Context: Over the last few decades, advances in sequencing have improved greatly. One of
the most important achievements of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) is to produce …

Groundbreaking studies conducted in the mid-1980s demonstrated the possibility of
sequencing ancient DNA (aDNA), which has allowed us to answer fundamental questions …

The genomic changes underlying both early and late stages of horse domestication remain
largely unknown. We examined the genomes of 14 early domestic horses from the Bronze …

The development and dispersal of agropastoralism transformed the cultural and ecological
landscapes of the Old World, but little is known about when or how this process first …

Before the introduction of domestic horses in Mesopotamia in the late third millennium BCE,
contemporary cuneiform tablets and seals document intentional breeding of highly valued …

Background Climatic and environmental fluctuations as well as anthropogenic pressure
have led to the extinction of much of Europe's megafauna. The European bison or wisent …

Despite the important roles that horses have played in human history, particularly in the
spread of languages and cultures, and correspondingly intensive research on this topic, the …

High Throughput DNA Sequencing (HTS) revolutionized the field of paleomicrobiology,
leading to an explosive growth of microbial ancient DNA (aDNA) studies, especially from …

A fully sequenced high-quality genome has revealed in 2010 the existence of a human
population in Asia, the Denisovans, related to and contemporaneous with Neanderthals …

The Aven de la Boucle (Corconne, Gard, southern France) is a karst shaft used as a
collective burial between 3600 and 2800 cal BCE. The site encompasses the skeletal …