For what they were... we are

I knew, more intuitively than rationally, that the Horner (Ethiopian, Somali, Eritrean) type of Afro-Eurasian admixture was very old but no...

After almost a century of controversy on the matter, it seems that archaeogenetics solved the riddle. Not in the sense I thought it would b...

This is a truly fascinating film, made by the people of Burkina Faso documenting their own, now vanishing tradition of iron smelting and fo...

Quickies Marc Haber et al. Chad Genetic Diversity Reveals an African History Marked by Multiple Holocene Eurasian Migrations . AJHG 2016....

Quickies Another quite interesting paper on Khoesan and Southern African genetics: Caitlin Uren et al., Fine-Scale Human Population St...

This site of Gobero (Niger) was news in the archaeology and anthropology circles a few years ago and today I stumbled on this quite nice vi...

Quickies This paper is probably of interest to many but I don't have the insight to make a proper analysis. Just to mention that I f...

Quickies Zhenbin Hu et al., Population genomics of pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.): Comparative analysis of global accessi...

Quickies That's what a recently published paper discusses. Oh, by the way, context for the casual reader: Howieson Port and relate...

This is major news: the authors of the study on the ancient East African genome of Mota have recanted their conclusions. In a correction n...

I just watched the documentary "First Peoples - Asia" (by NOVA) and found it quite good, discussing many of the issues that I and...

Major update (Feb 12 2016): the authors have publicly corrected their conclusions: the alleged Eurasian admixture in Yoruba and Mbuti does ...

This is something I've been chewing on for more than a year now and yet never got myself to blog about (although I have mentioned in pr...

Quantity over quality series. Begoña Dobon et al., The genetics of East African populations: a Nilo-Saharan component in the African ge...

Quantity over quality series. Sylvain Soriano et al. The Still Bay and Howiesons Poort at Sibudu and Blombos: Understanding Middle Sto...

A new and quite interesting study finds strong support for Upper Paleolithic (~ LSA) Eurasian inflows into the Horn of Africa and confirms ...

An excellent new study on mtDNA haplogroup U6 has been published this week: Bernard Sechel et al., The history of the North African mit...