For what they were... we are

All archaeogenetics and no archaeology makes people go mad. So let's spice this a bit with this absolutely enticing video of a conferen...

Quickies Kambiz Karami at Anthropology.net (a most interesting blog to follow) mentioned this week that Libyan pottery remains, maybe a...

I know, I know: I'm decaying into a total procrastinator. I don't have any excuse other than I don't feel like blogging as of l...

This week we got to know a lot more about the genetics of ancient West Asians, from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and later times. All in a sin...

Quickies Licia Colli, Hovirang Lancioni et al., Whole mitochondrial genomes unveil the impact of domestication on goat matrilineal var...

Quickies Genetic data seems to support the archaeological notion of domestication of the goat (also appliable to several other animals) i...

I know I'm late for the party but better late than never, right? A recent study sequenced three hunter-gatherer genomes from Georgia a...

New ancient DNA research has identified the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which causes the deadly and epidemic illness known as plague , in Ch...

Or yet another ancient European DNA study, with some quirks and, critically, the first ancient farmer sample from the Eastern Mediterranean...

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...