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 …

Investigation into the nexus of human-environmental behavior has seen increasing
collaboration of archaeologists, historians, and paleo-scientists. However, many studies still …

In the last year two publications shed new light on the linguistic and genomic history of
ancient Uralic speakers. Here I show that these novel genetic and linguistic data are …

Abstract From ad 567–568, at the onset of the Avar period, populations from the Eurasian
Steppe settled in the Carpathian Basin for approximately 250 years. Extensive sampling for …

To elucidate the population history of the Caucasus, we conducted a survey of genetic
diversity in Samegrelo (Mingrelia), western Georgia. We collected DNA samples and …

This paper reviews archaeological research on the transmission of writing knowledge
between literate and pre-literate societies. It proposes the use of productive approaches …

As the collapse of the Western Roman Empire accelerated during the 4th and 5th centuries,
arriving" barbarian" groups began to establish new communities in the border provinces of …

Here we present 115 whole mitogenomes and 92 Y-chromosomal Short Tandem Repeat
(STR) and Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) profiles from a Hungarian ethnic group …

In the second century CE the Roman Empire had increasing contact with Sarmatians,
nomadic Iranian speakers occupying an area stretching from the Pontic-Caspian steppe to …

Although a broad range of methods exists for reconstructing population history from genome-
wide single nucleotide polymorphism data, just a few methods gained popularity in …