Transdisciplinary Theoretical Approaches to Migration Studies in Archaeology - Volume 35 Issue 3

Ancient genomes from Neolithic rice-farming populations at Baligang reveal a demographic shift around 4,200 years ago and a 5,000-year-old patrilineal social structure, providing insights into the population history of East Asia.

The Turkana pastoralists of Kenya inhabit arid, water-limited environments and rely largely on livestock for subsistence. Working with Turkana communities, we sequenced 367 whole genomes and identifie...

The world at 18,000 BP, published by Gamble and Soffer (The world at 18,000 BP. Vol. 2: low latitude, Unwin Hyman, 1990), represents the first, and so far the only, attempt at characterising and discussing the impact of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on human societies on a global scale. At the time, they highlighted that research and data on the LGM in southern latitudes and the tropics in particular were scant. Since 1990, however, many sites dated to the LGM and located in tropical latitudes have been published. Many paradigms have changed regarding the peopling of the Americas, which allows the archaeology of this continent to be integrated into global scale studies of the LGM. The development of Pleistocene archaeology in tropical contexts, in parallel with methodological advances in cultural, geosciences and palaeoenvironmental studies have strongly reshaped what we know of the antiquity of human occupation in tropical regions and specific human–environment interactions. This article provides for the first time a pan-tropical perspective on the impact of the LGM on human groups living within the tropical latitudes, drawing from case studies in Southeast Asia, Africa and South America, specifically regions which have up until now never been discussed together. To this end, we focus on six different tropical regions between 30 and 10 ka. We present the archaeological and paleoenvironmental data available in these areas, along with proposed relationships for variations in these two records. Finally, we discuss at the regional scale the presence or absence of human changes (site density and techno-cultural change or continuity) before, during and immediately after the LGM.

Transdisciplinary collaboration fuels innovation and discovery. Meller et al. call for broader collaboration at the intersection of genomics, the humanities and social sciences, and wider societal sta...

Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University

A severe bottleneck that brought human ancestors close to extinction occurred between about 930 and 813 thousand years ago.

Scientific Data - The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset

Human population contact leads to consistently similar rates of linguistic borrowing, but effects vary across linguistic features.

Abstract. Linguists have long described their findings in an archaeological context, while archaeologists have been interested in what language can tell th

The Bantu Expansion is one of the most intriguing issues in African history. Based on extensive fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and laboratory

Exploring Manchester's DNA: Community and Creative Projects

Universitetslektor i människans palaeo-och populationsgenomik, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Faculty of Biology, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala universitet

Axel, eker och föl – lingvisterna hittar mängder av belägg för att hästarna tämjdes och spreds av tidiga indoeuropéer

Genome-wide sequencing of 180 ancient individuals shows a continuous gradient of ancestry in Early-to-Mid-Holocene hunter-gatherers from the Baltic to the Transbaikal region and distinct contemporaneo...

Theme: LanguagesKeywords: Indo-European languages, Rigveda, agricultural vocabulary, Center for the Human Past, academic career

Archaeological discoveries from Malta suggest that humans were present on the Maltese islands from around 8,500 years ago, providing evidence that Mesolithic hunter-gatherers made sea crossings as lon...