Origin and dispersal history of Hepatitis B virus in Eastern Eurasia

20/04/2024
Read more by Bing Sun, Aida Andrades Valtueña, Arthur Kocher, Shizhu Gao, Chunxiang Li, Shuang Fu, Fan Zhang, Pengcheng Ma, Xuan Yang, Yulan Qiu, Quanchao Zhang, Jian Ma, Shan Chen, Xiaoming Xiao et. al. Published on Nature Communications. 05 April 2024

Cases of trisomy 21 and trisomy 18 among historic and prehistoric individuals discovered from ancient DNA

20/04/2024
Read more by Adam Benjamin Rohrlach, Maïté Rivollat, Patxuka de-Miguel-Ibáñez, Ulla Moilanen, Anne-Mari Liira, João C. Teixeira, Xavier Roca-Rada, Javier Armendáriz-Martija, Kamen Boyadzhiev, Yavor Boyadzhiev et.al. Published on nature communications. 20 February 2024

Human brains preserve in diverse environments for at least 12 000 years

21/03/2024
Read more by Alexandra L. Morton-Hayward, Ross P. Anderson, Erin E. Saupe, Greger Larson and Julie G. Cosmidis Published on the Royal Society Publishing. 20 March 2024

Identification of microbial pathogens in Neolithic Scandinavian humans

21/03/2024
Read more by Nora Bergfeldt, Emrah Kırdök, Nikolay Oskolkov, Claudio Mirabello, Per Unneberg, Helena Malmström, Magdalena Fraser, Federico Sanchez-Quinto, Roger Jorgensen, Birgitte Skar, Kerstin Lidén, Mattias Jakobsson, Jan Storå & Anders Götherström. Published on Scientific Reports. 07 March 2024

Redefining the treponemal history through pre-Columbian genomes from Brazil

20/02/2024
Read more by Kerttu Majander, Marta Pla-Díaz, Louis du Plessis, Natasha Arora, Jose Filippini, Luis Pezo-Lanfranco, Sabine Eggers, Fernando González-Candelas & Verena J. Schuenemann. Published on nature. 24 January 2024

Biological and substitute parents in Beaker period adult–child graves

20/02/2024
Read more by Nicoletta Zedda, Katie Meheux, Jens Blöcher, Yoan Diekmann, Alexander V. Gorelik, Martin Kalle, Kevin Klein, Anna-Lena Titze, Laura Winkelbach, Elise Naish, Laurent Brou, François Valotteau, Foni Le Brun-Ricalens, Joachim Burger & Maxime Brami. Published on scientific reports. 31 October 2023

Accurate detection of identity-by-descent segments in human ancient DNA

21/01/2024
Read more by Harald Ringbauer, Yilei Huang, Ali Akbari, Swapan Mallick, Iñigo Olalde, Nick Patterson & David Reich. Published on nature genetics. 20 December 2023

Bioarchaeological study of ancient Teotihuacans based on complete mitochondrial genome sequences and diet isotopes

21/01/2024
Read more by Fuzuki Mizuno, Fuyuki Tokanai, Masahiko Kumagai, Koji Ishiya, Saburo Sugiyama, Michiko Hayashi, Kunihiko Kurosaki & Shintaroh Ueda. Published on Annals of Human Biology. 06 September 2023

Ancient dental calculus reveals oral microbiome shifts associated with lifestyle and disease in Great Britain

19/12/2023
Read more by Abigail S. Gancz, Andrew G. Farrer, Michelle P. Nixon, Sterling Wright, Luis Arriola, Christina Adler, Emily R. Davenport, Neville Gully, Alan Cooper, Kate Britton, Keith Dobney, Justin D. Silverman & Laura S. Weyrich. Published on nature microbiology. 29 November 2023

Lateral angle: A landmark-based method for the sex estimation in human cremated remains and application to an Austrian prehistoric sample

19/12/2023
Read more by Lukas Waltenberger, Patrick Heimel, Hannah Skerjanz, Stefan Tangl, Domnika Verdianu, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury. Published on American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 19 November 2023

Comparing the Boxgrove and Atapuerca (Sima de los Huesos) human fossils: Do they represent distinct paleodemes?

19/11/2023
Read more by Annabelle L. Lockey, Laura Rodríguez, Laura Martín-Francés, Juan Luis Arsuaga, José María Bermúdez de Castro, Lucile Crété, María Martinón-Torres, Simon Parfitt, Matt Pope, Chris Stringer. Published on Journal of Human Evolution. November 2022

Neanderthal teeth from Lezetxiki (Arrasate, Iberian Peninsula): New insights and reassessment

19/11/2023
Read more by Diego López-Onaindia, Marina Lozano, Aida Gómez-Robles, Alvaro Arrizabalaga, M. Eulàlia Subirà. Published on American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 31 January 2023

Mexican Biobank advances population and medical genomics of diverse ancestries

21/10/2023
Read more by Mashaal Sohail, María J. Palma-Martínez, Amanda Y. Chong, Consuelo D. Quinto-Cortés, Carmina Barberena-Jonas, Santiago G. Medina-Muñoz, Aaron Ragsdale, Guadalupe Delgado-Sánchez, et.al. Published on nature. 11 October 2023

The dentition of the Early Upper Paleolithic hominins from Ksâr ‘Akil, Lebanon

21/10/2023
Read more by Shara E. Bailey, Christian A. Tryon. Published on Journal of Human Evolution. March 2023

Historical genomes elucidate European settlement and the African diaspora in Delaware

21/09/2023
Read more by Raquel E. Fleskes, Douglas W. Owsley, Karin S. Bruwelheide, Kathryn G. Barca, Daniel R. Griffith, Graciela S. Cabana, Theodore G. Schurr. Published on Current Biology. 18 May 2023

Genetic insights into the social organization of Neanderthals

21/09/2023
Read more by Laurits Skov, Stéphane Peyrégne, Divyaratan Popli, Leonardo N. M. Iasi, Thibaut Devièse, Viviane Slon, Elena I. Zavala, Mateja Hajdinjak et.al. Published on Nature. 19 October 2022

Investigating intentional cranial modification: A hybridized two-dimensional/three-dimensional study of the Hirota site, Tanegashima, Japan

20/08/2023
Read more by Noriko Seguchi, James Frances Loftus III, Shiori Yonemoto, Mary-Margaret Murphy. Published on Plos One. 16 August 2023

The Landscapes of Disease and Death in Colonial Mauritius

20/08/2023
Read more by Alessandra Cianciosi. Published on International Journal of Historical Archaeology. 27 July 2023

Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant

18/07/2023
Read more by Elena Essel, Elena I. Zavala, Ellen Schulz-Kornas, Maxim B. Kozlikin, Helen Fewlass, Benjamin Vernot, Michael V. Shunkov, Anatoly P. Derevianko et.al. Published on nature. 03 May 2023

Disease control and the disposal of infectious materials in Renaissance Rome: excavations in the area of Caesar’s Forum

18/07/2023
Read more by Cristina Boschetti, Laura di Siena, Jan Kindberg Jacobsen, Gloria Mittica, Giovanni Murro, Claudio Parisi Presicce, Rubina Raja and Massimo Vitti. Published on Antiquity. 11 April 2023

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