Articles
3 articles on south-asia — ancient-DNA research written up for readers who want the evidence, not just the headline.
South Asia is qpAdm's hardest standard fixture: one ancestral stream has no ancient sample at all. The working recipe — Indus Periphery, steppe MLBA, the Onge-as-AASI-proxy problem — with right sets, failure modes and a worked reading.
What HarappaWorld's S-Indian, Baloch and NE-Euro components are anchored to, why it remains the reference calculator for South Asian ancestry, and how its 2012 categories map onto what ancient DNA later proved.
Ten genomes from a Himalayan cave reveal a population that was half Tibetan-related and half North Indian-related, mixing from about 2800 years ago.