Crisis in context: The end of the Late Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean

AB Knapp, SW Manning - American Journal of Archaeology, 2016 - journals.uchicago.edu
Abstract Explanations for the Late Bronze Age crisis and collapse in the eastern
Mediterranean are legion: migrations, predations by external forces, political struggles within …

Pollen evidence for a mid-Holocene East Asian summer monsoon maximum in northern China

R Wen, J **ao, J Fan, S Zhang, H Yamagata - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
There is a controversy regarding whether the high precipitation delivered by an intensified
East Asian summer monsoon occurred during the early Holocene, or during the middle …

Methods for summarizing radiocarbon datasets

CB Ramsey - Radiocarbon, 2017 - cambridge.org
Bayesian models have proved very powerful in analyzing large datasets of radiocarbon
(14C) measurements from specific sites and in regional cultural or political models. These …

Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago

C Clarkson, Z Jacobs, B Marwick, R Fullagar, L Wallis… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The time of arrival of people in Australia is an unresolved question. It is relevant to debates
about when modern humans first dispersed out of Africa and when their descendants …

Ancient DNA indicates human population shifts and admixture in northern and southern China

MA Yang, X Fan, B Sun, C Chen, J Lang, YC Ko… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Human genetic history in East Asia is poorly understood. To clarify population relationships,
we obtained genome-wide data from 26 ancient individuals from northern and southern East …

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 …

The genetic history of ice age Europe

Q Fu, C Posth, M Hajdinjak, M Petr, S Mallick… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Modern humans arrived in Europe~ 45,000 years ago, but little is known about their genetic
composition before the start of farming~ 8,500 years ago. Here we analyse genome-wide …

Parallel palaeogenomic transects reveal complex genetic history of early European farmers

M Lipson, A Szécsényi-Nagy, S Mallick, A Pósa… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Ancient DNA studies have established that Neolithic European populations were descended
from Anatolian migrants,,,,,,, who received a limited amount of admixture from resident …

Reconstructing the deep population history of Central and South America

C Posth, N Nakatsuka, I Lazaridis, P Skoglund… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
We report genome-wide ancient DNA from 49 individuals forming four parallel time transects
in Belize, Brazil, the Central Andes, and the Southern Cone, each dating to at least∼ 9,000 …

Postglacial viability and colonization in North America's ice-free corridor

MW Pedersen, A Ruter, C Schweger, H Friebe, RA Staff… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract During the Last Glacial Maximum, continental ice sheets isolated Beringia
(northeast Siberia and northwest North America) from unglaciated North America. By around …