Discussions on the history and historiography of Australia's New England

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

New DNA studies provide new light on the mixing of people in the classical world

 Interesting piece by Andrew Curry in Science, "‘Phenomenal’ ancient DNA data set provides clues to origin of farming and early languages: Trio of studies suggests new homeland for earliest Indo-European speakers and traces movements of ancient Greeks, Imperial Romans". The story includes links to related stories. 

I'm not quite sure how to interpret the material, but it does show (again!) how genomics is throwing new light on evidence revealed via the archaeological record.