Als in den 90ern die Möglichkeiten der #Anthropologie mit den molekularen Methoden explodierten, befürchtete man, die #Archäologie werde zu deren #Hilfswissenschaft degradiert. Jetzt wird sie in #Göttingen abgewickelt. 🏺#histodons @Archaeodons group @anthropology group #aDNA #Osteologie 🔒

Der Tod der Göttinger Anthropo...

New packages in the community-archive:
2021_Popovic_Tiwanaku (v1.0.2)
2023_Maier_IndusPeriphery (v1.0.1)
2025_GnecchiRuscone_CarpathianBasinHunPeriod (v1.0.1)
https://github.com/poseidon-framework/community-archive #aDNA #OpenData

New packages in the community-archive:
2025_Naegele_PapuaNewGuinea (v1.0.0)
https://github.com/poseidon-framework/community-archive #aDNA #OpenData

There's bit of discussion about wether freshly published #aDNA 🏺🧬 data from #Catalhöyük allows talking about matrilineally organised Neolithic community there - of course I couldn't help but join having an opinion: www.livescience.com/archaeology/... by @killgrove.bsky.social via @livescience.com

Ancient 'female-centered' soci...

There's bit of discussion about wether freshly published #aDNA 🏺🧬 data from #Catalhöyük allows talking about a matrilineally organised Neolithic community there or not - and well, of course I couldn't help but join having an opinion:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-female-centered-society-thrived-9-000-years-ago-in-proto-city-in-turkey via @LiveScience

New packages in the community-archive:
2023_Maier_IndusPeriphery (v1.0.0)
https://github.com/poseidon-framework/community-archive #aDNA #OpenData

New trident release v1.6.7.1! Please see the changelog here: https://github.com/poseidon-framework/poseidon-hs/releases/tag/v1.6.7.1 #aDNA #OpenData #Haskell

To be fair, until further finds #aDNA 🏺🧬 was our best chance here for lack of comparison - afaik this is the first and only #Denisovan skull we got. So far.

To be fair, until further finds #aDNA 🏺🧬 was our best chance here for lack of comparison - afaik this is the first and only #Denisovan skull we got. So far.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:el3jdxhr6vaei42xcdcfuixm/post/3lrzehz5drc2l

The dragon's out of the bag: #aDNA gives 146,000 y/o unusual sized and shaped skull of #HomoLongi (a.k.a. #DragonMan), originally found in 1933 in #China and rediscovered in 2018, away as actually: #Denisovan! www.livescience.com/archaeology/... by @killgrove.bsky.social via @livescience.com

livescience.com/archaeology/hu...

The dragon's out of the bag:

#aDNA gives 146,000 y/o unusual sized and shaped skull of #HomoLongi (a.k.a. #DragonMan), originally found in 1933 in #China and rediscovered in 2018, away as actually: #Denisovan!

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/ancient-dragon-man-skull-from-china-isnt-what-we-thought via @LiveScience

Morgen auf der langen Nacht der Wissenschaften gibt's von mir um 22:00 Uhr einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Gene und Geschichte – Wie alte DNA unsere bewegte Vergangenheit erzählt". Herzliche Einladung ans Max Planck Institut für Evolutionäre Anthropologie in Leipzig. https://www.eva.mpg.de/events/20250620-long-night-of-science/ #adna #science

New packages in the community-archive:
2023_Nakatsuka_CaliMexico (v1.0.0)
https://github.com/poseidon-framework/community-archive #aDNA #OpenData

Interesting article on ancient DNA ("aDNA") and European migrations https://quillette.com/2025/05/28/ancient-dna-and-the-return-of-a-disgraced-theory/

#aDna #ancientDna #europeanMigrations

Pipeline release! nf-core/coproid v2.0.0 - DSL2 conversion!

Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/coproid/releases/tag/2.0.0

#adna #ancientdna #coprolite #microbiome #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics

"Ancient DNA indicates 3,000 years of genetic continuity in the Northern Iranian Plateau, from the Copper Age to the Sassanid Empire"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-99743-w

#aDNA #ancientDNA #PaleoGenetics #PaleoGenomics #PopulationGenetics

I have implemented VCF reading and writing support in pileupCaller and Poseidon https://www.stephanschiffels.de/posts/2025-05-14-vcf_post.html #adna #data

Poseidon experimentally now supports the VCF format for reading and writing https://blog.poseidon-adna.org #adna #data

Poseidon archive management: editing a pull request branch created from a fork. A blog post by @ClemensSchmid https://blog.poseidon-adna.org/posts/archive_editing_git.html #adna #data #git