Lucier Ancestors: Ontario Genomes
Ancient DNA from Lucier, Southwestern Ontario traces maternal continuity and complex paternal signals
Ancient and historical cultures
DNA Spotlights
Explore the places, time periods, and published research behind ancient DNA samples and the cultures associated with them.
Browse the collectionFilter spotlights
Culture collection
337–348 of 1,627 spotlights
Middle Dorset in Arctic Canada
Archaeological and genetic glimpses into Middle Dorset communities across Victoria Island and Newfoundland, 1–800 CE
Echoes from Chagyrskaya Cave
Altai Neanderthals glimpsed through stone, bone, and ancient genomes
Isles of Stone: The Guanche
Island-born peoples of the Canaries, seen through archaeology and genomes
Voices from the Channel Isles
Late Neolithic lives on Guernsey reconstructed from tombs, pottery and three ancient genomes
Guernsey: Middle Neolithic Voices
Le Déhus burials (4241–3968 BCE) reveal island lifeways and preliminary DNA links to continental groups
Caleta Huelen Coastal Community
A coastal Chilean population ca. 750–1150 CE, traced through bones and DNA
Mogushan Xianbei: Steppe Echoes
Fragments of Iron Age life from Hulunbuir that link archaeology with northern East Asian genomes
Kawésqar of the Strait of Magellan
Seafaring foragers of Chilean fjords seen through 19th-century archaeology and DNA
Amur River Late Paleolithic Foragers
Riverine hunter-gatherers of northeast China, 17,605–10,550 BCE
Amur River Foragers: Early Neolithic Voices
River-born communities at the dawn of the Neolithic in northeast China, seen through bones and genomes.
Amur River Mesolithic Dawn
Early riverine hunter-gatherers of northeastern China, 9442–8475 BCE