This article aims to present a comprehensive evaluation of two human burials unearthed during rescue excavations conducted in 1981/82 beneath the mosa…
The skeletal remains of an individual colloquially referred to as Beachy Head Woman (BHW) were re-discovered in the Eastbourne Town Hall collection in…
The Yan Mountain Region (YMR), a transition zone between the Mongolian Plateau and northern China, played a pivotal yet understudied role in shaping t…
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…
The demographic history of the Japanese archipelago was shaped by major episodes of migration and admixture, most notably the transition approximately…
Cultural and material exchange between groups across the mountainous region separating the East Asian Steppe and the plains and river valleys of north…
The Central Plain of China, the cradle of Chinese civilization, experienced major demographic upheavals during the Qing era (1644 - 1912 AD), yet its …
In this study, we conducted paleogenomic analysis on historical human skeletons excavated from archaeological contexts in France, specifically associa…
The Qijia culturein the Gansu-Qinghai region of northwest China played a pivotal role in prehistoric cultural exchanges between East Asia and the Eura…
In this study, we present the results of archaeogenetic investigations of Early Bronze Age individuals from Lower Austria, specifically associated wit…
The Eastern Zhou period (771–221 BC), characterized by social stratification, was marked by important inequality. Here the authors analyse 32 skeleton…
Northern China has been a crucial region for interactions between agricultural and nomadic populations. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, no…
The Yun-Gui (Yunnan and Guizhou) Plateau of Southwest China has long been characterized by long-standing ethnolinguistic diversity shaped by complex d…
We analyzed eight high-coverage Jomon genomes spanning 9,000–2,800 years ago across the Japanese archipelago. Population genomic analyses revealed sub…
Given its geographic location and unique history of contacts and migrations, Calabria is a core region to investigate the genetic traces of some of th…
Homo sapiens evolved hundreds of thousands of years ago in Africa, later spreading across the globe, but the early evolutionary process is debated. He…