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 …

Abstract The Early Bronze Age in Europe is characterized by social and genetic
transformations, starting in the early 3rd millennium BCE. New settlement and funerary …

Studies have found a pronounced decline in male effective population sizes worldwide
around 3000–5000 years ago. This bottleneck was not observed for female effective …

The advent of genome-wide ancient DNA analysis has revolutionized our understanding of
prehistoric societies. However, studying biological relatedness in these groups requires …

Runs of homozygosity (ROHs) are indicative of elevated homozygosity and inbreeding due
to mating of closely related individuals. Self-fertilization can be a major source of inbreeding …

The Merovingian period (5th to 8th cc AD) was a time of demographic, socioeconomic,
cultural, and political realignment in Western Europe. Here, we report the whole-genome …

We investigate alternative strategies against reference bias and postmortem damage in low
coverage paleogenomes. Compared to alignment to the linear reference genome, we show …

Social anthropology and ethnographic studies have described kinship systems and
networks of contact and exchange in extant populations,,–. However, for prehistoric …

Ancient DNA (aDNA) studies have deployed genetic material from archaeological contexts
to investigate human dispersals and interactions, corroborating some longstanding …

This paper builds on the recent aDNA results from Hazleton North chambered tomb to
explore how people might have repeatedly negotiated kinship, descent, and affinity in Early …