[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 …

[HTML][HTML] Productivity of the eelgrass biotope and the resilience of fisher-hunter-gatherers in prehistoric Denmark

J Meadows, A Fischer - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
In the shallow coastal waters of the Danish archipelago, eelgrass (Zostera marina) forms
extensive and extremely productive stands, which support food webs that are isotopically …

[HTML][HTML] A Data‐Driven Paradigm Shift for the Middle‐to‐Upper Palaeolithic Transition and the Neandertal Debate

J Zilhão, F d'Errico, WE Banks… - … Environments and Humans, 2024 - Elsevier
Based on morphologically undiagnostic human remains from the southern Balkans and
central Europe, it has been argued that the Bachokirian and Ranisian industries stand for …

Late Neolithic collective burial reveals admixture dynamics during the third millennium BCE and the sha** of the European genome

O Parasayan, C Laurelut, C Bôle, L Bonnabel… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The third millennium BCE was a pivotal period of profound cultural and genomic
transformations in Europe associated with migrations from the Pontic-Caspian steppe, which …

Subsistence and population development from the Middle Neolithic B (2800–2350 BCE) to the Late Neolithic (2350–1700 BCE) in Southern Scandinavia

J Winther Johannsen, J Laabs, MME Bunbury… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
The present study aims to explore the hypothesis of a link between a population increase
derived from intensified food production and the development from the widespread cultural …

Interbreeding between farmers and hunter-gatherers along the inland and Mediterranean routes of Neolithic spread in Europe

J Fort, J Pérez-Losada - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The Neolithic (ie, farming and stockbreeding) spread from the Near East across Europe
since about 9000 years before the common era (BCE) until about 4000 yr BCE. It followed …

Ancient DNA HLA ty** reveals significant shifts in frequency in Europe since the Neolithic

AG Plascencia, M Jakobsson, F Sánchez-Quinto - Scientific Reports, 2025 - nature.com
Computational HLA ty** has surged as a cost-effective strategy to uncover questions
regarding the evolution of the HLA system, enabling immunogenic characterization from …

Figurative Representations in the North European Neolithic—Are They There?

R Iversen, V Becker, R Bristow - Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2024 - cambridge.org
This article offers a comprehensive survey of figurative finds from Neolithic northern Europe.
The survey shows that the immediate absence of figurative representation in the region is …

Modelling age at death reveals Nordic Corded Ware paleodemography

A Tornberg, H Vandkilde - Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2025 - Springer
Drawing on modelling of age at death in skeletal remains, this article unveils hitherto
unrecognized demographic patterns in the Nordic Corded Ware complex. This population …

Deep antiquity of seagrasses supporting European eel fisheries in the western Baltic

E Guiry, HK Robson - Proceedings of the Royal Society …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Protecting ocean habitats is critical for international efforts to mitigate climate impacts and
ensure food security, but the ecological data upon which policy makers base conservation …