Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe

I Mathieson, I Lazaridis, N Rohland, S Mallick… - BioRxiv, 2015 - biorxiv.org
The arrival of farming in Europe beginning around 8,500 years ago required adaptation to
new environments, pathogens, diets, and social organizations. While evidence of natural …

Ancient DNA and Irish human prehistory: uncovering the past through palaeogenomics

LM Cassidy, DG Bradley - Journal of Irish Archaeology, 2015 - JSTOR
Recent advances in technology have opened a window to ancient genetic variation through
which whole genomes may be accessed from millennia-old archaeological bone. When …

[PDF][PDF] Archaeological context for 83 newly reported ancient samples

A Neolithic - reich.hms.harvard.edu
This note provides archaeological context information for the 83 samples for which genome-
wide data is presented for the first time in this study. Descriptions of the context for the …