archaeogenetics

I found these and thought I would share them here. I think the charts were made by Owen McCormick. Bronze Age Iron Age

A new preprint from De Coster at al. Study Objective The research investigates the demographic makeup of Roman military communities stationed along the empire's frontier, known as the Lower Rhine Limes. To understand the origins of these populations, the authors utilized ancient DNA (aDNA) and...

The paper analyzed whole‐genome data from hundreds of individuals spanning the 8th to the 18th century from Sint-Truiden (northern Belgium). The researchers modeled the genetic ancestry using two primary sources. One proxy was Late Iron Age (LIA) French genomes representing “Gaulish” ancestry...

A new paper about Iran/Persia. Nature: Ancient DNA indicates 3,000 years of genetic continuity in the Northern Iranian Plateau, from the Copper Age to the Sassanid Empire Abstract "In this study, we present new ancient DNA data from prehistoric and historic populations of the Iranian Plateau...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867423011352 Reich et al. I've been waiting for a comprehensive analysis of the ancient Balkans for some time now. This study analyzed ancient DNA from 136 individuals from the Balkan region dating from the 1st to 10th centuries CE to...

Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers Abstract Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years1,2. Our knowledge of the genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing to the scarceness and poor...

Paleogenomics tells us Mesolithic Scania was similar in composition to Jutland, entirely I* and I2. This is corroborated by quasi-historical identification of these areas with Yngling. Likely, the ur-population of Lapland was N1. Prior to the Bronze Age, what went on in the middle, around the...

Genomic Data from an Ancient European Battlefield Indicates On-Going Strong Selection on a Genomic Region Associated with Lactase Persistence Over the Last 3,000 Years Abstract Lactase persistence (LP), the continued expression of lactase into adulthood, is the most strongly selected single...

There are some lively discussions going on elsewhere on this board, discussing with specificity some of concepts below. I thank everyone for their thoughts, and Eupedia for the forum. This post is intended to be a more general foray into what I call "The Two -Ics" that explain modern...