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 …

Recent genetic, isotopic and linguistic research has dramatically changed our
understanding of how the Corded Ware Culture in Europe was formed. Here the authors …

The origins of horseback riding remain elusive. Scientific studies show that horses were kept
for their milk~ 3500 to 3000 BCE, widely accepted as indicating domestication. However …

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 …

For archaeologists, the greatest impediment to the growth of migration theory has been the
difficulty of identifying if migrations occurred in the first place. The material footprint of …

Since aDNA research suggested a marked gene influx from Eastern into Central Europe in
the 3rd millennium bc, outdated, simplistic narratives of massive migrations of closed …

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Two co-authored articles in Nature (Haak et al., 2015; Allentoft et al., 2015) caused a
sensation. They revealed genetically the mass migration of steppe Yamnaya culture people …