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 …

Bioarchaeological and paleogenomic profiling of the unusual Neolithic burial from Grotta di Pietra Sant'Angelo (Calabria, Italy)

F Fontani, R Boano, A Cinti, B Demarchi, S Sandron… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Neolithic burial of Grotta di Pietra Sant'Angelo (CS) represents a unique
archaeological finding for the prehistory of Southern Italy. The unusual placement of the …

Paleolithic Gene Duplications Primed Adaptive Evolution of Human Amylase Locus Upon Agriculture

F Yılmaz, C Karageorgiou, K Kim, P Pajic, K Scheer… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Starch digestion is a cornerstone of human nutrition. The amylase genes code for the starch-
digesting amylase enzyme. Previous studies suggested that the salivary amylase (AMY1) …

Arab Migration During Early Islam: The Seventh to Eighth Century AD from an Archaeological Perspective

H Nol - Open Archaeology, 2023 - degruyter.com
The topic of Arab migration during the medieval period has occupied many modern
historians. The evidence for migration in chronicles and geographies, however, is quite thin …