Beyond broad strokes: sociocultural insights from the study of ancient genomes

F Racimo, M Sikora, M Vander Linden… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
In the field of human history, ancient DNA has provided answers to long-standing debates
about major movements of people and has begun to inform on other important facets of the …

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 …

Human origins in a southern African palaeo-wetland and first migrations

EKF Chan, A Timmermann, BF Baldi, AE Moore… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Anatomically modern humans originated in Africa around 200 thousand years ago (ka) 1, 2,
3, 4. Although some of the oldest skeletal remains suggest an eastern African origin 2 …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean

D Koptekin, E Yüncü, R Rodríguez-Varela, NE Altınışık… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
We present a spatiotemporal picture of human genetic diversity in Anatolia, Iran, Levant,
South Caucasus, and the Aegean, a broad region that experienced the earliest Neolithic …

Approaching sheep herds origins and the emergence of the wool economy in continental Europe during the Bronze Age

S Sabatini, S Bergerbrant, LØ Brandt… - Archaeological and …, 2019 - Springer
In recent years, extensive archaeological studies have provided us with new knowledge on
wool and woollen textile production in continental Europe during the Bronze Age …

Deciphering the maternal ancestral lineage of Greek Cypriots, Armenian Cypriots and Maronite Cypriots

I Moutsouri, P Manoli, V Christofi, E Bashiardes… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Cyprus was conquered from several populations because of its special geographical
location. In this study, 406 unrelated Cypriot samples were tested based on their …

Mitogenomic diversity and stable isotopes provide insights into the maternal genetic history, mobility patterns, and diet of early medieval individuals from the Eastern …

V Coia, A Paladin, S Zingale, M Croze… - Archaeological and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Eastern Italian Alps (South Tyrol) is a connection area between continental Italy
and the northern Alps. Various local factors, such as the heterogeneous environment …

Ancient DNA shows high faunal diversity in the Lesser Caucasus during the Late Pleistocene

M Antonosyan, FV Seersholm, AC Grealy… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
In this study, we explore the Late Pleistocene (LP) vertebrate faunal diversity in south-
eastern Lesser Caucasus based on morphological and genetic identification of fossil bones …

Demographic history and genetic variation of the Armenian population

A Hovhannisyan, PM Delser, A Hakobyan… - The American Journal of …, 2024 - cell.com
We introduce a sizable (n= 34) whole-genome dataset on Armenians, a population
inhabiting the region in West Asia known as the Armenian highlands. Equipped with this …

Rare human mitochondrial HV lineages spread from the Near East and Caucasus during post-LGM and Neolithic expansions

M Shamoon-Pour, M Li, DA Merriwether - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Of particular significance to human population history in Eurasia are the migratory events
that connected the Near East to Europe after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). Utilizing 315 …