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 …

Palaeogenomics of upper palaeolithic to neolithic European hunter-gatherers

C Posth, H Yu, A Ghalichi, H Rougier, I Crevecoeur… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years,. Our knowledge of the
genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to …

A 23,000-year-old southern Iberian individual links human groups that lived in Western Europe before and after the Last Glacial Maximum

V Villalba-Mouco, MS van de Loosdrecht… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Human populations underwent range contractions during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
which had lasting and dramatic effects on their genetic variation. The genetic ancestry of …

Northwest African Neolithic initiated by migrants from Iberia and Levant

LG Simões, T Günther, RM Martínez-Sánchez… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In northwestern Africa, lifestyle transitioned from foraging to food production around 7,400
years ago but what sparked that change remains unclear. Archaeological data support …

Life history and ancestry of the late Upper Palaeolithic infant from Grotta delle Mura, Italy

OA Higgins, A Modi, C Cannariato, MA Diroma… - nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The biological aspects of infancy within late Upper Palaeolithic populations and the role of
southern refugia at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum are not yet fully understood. This …

Human remains from Arma di Nasino (Liguria) provide novel insights into the paleoecology of early Holocene foragers in northwestern Italy

VS Sparacello, G Goude, A Varalli, I Dori… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
We report the discovery and analysis of new Mesolithic human remains—dated to ca.
10,200–9000 cal. BP—from Arma di Nasino in Liguria, northwestern Italy, an area rich in …

Sicily and the process of Neolithisation: a review of the archaeobotanical data

C Speciale - Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 2024 - Springer
This review paper analyses the first steps of the spread of domestic plants into Sicily.
Despite being the biggest island of the Mediterranean and its central position, the process of …

Interbreeding between farmers and hunter-gatherers along the inland and Mediterranean routes of Neolithic spread in Europe

J Fort, J Pérez-Losada - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
The Neolithic (ie, farming and stockbreeding) spread from the Near East across Europe
since about 9000 years before the common era (BCE) until about 4000 yr BCE. It followed …

Biomolecular analysis of the Epigravettian human remains from Riparo Tagliente in northern Italy

OE Yavuz, G Oxilia, S Silvestrini, L Tassoni… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
The Epigravettian human remains from Riparo Tagliente in northern Italy represent some of
the earliest evidence of human occupation in the southern Alpine slopes after the Last …

Pervasive findings of directional selection realize the promise of ancient DNA to elucidate human adaptation

A Akbari, AR Barton, S Gazal, Z Li, M Kariminejad… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We present a method for detecting evidence of natural selection in ancient DNA time-series
data that leverages an opportunity not utilized in previous scans: testing for a consistent …