Setúbal-Melides Bronze Age Voices
Five Bronze Age individuals from coastal Portugal illuminate a changing landscape of ancestry and culture.
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Neolithic Echoes of Coastal Portugal
Six Middle Neolithic individuals from Lorga de Din and Lugar do Canto illuminate Portugal’s early farming world.
Paso del Indio Ceramic People
Ceramic-period communities of Vega Baja, Puerto Rico (650–1400 CE) — archaeology meets aDNA
Punta Candelero: Coastal Ceramic World
Pottery, middens, and fragile DNA traces illuminate Humacao's 500–1050 CE coastal communities.
Santa Elena Ceramic People
A fragmentary portrait of Puerto Rico’s 900–1300 CE coastal communities
Urziceni Echoes: Bodrogkeresztur Romania
A Chalcolithic community at the crossroads of farmers and foragers, glimpsed in bones and genomes.
Riverborn Farmers of Early Romania
Early Neolithic households along the Lower Danube, revealed by archaeology and ancient DNA
Arman Bronze Age of Romania
A fragmentary Bronze Age horizon at CRL Arman linking archaeology and maternal lineages
Gârlești Dawn: Early Farmers of Dolj
Three Eneolithic-era individuals from Gârlești tie southern Romanian landscapes to early farmer maternal lineages.
Curătești Boian: Late Neolithic Echoes
Four Eneolithic genomes from Curătești link Boian lifeways to Neolithic farmer lineages
Iron Gates Mesolithic Echoes
Riverborne hunter-gatherers of the Danube gorge between 7584–5630 BCE
Farmers of Muntenia (Romania_N)
Neolithic farmers (6000–4300 BCE) along the lower Danube, glimpsed through archaeology and five ancient genomes.