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 …

The genomic history of the indigenous people of the Canary Islands

JG Serrano, AC Ordóñez, J Santana… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The indigenous population of the Canary Islands, which colonized the archipelago around
the 3rd century CE, provides both a window into the past of North Africa and a unique model …

[HTML][HTML] A genetic history of the Balkans from Roman frontier to Slavic migrations

I Olalde, P Carrión, I Mikić, N Rohland, S Mallick… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The rise and fall of the Roman Empire was a socio-political process with enormous
ramifications for human history. The Middle Danube was a crucial frontier and a crossroads …

Genome-wide data from medieval German Jews show that the Ashkenazi founder event pre-dated the 14th century

S Waldman, D Backenroth, É Harney, S Flohr, NC Neff… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
We report genome-wide data from 33 Ashkenazi Jews (AJ), dated to the 14 th century,
obtained following a salvage excavation at the medieval Jewish cemetery of Erfurt …

Stable population structure in Europe since the Iron Age, despite high mobility

ML Antonio, CL Weiß, Z Gao, S Sawyer, V Oberreiter… - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Ancient DNA research in the past decade has revealed that European population structure
changed dramatically in the prehistoric period (14,000–3000 years before present, YBP) …

A genetic history of continuity and mobility in the Iron Age central Mediterranean

HM Moots, M Antonio, S Sawyer, JP Spence… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract The Iron Age was a dynamic period in central Mediterranean history, with the
expansion of Greek and Phoenician colonies and the growth of Carthage into the dominant …

[HTML][HTML] Bioarchaeological and palaeogenomic portrait of two Pompeians that died during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD

G Scorrano, S Viva, T Pinotti, PF Fabbri, O Rickards… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
The archaeological site of Pompeii is one of the 54 UNESCO World Heritage sites in Italy,
thanks to its uniqueness: the town was completely destroyed and buried by a Vesuvius' …

New insights on Celtic migration in Hungary and Italy through the analysis of non-metric dental traits

E Piccirilli, R Sorrentino, F Lugli, E Bortolini… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
The Iron Age is characterized by an extended interweaving of movements by Celts in
Europe. Several waves of Celts from Western and Central Europe migrated southeast and …

Mitogenomic diversity and stable isotopes provide insights into the maternal genetic history, mobility patterns, and diet of early medieval individuals from the Eastern …

V Coia, A Paladin, S Zingale, M Croze… - Archaeological and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Eastern Italian Alps (South Tyrol) is a connection area between continental Italy
and the northern Alps. Various local factors, such as the heterogeneous environment …

Evidence for dynastic succession among early Celtic elites in Central Europe

J Gretzinger, F Schmitt, A Mötsch, S Carlhoff… - Nature Human …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The early Iron Age (800 to 450 BCE) in France, Germany and Switzerland, known
as the 'West-Hallstattkreis', stands out as featuring the earliest evidence for supra-regional …