Ancient DNA (aDNA) has added a wealth of information about our species' history, including
insights on genetic origins, migrations and gene flow, genetic admixture, and health and …

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 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 …

Summary The Tyrolean Iceman is known as one of the oldest human glacier mummies,
directly dated to 3350–3120 calibrated BCE. A previously published low-coverage genome …

Literary and archaeological sources have preserved a rich history of Southern Europe and
West Asia since the Bronze Age that can be complemented by genetics. Mycenaean period …

For archaeologists, the greatest impediment to the growth of migration theory has been the
difficulty of identifying if migrations occurred in the first place. The material footprint of …

Growing reliance on animal and plant domestication in the Near East and beyond during the
Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB)(the ninth to eighth millennium BC) has often been …

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 …

Summary The western Tibetan Plateau is the crossroad between the Tibetan Plateau,
Central Asia, and South Asia, and it is a potential human migration pathway connecting …

Lebanon's rich history as a cultural crossroad spanning millennia has significantly impacted
the genetic composition of its population through successive waves of migration and …