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 …

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 …

This Element was written to meet the theoretical and methodological challenge raised by the
third science revolution and its implications for how to study and interpret European …

As observed in recent centuries, the contemporary variety of kinship systems reflects
millennia of human migration, cultural inheritance, adaptation, and diversification. This …

Lactase persistence (LP), the continued expression of lactase into adulthood, is the most
strongly selected single gene trait over the last 10,000 years in multiple human populations …

Abstract The Early Bronze Age in Europe is characterized by social and genetic
transformations, starting in the early 3rd millennium BCE. New settlement and funerary …

The advent of genome-wide ancient DNA analysis has revolutionized our understanding of
prehistoric societies. However, studying biological relatedness in these groups requires …

Ancient DNA research in the past decade has revealed that European population structure
changed dramatically in the prehistoric period (14,000–3000 years before present, YBP) …

The Middle Neolithic in western Europe is characterized by monumental funerary structures,
known as megaliths, along the Atlantic façade. The first manifestations of this phenomenon …

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 …