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 …

Going local with ancient DNA: A review of human histories from regional perspectives

MC Ávila-Arcos, M Raghavan, C Schlebusch - Science, 2023‏ - science.org
Ancient DNA (aDNA) has added a wealth of information about our species' history, including
insights on genetic origins, migrations and gene flow, genetic admixture, and health and …

The deep population history of northern East Asia from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene

X Mao, H Zhang, S Qiao, Y Liu, F Chang, P **e… - Cell, 2021‏ - cell.com
Summary Northern East Asia was inhabited by modern humans as early as 40 thousand
years ago (ka), as demonstrated by the Tianyuan individual. Using genome-wide data …

Genetic population structure of the **ongnu Empire at imperial and local scales

J Lee, BK Miller, J Bayarsaikhan, E Johannesson… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
The **ongnu established the first nomadic imperial power, controlling the Eastern Eurasian
steppe from ca. 200 BCE to 100 CE. Recent archaeogenetic studies identified extreme …

Descent, marriage, and residence practices of a 3,800-year-old pastoral community in Central Eurasia

J Blöcher, M Brami, IS Feinauer, E Stolarczyk… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Our understanding of prehistoric societal organization at the family level is still limited. Here,
we generated genome data from 32 individuals from an approximately 3,800-y-old burial …

Beringia and the peopling of the Western Hemisphere

JF Hoffecker, SA Elias, GR Scott… - … of the Royal …, 2023‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Did Beringian environments represent an ecological barrier to humans until less than 15
000 years ago or was access to the Americas controlled by the spatial–temporal distribution …

[HTML][HTML] Middle Holocene Siberian genomes reveal highly connected gene pools throughout North Asia

K Wang, H Yu, R Radzevičiūtė, YF Kiryushin… - Current Biology, 2023‏ - cell.com
The peopling history of North Asia remains largely unexplored due to the limited number of
ancient genomes analyzed from this region. Here, we report genome-wide data of ten …

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 …

The rise and transformation of Bronze Age pastoralists in the Caucasus

A Ghalichi, S Reinhold, AB Rohrlach, AA Kalmykov… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
The Caucasus and surrounding areas, with their rich metal resources, became a crucible of
the Bronze Age and the birthplace of the earliest steppe pastoralist societies. Yet, despite …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic admixture and language shift in the medieval Volga-Oka interfluve

S Peltola, K Majander, N Makarov, M Dobrovolskaya… - Current biology, 2023‏ - cell.com
Summary The Volga-Oka interfluve in northwestern Russia has an intriguing history of
population influx and language shift during the Common Era. Today, most inhabitants of the …