Although the first ancient DNA molecules were extracted more than three decades ago, the
first ancient nuclear genomes could only be characterized after high-throughput sequencing …

In less than a decade, analyses of ancient genomes have transformed our understanding of
the Indigenous peopling and population history of the Americas. These studies have shown …

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 …

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 …

The Bantu expansion transformed the linguistic, economic, and cultural composition of sub-
Saharan Africa. However, the exact dates and routes taken by the ancestors of the speakers …

Machu Picchu originally functioned as a palace within the estate of the Inca emperor
Pachacuti between~ 1420 and 1532 CE. Before this study, little was known about the people …

Humans settled the Caribbean about 6,000 years ago, and ceramic use and intensified
agriculture mark a shift from the Archaic to the Ceramic Age at around 2,500 years ago …

The genetic prehistory of human populations in Central America is largely unexplored
leaving an important gap in our knowledge of the global expansion of humans. We report …

People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins
over 3 million years ago to the first pre-industrial civilizations, beginning about 5,000 years …

The recently enriched genomic history of Indigenous groups in the Americas is still meager
concerning continental Central America. Here, we report ten pre-Hispanic (plus two early …