From the field to the laboratory: Controlling DNA contamination in human ancient DNA research in the high-throughput sequencing era

B Llamas, G Valverde, L Fehren-Schmitz… - STAR: Science & …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract High-Throughput DNA Sequencing (HTS) technologies have changed the way in
which we detect and assess DNA contamination in ancient DNA studies. Researchers use …

Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

W Haak, I Lazaridis, N Patterson, N Rohland, S Mallick… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000–3,000 years
ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost 400,000 polymorphisms …

Pleistocene mitochondrial genomes suggest a single major dispersal of non-Africans and a Late Glacial population turnover in Europe

C Posth, G Renaud, A Mittnik, DG Drucker, H Rougier… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
How modern humans dispersed into Eurasia and Australasia, including the number of
separate expansions and their timings, is highly debated [1, 2]. Two categories of models …

Extensive farming in Estonia started through a sex-biased migration from the Steppe

L Saag, L Varul, CL Scheib, J Stenderup, ME Allentoft… - Current biology, 2017 - cell.com
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming in Europe was brought upon by arrival
of new people carrying novel material culture and genetic ancestry. The exact nature and …

Beyond binaries. Interrogating ancient DNA

RJ Crellin, OJT Harris - Archaeological Dialogues, 2020 - cambridge.org
In this paper we explore ancient DNA (aDNA) as a powerful new technique for
archaeologists. We argue that for aDNA to reach its full potential we need to carefully …

Implications of Nubian-like core reduction systems in southern Africa for the identification of early modern human dispersals

M Will, A Mackay, N Phillips - PLoS One, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Lithic technologies have been used to trace dispersals of early human populations within
and beyond Africa. Convergence in lithic systems has the potential to confound such …

The times of their lives: Hunting history in the archaeology of Neolithic Europe

A Whittle - 2017 - torrossa.com
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A genomic Neolithic time transect of hunter-farmer admixture in central Poland

DM Fernandes, D Strapagiel, P Borówka, B Marciniak… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Ancient DNA genome-wide analyses of Neolithic individuals from central and southern
Europe indicate an overall population turnover pattern in which migrating farmers from …

The maternal genetic make-up of the Iberian Peninsula between the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age

A Szécsényi-Nagy, C Roth, G Brandt… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Agriculture first reached the Iberian Peninsula around 5700 BCE. However, little is known
about the genetic structure and changes of prehistoric populations in different geographic …

Population history in third-millennium-BC Europe: assessing the contribution of genetics

M Vander Linden - World archaeology, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
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 …