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 …

The rise and fall of the Roman Empire was a socio-political process with enormous
ramifications for human history. The Middle Danube was a crucial frontier and a crossroads …

Abstract Background The appearance of Slavs in East-Central Europe has been the subject
of an over 200-year debate driven by two conflicting hypotheses. The first assumes that …

f-statistics have emerged as a first line of analysis for making inferences about demographic
history from genome-wide data. Not only are they guaranteed to allow robust tests of the fits …

Estimation of genetically related individuals is playing an increasingly important role in the
ancient DNA field. In recent years, the numbers of sequenced individuals from single sites …

Soqotra, an island situated at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden in the northwest Indian Ocean
between Africa and Arabia, is home to~ 60,000 people subsisting through fishing and semi …

As the collapse of the Western Roman Empire accelerated during the 4th and 5th centuries,
arriving" barbarian" groups began to establish new communities in the border provinces of …

Although a broad range of methods exists for reconstructing population history from genome-
wide single nucleotide polymorphism data, just a few methods gained popularity in …

Our knowledge of human evolutionary history has been greatly advanced by
paleogenomics. Since the 2020s, the study of ancient DNA has increasingly focused on …

Africa harbors the greatest human genetic diversity on the planet, a fact that has inspired
extensive investigation of the population structure found across the continent and the …