Recent aDNA analyses demonstrate that the centuries surrounding the arrival of the Beaker
Complex in Britain witnessed a massive turnover in the genetic make-up of the island's …

The Madjedbebe archaeological results establish a minimum age for first human occupation
of Australia and, by extension, the dispersal of modern humans out of Africa, with further …

Several recent high-profile aDNA studies have claimed to have identified major migrations
during the third millennium BC in Europe. This contribution offers a brief review of these …

Large-scale archaeogenetic studies of people from prehistoric Europe tend to be broad in
scope and difficult to resolve with local archaeologies. However, accompanying …

The recently concluded 'People of the British Isles' project (hereafter PoBI) combined large-
scale, local DNA sampling with innovative data analysis to generate a survey of the genetic …

The Beaker phenomenon in Britain is typically represented by a particular form of pottery
and its inclusion in graves with flexed or crouched inhumations referred to as Beaker burials …

New human aDNA studies have once again brought to the forefront the role of mobility and
migration in shaping social phenomena in European prehistory, processes that recent …

In this essay, we interrogate how aDNA analyses have been blended with the study of
migrations in European prehistory. Genetic research into ancient populations has given …

Since aDNA research suggested a marked gene influx from Eastern into Central Europe in
the 3rd millennium bc, outdated, simplistic narratives of massive migrations of closed …

This paper is concerned with the impact of ancient DNA data on our models of the Mesolithic–
Neolithic transition in central Europe. Beginning with a brief overview of how genetic data …