Descent, marriage, and residence practices of a 3,800-year-old pastoral community in Central Eurasia

J Blöcher, M Brami, IS Feinauer… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Our understanding of prehistoric societal organization at the family level is still limited. Here,
we generated genome data from 32 individuals from an approximately 3,800-y-old burial …

[HTML][HTML] High-coverage genome of the Tyrolean Iceman reveals unusually high Anatolian farmer ancestry

K Wang, K Prüfer, B Krause-Kyora, A Childebayeva… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The Tyrolean Iceman is known as one of the oldest human glacier mummies,
directly dated to 3350–3120 calibrated BCE. A previously published low-coverage genome …

Genomic perspectives on human dispersals during the Holocene

M Stoneking, L Arias, D Liu, S Oliveira… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Nearly 20 y ago, Jared Diamond and Peter Bellwood reviewed the evidence for the
associated spread of farming and large language families by the demographic expansions …

[HTML][HTML] The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal

L Vallini, C Zampieri, MJ Shoaee, E Bortolini… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
A combination of evidence, based on genetic, fossil and archaeological findings, indicates
that Homo sapiens spread out of Africa between~ 70-60 thousand years ago (kya) …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean

D Koptekin, E Yüncü, R Rodríguez-Varela, NE Altınışık… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
We present a spatiotemporal picture of human genetic diversity in Anatolia, Iran, Levant,
South Caucasus, and the Aegean, a broad region that experienced the earliest Neolithic …

A genomic snapshot of demographic and cultural dynamism in Upper Mesopotamia during the Neolithic Transition

NE Altınışık, DD Kazancı, A Aydoğan, HC Gemici… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Upper Mesopotamia played a key role in the Neolithic Transition in Southwest Asia through
marked innovations in symbolism, technology, and diet. We present 13 ancient genomes (c …

[HTML][HTML] Recent speciation associated with range expansion and a shift to self-fertilization in North American Arabidopsis

Y Willi, K Lucek, O Bachmann, N Walden - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
The main processes classically evoked for promoting reproductive isolation and speciation
are geographic separation reducing gene flow among populations, divergent selection, and …

[HTML][HTML] Methodological changes in the field of paleogenetics

M Danielewski, J Żuraszek, A Zielińska, KH Herzig… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Paleogenetics has significantly changed since its inception almost forty years ago. Initially,
molecular techniques available to the researchers offered minimal possibilities for ancient …

[HTML][HTML] Hunter-gatherer admixture facilitated natural selection in Neolithic European farmers

T Davy, D Ju, I Mathieson, P Skoglund - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Ancient DNA has revealed multiple episodes of admixture in human prehistory during
geographic expansions associated with cultural innovations. One important example is the …

[HTML][HTML] Thresholds for the presence of glacial megafauna in central Europe during the last 60,000 years

F Sirocko, J Albert, S Britzius, F Dreher… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Lake sediment records from Holzmaar and the infilled maar of Auel (Eifel, Germany) are
used to reconstruct landscape changes and megafauna abundances. Our data document a …