Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been infecting humans for millennia and remains a global health
problem, but its past diversity and dispersal routes are largely unknown. We generated …

Archaeological and archaeogenetic evidence points to the Pontic–Caspian steppe zone
between the Caucasus and the Black Sea as the crucible from which the earliest steppe …

Most of the early Hungarian tribes originated from the Volga-Kama and South-Ural regions,
where they were composed of a mixed population based on historical, philological and …

THE COTSEN INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY PRESS is the publishing unit of the Cotsen
Institute of Archaeology at UCLA. The Cotsen Institute is a premier research organization …

We report data on the development of a polymer–salt method for the formation of aluminium
yttrium garnet crystals doped with neodymium ions (YAG: Nd) inside the channels of a …

We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000–3,000 years
ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost 400,000 polymorphisms. …

Ancient DNA makes it possible to observe natural selection directly by analysing samples
from populations before, during and after adaptation events. Here we report a genome-wide …

Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years 1 , 2 . Our knowledge of
the genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing …

… Previously, a detailed osteological report that included full descriptions of all lesions was
produced (Murphy and Khokhlov 2004), and this chapter represents an overview of the main …

The origin of Yersinia pestis and the early stages of its evolution are fundamental subjects
of investigation given its high virulence and mortality that resulted from past pandemics. …