Martine Robbeets

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report genome-wide data from 166 East Asian individuals dating to between 6000 and 1000 BC and 46 present-day groups, showing that hunter-gatherers from Japan, the Amur River Basin, and people of Neolithic and Iron Age Taiwan and the Tibetan Plateau are linked by a deeply splitting lineage that probably reflects a coastal migration during the Late Pleistocene epoch.

TL;DR: Investigation of a putative early pastoralist population in northern Mongolia finds that dairy production was established on the Eastern steppe by 1300 BCE, suggesting that ruminant dairy pastoralism was introduced by local hunter-gatherers through a process of cultural transmission and minimal genetic exchange with outside groups.

TL;DR: Genome-wide data for 763 individuals from inner Eurasia reveal 3 admixture clines in present-day populations that mirror geography, illuminating the historic spread and mixture of peoples across the Eurasian steppe, taiga and tundra.

TL;DR: 55 ancient genomes from the YR, WLR, and Amur River regions are presented to suggest a link between changes in subsistence strategy and human migration, and fuel the debate about archaeolinguistic signatures of past human migration.

TL;DR: A Western Eurasian steppe origin for at least part of the ancient Xinjiang population is suggested, and a Yamnaya-related origin for the now extinct Tocharian languages in the Tarim Basin, in southern Xinjiang is supported.