I’m glad to announce that this blog will be hosting some guest posts in the near future. I think that these contributions will greatly enhance the quality of the original content posted here and will also offer a greater diversity in both scope and perspective. And of course, it will help to keep this place… Continue Reading

There’s an update in the debate about Neanderthal introgression into AMH in Eurasia. It’s based on some tests and simulations rather than in new ancient data, so it’s only interesting for the more inclined to look at stats, etc… Still, coming from the Svante Pääbo team and having to do with an important part of… Continue Reading

Continuing with some thoughts about Narisimhan et al 2018 (preprint) from the previous post… The steppe people going south Now turning our attention to how the steppe people interacted, influenced or migrated to SC Asia, let’s first look at the Andronovo-BMAC interactions and then we’ll move further south onto the Indus Valley. I will follow… Continue Reading

While we await a new preprint (or the final version) of Narasimhan et al. 2018 I’d like to comment on several random things related to it. Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC) When Victor Sarianidi first excavated the BMAC sites, his hypothesis was that it represented a migration from Syro-Anatolia to the east. Then, as in the… Continue Reading

Thanks to the preprint discussed in the previous post, we now have a good amount of aDNA from around the Caucasus that can help us understand what was going on in this key region. The answers are still not clear, but we can take a look at what we have and see what we have… Continue Reading

Just a few days ago the preprint of a new study on the prehistory of the North Caucasus was released (Wang et al. 2018). This is a major paper for understanding the West Eurasian prehistory, bringing (possibly) a few long awaited answers, but also several new interesting questions. Archaeogenetic studies have described the formation of… Continue Reading