The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterized. Here we
generate high-coverage genomes for 83 Aboriginal Australians (speakers of Pama–Nyungan …

Neandertals, the closest evolutionary relatives of present-day humans, lived in large parts of
Europe and western Asia before disappearing 30,000 years ago. We present a draft …

INTRODUCTION The consensus view on the peopling of the Americas is that ancestors of
modern Native Americans entered the Americas from Siberia via the Bering Land Bridge and …

The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000–1000 BC) was a period of major cultural changes.
However, there is debate about whether these changes resulted from the circulation of …

The rich fossil record of equids has made them a model for evolutionary processes 1 . Here
we present a 1.12-times coverage draft genome from a horse bone recovered from …

A complete mitochondrial (mt) genome sequence was reconstructed from a 38,000 year-old
Neandertal individual with 8341 mtDNA sequences identified among 4.8 Gb of DNA …

Clovis, with its distinctive biface, blade and osseous technologies, is the oldest widespread
archaeological complex defined in North America, dating from 11,100 to 10,700 14 C years …

The transformation of wild animals into domestic ones available for human nutrition was a
key prerequisite for modern human societies. However, no other domestic species has had …

The origin of contemporary Europeans remains contentious. We obtained a genome sequence
from Kostenki 14 in European Russia dating from 38,700 to 36,200 years ago, one of the …

I ntroduction Humans first peopled the North American Arctic (northern Alaska, Canada, and
Greenland) around 6000 years ago, leaving behind a complex archaeological record that …