Clemens SchmidRE: 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.
Archaeology News 
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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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #Romanempire #archaeogenetics
Ainur ElmgrenAnother cool #openaccess study about Late Antiquity / Early Middle Ages (my favourite historical period): "Demography and life histories across the Roman frontier in Germany 400–700 ce" (see end of post for full citation and DOI link).
Perhaps expectedly, the population in this region in Central Europe turned out to be very diverse and subject to change, but at the same time consistent in many key cultural traits. Change and continuity - what else is new?
Well, I'm always on the lookout for traces of my steppe nomad darlings, so imagine my joy when I spotted the following:
"... a male from Altheim (Alh_245; 528–553 ce) who shares long IBD segments with individuals from the Berel necropolis in modern Kazakhstan, derives roughly two-thirds of his ancestry from East Asian sources and one-third from populations of the western Steppe." Atam, what are you doing in Bavaria?
Was he a very late Hun or a very early Avar, or something in between?
"A contemporary male from Wölfersheim (W67) carries similar, albeit less of this Asian ancestry, whereas late fifth century females with artificial cranial deformation (Wh4 and Wh59) lack Steppe-related ancestry and instead exhibit patterns consistent with post-Roman admixture" - The "trend" of artificial cranial modification appears in Central Europe in the mid-400s and correlates with the arrival of the Huns. However, as these findings show, genetics and culture are not necessarily connected - neither in the past, nor today.
Oh, how I would love to know more about all these unique individuals!
Blöcher, J., Vallini, L., Velte, M. et al. Demography and life histories across the Roman frontier in Germany 400–700 ce. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10437-3
#archaeology #steppeancestors #avars #huns #archaeogenetics #iwanttobelieve #lateantiquity #earlymiddleages
Anthropology.net199 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
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
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
The Dead Knew Each Other: Kinship, Descent, and the Neolithic Tombs of Northern Scotland
Ancient DNA from five chambered cairns in Caithness and Orkney reveals a web of biological relationships spanning generations and the Pentland Firth.
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
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
Scientific FrontlineRecent 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
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/arch03252601.html
#Archaeogenetics #EvolutionaryBiology #Paleontology #Archaeology #Genomics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/03/arch03252601.html
smiergahttuTracking 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
