Gözde Atağ
@gatag.bsky.social
PhD student at MPI-EVA | ancient DNA, sediments ⏳🧬
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Our paper "Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology: Towards an ethical position for a truly decolonial practice" was published today at
@pciarchaeology.bsky.social
Many thanks to all the authors for this amazing collaboration! 🎊
📎 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
@pciarchaeology.bsky.social
Many thanks to all the authors for this amazing collaboration! 🎊
📎 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology: Towards an ethical position for a truly decolonial practice
peercommunityjournal.org
November 14, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Our paper "Rethinking Caribbean Archaeology: Towards an ethical position for a truly decolonial practice" was published today at
@pciarchaeology.bsky.social
Many thanks to all the authors for this amazing collaboration! 🎊
📎 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
@pciarchaeology.bsky.social
Many thanks to all the authors for this amazing collaboration! 🎊
📎 peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....
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🚨 New paper alert 🚨
Our research, published today in Science, reveals remarkable concordance between human and dog genomes through time, highlighting how deeply intertwined our evolutionary histories have been over the past 11,000 years.
🔗 Read the full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our research, published today in Science, reveals remarkable concordance between human and dog genomes through time, highlighting how deeply intertwined our evolutionary histories have been over the past 11,000 years.
🔗 Read the full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Genomic evidence for the Holocene codispersal of dogs and humans across Eastern Eurasia
As the first domestic species, dogs likely dispersed with different cultural groups during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed 73 ancient dog genomes, including 17 ...
www.science.org
November 13, 2025 at 10:48 PM
🚨 New paper alert 🚨
Our research, published today in Science, reveals remarkable concordance between human and dog genomes through time, highlighting how deeply intertwined our evolutionary histories have been over the past 11,000 years.
🔗 Read the full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Our research, published today in Science, reveals remarkable concordance between human and dog genomes through time, highlighting how deeply intertwined our evolutionary histories have been over the past 11,000 years.
🔗 Read the full paper here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Our paper on imputation of ancient goat genomes is now available at GBE - congratulations to @jolijnerven.bsky.social #aDNA
Inferring Domestic Goat Demographic History Through Ancient Genome Imputation
Abstract. Goats were among the earliest managed animals, making them a natural model to explore the genetic consequences of domestication. However, a chall
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November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Our paper on imputation of ancient goat genomes is now available at GBE - congratulations to @jolijnerven.bsky.social #aDNA
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✨Thrilled to share that the first chapter of my Ph.D. thesis is NOW OUT in Science Advances! ✨🥳🎉 🧬. This couldn't have been possible without the support of everyone involved
@genscapelab.bsky.social, @nirajrai.bsky.social, @cdelafc.bsky.social, @jaurban2204.bsky.social, @mootspoints.bsky.social
@genscapelab.bsky.social, @nirajrai.bsky.social, @cdelafc.bsky.social, @jaurban2204.bsky.social, @mootspoints.bsky.social
1/n Delighted to share our newly published work in Science Advances, investigating human genetic histories at the northern frontier of the Himalayas 🧬🏔️:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dynamic human admixture histories over the past ~1300 years at the northern Himalayan frontier
Ancient and present-day human genomes shed light on ~1300 years of genetic admixture and continuity in the northern Himalayas.
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
✨Thrilled to share that the first chapter of my Ph.D. thesis is NOW OUT in Science Advances! ✨🥳🎉 🧬. This couldn't have been possible without the support of everyone involved
@genscapelab.bsky.social, @nirajrai.bsky.social, @cdelafc.bsky.social, @jaurban2204.bsky.social, @mootspoints.bsky.social
@genscapelab.bsky.social, @nirajrai.bsky.social, @cdelafc.bsky.social, @jaurban2204.bsky.social, @mootspoints.bsky.social
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In a new paper led by Jiaqi Yang we trace the distribution of Denisovan introgressed DNA in ancient modern human genomes over time.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
An early East Asian lineage with unexpectedly low Denisovan ancestry
Yang et al. study Denisovan ancestry in ancient and present-day humans. In contrast
to other East Asians, genomic comparisons suggest that the Jomon derived most of their
ancestry from a deep lineage ...
www.cell.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
In a new paper led by Jiaqi Yang we trace the distribution of Denisovan introgressed DNA in ancient modern human genomes over time.
www.cell.com/current-biol...
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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🤝 In 2024, the 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 from @official-smbe.bsky.social went to Drs. Rori Rohlfs and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for their podcast ScienceWise!
✨ We are happy to have contributed to their project!
🎙️ @sciencewisepod.bsky.social
✨ We are happy to have contributed to their project!
🎙️ @sciencewisepod.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🤝 In 2024, the 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 from @official-smbe.bsky.social went to Drs. Rori Rohlfs and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for their podcast ScienceWise!
✨ We are happy to have contributed to their project!
🎙️ @sciencewisepod.bsky.social
✨ We are happy to have contributed to their project!
🎙️ @sciencewisepod.bsky.social
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🔥 Don't miss the opportunity! Submit your proposal 𝙉𝙊𝙒! 🌈
#AcademicSky #IDEA #SMBE2026
@official-smbe.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #IDEA #SMBE2026
@official-smbe.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
🔥 Don't miss the opportunity! Submit your proposal 𝙉𝙊𝙒! 🌈
#AcademicSky #IDEA #SMBE2026
@official-smbe.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #IDEA #SMBE2026
@official-smbe.bsky.social
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🦠💀🦠 Happy to share our (with @gunnar-u-neumann.bsky.social) new preprint on ancient Salmonella enterica genomes! We analysed 53 new genomes along with published ancient and modern datasets to learn about lineage replacements and host adaptation in prehistory: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Evolutionary history and recurrent host adaptation in ancient Salmonella enterica
Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica is an extremely diverse bacterial pathogen causing frequent infections and foodborne disease among human populations. More than 1500 different bacterial strains (se...
www.biorxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
🦠💀🦠 Happy to share our (with @gunnar-u-neumann.bsky.social) new preprint on ancient Salmonella enterica genomes! We analysed 53 new genomes along with published ancient and modern datasets to learn about lineage replacements and host adaptation in prehistory: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I totally recommend this position on @trstngnthr.bsky.social lab. Great place to do science, and amazing people to do it with! #aDNA 🧪 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral position in Population Genomics, Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
September 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I totally recommend this position on @trstngnthr.bsky.social lab. Great place to do science, and amazing people to do it with! #aDNA 🧪 www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue.
Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.
kevingdaly.github.io
Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.
kevingdaly.github.io
Ruminant Palaeogenomics - Kevin G. Daly: Ruminant Palaeogenomics
kevingdaly.github.io
September 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
I will be recruiting two PhDs for my ERC Project HERDPATH - let's discover out how livestock and pathogens evolved together using #aDNA. Projects will be animal or pathogen focused but will be in dialogue.
Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.
kevingdaly.github.io
Details at my quaint website below. Deadline 3rd October.
kevingdaly.github.io
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Thrilled to share our study sequencing genetic data from tropical mammoths 🏝️🦣. First DNA recovered from Columbian mammoths southern than USA shorturl.at/xjIvy. Thanks to all collaborators, you were key to this success! See below a fantastic note covering the paper by the great @rpocisv.bsky.social 👇
Columbian mammoth mitogenomes from Mexico uncover the species’ complex evolutionary history
Paleogenomic studies suggest that Mammuthus columbi derives from an ancient hybridization between Mammuthus primigenius and Mammuthus trogontherii. While its habitat spanned from North to Central Amer...
shorturl.at
August 29, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Thrilled to share our study sequencing genetic data from tropical mammoths 🏝️🦣. First DNA recovered from Columbian mammoths southern than USA shorturl.at/xjIvy. Thanks to all collaborators, you were key to this success! See below a fantastic note covering the paper by the great @rpocisv.bsky.social 👇
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New rock dove paper!🕊️
Bit by bit, we are disentangling their evolutionary history and adding evidence to recognise the elusive West African rock doves as a different species
*please ignore the little typo in the title, livia should be lowercase
@trstngnthr.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Bit by bit, we are disentangling their evolutionary history and adding evidence to recognise the elusive West African rock doves as a different species
*please ignore the little typo in the title, livia should be lowercase
@trstngnthr.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Gone With the Wind: Exploring a Vanished Rock Dove, Columba Livia, Hybrid Zone in the Sahara Desert
In this study, we tested the hypothesis of the existence of a hybrid zone between two differentiated rock dove lineages, which may contribute significantly to their divergence. By analyzing newly gen...
doi.org
August 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
New rock dove paper!🕊️
Bit by bit, we are disentangling their evolutionary history and adding evidence to recognise the elusive West African rock doves as a different species
*please ignore the little typo in the title, livia should be lowercase
@trstngnthr.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
Bit by bit, we are disentangling their evolutionary history and adding evidence to recognise the elusive West African rock doves as a different species
*please ignore the little typo in the title, livia should be lowercase
@trstngnthr.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/ece3...
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The AADR Visualizer: An ArcGIS Online Visualizer for ancient human DNA from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
The AADR Visualizer: An ArcGIS Online Visualizer for ancient human DNA from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource
AbstractMotivation. The AADR Visualizer is designed to be a public, user-friendly, web-based graphical user interface for visualizing and filtering ancient
academic.oup.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The AADR Visualizer: An ArcGIS Online Visualizer for ancient human DNA from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
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I will be presenting my poster: “The Population Genetic History of the Hittite Capital Hattusa” at #ESEB2025
📍Poster #273
If you’re around, please come by, ask questions or have a chat, and let’s talk ancient DNA & population genetics!
📍Poster #273
If you’re around, please come by, ask questions or have a chat, and let’s talk ancient DNA & population genetics!
August 21, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I will be presenting my poster: “The Population Genetic History of the Hittite Capital Hattusa” at #ESEB2025
📍Poster #273
If you’re around, please come by, ask questions or have a chat, and let’s talk ancient DNA & population genetics!
📍Poster #273
If you’re around, please come by, ask questions or have a chat, and let’s talk ancient DNA & population genetics!
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Our genetic kinship estimation tool “DeepKin” is now available! Our neural network models trained on simulated data work effectively on real ancient data from diverse backgrounds and often outperform available tools. @compevohumang.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
DeepKin: Predicting Relatedness From Low‐Coverage Genomes and Palaeogenomes With Convolutional Neural Networks
DeepKin is a novel tool designed to predict relatedness from genomic data using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Traditional methods for estimating relatedness often struggle when genomic data i...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Our genetic kinship estimation tool “DeepKin” is now available! Our neural network models trained on simulated data work effectively on real ancient data from diverse backgrounds and often outperform available tools. @compevohumang.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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🧬🏺Calling everyone interested in the intersection of archaeological theory and ancient DNA!
Thrilled to be co-organizing a session for #TRAC2025 with @ezgimou.bsky.social
The virtual conference will be held October 22 - 24 and the call for abstracts is now open. Come join us!
Thrilled to be co-organizing a session for #TRAC2025 with @ezgimou.bsky.social
The virtual conference will be held October 22 - 24 and the call for abstracts is now open. Come join us!
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Excited to co-organize a session with @mootspoints.bsky.social at #TRAC2025!
🧬 Integrating Ancient DNA with Archaeological Theory and Practice
We welcome papers on mobility, migration, & identity in the Roman world and beyond.
📢 Call for abstracts now open! Please spread the word.
#aDNA #science
Excited to co-organize a session with @mootspoints.bsky.social at #TRAC2025!
🧬 Integrating Ancient DNA with Archaeological Theory and Practice
We welcome papers on mobility, migration, & identity in the Roman world and beyond.
📢 Call for abstracts now open! Please spread the word.
#aDNA #science
August 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🧬🏺Calling everyone interested in the intersection of archaeological theory and ancient DNA!
Thrilled to be co-organizing a session for #TRAC2025 with @ezgimou.bsky.social
The virtual conference will be held October 22 - 24 and the call for abstracts is now open. Come join us!
Thrilled to be co-organizing a session for #TRAC2025 with @ezgimou.bsky.social
The virtual conference will be held October 22 - 24 and the call for abstracts is now open. Come join us!
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I am thrilled to share this paper outlining some ideas I’ve been thinking about for a little while on a simple but powerful approach for predicting risk of inbreeding depression from long runs of homozygosity and non-ROH heterozygosity. 1/n @klohmueller.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
August 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I am thrilled to share this paper outlining some ideas I’ve been thinking about for a little while on a simple but powerful approach for predicting risk of inbreeding depression from long runs of homozygosity and non-ROH heterozygosity. 1/n @klohmueller.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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Vanessa Villalba-Mouco and I wrote a little preview piece for Cell on the new mtDNA and proteomics results from the Harbin skull. It is free for 50 days at this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Unmasking the Denisovans
The Harbin cranium, linked to Denisovans via mitochondrial DNA, broadens their known range and provides the first insights into Denisovan morphology. …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Vanessa Villalba-Mouco and I wrote a little preview piece for Cell on the new mtDNA and proteomics results from the Harbin skull. It is free for 50 days at this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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New preprint alert 🚨
The tiniest bone in the human body appears to have the best DNA preservation: "The mini yet mighty staples"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The tiniest bone in the human body appears to have the best DNA preservation: "The mini yet mighty staples"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The mini yet mighty stapes: a comparison of ancient DNA yields among ossicles and the petrous bone
The petrous bone is considered the most efficient source of endogenous DNA across skeletal tissues in ancient DNA research as well as in forensic work. Recently, ancient DNA (aDNA) in auditory ossicle...
www.biorxiv.org
July 20, 2025 at 8:49 AM
New preprint alert 🚨
The tiniest bone in the human body appears to have the best DNA preservation: "The mini yet mighty staples"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The tiniest bone in the human body appears to have the best DNA preservation: "The mini yet mighty staples"
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Thrilled to see this out in Bioinformatics! AdDeam is a powerful tool to rapidly estimate aDNA damage from BAM files and cluster them to flag outliers—great for large/small aDNA projects and ancient metagenomics to find contigs likely to be modern. Great work by Louis Kraft!
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
AdDeam: A Fast and Scalable Tool for Estimating and Clustering Reference-Level Damage Profiles
AbstractMotivation. DNA damage patterns, such as increased frequencies of C→T and G→A substitutions at fragment ends, are widely used in ancient DNA studie
doi.org
July 21, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Thrilled to see this out in Bioinformatics! AdDeam is a powerful tool to rapidly estimate aDNA damage from BAM files and cluster them to flag outliers—great for large/small aDNA projects and ancient metagenomics to find contigs likely to be modern. Great work by Louis Kraft!
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
doi.org/10.1093/bioi...
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My first PhD paper on the importance of populations in small islands for the survival of megafaunas is out!
In sum, the ~100 whole genome sequences of anoa & babirusa, forest cover & climate model of their habitat, all agree that small-island pops are dope.
#consgen
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In sum, the ~100 whole genome sequences of anoa & babirusa, forest cover & climate model of their habitat, all agree that small-island pops are dope.
#consgen
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
July 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
My first PhD paper on the importance of populations in small islands for the survival of megafaunas is out!
In sum, the ~100 whole genome sequences of anoa & babirusa, forest cover & climate model of their habitat, all agree that small-island pops are dope.
#consgen
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
In sum, the ~100 whole genome sequences of anoa & babirusa, forest cover & climate model of their habitat, all agree that small-island pops are dope.
#consgen
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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🧬In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, family was built on social relations rather than blood ties.
Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods.
🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.
Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods.
🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.
June 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🧬In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, family was built on social relations rather than blood ties.
Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods.
🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.
Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods.
🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.
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I didn’t know much about the Neolithic, neither had I ever heard the saying « pots don’t equal people ».
Well that changed, thanks to a real fun interview with @dilekopter.bsky.social and her colleagues behind this study (text also available in English, see comments) 👇
#archaeology #paleogenomics
Well that changed, thanks to a real fun interview with @dilekopter.bsky.social and her colleagues behind this study (text also available in English, see comments) 👇
#archaeology #paleogenomics
📰 News Recherche
Une équipe de @unil.bsky.social @sib.swiss METU, @hacettepe.bsky.social met en lumière la manière dont les premiers modes de vie agricoles se sont diffusés - et comment, parfois, les idées ont voyagé plus loin que les individus.
➡️ www.unil.ch/news/1750772...
@dilekopter.bsky.social
Une équipe de @unil.bsky.social @sib.swiss METU, @hacettepe.bsky.social met en lumière la manière dont les premiers modes de vie agricoles se sont diffusés - et comment, parfois, les idées ont voyagé plus loin que les individus.
➡️ www.unil.ch/news/1750772...
@dilekopter.bsky.social
Révolution néolithique: Quand les idées voyagent plus loin que les individus
Le passage à l'agriculture et à un mode de vie sédentaire est l'un des grands tournants de l'histoire de l'humanité. Pourtant, la manière dont ce mode de vie néolithique s'est propagé du Croissant fer...
www.unil.ch
June 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
I didn’t know much about the Neolithic, neither had I ever heard the saying « pots don’t equal people ».
Well that changed, thanks to a real fun interview with @dilekopter.bsky.social and her colleagues behind this study (text also available in English, see comments) 👇
#archaeology #paleogenomics
Well that changed, thanks to a real fun interview with @dilekopter.bsky.social and her colleagues behind this study (text also available in English, see comments) 👇
#archaeology #paleogenomics
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The nature of Neolithic society is one of the most debated topics in archaeology–a debate that's almost impossible to settle w/ conventional methods alone. Now, new DNA data from a site in Turkey called Çatalhöyük points to a significant role for women: www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org
Stone Age farmers’ households passed from mother to daughter
Moms and daughters were at the center of the family in ancient Çatalhöyük, ancient DNA and archaeological evidence suggest
www.science.org
June 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The nature of Neolithic society is one of the most debated topics in archaeology–a debate that's almost impossible to settle w/ conventional methods alone. Now, new DNA data from a site in Turkey called Çatalhöyük points to a significant role for women: www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org
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Happy to share our new study from my PhD on the spread of farming across Anatolia and into the Aegean and then into Europe. @compevohumang.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean
West Anatolia has been a crucial yet elusive element in the Neolithic expansion from the Fertile Crescent to Europe. In this work, we describe the changing genetic and cultural landscapes of early Hol...
www.science.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Happy to share our new study from my PhD on the spread of farming across Anatolia and into the Aegean and then into Europe. @compevohumang.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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