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AI-narrated summaries of the latest ancestry and ancient DNA research publications. Each episode brings you closer to the stories hidden in our genes.
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Characterized by the earliest use of pottery, the Jomon culture was a unique Neolithic culture that spread throughout the Japanese Archipelago. Previous archaeological evidence suggests that Jomon hunter-gatherers colonized the southernmost islands, ...
Ibiza, an island in present-day Spain, was conquered in 902 CE by the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba. The island remained under Islamic rule until 1235. Here, we analyse the genetic and metagenomic profiles of 13 individuals from an Islamic cemetery in I...
The Altai region is a crossroads of the Asian steppes. However, the population history of the region remains understudied. We analyse ancient human genomes from the Altai and Ob regions, creating a ca. 1400-year-long time transect with 91 new data. W...
Northwest South America was a pivotal region for human dispersals and cultural exchange during the Holocene. The Altiplano Cundiboyacense, a high-altitude plateau in the Eastern Cordillera of the Northern Andes of Colombia, preserves one of the most ...
Military communities in the Roman borderlands are increasingly understood as socially mixed and dynamic rather than homogeneous military enclaves. This study adds a biomolecular perspective through combined strontium, oxygen and carbon isotope analys...
The transition to agriculture was a transformative process in human history with wide-ranging demographic and social consequences1. Across South America, agriculture was adopted at different times and through diverse pathways, resulting in a mosaic o...
North Africa has experienced significant gene flow throughout history, with Morocco occupying a strategic location at the crossroads of Africa and Europe. In this study, we compiled 869 complete mitogenome sequences from six North African populations...
Recent advancements in paleogenetics, coupled with the emergence of dedicated statistical methods have, in recent years, streamlined the detection of close genetic ties from ancient DNA samples, leading to a substantial surge in scientific publicatio...
Ethnonyms such as "Goth" in Late Antique sources capture political and cultural affiliations that may not map cleanly onto biological descent. Here we report genome-wide ancient DNA from 38 individuals associated with Gothic-period mortuary contexts ...
The Paleolithic-to-Neolithic transition (PNT), which coincided with the Holocene warming trend after the last Ice Age, significantly transformed human cultural and genetic landscapes around the world. However, the genetic dynamics of this transitiona...
Previous research on the geographic distribution of Y-chromosomal haplogroups (YHGs) in the present-day Netherlands observed significant spatial patterns, but it was unclear when these patterns arose (Altena et al. Eur J Hum Genet 28:287–299, 2020). ...
