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    Has there been any news on Arabian Ancient DNA?

    The Arabian Peninsula is only center of civilization I can think of that hasn't been represented. Even Mesopotamia has news.
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    BECC2021 Conference Program

    https://becc2021.com/conference-program A genome-wide view of the peopling history of the Vanuatu archipelago Arauna et al. The Vanuatu archipelago was peopled during one of the last human migrations to uninhabited lands, ~3,000 years ago (ya). Ancient DNA studies support an initial settlement...
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    According to improved methods, there are 7 races/ancestral clusters

    https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2019/05/30/653279.full.pdf S1.4 Admixture analysis We performed an admixture analysis to complement out analysis of kinship andFST. We used theAdmixture software [62] to inferK= 7ancestry clusters from the Final dataset (see Table S1).The admixture...
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    Gal Gadot defends Cleopatra casting after 'whitewashing' controversy

    https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55409187 Israeli film star Gal Gadot has defended her plan to play Cleopatra following accusations of whitewashing. Critics say an Arab or African actress should play the ancient Egyptian queen. "First of all if you want to be true to the facts...
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    What research do you look forward to?

    I look forward to at least: -A paper on Old Kingdom Egypt at the latest -A paper on Arabia -A paper on Mesopotamia
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    Two Ancient Iberia DNA Papers with articles.

    Ancient DNA research shines spotlight on Iberia https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/hms-adr031119.php Survival of Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherer Ancestry in the Iberian Peninsula https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30145-9# The genomic history of the...
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    Ancient Mitochondrial Genomes Reveal the Absence of Maternal Kinship in the Burials o

    https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/10/3/207/htm Abstract : Çatalhöyük is one of the most widely recognized and extensively researched Neolithic settlements. The site has been used to discuss a wide range of aspects associated with the spread of the Neolithic lifestyle and the social...
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    Ancestral mitochondrial N lineage from the Neolithic ‘green’ Sahara

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39802-1 Because Africa’s climate hampers DNA preservation, knowledge of its genetic variability is mainly restricted to modern samples, even though population genetics dynamics and back-migrations from Eurasia may have modified haplotype...
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    Recent Paper with apparent Phoenician sample

    http://sci-hub.tw/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41431-019-0361-1 People from Ibiza: an unexpected isolate in the WesternMediterranean Simone Andrea Biagini1●Neus Solé-Morata1●Elizabeth Matisoo-Smith2●Pierre Zalloua3●David Comas1●Francesc Calafell1Received: 10 August 2018 / Revised: 15...
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    Talk on Ancient Italian/Roman DNA over in Stanford.

    https://events.stanford.edu/events/823/82317/ A 12,000-year Genetic History of Rome and the Italian Peninsula Wednesday, February 6, 2019 12:00 pm Archaeology Center Sponsored by: Archaeology Center Ancient DNA has become a powerful tool for studying the human past. This talk highlights...
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    DNA from an Early Middle Kingdom mummy.

    https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4425/9/3/135/htm Biological Sexing of a 4000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy Head to Assess the Potential of Nuclear DNA Recovery from the Most Damaged and Limited Forensic Specimens Abstract: High throughput sequencing (HTS) has been used for a number of years in the field...
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    Some DNA from Iron Age Lebanon.

    https://eventpilot.us/web/page.php?page=IntHtml&project=ASHG18&id=180121820 PgmNr 2716: Mount Lebanon provides an opportunity to study DNA from the ancient Near East. Authors: M. Haber 1; Y. Xue 1; C. Scheib 2; C. Doumet-Serhal 3; T. Kivisild 4; C. Tyler-Smith 1 Affiliations: 1) Wellcome...
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    Some emails on Mesopotamian DNA

    So months ago I sent this email to one Pontus Skoglund at the Francis Crick Institute's ancient DNA lab: Long enough later, I got a response: So for those wondering, there is interest in researching Neolithic to Bronze Age Mesopotamian DNA.
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    Upcoming symposium on Ancient DNA by Royal Society of Biology.

    https://www.twitter.com/RSB_Yorkshire/status/1019967818643755009 No word on any papers shown there.
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    Human Sacrifices Surround Ancient Mesopotamian Tomb

    https://www.livescience.com/62954-human-sacrifices-mesopotamia.html
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    ADMIXTURE and what it implies for pre-Islamic Mesopotamia.

    The recent Caucasus paper finally features groups such as the Assyrians and Kurds in its ADMIXTURE. Here's the paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/05/16/322347 Here's a graph: https://www.biorxiv.org/highwire/filestream/98916/field_highwire_adjunct_files/2/322347-3.pdf As...
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    Ancient Roman mitochondrial genomes and isotopes

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X17308568
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    A paper on Imperial Rome that's been in the works since 2017 at the latest.

    http://meeting.physanth.org/program/2018/session64/de-angelis-2018-rome-wasnt-built-in-a-day-biomolecular-analysis-of-ancient-romans.html The 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (2018) Programs > 2018 > Poster Session > Poster...
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