The Caucasus and surrounding areas, with their rich metal resources, became a crucible of the Bronze Age1 and the birthplace of the earliest steppe pa…
The Caucasus was a hub for cultural and technological innovation in prehistory, yet the population history between the Greater and Lesser Caucasus rem…
Archaeological and paleogenomic evidence from the Tibetan Plateau and high-altitude Central Himalayas suggest biocultural connections with each other …
Megalithic monuments in Late Neolithic Europe are often viewed as symbols of shared ancestry. In this study, we analyzed genome-wide data of 203 indiv…
At the transition between the third and the fourth millennium BC, there is evidence for a population decline concurrent with the end of megalith build…
The goal of this study is to sequence the DNA present on a handkerchief allegedly dipped into the blood of the French king Louis XVI.这项研究的目的是对据称浸过法国国王…
Homo sapiens evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago in Africa, later spreading across the globe, but the early evolutionary process is debated. He…
The 13th-century Changzhou Mummy, from the Lower Yangtze region in China, is the earliest known East Asian case of an artificially mummified body empl…
Ibiza, an island in present-day Spain, was conquered in 902 CE by the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba. The island remained under Islamic rule until 1235. H…
This project compares terminal trimming, mapDamage2 base-quality rescaling and bamRefine known-SNP masking in matched full uracil-DNA glycosylase-trea…