Community partnerships are fundamental to ethical ancient DNA research

E Kowal, LS Weyrich, JM Argüelles, AC Bader… - Human Genetics and …, 2023 - cell.com
The ethics of the scientific study of Ancestors has long been debated by archaeologists,
bioanthropologists, and, more recently, ancient DNA (aDNA) researchers. This article …

Ethical guidance in human paleogenomics: new and ongoing perspectives

RE Fleskes, AC Bader, KS Tsosie… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Over the past two decades, the study of ancient genomes from Ancestral humans, or human
paleogenomic research, has expanded rapidly in both scale and scope. Ethical discourse …

The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe

I Lazaridis, S Alpaslan-Roodenberg, A Acar, A Açıkkol… - Science, 2022 - science.org
By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in
Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic …

The genomic history of the indigenous people of the Canary Islands

JG Serrano, AC Ordóñez, J Santana… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The indigenous population of the Canary Islands, which colonized the archipelago around
the 3rd century CE, provides both a window into the past of North Africa and a unique model …

Natural products from reconstructed bacterial genomes of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic

M Klapper, A Hübner, A Ibrahim, I Wasmuth, M Borry… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Major advances over the past decade in the field of ancient DNA are providing access to
past paleogenomic diversity, but the diverse functions and biosynthetic capabilities of this …

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 …

The genetic legacy of African Americans from Catoctin furnace

É Harney, S Micheletti, KS Bruwelheide, WA Freyman… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Few African Americans have been able to trace family lineages back to ancestors who died
before the 1870 United States Census, the first in which all Black people were listed by …

Recommendations for sustainable ancient DNA research in the global south: Voices from a new generation of paleogenomicists

MC Ávila-Arcos, C de la Fuente Castro… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Paleogenomics-the study of ancient genomes-has made significant contributions, especially
to our understanding of the evolutionary history of humans. This knowledge influx has been …

A genetic probe into the ancient and medieval history of Southern Europe and West Asia

I Lazaridis, S Alpaslan-Roodenberg, A Acar, A Açıkkol… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Literary and archaeological sources have preserved a rich history of Southern Europe and
West Asia since the Bronze Age that can be complemented by genetics. Mycenaean period …

Stable population structure in Europe since the Iron Age, despite high mobility

ML Antonio, CL Weiß, Z Gao, S Sawyer, V Oberreiter… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
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) …