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In Birney and Prüfer several high quality genomes of Denisovans and Neanderthals from the Middle Palaeolithic have produced signs of high rates of inbreeding. From all the Upper Palaeolithic we do not yet have a single genome of a quality to address this question (Raghavan). And still Alt et al. (list of 2013-06-15) use a single sample from a single village pointing in the same direction to infer wide reaching conclusions for social development. I should have voiced my misgivings then.
Lipinski is quite unconvincing in light of the far superior arguments by Freedman 1987 and Dever 1984 (list of 2012-08-19).