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#AncientDNA

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Matt Hodgkinson

If you like thinking and learning about human prehistory, you'll like this interview with geneticist David Reich. Two hours on what research tells us about human origins, how modern humans relate to Neanderthals and Denisovans, ancient DNA, ancient epidemics, admixture, how genetics informs archaeology, and the spread of the Yamnaya from the steppes.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj6skZIx

YouTubeDavid Reich – How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years AgoBy Dwarkesh Patel
#DavidReich#HumanOrigins#HumanGenetics
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Two 8th century communities near Vienna shared culture but not ancestries
nature.com/articles/d41586-024

* interdisciplinary analysis of ancient DNA f. 722 individuals
* lived in region about ad 650 - ad 800
* 2 neighboring communities had strikingly different genetic ancestries
* 2 family trees comprising 6 generations/500 related individuals
* reveal different marriage networks kept these communities genetically distinct despite their shared culture

www.nature.comTwo eighth-century communities near Vienna shared culture but not ancestriesNeighbouring cemeteries reveal similar social practices but genetically distinct groups.
#anthropology#AncientDNA#Vienna
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

Ancient genomes reveal Iron Age society centered on women
sciencedaily.com/releases/2025

* groundbreaking study finds land inherited through female line in Iron Age Britain
* husbands moved to live w. their wife's community
* 1st time such a system has documented in European prehistory

Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain
nature.com/articles/s41586-024

#history#prehistory#Britain
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michael

10-Jan-2025
#Cleopatra's sister remains missing
CSI methods show: Skull from the collection of the Department of Evolutionary #Anthropology is not from Arsinoë IV

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

EurekAlert!Cleopatra's sister remains missingAn interdisciplinary research team led by anthropologist Gerhard Weber from the University of Vienna, together with experts from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, has analysed a skull that was found in the ruins of Ephesos (Turkey) in 1929. It was long speculated that it could be the remains of Arsinoë IV, the sister of the famous Cleopatra. However, the latest anthropological analyses show that the remains are those of a boy between the ages of 11 and 14 who suffered from pathological developmental disorders. His genes point to an origin in Italy or Sardinia. The results are currently being published in Scientific Reports.
#science#archaeology#AncientEgypt
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michael

25-Nov-2024
Viking colonizers of Iceland and nearby Faroe Islands had very different origins, study finds
Band of Viking men from all over Scandinavia first settled #FaroeIslands show geneticists

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

EurekAlert!Viking colonizers of Iceland and nearby Faroe Islands had very different origins, study findsGeneticists have studied the distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroups on the Faroe Islands, known to have been colonized by Vikings around the year 900 CE, and compared these to distributions of haplogroups in today’s Scandinavia. They showed with novel analysis methods that the haplotype distribution in the Faroe Islands most closely resembled that in Norway and Denmark, and to a lesser extent that in Sweden, but differed from that in Iceland. They concluded that a band of Viking men from all over Scandinavia colonized the Faroe Islands, which differed in their geographical origin and genetic make-up from those who settled Iceland.
#science#ancientDNA#vikings
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michael

30-Oct-2024
Into the great wide open: How steppe pastoralist groups formed and transformed over time
Genetic study of the wider Caucasus region shows how movement of people and innovation transfer enabled #pastoralists to exploit the steppe zones of Eurasia

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1 #science #genome #AncientDNA #humans

EurekAlert!Into the great wide open: How steppe pastoralist groups formed and transformed over timeWith the time travelling ability of archaeogenetic studies it has become possible to shed light onto the dynamic past of human populations world-wide. Integrated with archaeological and anthropological data, it has been shown that fundamental changes in lifestyle, culture, technical know-how and social systems were often linked to the movement and interaction of people. By studying 131 individuals from the wider Caucasus region, spanning a time transect of 6000 years, a team of international researchers was able to reconstruct a series of key events when contact and innovation transfer facilitated the economic exploration of the West Eurasian steppe belt.
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michael

30-Oct-2024
#AncientDNA brings to life history of the iconic #aurochs, whose tale is intertwined with climate change and human culture

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1 #science #genome #domestication #evolution

EurekAlert!Ancient DNA brings to life history of the iconic aurochs, whose tale is intertwined with climate change and human cultureGeneticists from Trinity College Dublin, together with an international team of researchers, have deciphered the prehistory of aurochs – the animals that were the focus of some of the most iconic early human art – by analysing 38 genomes harvested from bones dating across 50 millennia and stretching from Siberia to Britain.  The aurochs roamed in Europe, Asia and Africa for hundreds of thousands of years. Adorned as paintings on many a cave wall, their domestication to create cattle gave us a harnessed source of muscle, meat and milk. Such was the influence of this domestication that today their descendants make up a third of the world’s mammalian biomass.
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michael

25-Oct-2024
“Well-man” thrown from castle identified from 800-year-old #Norse saga

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1 #science #AncientDNA #archaeology

EurekAlert!“Well-man” thrown from castle identified from 800-year-old Norse sagaA passage in the Norse Sverris Saga, the 800-year-old story of King Sverre Sigurdsson, describes a military raid that occurred in AD 1197, during which a body was thrown into a well at Sverresborg Castle, outside Trondheim in central Norway, likely as an attempt to poison the main water source for the local inhabitants. A new study published in the Cell Press journal iScience on October 25 describes how researchers used ancient DNA to corroborate the events of the saga and discover details about the “Well-man,” blending history and archaeology with science and setting a precedent for future research on historical figures.
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GrrlScientist ⧖ Ⓥ SciComm

Ancient Genomes Reveal Dingoes Are Not Related To Modern Domesticated Dogs

"Newly recovered DNA shows modern dingoes share almost no genetic ancestry with domestic dogs but are descended from ancient canids from China"

by @grrlscientist via @medium

#dingo #dogs #genomics #ancientDNA #conservation #Australia #SciComm medium.com/gardening-birding-a

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michael

19-Sep-2024
Insights into South African population history from 10,000-year-old human DNA
Thirteen ancient human #genomes from the Oakhurst rock shelter in #SouthAfrica provide new insights into human history in the region

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1 #science #AncientDNA #humans

EurekAlert!Insights into South African population history from 10,000-year-old human DNAAncient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two dozen ancient genomes have been recovered from southern Africa - specifically Botswana, South Africa and Zambia - which has some of the world's earliest evidence of modern humans, with the oldest genomes dating back around 2,000 years.
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