We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000–3,000 years
ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost 400,000 polymorphisms …

INTRODUCTION The consensus view on the peopling of the Americas is that ancestors of
modern Native Americans entered the Americas from Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge …

While the series of events that shaped the transition between foraging societies and food
producers are well described for Central and Southern Europe, genetic evidence from …

" Sometime before 15,000 years ago, a band of hunter-gatherers arrived in Northeast Asia.
They continued east, becoming the first people to set foot in the Americas. They soon found …

Population biobanks are collections of thoroughly annotated biological material stored for
many years. Population biobanks are a valuable resource for both basic science and …

Abstract Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov in Karelia, northwest Russia, is one of the largest Early
Holocene cemeteries in northern Eurasia, with 177 burials recovered in excavations in the …

For a long time, the analysis of ancient human DNA represented one of the most
controversial disciplines in an already controversial field of research. Scepticism in this field …

Pleistocene residential sites with multiple contemporaneous human burials are extremely
rare in the Americas. We report mitochondrial genomic variation in the first multiple …

The prevalence of contaminant microbial DNA in ancient bone samples represents the
principal limiting factor for palaeogenomic studies, as it may comprise more than 99% of …

“An ambitious and lucid full narrative account of the peopling of Europe... this will
undoubtedly provide a base line for future debates on the origins of the Europeans.”—JP …