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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

European-specific mtDNA lineages on the Neo-Eneolithic Mongol Steppe

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Interesting but not surprising: The mitochondrial haplotypes U5a1 and H2a2a were identified from two upper Neolithic or early Eneolithic g...
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Friday, February 24, 2017

Trypillian mtDNA + hints of things to come?

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Over at PLoS ONE there's a new paper on the maternal ancestry of Trypillian Culture (TC) farmers. It's based on just eight mitocho...
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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Kurgan waves as far as the Atlantic

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Paleogenetista Carles Lalueza-Fox is currently collaborating with Harvard on a major ancient DNA paper on the population history of the Iber...
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Maykop prediction

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It's no secret that Maykop (or Maikop) culture samples have been sequenced at the Reich and GeoGenetic labs. I don't know when they...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Rumors & leaks thread

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Nothing much is happening, so I'm putting up this temporary thread for rumors and leaks about upcoming ancient DNA papers. Feel free to ...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

We're probably smarter than our Bronze and Iron Age ancestors

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There's an interesting new preprint at bioRxiv focusing on cognitive ability in Europeans from the Bronze Age to the present: Abstra...
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The great male migration

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The Goldberg et al. preprint that I blogged about late last year has made it into PNAS under a different title and with a few other change...
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Monday, February 20, 2017

Bronze Age dope dealers

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Over at Vegetation History and Archaeobotany : Abstract: A systematic review of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records of cannabis...
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Sunday, February 19, 2017

Phylogeography of Y-haplogroup Q3-L275

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BMC Evolutionary Biology has a decent new paper on the phylogeography of Y-haplogroup Q3-L275. It would've been a great paper a couple...
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Thursday, February 16, 2017

The Khvalynsk men #2

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I didn't run any mixture models of the Khvalynsk men in my original post on these three individuals from the 5200-4000 BCE Eneolithic c...
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