Breakdown: Two New Genetics Papers On The Upper Palaeolithic And Mesolithic

Posth et al 2023 and Villalba-Mouco et al 2023: Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers & A 23,000-year-old southern Iberian individual links human groups...

As a one-off interruption from my usual monthly round-up of interesting archaeological finds and papers, I want instead to take a deep dive into two papers, both of which came out yesterday - 01/03/23:

• Posth, C., Yu, H., Ghalichi, A. et al. Palaeogenomics of Upper Palaeolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers. Nature 615, 117–126 (2023)

• Villalba-Mo…