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 …

Ancient DNA from Mesopotamia suggests distinct pre-pottery and pottery Neolithic migrations into Anatolia

I Lazaridis, S Alpaslan-Roodenberg, A Acar, A Açıkkol… - Science, 2022 - science.org
We present the first ancient DNA data from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of Mesopotamia
(Southeastern Turkey and Northern Iraq), Cyprus, and the Northwestern Zagros, along with …

The time and place of origin of South Caucasian languages: insights into past human societies, ecosystems and human population genetics

A Gavashelishvili, M Chukhua, K Sakhltkhutsishvili… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
This study re-examines the linguistic phylogeny of the South Caucasian linguistic family (aka
the Kartvelian linguistic family) and attempts to identify its Urheimat. We apply Bayesian …

Medieval DNA from Soqotra points to Eurasian origins of an isolated population at the crossroads of Africa and Arabia

K Sirak, J Jansen Van Rensburg, E Brielle… - Nature ecology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Soqotra, an island situated at the mouth of the Gulf of Aden in the northwest Indian Ocean
between Africa and Arabia, is home to~ 60,000 people subsisting through fishing and semi …

Interdisciplinary analyses of Bronze Age communities from Western Hungary reveal complex population histories

D Gerber, B Szeifert, O Székely, B Egyed… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In this study, we report 21 ancient shotgun genomes from present-day Western Hungary,
from previously understudied Late Copper Age Baden, and Bronze Age Somogyvár …

Exploring connectivity in Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age Greece and the Balkans using cranial non-metric analysis

DE Michael, L Fibiger, I Moutafi, M Šlaus… - Archaeological and …, 2023 - Springer
The present study aims to explore connectivity and networking in Late Bronze Age
(LBA)/Early Iron Age (EIA) Greece and the Balkans using morphological biodistance …

Testing Times: Disentangling Admixture Histories in Recent and Complex Demographies using ancient DNA

MP Williams, P Flegontov, R Maier, CD Huber - Genetics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Our knowledge of human evolutionary history has been greatly advanced by
paleogenomics. Since the 2020s, the study of ancient DNA has increasingly focused on …

[PDF][PDF] Ancient genomic research-From broad strokes to nuanced reconstructions of the past

K Nägele, M Rivollat, H Yu, K Wang - Journal of Anthropological …, 2022 - pure.mpg.de
Ancient DNA (aDNA) studies have deployed genetic material from archaeological contexts
to investigate human dispersals and interactions, corroborating some longstanding …

The ancient DNA of the NE Mediterranean/Euro-Asian Cultures and the Position of the Mycenaean Greeks among the first Cultures

I Liritzis - Proceedings of the European Academy of Sciences …, 2022 - peasa.eu
Alerted by a trio of papers that appear in the journal SCIENCE today (26th August 2022) I
present briefly the essential findings with some extension on the hot subject of ancient DNA …

Human Y chromosome haplogroup L1-M22 traces Neolithic expansion in West Asia and supports the Elamite and Dravidian connection

AK Pathak, H Simonian, IAA Ibrahim, P Hrechdakian… - iScience, 2024 - cell.com
Summary West and South Asian populations profoundly influenced Eurasian genetic and
cultural diversity. We investigate the genetic history of the Y chromosome haplogroup L1 …