ancient dna

This paper examines one of the central questions of human history: what determined migration before states, borders, and modern economies existed? The paper argues that prehistoric migration was shaped primarily by ecology. People moved toward environments where their existing knowledge of...

Hello. I had come across a tweet and the comments of the tweet on social media in which the compilation of Y-DNA of modern Greeks from a FTDNA database is shown. The comments seem to indicate that modern Greeks do not have Y-DNA continuity from ancient Greeks like Mycenaean and that modern...

Glad this is solved. Yersinia pestis is the same bacterium that caused the Black Death in the Middle Ages. Ancient DNA solves Plague of Justinian mystery to rewrite pandemic history "For the first time, researchers have uncovered direct genomic evidence of the bacterium behind the Plague of...

An upcoming paper from the Reich Lab: Disparate demographic impacts of the Roman Colonization and the Migration Period in the Iberian Peninsula Abstract It has been unclear how the periods of Roman and later Germanic political control shaped the demography of the Iberian Peninsula and how...

Hi all, I’ve been exploring my autosomal DNA results and found something puzzling: I share unexpectedly large segments (20–60 cM) with several ancient individuals dated between 3000 BCE and 1600 CE. These matches come from high-quality databases and include individuals such as: I7848 (Yamnaya...

A new paper on Phoenician and Carthaginian DNA. Nature: Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors Abstract The maritime Phoenician civilization from the Levant transformed the entire Mediterranean during the first millennium BCE. However, the extent of human...

Here's something fun: 1. If you have two kits on mytrueancestry, pull up the deep dive results for both. 2. Visit https://www.exploreyourdna.com/ancient-samples.aspx and put in the deep dive IDs. This will allow you to get the coordinates for each person. 3. Create a txt file of your deep dive...

My friend recently did a DNA test with Family Tree DNA and his ancientOrigins results came back with him being 50% Hunter Gatherer, 39% Neolithic Farmer, and 11% Eastern Steppe Herder. This was surprising to me because I was under the impression that the percentage of European hunter gatherer...

The study on ancient Etruscan DNA by Posth et al. 2021 showed that three Etruscan individuals were genetically closer to modern Northwest Europeans. Intrigued I checked their percentage of similarities with modern European populations using Eurogenes K36 and the map tool made by Jerome Hamon...

Here is the preprint of the new Reich lab paper Cosmopolitanism at the Roman Danubian Frontier, Slavic Migrations, and the Genomic Formation of Modern Balkan Peoples I have summarised the Y-DNA and mtDNA on this table. ID Location Date Y-DNA mtDNA I15527 Viminacium, Pecine Necropolis...

Philippine Ayta possess the highest level of Denisovan ancestry in the world, Larena et al. (2021) Highlights Comprehensive analyses of archaic ancestry among 118 Philippine ethnic groups Ayta Magbukon display ∼30%–40% greater Denisovan ancestry than Australopapuans The model is explained by...

There are plenty of calculators of ancient and modern ancestry on the Web: Dodecad, Eurogenes, MDLP, GedrosiaDNA, Harappa, LM Genetics, Mephisto, Tolan, etc. An easy way to obtain run all these calculators for your genomes is to download Admixture Studio. Unzip the file, run...

Christmas update!: I have 2,441 aDNA coordinates for Dodecad Globe 13, from 41 academic studies. I have also included the Modern Dodecad Globe 13 populations, with an expanded version for West Eurasians, with the individual HGDP samples. .zip/file"][Download zip file here] Paste them into...

A new paper just came out: Population genomics of the Viking world (Margaryan et al 2020) Abstract The maritime expansion of Scandinavian populations during the Viking Age (about AD 750–1050) was a far-flung transformation in world history. Here we sequenced the genomes of 442 humans from...

Hello, since Y-STR.org is almost gone (No more Ancient DNA download) there seem to be no more sources of ancient DNA files in 23andme/ftdna format which are open for public use. Some months ago there was a possibility to download some of the ancient DNA samples from a storage of Y-STR.org...

I have noticed that many forum members have uploaded their genome on MyTrueAncestry. It's a very convenient tool to compare oneself to ancient populations. A word a caution is necessary though. 1) Ethnic Mislabelling MyTrueAncestry do tend to label ethnic groups rather loosely and sometimes in...

Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history Abstract Our knowledge of ancient human population structure in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly prior to the advent of food production, remains limited. Here we report genome-wide DNA data from four children—two of...

Using the Dodecad K12b data provided by Jovialis's Ancient Rome Test v1.0, I ran each Medieval sample separately against modern populations. As Angela pointed out, many of the skeletons from the Latium region that were tested may have been pilgrims from other parts of Italy or Europe. This...

Resurrecting the Ancient Israelites From the Valley of Dry Bones: https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-religions/jewish-ancestry-0012151 Highlights:

https://www.livescience.com/65654-dna-ice-age-teeth-siberia.html