#archaeogenetics — Public Fediverse posts
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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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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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Tooth enamel reveals the origins of Africans freed from slave ships and buried on St. Helena
Nearly 200 years after thousands of Africans rescued from illegal slave ships were buried on the remote island of St. Helena, scientists have traced where many of them spent their childhood. The findings offer one of the clearest pictures yet of the lives of people whose...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/origins-of-african-slaves-buried-on-st-helena/
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50,000-year-old DNA from South African antelope rewrites limits of ancient DNA preservation
Scientists have recovered ancient DNA from a 50,000-year-old antelope tooth found in South Africa, pushing back the age of the oldest DNA ever retrieved from sub-Saharan Africa. The finding shows that genetic material survives far longer in some African environments than many researchers expected...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/50000-year-old-dna-from-antelope-dna-preservation/
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A 385 kg Iberian bear once filled a niche cave bears never occupied. New fossil and island biodiversity research both point to the same lesson: today’s “natural” baselines are already reshaped by millennia of human pressure. #Paleoecology #Archaeogenetics #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-baseline-that-keeps-moving
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Ancient DNA reveals Scythian elite families passed power across generations
A new ancient DNA study suggests political power among Iron Age Scythian elites stayed within the same families for generations. The findings offer a new view of how social rank and leadership grew across the ancient Eurasian steppe...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/07/scythian-elite-families-passed-power-across-generations/
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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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Sicily remained a genetic crossroads through Byzantine, Islamic, and Norman rule, ancient DNA study finds
A new ancient DNA study suggests medieval Sicily remained a diverse population center for hundreds of years, despite major political and religious changes. Researchers analyzed DNA from 111 people buried at 19 archaeological sites across Sicily...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/sicily-remained-a-genetic-crossroads/
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Ancient human DNA found preserved on cave walls for thousands of years, study finds
Ancient human DNA has been found on cave walls for the first time, giving scientists a new way to study people who lived thousands of years ago. The finding shows human genetic material can survive on rock surfaces long after the people who left those traces disappeared...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/ancient-human-dna-preserved-on-cave-walls/
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Ancient DNA reveals 700-kilometer migration along Peru’s coast before the Inca Empire
People living along Peru’s Pacific coast traveled long distances and formed connections between distant communities at least 800 years ago, according to a new study published in Nature Communications. The research pushes back the timeline for major coastal migration in the Andes to the thirteenth century...More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/700-kilometer-migration-along-perus-coast/
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A Mongolian cemetery traced through 6 generations of ancient DNA looked like a family burial ground. Machine learning + cultural phylogenetics say otherwise: wealth and political power decided who got buried where, not blood. #Archaeogenetics #Xiongnu #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/wealth-not-blood-decided-who-got
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Largest Denisovan DNA study reveals ancient genes still active in Oceanian populations
Ancient DNA inherited from Denisovans, an extinct group of human relatives, still influences the biology of people living in parts of Oceania today, according to a new study published in Science. The research provides one of the most detailed pictures yet of genetic diversity across Near Oceania..More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/denisovan-dna-study-oceanian-populations/
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Ancient DNA links 400-year-old Finland burial to Sámi ancestry and possible Iceland journey
A man buried near Lake Kitka in northern Finland around 400 years ago appears to have lived a far more mobile life than researchers once thought. A new study based on ancient DNA and isotope analysis found close genetic ties between the man and Sámi populations...More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/dna-links-400-year-old-finland-burial-to-sami-ancestry/
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5,500 years ago, plague was already killing children in Siberian hunter-gatherer families, no fleas, no cities, no farming required. Ancient DNA reveals a toxin that may explain why kids died and adults didn’t. #archaeogenetics #ancientDNA #paleopathology https://www.anthropology.net/p/lethal-plague-outbreaks-among-lake
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Human genetic diversity and language structure show opposite global patterns, new study finds
A recent international study led by the University of Zurich examines links between human genetic diversity and language structure across world regions. Researchers combined population genetics datasets with linguistic databases, focusing on grammar patterns such as verb placement and sentence structure...More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/genetic-diversity-and-language-opposite-patterns/
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Ancient DNA reveals male lineage and family ties in Neolithic Scotland tombs
New research from northern Scotland brings fresh detail to how early farming groups organized family ties and burial practices. Scientists studied ancient DNA from people buried in chambered tombs in Caithness and the Orkney Islands, dating from about 3800 to 3200 BCE...More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/04/male-lineage-in-neolithic-scotland-tombs/
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New ancient DNA from 203 Neolithic individuals shows the megalithic tomb communities of Central Europe weren’t defined by blood. A father and son were buried 225 km apart. Patchwork families are ancient. #Archaeogenetics #Neolithic #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-tombs-were-not-for-families
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Centuries before the Inca, migrants traveled 700+ km to Peru’s Chincha Valley. DNA and unique cranial shapes prove these families deliberately preserved their distinct cultural and genetic identity for generations.
#Archaeogenetics #Anthropology #AncientPeru https://www.anthropology.net/p/north-coast-strangers-in-a-southern -
RE: https://ecoevo.social/@poseidon/116595507759596675
For people in and around #archaeogenetics and #archaeology: This is an excellent meta dataset about the growth of ancient DNA analysis in the last 15 years.
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Ancient DNA study rewrites fall of Rome, reveals small migrations shaped Central Europe
A large genetic study of early medieval burials in southern Germany is changing how historians describe the end of Roman rule in Central Europe...
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/05/fall-of-rome-small-migrations-central-europe/
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199 Indigenous American genomes. A third dispersal into South America. A ghost ancestry under selection for 10,000 years. The genomic scar of colonization. #Archaeogenetics #IndigenousAmerica #HumanEvolution https://www.anthropology.net/p/three-migrations-a-ghost-ancestry
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A tooth from a 14th-century Bolivian mummy just yielded the oldest known Streptococcus pyogenes genome — proving scarlet fever’s bacterium circulated in the Americas long before European contact. #AncientDNA #Paleopathology #Archaeogenetics https://www.anthropology.net/p/a-tooth-from-a-chullpa-rewrites-the
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Ancient DNA from 5 Neolithic cairns in Caithness and Orkney maps fathers, sons, brothers — and two women on an island more closely related to men on the mainland than to those buried beside them. #Archaeogenetics #NeolithicBritain #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-dead-knew-each-other-kinship
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New DNA research overturns a key assumption: the “Polynesian motif,” a maternal lineage spanning nearly all of Remote Oceania, didn’t come from Taiwan — it arose on the north coast of New Guinea ~6,500 years ago. #Archaeogenetics #PacificPrehistory #Lapita https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-polynesian-motif-was-already
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Ancient DNA from a Neolithic tomb near Paris reveals two genetically distinct populations separated by a catastrophic collapse around 5,000 years ago. Plague, abandonment, and migration — all in a single burial site. #Archaeogenetics #Neolithic #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-tomb-that-remembered-two-worlds
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Recent ancient DNA analysis has identified domestic dogs at archaeological sites dating to the Late Upper Paleolithic, roughly 16,000 to 14,000 years ago. This discovery pushes back the earliest confirmed genetic record of dog domestication by approximately 5,000 years, firmly placing their emergence prior to the advent of agriculture.
#Archaeogenetics #EvolutionaryBiology #Paleontology #Archaeology #Genomics #sflorg
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Tracking back such a big population (1 in 200 of all men) to one relatively recent lineage always was sus to me.
my confirmation bias is very happy about the results this study.Far fewer people are related to Genghis Khan than previously assumed, new genomic study suggests | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/far-fewer-people-are-related-to-genghis-khan-than-previously-assumed-new-genomic-study-suggests#achaeology #archaeogenetics #ChingizKhan #ychromosome #mongols
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Ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old hunter-gatherer cemetery on Gotland shows people buried together were kin, but often second- or third-degree relatives, not parents and children. The Stone Age family was wider than we assumed. #AncientDNA #Archaeogenetics #HunterGatherers https://www.anthropology.net/p/who-gets-buried-together-on-a-stone
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DNA reveals rare dwarfism in teenager who lived in Italy 12,000 years ago
An international research team has confirmed the earliest known genetic diagnosis in an anatomically modern human, identifying a rare skeletal disorder in a prehistoric adolescent female who lived more than 12,000 years ago...
© Image courtesy of Dr. Adrian Daly
More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/rare-dwarfism-in-teenager-italy-12000-years-ago/
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