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Tracing the Genetic Threads of Wallacea’s Complex History

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The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 (PNAS), combines insights from genetics, linguistics, and archaeology to paint a more complete picture of Wallacea’s past. Researchers analyzed 254 newly sequenced genomes, uncovering evidence of extensive gene flow from West Papua into the islands of Wallacea.

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The Geometry of Memory: How Knots Carry the Weight of Human History

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In a new study published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1 , researchers from institutions across Europe compiled the most comprehensive cross-cultural knot database to date. By analyzing 338 distinct knots from archaeological archives and museum collections, they discovered a surprisingly stable repertoire. Eronen, J.

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Mapping the Genome of a Multi-Ethnic Nation

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In a quiet room humming with server stacks, a genomic dataset from nearly 300,000 Americans is doing something anthropologists have long tried to accomplish: capturing a living mosaic of human ancestry at a scale once unimaginable. Average ancestry proportions are shown above each group, and numbers of participants are shown below each group.