Going local with ancient DNA: A review of human histories from regional perspectives

MC Ávila-Arcos, M Raghavan, C Schlebusch - Science, 2023 - science.org
Ancient DNA (aDNA) has added a wealth of information about our species' history, including
insights on genetic origins, migrations and gene flow, genetic admixture, and health and …

Reconceptualizing Archaeological Perspectives on Long-Term Political Change

GM Feinman - Annual Review of Anthropology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
In archaeology, along with a large sector of other social sciences, comparative approaches
to long-term political change over the last two centuries have been underpinned by two big …

Modeling of African population history using f-statistics is biased when applying all previously proposed SNP ascertainment schemes

P Flegontov, U Işıldak, R Maier, E Yüncü… - PloS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
f-statistics have emerged as a first line of analysis for making inferences about demographic
history from genome-wide data. Not only are they guaranteed to allow robust tests of the fits …

The past 12,000 years of behavior, adaptation, population, and evolution shaped who we are today

CS Larsen - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
PNAS has a long history of presenting research results relating to human evolution,
including numerous breakthroughs in paleoanthropology, especially as they pertain to the …

Late Pleistocene to Holocene alluvial deposits of the Inaouène Valley and their paleoenvironmental significance (north Morocco)

M Lghamour, L Karrat, V Picotti, I Hajdas… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the paleoenvironmental changes and fluvial dynamics in the
Inaouène River Valley of central northern Morocco over the last 22,000 years. Through …

Tracing the evolutionary history of hepatitis B virus genotype H endemic to Mexico

A Jose-Abrego, S Roman, S Laguna-Meraz… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) spreads efficiently among all human populations worldwide. HBV is
classified into ten genotypes (A to J) with their geographic distribution and clinical features …

Inferring human phenotypes using ancient DNA: from molecules to populations

M Ferrando-Bernal, CM Brand, JA Capra - Current Opinion in Genetics & …, 2025 - Elsevier
The increasing availability of ancient DNA (aDNA) from human groups across space and
time has yielded deep insights into the movements of our species. However, given the …

The genomic echoes of the last Green Sahara on the Fulani and Sahelian people

E D'Atanasio, F Risi, F Ravasini, F Montinaro… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
The population history of the Sahara/Sahelian belt is understudied, despite previous work
highlighting complex dynamics. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 The Sahelian Fulani, ie, the largest …

Interplay of dietary diversity and mobility of the Late Neolithic people in the Central Plains of China: multi-isotope analysis at the Haojiatai site

Y Shen, W Li, Y Kemuyama, T Hirata… - Anthropological …, 2024 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The origins of agriculture in East Asia can be distinguished between rice agriculture in
southern China and millet agriculture (foxtail and broomcorn millet) in the north. In the …

Echoes from the last Green Sahara: whole genome analysis of Fulani, a key population to unveil the genetic evolutionary history of Africa

E D'Atanasio, F Risi, F Ravasini, F Montinaro… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Abstract Background The Sahelian Fulani are the largest nomadic pastoral ethnic group.
Their origins are still largely unknown and their Eurasian genetic component is usually …