[HTML][HTML] Population genomics of post-glacial western Eurasia

ME Allentoft, M Sikora, A Refoyo-Martínez… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Western Eurasia witnessed several large-scale human migrations during the Holocene,,,–.
Here, to investigate the cross-continental effects of these migrations, we shotgun-sequenced …

Widespread horse-based mobility arose around 2200 bce in Eurasia

P Librado, G Tressières, L Chauvey, A Fages, N Khan… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Horses revolutionized human history with fast mobility. However, the timeline between their
domestication and their widespread integration as a means of transport remains …

100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark

ME Allentoft, M Sikora, A Fischer, KG Sjögren… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad
regional scales,,–. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are …

[HTML][HTML] Cannibalism and burial in the late Upper Palaeolithic: combining archaeological and genetic evidence

WA Marsh, S Bello - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The Magdalenian (∼ 23.5–∼ 13.5 kBP) is one of the two major technocomplexes
identified in Europe during the late Upper Palaeolithic and is notable for its complex worked …

Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago

D Mylopotamitaki, M Weiss, H Fewlass, EI Zavala… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Abstract The Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Europe is associated with the
regional disappearance of Neanderthals and the spread of Homo sapiens. Late …

The genetic origin of the Indo-Europeans

I Lazaridis, N Patterson, D Anthony, L Vyazov… - Nature, 2025‏ - nature.com
The Yamnaya archaeological complex appeared around 3300 bc across the steppes north
of the Black and Caspian Seas, and by 3000 bc it reached its maximal extent, ranging from …

A 23,000-year-old southern Iberian individual links human groups that lived in Western Europe before and after the Last Glacial Maximum

V Villalba-Mouco, MS van de Loosdrecht… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Human populations underwent range contractions during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
which had lasting and dramatic effects on their genetic variation. The genetic ancestry of …

The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal

L Vallini, C Zampieri, MJ Shoaee, E Bortolini… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
A combination of evidence, based on genetic, fossil and archaeological findings, indicates
that Homo sapiens spread out of Africa between~ 70-60 thousand years ago (kya) …

Modeling of African population history using f-statistics is biased when applying all previously proposed SNP ascertainment schemes

P Flegontov, U Işıldak, R Maier, E Yüncü… - PloS …, 2023‏ - journals.plos.org
f-statistics have emerged as a first line of analysis for making inferences about demographic
history from genome-wide data. Not only are they guaranteed to allow robust tests of the fits …

Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture

AP Sümer, H Rougier, V Villalba-Mouco, Y Huang… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Modern humans arrived in Europe more than 45,000 years ago, overlap** at least 5,000
years with Neanderthals 1, 2, 3, 4. Limited genomic data from these early modern humans …