ReviewNature reviews. Genetics2020
Beyond broad strokes: sociocultural insights from the study of ancient genomes.
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- Detection of chromosomal aneuploidy in ancient genomes.Communications biology · 2024Article
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- Genome-wide analysis of a collective grave from Mentesh Tepe provides insight into the population structure of early neolithic population in the South Caucasus.Communications biology · 2023Article
- The transmission of pottery technology among prehistoric European hunter-gatherers.Nature human behaviour · 2023Article
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- Parental relatedness through time revealed by runs of homozygosity in ancient DNA.Nature communications · 2021Article
- Genome-scale sequencing and analysis of human, wolf, and bison DNA from 25,000-year-old sediment.Current biology : CB · 2021Article
- A curated dataset of modern and ancient high-coverage shotgun human genomes.Scientific data · 2021Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
In the field of human history, ancient DNA has provided answers to long-standing debates about major movements of people and has begun to inform on other important facets of the human experience. The field is now moving from mostly large-scale supraregional studies to a more local perspective, shedding light on socioeconomic processes, inheritance rules, marriage practices and technological diffusion. In this Review, we summarize recent studies showcasing these types of insights, focusing on methods used to infer sociocultural aspects of human behaviour. This approach often involves working across disciplines - such as anthropology, archaeology, linguistics and genetics - that have until recently evolved in separation. Multidisciplinary dialogue is important for an integrated reconstruction of human history, which can yield extraordinary insights about past societies, reproductive behaviours and even lifestyle habits that would not be possible to obtain otherwise.
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