Category: Ancient Connections in Eurasia

This study sets out to consider the influence of geographical scale on the association between molecular genetic differentiation and craniometric phenotypic differentiation in recent human populations.

The study of past human dispersion is a central topic to understand how humans occupied the planet.

The identification of close relatives is central to forensic sciences and to genetic association studies, in which spurious signals can be obtained if genetic structure is not taken into account.

The present work describes the basic principles underlying demographic reconstructions from genetic data, and reviews the studies using such methods with respect to the Neolithic Demographic Transition.

The transition to farming represents the process by which humans switched from hunting and gathering wild resources to a reliance on domesticated plants and animals.

Art traditions reflect beliefs, practices, customs and unconscious values. If it is relatively easy to study these features in historic art traditions, the same is not true for prehistoric times.

The site of Apidima, in southern Greece, is one of the most important Paleolithic sites in Greece and southeast Europe. One of the caves belonging to this cave complex, Cave A, has yielded human fossil crania Apidima 1 and 2, showing the presence of an early Homo sapiens population followed by a Neanderthal one in the Middle Pleistocene.

The left upper third molar from the Megalopolis Basin is enigmatic due to its problematic preservation and context. The Megalopolis molar is the only possible human fossil known to date from the Megalopolis Basin.