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Genetics, ethics and archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Martin P. Evison
Martin P. Evison*
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Research School of Archaeology & Archaeological Science, University of Sheffield, 2 Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 4DT, England. E-mail: [email protected]
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A further contribution on the issues raised by modern genetics, and on their relationship to the material evidence offered by archaeological remains.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 269 , September 1996 , pp. 512 - 514
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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