Ancient genomes from a rural site in Imperial Rome (1st-3rd cent. CE): a genetic junction in the Roman Empire

• Main Authors: Flavio De Angelis (Author), Virginia Veltre (Author), Marco Romboni (Author), Tullia Di Corcia (Author), Giuseppina Scano (Author), Cristina Martínez-Labarga (Author), Paola Catalano (Author), Olga Rickards (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background Rome became the prosperous Capital of the Roman Empire through the political and military conquests of neighbouring areas. People were able to move Romeward modifying the Rome area's demographic structure. However, the genomic evidence for the population of one of the broadest Empire...