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 …

Abstract In European and many African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian populations,
lactase persistence (LP) is the most strongly selected monogenic trait to have evolved over …

By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in
Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic …

The origin, development, and legacy of the enigmatic Etruscan civilization from the central
region of the Italian peninsula known as Etruria have been debated for centuries. Here we …

Abstract In the Bronze Age Mediterranean, trade was a key mechanism that defined the era's
political, social, and economic dynamism. This paper reviews recent methodological and …

A combination of evidence, based on genetic, fossil and archaeological findings, indicates
that Homo sapiens spread out of Africa between~ 70-60 thousand years ago (kya) …

Abstract The Italian Peninsula, a natural pier across the Mediterranean Sea, witnessed
intricate population events since the very beginning of the human occupation in Europe. In …

We present a spatiotemporal picture of human genetic diversity in Anatolia, Iran, Levant,
South Caucasus, and the Aegean, a broad region that experienced the earliest Neolithic …

We report genome-wide data from 33 Ashkenazi Jews (AJ), dated to the 14 th century,
obtained following a salvage excavation at the medieval Jewish cemetery of Erfurt …

Arab populations are largely understudied, notably their genetic structure and history. Here
we present an in-depth analysis of 6,218 whole genomes from Qatar, revealing extensive …