From the field to the laboratory: Controlling DNA contamination in human ancient DNA research in the high-throughput sequencing era

B Llamas, G Valverde, L Fehren-Schmitz… - STAR: Science & …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract High-Throughput DNA Sequencing (HTS) technologies have changed the way in
which we detect and assess DNA contamination in ancient DNA studies. Researchers use …

Maternal ancestry and population history from whole mitochondrial genomes

T Kivisild - Investigative genetics, 2015 - Springer
MtDNA has been a widely used tool in human evolutionary and population genetic studies
over the past three decades. Its maternal inheritance and lack of recombination have offered …

The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

I Olalde, S Brace, ME Allentoft, I Armit, K Kristiansen… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool

J Gretzinger, D Sayer, P Justeau, E Altena, M Pala… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The history of the British Isles and Ireland is characterized by multiple periods of major
cultural change, including the influential transformation after the end of Roman rule, which …

Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus

LS Weyrich, S Duchene, J Soubrier, L Arriola, B Llamas… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Recent genomic data have revealed multiple interactions between Neanderthals and
modern humans, but there is currently little genetic evidence regarding Neanderthal …

Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

W Haak, I Lazaridis, N Patterson, N Rohland, S Mallick… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
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 …

Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution

A Kocher, L Papac, R Barquera, FM Key, MA Spyrou… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been infecting humans for millennia and remains a global health
problem, but its past diversity and dispersal routes are largely unknown. We generated HBV …

Ancient Rome: A genetic crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean

ML Antonio, Z Gao, HM Moots, M Lucci, F Candilio… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Ancient Rome was the capital of an empire of~ 70 million inhabitants, but little is known
about the genetics of ancient Romans. Here we present 127 genomes from 29 …

Ancient mitochondrial DNA provides high-resolution time scale of the peopling of the Americas

B Llamas, L Fehren-Schmitz, G Valverde, J Soubrier… - Science …, 2016 - science.org
The exact timing, route, and process of the initial peopling of the Americas remains uncertain
despite much research. Archaeological evidence indicates the presence of humans as far as …

Towards a new paradigm? The third science revolution and its possible consequences in archaeology

K Kristiansen - Current Swedish Archaeology, 2014 - publicera.kb.se
There seems to be a general feeling that some fundamental changes are underway in
archaeological thinking and have been for some time now. One need only look at some …