We are a group of archaeologists, anthropologists, curators and geneticists representing
diverse global communities and 31 countries. All of us met in a virtual workshop dedicated to …

Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare 1 .
However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage …

From around 2750 to 2500 bc, Bell Beaker pottery became widespread across western and
central Europe, before it disappeared between 2200 and 1800 bc. The forces that propelled …

Farming was first introduced to Europe in the mid-seventh millennium bc, and was associated
with migrants from Anatolia who settled in the southeast before spreading throughout …

We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000–3,000 years
ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost 400,000 polymorphisms. …

The processes that shaped modern European mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation remain
unclear. The initial peopling by Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers ~42,000 years ago and the …

Ancient DNA studies have established that Neolithic European populations were descended
from Anatolian migrants 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 who received a limited amount of admixture …

Farming was established in Central Europe by the Linearbandkeramik culture (LBK), a well-investigated
archaeological horizon, which emerged in the Carpathian Basin, in today's …

Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent of plague, is a bacterium associated with wild rodents
and their fleas. Historically it was responsible for three pandemics: the Plague of Justinian in …

Yersinia pestis, the etiologic agent of plague, is a bacterium associated with wild rodents
and their fleas. Historically it was responsible for three pandemics: the Plague of Justinian in …