The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes

S Mallick, A Micco, M Mah, H Ringbauer, I Lazaridis… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
More than two hundred papers have reported genome-wide data from ancient humans.
While the raw data for the vast majority are fully publicly available testifying to the …

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe

I Lazaridis, S Alpaslan-Roodenberg, A Acar, A Açıkkol… - Science, 2022 - science.org
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in
Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic …

Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages

P Heggarty, C Anderson, M Scarborough, B King… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The origins of the Indo-European language family are hotly disputed. Bayesian phylogenetic
analyses of core vocabulary have produced conflicting results, with some supporting a …

The genomic history of the indigenous people of the Canary Islands

JG Serrano, AC Ordóñez, J Santana… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The indigenous population of the Canary Islands, which colonized the archipelago around
the 3rd century CE, provides both a window into the past of North Africa and a unique model …

Peptide analysis of tooth enamel–A sex estimation tool for archaeological, anthropological, or forensic research

I Mikšík, M Morvan, J Brůžek - Journal of Separation Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Proteomics has become an attractive method to study human and animal material, biological
profile, and origin as an alternative to DNA analysis. It is limited by DNA amplification in …

Kinship practices in the early state El Argar society from Bronze Age Iberia

V Villalba-Mouco, C Oliart, C Rihuete-Herrada… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Early Bronze Age in Europe is characterized by social and genetic
transformations, starting in the early 3rd millennium BCE. New settlement and funerary …

A 23,000-year-old southern Iberian individual links human groups that lived in Western Europe before and after the Last Glacial Maximum

V Villalba-Mouco, MS van de Loosdrecht… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Human populations underwent range contractions during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
which had lasting and dramatic effects on their genetic variation. The genetic ancestry of …

Detection of chromosomal aneuploidy in ancient genomes

K Anastasiadou, M Silva, T Booth, L Speidel… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Ancient DNA is a valuable tool for investigating genetic and evolutionary history that can
also provide detailed profiles of the lives of ancient individuals. In this study, we develop a …

Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria

M Michel, E Skourtanioti, F Pierini, EK Guevara… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Malaria-causing protozoa of the genus Plasmodium have exerted one of the strongest
selective pressures on the human genome, and resistance alleles provide biomolecular …

Ancient DNA gives new insights into a Norman Neolithic monumental cemetery dedicated to male elites

M Rivollat, A Thomas, E Ghesquière… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The Middle Neolithic in western Europe is characterized by monumental funerary structures,
known as megaliths, along the Atlantic façade. The first manifestations of this phenomenon …