Genetic analysis shows ancient Galilean farmers warmly embraced blue-eyed, fair-skinned immigrants from Iran and Turkey in the late Copper Age. Continue reading “Mysterious 6,500-year-old Culture in Israel Was Brought by Migrants, Researchers Say”
Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas Research
Scientists have sequenced 15 ancient genomes spanning from Alaska to Patagonia and were able to track the movements of the first humans as they spread across the Americas at “astonishing” speed during the last Ice Age, and also how they interacted with each other in the following millennia. Continue reading “Ancient DNA analysis unlocks secrets of Ice Age tribes in the Americas Research”
Ancient mitochondrial DNA from the northern fringe of the Neolithic farming expansion in Europe sheds light on the dispersion process
Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the corresponding paper by Malmström H, Linderholm A, Skoglund P, Storå J, Sjödin P, Gilbert MT, Holmlund G, Willerslev E, Jakobsson M, Lidén K, Götherström A. Continue reading “Ancient mitochondrial DNA from the northern fringe of the Neolithic farming expansion in Europe sheds light on the dispersion process”
Emerging genetic patterns of the European Neolithic: perspectives from a late Neolithic Bell Beaker burial site in Germany
Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the corresponding paper by Lee EJ, Makarewicz C, Renneberg R, Harder M, Krause-Kyora B, Müller S, Ostritz S, Fehren-Schmitz L, Schreiber S, Müller J, von Wurmb-Schwark N, Nebel A. Continue reading “Emerging genetic patterns of the European Neolithic: perspectives from a late Neolithic Bell Beaker burial site in Germany”
Complete mitochondrial genomes reveal neolithic expansion into Europe
Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the corresponding paper by Fu Q, Rudan P, Pääbo S, Krause J. Continue reading “Complete mitochondrial genomes reveal neolithic expansion into Europe”
News from the west: ancient DNA from a French megalithic burial chamber
Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the corresponding paper by Deguilloux MF, Soler L, Pemonge MH, Scarre C, Joussaume R, Laporte L. Continue reading “News from the west: ancient DNA from a French megalithic burial chamber”