Animal domestication has fascinated biologists since Charles Darwin first drew the parallel
between evolution via natural selection and human-mediated breeding of livestock and …

Long DNA segments shared between two individuals, known as identity-by-descent (IBD),
reveal recent genealogical connections. Here we introduce ancIBD, a method for identifying …

Western Eurasia witnessed several large-scale human migrations during the Holocene,,,–.
Here, to investigate the cross-continental effects of these migrations, we shotgun-sequenced …

Europe's prehistory oversaw dynamic and complex interactions of diverse societies, hitherto
unexplored at detailed regional scales. Studying 271 human genomes dated~ 4900 to 1600 …

INTRODUCTION According to the commonly accepted “steppe hypothesis,” the initial
spread of Indo-European (IE) languages into both Europe and Asia took place with …

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 …

New human aDNA studies have once again brought to the forefront the role of mobility and
migration in shaping social phenomena in European prehistory, processes that recent …

This paper discusses and synthesizes the consequences of the archaeogenetic revolution to
our understanding of mobility and social change during the Neolithic period in Europe (6500 …

Two recent palaeogenetic studies have identified a movement of Yamnaya peoples from the
Eurasian steppe to Central Europe in the third millennium BC. Their findings are reminiscent …

Steppe-pastoralist-related ancestry reached Central Europe by at least 2500 bc, whereas
Iranian farmer-related ancestry was present in Aegean Europe by at least 1900 bc …