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New paper on the effect of Beaker DNA on the Neolithic population of NW Europe.

http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/09/135962

Haven't read it yet , but it looks like a goodie .
Thanks .

The Scientific American take .

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bronze-age-ldquo-beaker-culture-rdquo-invaded-britain-ancient-genome-study-finds/

Arguably taking the the date for the henge rather than the erection of the megaliths for their " “The people who built Stonehenge probably didn’t contribute any ancestry to later people, or if they did, it was very little.”" comment .