"Uncovering the Sophisticated Societies of Europe's Last Hunter-Gatherers"
High-tech DNA analysis of 8,000-year-old hunter-gatherer skeletons in France suggests that these groups developed cultural strategies to avoid inbreeding, with little biological kinship among individuals buried together. The study sheds light on the complexity of hunter-gatherer societies during the Neolithic transition, challenging the notion of simplicity associated with such groups and highlighting the importance of social relationships that were not based on biological kinship.