Queensland Coast — Pre‑European Peoples
Coastal lifeways in North Queensland reconstructed from archaeology and sparse DNA evidence
Ancient and historical cultures
DNA Spotlights
Explore the places, time periods, and published research behind ancient DNA samples and the cultures associated with them.
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Culture collection
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Queensland Sea Country Ancestors
Genetic and archaeological traces from Flinders Island and Mapoon illuminate coastal lifeways before 1788.
Asparn‑Schletz LBK: Early Neolithic Voice
A single Early Neolithic individual from Asparn‑Schletz linking pottery, pits and maternal lineage.
Austria_EN_LBK — Early LBK Farmers
Four Early Neolithic individuals from Austrian LBK sites illuminate the arrival of farming.
Echoes of La Tène: Pottenbrunn Burials
Iron Age La Tène individuals from Pottenbrunn, Lower Austria, hinting at pan‑European ancestries
Kleinhadersdorf: Early Neolithic Echoes
A lone genome from Kleinhadersdorf illuminates early farmer presence in Lower Austria.
Roman Klosterneuburg (Pannonia)
A riverside frontier town where Roman lives met local Central European traditions
Voices of Krems-Wachtberg
Echoes of two individuals from 29,200–28,600 BCE at Krems-Wachtberg, Austria
Pottenbrunn: A Medieval Voice from Lower Austria
A single burial speaks to life on the eastern edge of Carolingian Europe
Krems‑Wachtberg Hunter‑Gatherer, c.29k BCE
A lone Upper Paleolithic voice from the Danube corridor, preserved in bone and DNA
Wöllersdorf Mesolithic Window
A single burial illuminating Austria's early hunter‑gatherers through stone, soil and DNA
Wolfholz Horizon
A lone Neolithic individual at Brunn Wolfholz between foragers and early farmers