Over the past decade, a genomics revolution, made possible through the development of
high-throughput sequencing, has triggered considerable progress in the study of ancient DNA, …

While a comparatively young area of research, investigations relying on ancient DNA data
have been highly valuable in revealing snapshots of genetic variation in both the recent and …

We sequenced the genomes of a ∼7,000-year-old farmer from Germany and eight ∼8,000-year-old
hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other …

Technological advances in DNA recovery and sequencing have drastically expanded the
scope of genetic analyses of ancient specimens to the extent that full genomic investigations …

Modern strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from the Americas are closely related to
those from Europe, supporting the assumption that human tuberculosis was introduced post-…

The last century has witnessed progress in the study of ancient infectious disease from purely
medical descriptions of past ailments to dynamic interpretations of past population health …

Leprosy was endemic in Europe until the Middle Ages. Using DNA array capture, we have
obtained genome sequences of Mycobacterium leprae from skeletons of five medieval …

The origin of the medieval Black Death pandemic (ad 1346–1353) has been a topic of
continuous investigation because of the pandemic’s extensive demographic impact and long-…

Indigenous populations of the Americas experienced high mortality rates during the early
contact period as a result of infectious diseases, many of which were introduced by Europeans. …

Ancient DNA analysis has revealed an involvement of the bacterial pathogen Yersinia pestis
in several historical pandemics, including the second plague pandemic (Europe, mid-14 th …