Methodology deep-dives, population spotlights, and engineering notes from the Ancestrify team — qpAdm modelling, ancient DNA panels, and how genetic ancestry analysis really works.
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A new 30-genome transect of southwestern England confirms the sharp Beaker-era turnover — and shows the genetically distinct newcomers burying their dead inside monuments built a millennium earlier by the people they replaced.
Why the Jewish communities of Mesopotamia, Persia and Kurdistan sit closest to the Bronze Age Levant, what the Iranian-related layer in their genomes is, and how a qpAdm model resolves a Mizrahi genome.
Who the Canaanites were genetically, who carries their ancestry today, and why the qpAdm source catalog now has a Canaanite (2000 - 1200 BC) population built from the Megiddo and Hazor genomes.
Who the Western Steppe Herders were, how steppe ancestry spread across Europe and Asia after 3000 BC, what a 'steppe percentage' actually measures, and how to estimate yours with qpAdm or Global25 from a raw DNA file.
Ancient DNA traces Yamnaya ancestry to Caucasus–Lower Volga and Dnipro–Don populations before the great Bronze Age steppe expansion.
DNA from 102 prehistoric Aegeans traces migration into Crete and Greece, Mycenaean-era mobility, family burials and frequent cousin unions.
DNA from 13 early Tarim Basin mummies reveals a genetically isolated local population that adopted dairy, crops and technologies from neighbors.