Revealing the temporal and geographic pattern of human and animal dispersal and migration has been a major goal within anthropology, archaeology, and palaeontology. Here, I focus on the use of ancient DNA to delve beneath the migration palimpsests. More specifically, I firstly describe the use of ancient DNA derived from archaeological pig remains as a proxy to understand the initial dispersal of farmers into Europe, the back migration into Anatolia, and the spread of people into the Pacific. I then show how ancient DNA from foxes in the northern and southern hemisphere has been used to understand their dispersal onto islands in the absence of landbridges. These case studies highlight the value of DNA derived from long-dead organisms to det...
Modern DNA, in particular maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), is now routinely used to t...
The extent to which lineages of cultural descent match those of biological populations has been a su...
© 2005 The Royal Society Review paperIn the past two decades, ancient DNA research has progressed fr...
Ancient DNA provides a unique means to record genetic change through time and directly observe evolu...
Starting with dogs, over 15,000 years ago, the domestication of animals has been central in the deve...
Data from morphology, linguistics, history, and archaeology have all been used to trace the dispersa...
The recent increase in both the abundance and taxonomic range of DNA sequence data in public reposit...
<div><p>Data from morphology, linguistics, history, and archaeology have all been used to trace the ...
Ancient human migrations provide the critical genetic background to historical and contemporary huma...
Human genome analysis and research into fossil anthropogenic nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA are p...
During the last decade, ancient DNA research has been revolutionized by the availability of increasi...
Archaeogenetics is the research field of studying the genetic information contained in ancient DNA (...
Advances in ancient genomics provide unprecedented insight into modern human history. Recent progres...
The origin and diversification of modern humans have been characterized by major evolutionary transi...
Ancient DNA has revolutionised our ability to study past evolutionary processes by enabling direct o...
Modern DNA, in particular maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), is now routinely used to t...
The extent to which lineages of cultural descent match those of biological populations has been a su...
© 2005 The Royal Society Review paperIn the past two decades, ancient DNA research has progressed fr...
Ancient DNA provides a unique means to record genetic change through time and directly observe evolu...
Starting with dogs, over 15,000 years ago, the domestication of animals has been central in the deve...
Data from morphology, linguistics, history, and archaeology have all been used to trace the dispersa...
The recent increase in both the abundance and taxonomic range of DNA sequence data in public reposit...
<div><p>Data from morphology, linguistics, history, and archaeology have all been used to trace the ...
Ancient human migrations provide the critical genetic background to historical and contemporary huma...
Human genome analysis and research into fossil anthropogenic nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA are p...
During the last decade, ancient DNA research has been revolutionized by the availability of increasi...
Archaeogenetics is the research field of studying the genetic information contained in ancient DNA (...
Advances in ancient genomics provide unprecedented insight into modern human history. Recent progres...
The origin and diversification of modern humans have been characterized by major evolutionary transi...
Ancient DNA has revolutionised our ability to study past evolutionary processes by enabling direct o...
Modern DNA, in particular maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), is now routinely used to t...
The extent to which lineages of cultural descent match those of biological populations has been a su...
© 2005 The Royal Society Review paperIn the past two decades, ancient DNA research has progressed fr...