We sequenced the genomes of a ∼7,000-year-old farmer from Germany and eight ∼8,000-year-old
hunter-gatherers from Luxembourg and Sweden. We analysed these and other …

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 …

Modern humans arrived in Europe ~45,000 years ago, but little is known about their genetic
composition before the start of farming ~8,500 years ago. Here we analyse genome-wide …

Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years 1 , 2 . Our knowledge of
the genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers is however limited, owing …

How modern humans dispersed into Eurasia and Australasia, including the number of
separate expansions and their timings, is highly debated [1, 2]. Two categories of models are …

Ancient DNA is revealing new insights into the genetic relationship between Pleistocene
hominins and modern humans. Nuclear DNA indicated Neanderthals as a sister group of …

The appearance of people associated with the Lapita culture in the South Pacific around
3,000 years ago 1 marked the beginning of the last major human dispersal to unpopulated …

We report genome-wide ancient DNA from 49 individuals forming four parallel time transects
in Belize, Brazil, the Central Andes, and the Southern Cone, each dating to at least ∼9,000 …

Despite centuries of research, much about the barbarian migrations that took place between
the fourth and sixth centuries in Europe remains hotly debated. To better understand this …

The origins of the Bronze Age Minoan and Mycenaean cultures have puzzled archaeologists
for more than a century. We have assembled genome-wide data from 19 ancient individuals…