A Furtwängler, Anja
%A Harbeck, Michaela
%A von Heyking, Kristin
%A Kociumaka, Catharina
%A Kucukkalipci, Isil
%A Lindauer, Susanne
%A Metz, Stephanie
%A Staskiewicz, Anja
%A Thiel, Andreas
%A Wahl, Joachim
%A Haak, Wolfgang
%A Pernicka, Ernst
%A Schiffels, Stephan
%A Stockhammer, Philipp W.
%A Krause, Johannes
%+ MHAAM, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society
PALEoRIDER, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society
MHAAM, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society
Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Max Planck Society
%T Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0007-2FDD-D
%R 10.1126/science.aax6219
%F OTHER: shh2436
%7 2019-10-10
%D 2019
%8 08.11.2019
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X Revealing and understanding the mechanisms behind social inequality in prehistoric societies is a major challenge. By combining genome wide data, isotopic evidence as well as anthropological and archaeological data, we go beyond the dominating supra-regional approaches in archaeogenetics to shed light on the complexity of social status, inheritance rules and mobility during the Bronze Age. We apply a deep micro-regional approach and analyze genome wide data of 104 human individuals deriving from farmstead-related cemeteries from the Late Neolithic to the Middle Bronze Age in southern Germany. Our results reveal that individual households lasting several generations consisted of a high-status core family and unrelated low-status individuals, a social organization accompanied by patrilocality and female exogamy, and the stability of this system over 700 years.
%J Science
%O Science
%V 366
%N 6466
%& 731
%P 731 - 734
%] aax6219 
%I American Association for the Advancement of Science
%C Washington, D.C.
%@ 0036-8075