Due to Agricultural "Contamination," Some Prehistoric Human Migration Studies May Be Wrong (2 of 4) (VIDEO)

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Video summary of study. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the March 13th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by E. Thomsen at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark, and colleagues was titled, "Agricultural lime disturbs natural strontium isotope variations: Implications for provenance and migration studies."

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[Credit: Erik Thomsen, Tine Rasmussen, National Museum of Denmark]

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