Various fields have been identified in the “omics” era, such as genomics, proteomics,
transcriptomics, metabolomics, phenomics, and metagenomics. Among these …

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 prevalence of chronic, non-communicable diseases has risen sharply in recent
decades, especially in industrialized countries. While several studies implicate the …

One of the most promising areas of research in palaeomicrobiology is the study of the
human microbiome. In particular, ancient dental calculus helps to reconstruct a substantial …

The human microbiome has recently become a valuable source of information about host
life and health. To date little is known about how it may have evolved during key phases …

Environmental DNA is increasingly being used to reconstruct past and present biodiversity
including from freshwater ecosystems. Macrophytes are especially good environmental …

Prehistoric chewed pitch has proven to be a useful source of ancient DNA, both from
humans and their microbiomes. Here we present the metagenomic analysis of three pieces …

It is evident that the origin, development, and expansion of agriculture and animal
husbandry during the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods across Eurasia facilitated the …

Background Lifestyle plays an important role in shaping the gut microbiome. However, its
contributions to the oral microbiome remain less clear, due to the confounding effects of …

Forager focus on wild cereal plants has been documented in the core zone of domestication
in southwestern Asia, while evidence for forager use of wild grass grains remains sporadic …