The past few years have witnessed a revolution in our ability to obtain DNA from ancient
humans. This important new data has added to our knowledge from archaeology and …

RATIONALE To elucidate the extent to which the major cultural transformations of farming,
pastoralism, and shifts in the distribution of languages in Eurasia were accompanied by …

Anthropology, especially biological anthropology, owes its origins to the scientific study of
human racial differences. That dark history is well-acknowledged and, when it is taught …

Orkney was a major cultural center during the Neolithic, 3800 to 2500 BC. Farming
flourished, permanent stone settlements and chambered tombs were constructed, and long …

South Asia is home for more than a billion people culturally structured into innumerable
groups practicing different levels of endogamy. Linguistically South Asia is broadly …

The genetic formation of Central and South Asian populations has been unclear because of
an absence of ancient DNA. To address this gap, we generated genome-wide data from 362 …

Africa was the birth-place of Homo sapiens and has the earliest evidence for symbolic
behaviour and complex technologies. The best-attested early flowering of these distinctive …

Tai-Kadai (TK) is one of the major language families in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA),
with a concentration in the area of Thailand and Laos. Our previous study of 1234 mtDNA …

Surrounded by speakers of Indo-European, Dravidian and Tibeto-Burman languages,
around 11 million Munda (a branch of Austroasiatic language family) speakers live in the …

Introduction: The Koraga tribe are an isolated endogamous tribal group found in the
southwest coastal region of India. The Koraga language shares inherited grammatical …