[HTML][HTML] Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia

ME Allentoft, M Sikora, A Refoyo-Martínez… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Western Eurasia witnessed several large-scale human migrations during the Holocene,,,–.
Here, to investigate the cross-continental effects of these migrations, we shotgun-sequenced …

Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages

P Heggarty, C Anderson, M Scarborough, B King… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The origins of the Indo-European language family are hotly disputed. Bayesian phylogenetic
analyses of core vocabulary have produced conflicting results, with some supporting a …

[HTML][HTML] Early contact between late farming and pastoralist societies in southeastern Europe

S Penske, AB Rohrlach, A Childebayeva… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Archaeogenetic studies have described two main genetic turnover events in prehistoric
western Eurasia: one associated with the spread of farming and a sedentary lifestyle starting …

Ancient DNA from Mesopotamia suggests distinct pre-pottery and pottery Neolithic migrations into Anatolia

I Lazaridis, S Alpaslan-Roodenberg, A Acar, A Açıkkol… - Science, 2022 - science.org
We present the first ancient DNA data from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Mesopotamia
(Southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq), Cyprus, and the Northwestern Zagros, along with …

[HTML][HTML] A genetic history of the Balkans from Roman frontier to Slavic migrations

I Olalde, P Carrión, I Mikić, N Rohland, S Mallick… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The rise and fall of the Roman Empire was a socio-political process with enormous
ramifications for human history. The Middle Danube was a crucial frontier and a crossroads …

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] Entwined African and Asian genetic roots of medieval peoples of the Swahili coast

ES Brielle, J Fleisher, S Wynne-Jones, K Sirak… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The urban peoples of the Swahili coast traded across eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean
and were among the first practitioners of Islam among sub-Saharan people,. The extent to …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating linguistic, archaeological and genetic perspectives unfold the origin of Ugrians

T Török - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the last year two publications shed new light on the linguistic and genomic history of
ancient Uralic speakers. Here I show that these novel genetic and linguistic data are …

[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 …