Burial in the Italian Bronze Age is often thought to consist mostly of single burials, cremations in necropolises or collective burials in tombs. Mult…
The discovery of Shimao city (around 2300–1800 bce), a premier state-level Neolithic fortified settlement in Shaanxi, China2, played an important role…
The Hanging Coffin represents a distinctive mortuary tradition practiced across southern China, Southeast Asia (e.g., the Log Coffin), and the Pacific…
The origins of the early medieval Magyars who appeared in the Carpathian Basin by the end of the 9th century CE remain incompletely understood. Previo…
We present genome-wide data from 11 individuals from the late Shang Dynasty Xisima Cemetery, a site exhibiting clear burial evidence of social stratif…
This study investigated genetic relationships in multi-individual burials of Neolithic hunter-gatherers from Gotland. The aim is to understand the fac…
During Napoleon’s retreat from Russia in 1812 countless soldiers of the French army succumbed to infectious diseases, but the responsible pathogen or …
This study presents the integrated results of stable carbon (δ¹³C) and nitrogen (δ¹⁵N) isotope and aDNA analyses, conducted to examine dietary and mob…
Archaeological and paleogenomic evidence from the Tibetan Plateau and high-altitude Central Himalayas suggest biocultural connections with each other …
The prehistoric Okhotsk culture was distributed along the southern coastal regions of the Sea of Okhotsk during the late first millennium AD. A previo…
A high-coverage genome from a 200,000-year-old Denisovan
来自20万年前丹尼索瓦人的高覆盖率基因组
Denisovans, an extinct sister group of Neandertals who lived in Eastern Eurasia during the Middle and Late Pleistocene, are known only from a handful …
During excavations in 2011, a peculiar archaeological feature representing a mass grave with seven completely preserved skeletons was discovered at th…
In this study, we obtained 16 newly sequenced genomes from the recently excavated Mabu Co site, spanning from 4400 to 3500 BP.在本研究中,我们从最近发掘的马布错遗址获得了 1…
The scarcity of ancient genomes of early rice cultivators has hindered our understanding of their genetic profiles and dynamic interactions with mille…
Dairy pastoralism reached Mongolia in the Early Bronze Age (EBA) with migrating herders and flourished in the Late Bronze Age (LBA) among culturally d…
Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica is an extremely diverse bacterial pathogen causing frequent infections and foodborne disease among human populatio…
The Xianbei confederation was the most powerful among the many historically documented nomadic groups to emerge in northern China. It played a pivotal…
The central Southern Cone of South America was one of the last regions of the globe to be peopled, yet remains underrepresented in ancient DNA. We gen…
The second half of the first millennium ce in Central and Eastern Europe was accompanied by fundamental cultural and political transformations. This p…
Ancient genome studies are gradually revealing the diverse genetic profiles of prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the steppe and taiga regions of Eurasia…