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3 articles on east-asia, ancient-DNA research written up for readers who want the evidence, not just the headline.
East Asia's ancient-DNA record reaches from archaic humans to the first farmers: the Harbin cranium from northeastern China has been identified as a Denisovan from ancient proteins and mitochondrial DNA, an 11,000-year-old site near Beijing preserves an unknown deep northern East Asian lineage, and Japan's Jomon foragers carry an Ice Age survival toolkit in their genomes. Those lineages persist in living populations in measurable proportions, as descent rather than identity.
The articles cover Donghulin and its 2,000 years of change at one place at the dawn of farming in North China, the Harbin skull and what putting a face on the Denisovans means, and the largest Jomon dataset yet, with where Japan's ancient foragers came from, the cold-adaptation selection written in their genomes and what their legacy means for reading Japanese ancestry.
A new Science Advances study sequences the largest Jomon dataset yet: where Japan's ancient foragers came from, the cold-adaptation selection written in their genomes, and what their legacy means for reading Japanese ancestry.
Ancient proteins and mitochondrial DNA from dental calculus identify the near-complete Harbin cranium from northeastern China as a Denisovan.
Genomes from an 11,000-year-old site near Beijing reveal an unknown deep northern East Asian lineage and 2,000 years of change at one place.