The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes

S Mallick, A Micco, M Mah, H Ringbauer, I Lazaridis… - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

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 …

Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages

P Heggarty, C Anderson, M Scarborough, B King… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The origins of the Indo-European language family are hotly disputed. Bayesian phylogenetic
analyses of core vocabulary have produced conflicting results, with some supporting a …

Imputation of ancient human genomes

B Sousa da Mota, S Rubinacci, DI Cruz Dávalos… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Due to postmortem DNA degradation and microbial colonization, most ancient genomes
have low depth of coverage, hindering genotype calling. Genotype imputation can improve …

Pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) Domestication and Dispersal Out of Central Asia

B Mir-Makhamad, R Bjørn, S Stark, RN Spengler III - Agronomy, 2022 - mdpi.com
The pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) is commercially cultivated in semi-arid regions around the
globe. Archaeobotanical, genetic, and linguistic data suggest that the pistachio was brought …

The genomic history of the indigenous people of the Canary Islands

JG Serrano, AC Ordóñez, J Santana… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The indigenous population of the Canary Islands, which colonized the archipelago around
the 3rd century CE, provides both a window into the past of North Africa and a unique model …

Quantitative human paleogenetics: what can ancient DNA tell us about complex trait evolution?

EK Irving-Pease, R Muktupavela, M Dannemann… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Genetic association data from national biobanks and large-scale association studies have
provided new prospects for understanding the genetic evolution of complex traits and …

The diverse genetic origins of a Classical period Greek army

LJ Reitsema, A Mittnik, B Kyle… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Trade and colonization caused an unprecedented increase in Mediterranean human
mobility in the first millennium BCE. Often seen as a dividing force, warfare is in fact another …

Ancient DNA reveals admixture history and endogamy in the prehistoric Aegean

E Skourtanioti, H Ringbauer… - Nature ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Neolithic and Bronze Ages were highly transformative periods for the genetic
history of Europe but for the Aegean—a region fundamental to Europe's prehistory—the …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in human mobility patterns in Holocene Southwest Asia and the East Mediterranean

D Koptekin, E Yüncü, R Rodríguez-Varela, NE Altınışık… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
We present a spatiotemporal picture of human genetic diversity in Anatolia, Iran, Levant,
South Caucasus, and the Aegean, a broad region that experienced the earliest Neolithic …