Much of the American Arctic was first settled 5,000 years ago, by groups of people known as
Palaeo-Eskimos. They were subsequently joined and largely displaced around 1,000 years …

The social organization of the first fully sedentary societies that emerged during the Neolithic
period in Southwest Asia remains enigmatic, 1 mainly because material culture studies …

The Kets, an ethnic group in the Yenisei River basin, Russia, are considered the last
nomadic hunter-gatherers of Siberia and Ket language has no transparent affiliation with any …

We present a spatiotemporal picture of human genetic diversity in Anatolia, Iran, Levant,
South Caucasus, and the Aegean, a broad region that experienced the earliest Neolithic …

Abstract Analysis of microbial data from archaeological samples is a growing field with great
potential for understanding ancient environments, lifestyles, and diseases. However, high …

Upper Mesopotamia played a key role in the Neolithic Transition in Southwest Asia through
marked innovations in symbolism, technology, and diet. We present 13 ancient genomes (c. …

Sheep were among the first domesticated animals, but their demographic history is little
understood. Here we analyzed nuclear polymorphism and mitochondrial data (mtDNA) from …

The great ethnolinguistic diversity found today in mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) reflects
multiple migration waves of people in the past. Maritime trading between MSEA and India …

… High consanguinity (and consequent high FIS), and genetic drift by isolation coupled with
low Ne (and consequent high FST) are two independent and non-mutually-exclusive …

Upward Sun River 1, an individual from a unique burial of the Denali tradition in Alaska (11500
calBP), is considered a type representative of Ancient Beringians who split from other …