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AI-narrated summaries of the latest ancestry and ancient DNA research publications. Each episode brings you closer to the stories hidden in our genes.
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The Roman province of Dacia, located north of the Danube frontier, represented a key zone of cultural and demographic interaction during the Imperial period. However, the biological impact of Roman colonization in this region has not been characteriz...
Frontal bone morphology is considered informative concerning phylogenetic and taxonomic affinities in hominin fossils. However, evaluating individual frontal bone features, especially macroscopically and with qualitative data, can produce contradicto...
Ancient DNA has transformed our understanding of population history, but its potential to reveal as much about human evolutionary biology has not been realized because of limited sample sizes and the difficulty of distinguishing sustained rises in al...
The Piasts were one of the royal dynasties that shaped the political structure of medieval Europe in the 10th century CE. Despite their importance, as the founders and rulers of the early Polish kingdom, little is known about Piast origin, the condit...
Characterized by the earliest use of pottery, the Jomon culture was a unique Neolithic culture that spread throughout the Japanese Archipelago. Previous archaeological evidence suggests that Jomon hunter-gatherers colonized the southernmost islands, ...
A method utilizing hydrogel biological microchips was developed to genotype markers of human Y-chromosome haplogroups. With the method, 14 core haplogroups and their 78 subclades were determined, including (subclade markers are in parentheses) B-M60,...
The initial peopling of America left a deep genetic legacy in Indigenous peoples and their admixed descendants. This narrative review recenters studies involving Indigenous populations and, inspired by the work of Francisco M. Salzano and Darcy Ribei...
Ibiza, an island in present-day Spain, was conquered in 902 CE by the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba. The island remained under Islamic rule until 1235. Here, we analyse the genetic and metagenomic profiles of 13 individuals from an Islamic cemetery in I...
The Altai region is a crossroads of the Asian steppes. However, the population history of the region remains understudied. We analyse ancient human genomes from the Altai and Ob regions, creating a ca. 1400-year-long time transect with 91 new data. W...
Northwest South America was a pivotal region for human dispersals and cultural exchange during the Holocene. The Altiplano Cundiboyacense, a high-altitude plateau in the Eastern Cordillera of the Northern Andes of Colombia, preserves one of the most ...
Military communities in the Roman borderlands are increasingly understood as socially mixed and dynamic rather than homogeneous military enclaves. This study adds a biomolecular perspective through combined strontium, oxygen and carbon isotope analys...
Background/Objectives. The Black Death pandemic, combined with the antisemitic climate of 14th-century Europe, led to widespread violence against Jewish communities, including numerous pogroms such as the one in 1348 in Tàrrega (Catalonia, Spain). In...
