The evolutionary history of modern humans is characterized by numerous migrations driven
by environmental change, population pressures, and cultural innovations. In Europe, the …

Ever since its emergence in 1984, the field of ancient DNA has struggled to overcome the
challenges related to the decay of DNA molecules in the fossil record. With the recent …

From around 2750 to 2500 bc, Bell Beaker pottery became widespread across western and
central Europe, before it disappeared between 2200 and 1800 bc. The forces that propelled …

We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000–3,000 years
ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost 400,000 polymorphisms …

Revealing and understanding the mechanisms behind social inequality in prehistoric
societies is a major challenge. By combining genome-wide data, isotopic evidence, and …

The processes that shaped modern European mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation remain
unclear. The initial peopling by Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers~ 42,000 years ago and the …

The consequences of the Neolithic transition in Europe—one of the most important cultural
changes in human prehistory—is a subject of great interest. However, its effect on prehistoric …

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal
throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological …

The spread of farming out of the Balkans and into the rest of Europe followed two distinct
routes: An initial expansion represented by the Impressa and Cardial traditions, which …

Haplogroup H dominates present-day Western European mitochondrial DNA variability (>
40%), yet was less common (~ 19%) among Early Neolithic farmers (~ 5450 BC) and …