Genetic Genealogy & Ancient DNA in the News (DISCUSSION ONLY)

[Kaldo]

Is there info about the Megiddo site? And the one in Jordan that Reich brought up (don't know how to spell it)?

[kingjohn]

i guess in this facial construction of one of the r1b guys
since those romanian hunters were r1b
https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeolo...tely-connected

[rozenfeld]

https://coursesandconferences.wellco...tem.aspx?e=651

Human Evolution: Fossils, Ancient and Modern Genomes - NEW

20-22 November 2017

Hinxton, Cambridge, UK

Bursary deadline: 12 September | Abstract Deadline: 26 September | Registration Deadline: 24 October

This new conference will celebrate the maturity of the ancient DNA field. The meeting will bring together genomic specialists, palaeontologists, archaeologists, primatologists, medical geneticists and other researchers interested in human evolution.

The combination of genome sequencing tools, recent archaeological and palaeontological discoveries is reshaping our understanding of both human evolution and history. This meeting will highlight the emerging archaeological discoveries and advances in ancient DNA methods that are transforming the field. For example, we will explore the use of genomic tools and large-scale analysis of ancient nuclear DNA to deciphering population mixing, complex migration patterns and the role of adaptive introgression in human evolution. The meeting will also include discussions of current developments and challenges of characterising the evolution and changing ecology of the human microbiome and the use of non-humans such as apes and other model species to learn about our own evolution.

We encourage participation from researchers and specialists interested in disseminating and learning the latest cutting-edge advances in sample analysis, genomic techniques and analytical tools used to study human evolution.

The conference will start at approximately 12.30 on Monday, 20 November and close at approximately 14.00 on Wednesay, 22 November 2017.

Scientific topics include

Ancient DNA advances and emerging archaeological discoveries
Large-scale analysis of ancient nuclear DNA
Origins of modern humans and the importance of Africa
Migration of modern humans from Africa into East Asia and the Americas
Archaic introgression
Human microbiome evolution
Apes and other model species
Human evolution, adaptation and disease

A draft programme will be available shortly.

Scientific programme committee
Jonathan Pritchard Stanford University, USA
Chris Tyler-Smith Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
Michael Westaway Griffith University, Australia
Yali Xue Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK

Keynote speakers
Svante Pääbo Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Chris Stringer Natural History Museum, UK

Confirmed speakers
Qiaomei Fu Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Brenna Henn Stony Brook University, USA
Janet Kelso Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany
Johannes Krause Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany
Tomas Marques-Bonet Institut de Biologia Evolutiva, Spain
Marta Mirazon Lahr University of Cambridge, UK
Rasmus Nielsen University of California, Berkeley, USA
Jonathan Pritchard Stanford University, USA
Molly Przeworski Columbia University, USA
Lluis Quintana-Murci Institut Pasteur, France
David Reich Harvard Medical School, USA
Christina Warinner University of Oklahoma, USA
Michael Westaway Griffith University, Australia
Eske Willerslev University of Cambridge, UK

Conference organiser
Emily Rees Wellcome Genome Campus, UK

[Solothurn]

http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/...7#2/40.7/-49.9

Ancient Human DNA map, maybe of interest!

[Solothurn]

Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons

Driffield Terrace excavation, York, England.

http://dro.dur.ac.uk/17016/3/17016.pdf

[vettor]

http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/...7#2/40.7/-49.9

Ancient Human DNA map, maybe of interest!

not very good, many ancient samples missing ...............

[Bollox79]

Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons

Driffield Terrace excavation, York, England.

http://dro.dur.ac.uk/17016/3/17016.pdf

I am quite familiar with this paper - hence my signature ;-). If you are interested in this... then there are a couple documentaries you can watch - though they may be hard to find. One called Gladiators: Back from the Dead was available on youtube, but I can't find it anymore. A new one is called Secrets: Headless Gladiators of York shown on the Smithsonian Channel in the states, and as Ancient Mysteries in the Isles I think - I have not been able to watch this new one as I stream my TV... I guess I have to wait to see it!!!

Cheers

[razyn]

Unsuccessful attempt to get ancient DNA:
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Because the sample for aDNA extraction was very small and thus yielded a very low DNA concentration, the library consequently required an excessive number of PCR-cycles to become sequencable. This resulted in two observations when the amplified and purified library was profiled on an Agilent Bioanalyzer 2100: 1) A very high concentration of adapter dimer, making it inefficient to sequence with Next Generation Sequencing technology and 2) PCR products in the negative extraction control with similar length distribution and concentration such as in the DNA library from the hair sample. For these reasons, we decided not to perform further aDNA analyses.
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Although the acidic environment within the oak-coffin, in which the Skrydstrup Woman was burried, unfortunately prevented the preservation of human aDNA...

There was a National Geographic program titled "Bog Bodies" last night (Monday, June 5). The aDNA part, late in the program, also dealt with a female specimen, although IIRC it was one discovered in Ireland about 2003. I may be mistaken about that, I was watching around 1 AM. The program also discussed a Danish female bog body, for which the story (and reenactment) involved ritual that included staking the elbows of her naked body to the bog bottom, but leaving her woven cloak beside her -- no "oak coffin" was mentioned. Anyway the scientist interviewed said that they did successfully recover (evidently nuclear) aDNA, but its deterioration meant that the segments recovered and analyzed with NGS returned such short reads, they were unable to be entirely certain which chromosome the segments came from. He expressed the hope that rapidly improving technology and methods might yet make it possible to get useful aDNA reads from some bog bodies in the near future.

I wondered whether timing of releasing the paper from Denmark was affected by the air date for the NatGeo program.

[paoloferrari]

i found this on twitter i :may this man intended north african paper imminent instead of immanent?it would be great if so.....

https://twitter.com/PreznitCamacho/s...39973482426369

[Kaldo]

i found this on twitter i :may this man intended north african paper imminent instead of immanent?it would be great if so.....

https://twitter.com/PreznitCamacho/s...39973482426369

You could ask him if that's what he meant.