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 …

In the field of human history, ancient DNA has provided answers to long-standing debates
about major movements of people and has begun to inform on other important facets of the …

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 …

Agriculture is a major contributor to the economic development of modern as well as ancient
India and largely depends on the rainfall in the monsoon season. In order to understand the …

The sequencing of modern and ancient genomes from around the world has revolutionized
our understanding of human history and evolution. However, the problem of how best to …

Abstract qpAdm is a statistical tool for studying the ancestry of populations with histories that
involve admixture between two or more source populations. Using qpAdm, it is possible to …

Kinship analysis from very low-coverage ancient sequences has been possible up to the
second degree with large uncertainties. We propose a new, accurate, and fast method …

East Asia, geographically extending to the Pamir Plateau in the west, to the Himalayan
Mountains in the southwest, to Lake Baikal in the north and to the South China Sea in the …

The genetic history of prehistoric and protohistoric Korean populations is not well
understood because only a small number of ancient genomes are available. Here, we report …

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 …