Insights into human history from the first decade of ancient human genomics

Y Liu, X Mao, J Krause, Q Fu - Science, 2021 - science.org
Recent advancements in DNA sequencing technologies and laboratory preparation
protocols have rapidly expanded the scope of ancient DNA research over the past decade …

Going local with ancient DNA: A review of human histories from regional perspectives

MC Ávila-Arcos, M Raghavan, C Schlebusch - Science, 2023 - science.org
Ancient DNA (aDNA) has added a wealth of information about our species' history, including
insights on genetic origins, migrations and gene flow, genetic admixture, and health and …

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 …

Genomic insights into the formation of human populations in East Asia

CC Wang, HY Yeh, AN Popov, HQ Zhang… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The deep population history of East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a lack of
ancient DNA data and sparse sampling of present-day people,. Here we report genome …

The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia

MA Spyrou, L Musralina, GA Gnecchi Ruscone… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of the medieval Black Death pandemic (ad 1346–1353) has been a topic of
continuous investigation because of the pandemic's extensive demographic impact and long …

Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages

M Robbeets, R Bouckaert, M Conte, A Savelyev, T Li… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The origin and early dispersal of speakers of Transeurasian languages—that is, Japanese,
Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic—is among the most disputed issues of Eurasian …

The deep population history of northern East Asia from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene

X Mao, H Zhang, S Qiao, Y Liu, F Chang, P Xie… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Northern East Asia was inhabited by modern humans as early as 40 thousand
years ago (ka), as demonstrated by the Tianyuan individual. Using genome-wide data …

Human genetic history on the Tibetan Plateau in the past 5100 years

H Wang, MA Yang, S Wangdue, H Lu, H Chen, L Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Using genome-wide data of 89 ancient individuals dated to 5100 to 100 years before the
present (BP) from 29 sites across the Tibetan Plateau, we found plateau-specific ancestry …

Human population history at the crossroads of East and Southeast Asia since 11,000 years ago

T Wang, W Wang, G Xie, Z Li, X Fan, Q Yang, X Wu… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Past human genetic diversity and migration between southern China and Southeast Asia
have not been well characterized, in part due to poor preservation of ancient DNA in hot and …

Multiple human population movements and cultural dispersal events shaped the landscape of Chinese paternal heritage

M Wang, Y Huang, K Liu, Z Wang… - Molecular Biology …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Large-scale genomic projects and ancient DNA innovations have ushered in a new
paradigm for exploring human evolutionary history. However, the genetic legacy of …