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Thursday, September 26, 2019

Is Yamnaya overrated?

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Four years after the publication of the seminal ancient DNA paper Massive migration from the steppe is a source for Indo-European languages ...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Y-haplogroup R1a and mental health

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I've updated my map of pre-Corded Ware culture R1a samples with a couple of new entries from Central and South Asia (the original is sti...
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Thursday, September 5, 2019

On the surprising genetic origins of the Harappan people (Shinde et al. 2019)

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The long awaited paper with ancient DNA from the Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) site of Rakhigarhi has finally arrived. Courtesy of Shinde ...
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Monday, September 2, 2019

Commoner or elite?

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I recently started looking at the correlations between Y-chromosome haplogroups and social standing in ancient Europe, and was surprised by ...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Isotopes vs ancient DNA in prehistoric Scandinavia

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Four of the samples from the recent Frei et al. paper on human mobility in prehistoric southern Scandinavia are in my Global25 datasheets....
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Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Roopkund Lake dead

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Fifteen of the Roopkund Lake samples from the Harney et al. paper published today at Nature Communications made it into the Global25 datas...
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Saturday, August 17, 2019

A surprising twist to the Shirenzigou nomads story

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Remember those potentially Afanasievo-derived and Tocharian-related Shirenzigou nomads from the Ning et al. paper? Well, in my opinion, the...
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Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Did South Caspian hunter-fishers really migrate to Eastern Europe?

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The idea that most of the Near Eastern-related ancestry in the ancient populations of the Pontic-Caspian (PC) steppe is, one way or another,...
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Friday, August 2, 2019

The PIE homeland controversy: August 2019 status report

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Archeologist David Anthony has a new paper on the Indo-European homeland debate titled Archaeology, Genetics, and Language in the Steppes: A...
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Sunday, July 28, 2019

They mixed up Huns with Tocharians

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I don't yet have the genomes from the recent Ning et al. paper on the Iron Age nomads from the Shirenzigou site in the eastern Tian Sha...
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