A new timescale has recently been established for human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)
lineages, making mtDNA at present the most informative genetic marker system for studying …

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 evolutionary history of modern humans is characterized by numerous migrations driven
by environmental change, population pressures, and cultural innovations. In Europe, the …

Farming and sedentism first appeared in southwestern Asia during the early Holocene and
later spread to neighboring regions, including Europe, along multiple dispersal routes …

In Europe, the Neolithic transition (8,000–4,000 bc) from hunting and gathering to
agricultural communities was one of the most important demographic events since the initial …

The phylogenetic relationships of numerous branches within the core Y-chromosome
haplogroup R-M207 support a West Asian origin of haplogroup R1b, its initial differentiation …

We analyzed 40 single nucleotide polymorphism and 19 short tandem repeat Y-
chromosomal markers in a large sample of 1,525 indigenous individuals from 14 …

Human populations, along with those of many other species, are thought to have contracted
into a number of refuge areas at the height of the last Ice Age. European populations are …

Farming was established in Central Europe by the Linearbandkeramik culture (LBK), a well-
investigated archaeological horizon, which emerged in the Carpathian Basin, in today's …

The Neolithic is a key period in the history of the European settlement. Although
archaeological and present-day genetic data suggest several hypotheses regarding the …