The last decade saw a rapid increase in the number of studies where time–frequency
changes of radiocarbon dates have been used as a proxy for inferring past population …

Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad
regional scales,,–. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are …

Mid and late-Holocene climate shifts are considered to have profoundly shaped
demographic developments and adaptive responses of communities globally. Yet their …

The globalizing connections that defined the European Bronze Age in the second
millennium BC either ended or abruptly changed in the decades around 1200 BC. The …

Human herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1), a life-long infection spread by oral contact, infects a
majority of adults globally. Phylogeographic clustering of sampled diversity into European …

Can the rapid advances in code generation, function calling, and data analysis using large
language models (LLMs) help automate the search and verification of hypotheses purely …

Human population dynamics and their drivers are not well understood, especially over the
long term and on large scales. Here, we estimate demographic growth trajectories from 9 to …

Sedimentary DNA-based studies revealed the effects of human activity on lake
cyanobacteria communities over the last centuries, yet we continue to lack information over …

We introduce a new workflow for analysing archaeological frequency data associated with
relative rather than absolute chronological time-stamps. Our approach takes into account …

This article explores the changes that occurred in harvesting technology during the dispersal
of the Neolithic in the Mediterranean basin. It does so through technological and use-wear …