Archive

I am not the biggest fan of how the post archives work on blogger, so I figured to make a post containing the links to all my older blog entries. This is helpful as I am currently having some indexing issues and not all my posts appear on google (but work fine in other search engines):

2021

• The oldest known iron smiths of Europe - New evidence for meteoric iron objects belonging the Yamnaya culture
• The Tarim mummies were not a people or a tradition, but a natural phenomenon.
• A look at Kumsay: The graveyard of Giants
• New insights into the steppes: Post-Xiongnu South Siberia, Sintashta compound bow reconstructions, Yamnaya migrations, Mapping Karakorum and more

2022

• On the domestication of the horse.
• When did the Western Steppe Herder genetic profile form?
• Discussion thread: New ancient DNA from Xinjiang (2022)
• Unraveling the origins of the Pannonian Avars, one sample at a time.
• Neolithic Don river foragers were a key component of Western Steppe Herder ancestry
• Did the Saka migrate to the Tarim Basin and founded the Kingdom of Khotan?
• Ancient DNA gives insight into the mysterious Tashtyk peoples of Siberia
• Scythian mercenaries employed in the ancient Greek Colony of Himera
• Dwarves and giants of ancient Scythia

2023

• New discoveries of inscriptions in Tajikistan provide clues about a mysterious language and script
• New findings on the origin of the equestrianism: First bioanthropological evidence for Yamnaya horsemanship (Trautmann et al. 2023)
• Ancient DNA from a Xiongnu period elite cemetery in western Mongolia and Empress Ashina
• A response to “Genetic population structure of the Xiongnu Empire at imperial and local scales” (Lee et al. 2023)
• Physical Anthropology of ancient Xinjiang: Faces of Tocharians, Iranians and the lost natives of the Tarim Basin
• Genomic insights into the Seima-Turbino Phenomenon
• Herodotus validated once again: Scythian quivers made of human leather (Brandt et al 2023)
• An individual with or without Sarmatian-related ancestry in Roman Britain?