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 …

As observed in recent centuries, the contemporary variety of kinship systems reflects
millennia of human migration, cultural inheritance, adaptation, and diversification. This …

Human populations underwent range contractions during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
which had lasting and dramatic effects on their genetic variation. The genetic ancestry of …

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) …

Populations genetically related to present-day Europeans first appeared in Europe at some
point after 38,000–40,000 years ago, following a cold period of severe climatic disruption …

Data from recent explorations in the Dinaledi subsystem illustrates one of the earliest
examples of a mortuary practice in hominins and offers the earliest evidence of multiple …

The biological aspects of infancy within late Upper Palaeolithic populations and the role of
southern refugia at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum are not yet fully understood. This …

Do we need an archaeology of mothering? For prehistoric periods, I would argue, we need
to challenge notions of parenting and child care that may subconsciously shape …

Background The inference of biological relations between individuals is fundamental to
understanding past human societies. Caregiving, resource sharing and sexual behaviours …

Personal ornaments are widely viewed as indicators of social identity and personhood.
Ornaments are ubiquitous from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene, but they are most often …