green-sahara9 min
Green Sahara DNA: Who Lived in North Africa 7,000 Years Ago?
DNA from two women at Takarkori reveals a deeply rooted North African lineage and suggests Saharan pastoralism spread mainly through culture.
Articles
neolithic
4 articles on neolithic — ancient-DNA research written up for readers who want the evidence, not just the headline.
natural-selection9 minAncient DNA and Natural Selection: How Farming Changed Our Genes
A study of 15,836 ancient and modern West Eurasians finds hundreds of genes under strong directional selection over the past ten thousand years.
east-asia8 minDonghulin: A Deep Lineage at the Dawn of Farming in North China
Genomes from an 11,000-year-old site near Beijing reveal an unknown deep northern East Asian lineage and 2,000 years of change at one place.
balkans2 minNeolithic Ancestry of present-day Balkan Populations
qpAdm modeling shows modern Balkan populations carry varying proportions of Neolithic farmer and Bronze Age steppe ancestry, reflecting long-term regional continuity.