#ancientdna — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #ancientdna, aggregated by home.social.
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@AfDnee
Auch wenn ich den "Sinn" hinter eurer Aktion verstehe ("sehr (sehr?) viele Deutscher haben keine reindeutschen Gene"?), so kann ich die Aktion dennoch nicht gut heissen.Warum sollte ich meine DNA an irgendeine Firma in den USA abtreten? 23andMe z.B. wurde vor grob einem Jahr erst verkauft. Was dann mit den Daten und DNA-Proben passiert bzw. noch passieren wird? Unklar…
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Ancient DNA Reveals Bison Herds Were Once Connected Across North America
A sweeping genetic study reveals that ancient bison herds were closely connected across North America—unlike many of today’s isolated populations. -
Ancient DNA from Fiji, Vanuatu & Tonga reveals two distinct migration waves shaped Pacific settlement, plus a 1,500-year-old Fijian cemetery where status passed through a woman’s line. #Archaeogenetics #PacificArchaeology #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/ancient-dna-reveals-two-separate
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🦣 If you are working on #ancientDNA and #metagenomics, and looking to perform metagenomic _de novo_ assembly, you might be interested in the latest paper from myself, @alexhbnr , Maxime Borry, and Christina Warinner
📑 De novo assembly and authentication of ancient DNA metagenomes with nf-core/mag.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014591
👨💻 Comes with a companion tutorial on how to apply our recommendations to nf-core/mag with the dedicated --ancient_dna mode!
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6-Aug-2026
Decoding the North American #bison’s #genome to better inform #conservation efforts
UC Santa Cruz researchers lead analysis of #ancientDNA that yields a genomic roadmap for the restoration of the continent’s largest land mammal, pushed nearly to #extinction because of past human activities -
Nice to see aDNA genetics undoing some stories invented about some of the people found in Pompeii by revealing some of the realities of who they were, how they were related (or in these cases how they were not) and where they came from.
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An AI trained on 8,340 charred seeds from 18 Chinese sites now classifies ancient crops with 90% accuracy, by learning the same size-first trick archaeobotanists use at the microscope. #Archaeobotany #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/teaching-a-machine-to-sort-five-thousand
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Scientists just found DNA from two human relatives we’ve never found a single fossil of, hiding in modern genomes. One mixed with us in Africa 800,000 years ago; the other reached us secondhand, through Denisovans. #paleoanthropology #humanevolution #ancientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-ghosts-in-the-genome
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Two mummified bodies from colonial-era Chile just yielded the first ancient smallpox genomes from the Americas, a now-extinct viral lineage whose evolution stalled for two centuries, then rebounded right as vaccination began. #ArchaeoGenetics #AncientDNA #SmallpoxHistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-bodies-from-chile-just-rewrote
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A cave 4,000m up in Ladakh just revealed a lost population: people with ancestry split almost perfectly between South Asians and Tibetans, mixing began ~2800 years ago, and one still carries a Denisovan altitude gene. #AncientDNA #Paleoanthropology #Archaeogenetics https://www.anthropology.net/p/ancient-genomes-from-a-cave-above
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Ancient DNA Unveils Genetic Links and Social Structure of 4,000-Year-Old Chinese City
📰 Original title: Ancient DNA reveals a chilling secret at China’s 4,000-year-old Shimao city
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire’s #UptonLovell #Shaman was a woman
Exclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was maleThere are quite a few such cases where the analysis of #ancientDNA has led to a #gender reassignment, exposed the tendency of previous research to assume important people to have been male until proven otherwise. See my recent feature: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/11/prehistoric-women-ruled.html
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New ancient DNA study of 142 medieval Swedish burials finds kids buried with adults were rarely close kin, but were sorted by sex just like adults. #archaeogenetics #medievalarchaeology #ancientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/equal-in-death-what-ancient-dna-reveals
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A bit of an interesting historical curiosity: Based on ancient DNA analysis, common burial in Medieval times, including that of children, didn't necessarily have anything to do with being from the same family.
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Genetic Evidence Suggests Major Migration After Stone Age Population Collapse in Europe
📰 Original title: Ancient DNA reveals the mysterious collapse of Europe's megalith builders
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For centuries, people believed members of the powerful Medici family were murdered with poison. But modern DNA analysis points to a completely different killer: malaria.
#HistoricMysteries #Medici #Renaissance #History #AncientDNA #Archaeology #TrueHistory #HistoricalMystery #Malaria #Florence
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/dna-solves-400-year-medici-poisoning-mystery-00102948 -
A one-year-old buried with gold and a drilled skull turns out to be the grandson of another elite Scythian, buried 50 km away. New ancient DNA shows steppe power was inherited, not earned. 🏺🧬 #Archaeology #AncientDNA #Scythians https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-golden-man-had-grandchildren
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New Genetic Study Finds Late Neanderthals Were Not Highly Inbred
📰 Original title: Ancient DNA Reveals a Genetic Surprise in The Last Neanderthals
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/new-genetic-study-finds-late-neanderthals-were-not-highly-inbred.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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24-Jun-2026
#AncientDNA found on #cave walls
Human DNA can survive on cave walls for thousands of years – shedding light on #prehistoric human activity even where bones, sediments or artifacts are absent -
24-Jun-2026
#Neanderthals in Western Europe were doing well right before they went extinct
Genetically healthy population was well-connected with other groups and did not interbreed with modern #humans -
24-Jun-2026
#AncientDNA reveals genetic history of #medieval #Sicily -
Ancient human DNA recovered from Iberian cave walls, including blank surfaces used as negative controls. The walls themselves are archives of prehistoric presence, with or without the art. #Paleogenomics #CaveArt #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/cave-walls-hold-ancient-human-dna