Brazil_Capelinha_Sambaqui_10400BP Sambaqui Shorelines: Brazil's Ancient Builders From 8,500 BCE hunters to c.2400 BP shell-mound builders — archaeology meets aDNA on Brazil’s coasts 8547 BCE - 19442400 CE Brazil — Southeast & South coasts; SE Amazonia
USA_CA_SanMiguel_IslandChumash Chumash of the Santa Barbara Channel A coastal people traced through shell middens, plank boats, and ancient DNA 5982 BCE - 1800 CE Santa Barbara Channel & central California, USA
Tanzania_Lindi_Swahili Coastal Currents: The Swahili World A thousand-year story of East African coastal towns shaped by Indian Ocean exchange and mixed ancestry 800 CE - 1800 CE Kenya & Tanzania (Coastal Indian Ocean)
Shkrel Middle Bronze Age Echo A lone voice from Shkrel, Albania (1880–1695 BCE) linking archaeology and DNA 1880 CE - 1695 BCE Shkrel, Albania (Western Balkans)
Belize 4,000 Years Ago Two ancient voices from Mayahak Cab Pek hint at deep maternal ties across early Mesoamerica 2204 CE - 1778 BCE Belize (Mayahak Cab Pek)
Saki Tzul: Belize, 7,400 Years Ago Two early Holocene individuals link ancient Belize archaeology with Indigenous genetic lineages 5513 CE - 53607400 BCE Saki Tzul, Belize (Central America)
Cabeçuda Sambaqui, 3200 BP Shell-mound builders of Brazil's south coast—archaeology meets fragile ancient DNA 1685 CE - 1058 BCE Cabeçuda, South Coast — Brazil
Jabuticabeira II: Sambaqui Coast Late sambaqui coastal community revealed by shell mounds, burials, and ancient DNA 364 CE - 572200 BCE South coast, Brazil (Jabuticabeira II)
Bacho Kiro: Voices of the Late Pleistocene Early modern humans from Bacho Kiro Cave (44–32k BCE): archaeology meets preliminary aDNA 44169 CE - 32667 BCE Balkan Mountains, Bulgaria (Bacho Kiro Cave)
Echoes of Iron in the Rhodope Hills Early Iron Age communities in southern Bulgaria seen through archaeology and maternal genomes 1100 CE - 500 BCE Southern Bulgaria (Rhodope & Haskovo)
Echoes of Late Iron Age Bulgaria Thracian landscapes and early Roman contacts revealed through three ancient genomes 450 BCE - 150 CE Bulgaria (Stara Zagora, Kazanlak, Rozovo)
Albania_EN Podgorie: Albania's Early Neolithic A lone Early Neolithic genome from the Korça Basin hints at the arrival of farming in Albania. 6223 CE - 6067 BCE Podgorie, Korça Basin, Albania
