Although the first ancient DNA molecules were extracted more than three decades ago, the
first ancient nuclear genomes could only be characterized after high-throughput sequencing …

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 …

Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years,. Our knowledge of the
genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to …

Abstract In European and many African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian populations,
lactase persistence (LP) is the most strongly selected monogenic trait to have evolved over …

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 …

The sequencing of modern and ancient genomes from around the world has revolutionized
our understanding of human history and evolution. However, the problem of how best to …

The island of Sardinia has been of particular interest to geneticists for decades. The current
model for Sardinia's genetic history describes the island as harboring a founder population …

Summary Huns, Avars, and conquering Hungarians were migration-period nomadic tribal
confederations that arrived in three successive waves in the Carpathian Basin between the …

The origin, development, and legacy of the enigmatic Etruscan civilization from the central
region of the Italian peninsula known as Etruria have been debated for centuries. Here we …

Parental relatedness of present-day humans varies substantially across the globe, but little
is known about the past. Here we analyze ancient DNA, leveraging that parental relatedness …