Farming was first introduced to Europe in the mid-seventh millennium bc, and was associated
with migrants from Anatolia who settled in the southeast before spreading throughout …

RATIONALE To elucidate the extent to which the major cultural transformations of farming,
pastoralism, and shifts in the distribution of languages in Eurasia were accompanied by …

Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent of plague, is a bacterium associated with wild rodents
and their fleas. Historically it was responsible for three pandemics: the Plague of Justinian in …

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 …

We report genome-wide ancient DNA from 44 ancient Near Easterners ranging in time between~
12,000 and 1,400 bc, from Natufian hunter–gatherers to Bronze Age farmers. We show …

The invention and development of next or second generation sequencing methods has resulted
in a dramatic transformation of ancient DNA research and allowed shotgun sequencing …

Dogs were the first domestic animal, but little is known about their population history and to
what extent it was linked to humans. We sequenced 27 ancient dog genomes and found that …

The appearance of people associated with the Lapita culture in the South Pacific around
3,000 years ago 1 marked the beginning of the last major human dispersal to unpopulated …

Southeast Asia is home to rich human genetic and linguistic diversity, but the details of past
population movements in the region are not well known. Here, we report genome-wide …

By sequencing 727 ancient individuals from the Southern Arc (Anatolia and its neighbors in
Southeastern Europe and West Asia) over 10,000 years, we contextualize its Chalcolithic …