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SUMMARY:Ancient DNA and cultural transmission - Professor Stephen Shennan\
 , UCL
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CONTACT:Simon Carrignon
DESCRIPTION:The availability of ancient DNA information now makes it possi
 ble to distinguish the relative importance of local innovations that occur
  in the course of vertical cultural transmission from those that are intro
 duced from somewhere else as a result of horizontal transmission. Discussi
 ons of this topic have perhaps inevitably been linked to long-standing dis
 cussions of culture history\, especially in Europe\, and of diffusion vers
 us cultural evolution. The talk will review some these discussions in the 
 light of recent work and introduce the ERC-funded COREX project and its BI
 AD database that is currently being developed.
LOCATION:McDonald Institute Seminar Room
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