[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic continuity, isolation, and gene flow in Stone Age Central and Eastern Europe

TM Mattila, EM Svensson, A Juras, T Günther… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
The genomic landscape of Stone Age Europe was shaped by multiple migratory waves and
population replacements, but different regions do not all show similar patterns. To refine our …

A multi-stage Bayesian modelling for building the chronocultural sequence of the Late Mesolithic at Cueva de la Cocina (Valencia, Eastern Iberia)

O García-Puchol, SB McClure, J Juan-Cabanilles… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a refined Mesolithic chronocultural sequence as a result of matching
data provided by the set of archaeological research conducted at Cueva de la Cocina …

Estimating human mobility in Holocene Western Eurasia with large-scale ancient genomic data

C Schmid, S Schiffels - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The recent increase in openly available ancient human DNA samples allows for large-scale
meta-analysis applications. Trans-generational past human mobility is one of the key …

[HTML][HTML] Early Neolithic human remains from Galería del Sílex in Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain

A Molina-Almansa, M Conde-Valverde… - Quaternary Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present new datings and a new anthropological study of Early Neolithic human remains
found in Galería del Sílex in 1979. This gallery is part of the Cueva Mayor system in the …

[HTML][HTML] Hunter-gatherer admixture facilitated natural selection in Neolithic European farmers

T Davy, D Ju, I Mathieson, P Skoglund - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Ancient DNA has revealed multiple episodes of admixture in human prehistory during
geographic expansions associated with cultural innovations. One important example is the …

[HTML][HTML] Hunter-gatherer genetic persistence at the onset of megalithism in western Iberia: New mitochondrial evidence from Mesolithic and Neolithic necropolises in …

AF Carvalho, E Fernández-Domínguez… - Quaternary …, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite its strategic importance at the furthermost edge of the Neolithic expansion in
Europe, archaeogenetic data from Mesolithic and Neolithic human remains from Portugal …

[HTML][HTML] Refining chronologies and typologies: Cueva de la Cocina (Dos Aguas, Valencia, Spain) and its central role in defining the Late Mesolithic sequence in the …

J Juan-Cabanilles, O García-Puchol… - Quaternary International, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper constitutes a narrative view of the diachronic research conducted at Cueva de la
Cocina (Dos Aguas, València) and its consequences on the Spanish Mesolithic literature …

[HTML][HTML] Mandibular morphology and the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Westernmost Iberia

RM Godinho, C Umbelino, AC Valera, AF Carvalho… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Neolithic farming and animal husbandry were first developed in the Near East~ 10,000 BCE
and expanded westwards, reaching westernmost Iberia no later than 5500 BCE. It resulted …

Infectious diseases may have arrested the southward advance of microblades in Upper Palaeolithic East Asia

K Aoki, N Takahata, H Oota… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
An unsolved archaeological puzzle of the East Asian Upper Palaeolithic is why the
southward expansion of an innovative lithic technology represented by microblades stalled …