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Saturday, October 26, 2019

Warlike herders and their weapons

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Who had the best gear? The Yamnaya guys? And if it came down to it, who would've won an all out rumble? Let me know your thoughts after ...
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019

The Battle Axe people came from the steppe (Malmstrom et al. 2019)

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It's been obvious for a while now that the Corded Ware culture (CWC) and its Scandinavian variant, the Battle Axe culture (BAC), origina...
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Saturday, October 12, 2019

The Balkan connection

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The hot topic at the moment is social inequality in Bronze Age Europe, thanks to a new paper by Mittnik et al. at Science . The full article...
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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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