Insights into human history from the first decade of ancient human genomics

Y Liu, X Mao, J Krause, Q Fu - Science, 2021 - science.org
Recent advancements in DNA sequencing technologies and laboratory preparation
protocols have rapidly expanded the scope of ancient DNA research over the past decade …

[HTML][HTML] The late persistence of the Middle Palaeolithic and Neandertals in Iberia: A review of the evidence for and against the “Ebro Frontier” model

J Zilhão - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Franco-Cantabrian region and Catalonia, the Upper Palaeolithic begins with
three assemblage-types found in stratigraphic order through the interval between 45,000 …

The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes

S Mallick, A Micco, M Mah, H Ringbauer, I Lazaridis… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

Palaeogenomics of upper palaeolithic to neolithic European hunter-gatherers

C Posth, H Yu, A Ghalichi, H Rougier, I Crevecoeur… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years,. Our knowledge of the
genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to …

On the limits of fitting complex models of population history to f-statistics

R Maier, P Flegontov, O Flegontova, U Işıldak… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Our understanding of population history in deep time has been assisted by fitting admixture
graphs (AGs) to data: models that specify the ordering of population splits and mixtures …

Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs

A Bergström, DWG Stanton, UH Taron, L Frantz… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia

K Prüfer, C Posth, H Yu, A Stoessel… - Nature ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Modern humans expanded into Eurasia more than 40,000 years ago following their
dispersal out of Africa. These Eurasians carried~ 2–3% Neanderthal ancestry in their …

Early presence of Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia by 86–68 kyr at Tam Pà Ling, Northern Laos

SE Freidline, KE Westaway, R Joannes-Boyau… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The timing of the first arrival of Homo sapiens in East Asia from Africa and the degree to
which they interbred with or replaced local archaic populations is controversial. Previous …

Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago

D Mylopotamitaki, M Weiss, H Fewlass, EI Zavala… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe is associated with the
regional disappearance of Neanderthals and the spread of Homo sapiens. Late …

Innovative ochre processing and tool use in China 40,000 years ago

FG Wang, SX Yang, JY Ge, A Ollé, KL Zhao, JP Yue… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Homo sapiens was present in northern Asia by around 40,000 years ago, having replaced
archaic populations across Eurasia after episodes of earlier population expansions and …