Abstract High-Throughput DNA Sequencing (HTS) technologies have changed the way in
which we detect and assess DNA contamination in ancient DNA studies. Researchers use …

Until recently, the settlement of the Americas seemed largely divorced from the out‐of‐Africa
dispersal of anatomically modern humans, which began at least 50,000 years ago. Native …

More than 20 years ago, Wood et al.(Curr Anthropol 33: 343–370, 1992) published “The
Osteological Paradox: Problems of Inferring Prehistoric Health from Skeletal Samples,” in …

I ntroduction Humans first peopled the North American Arctic (northern Alaska, Canada, and
Greenland) around 6000 years ago, leaving behind a complex archaeological record that …

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal
throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological …

Examining patterns of molecular genetic variation in both modern-day and ancient humans
has proved to be a powerful approach to learn about our origins. Rapid advances in DNA …

In this study we evaluated migration models to the Americas by using the information
contained in native mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) from North America. Molecular …

Molecular anthropology uses molecular genetic methods to address questions and issues of
anthropological interest. More specifically, molecular anthropology is concerned with …

To gain a better understanding of North American population history, complete
mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) were generated from four ancient and three living …

Modern Humans is a vivid account of the most recent—and perhaps the most important—
phase of human evolution: the appearance of Homo sapiens in Africa less than half a million …