Murat Akar

TL;DR: It is found that 6th millennium BCE populations of North/Central Anat Turkey and the Southern Caucasus shared mixed ancestry on a genetic cline that formed during the Neolithic between Western Anatolia and regions in today's Southern Caucasus/Zagros.

TL;DR: In this article, the Max Planck Society, the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (771234-PALEoRIDER, to W.H., 805268-CoDisEASe to K. Bos; 834616-ARCHCAUCASUS to S.H. and AP08857177 to A.Z.

TL;DR: The Max Planck Society, the French and German Research Foundations under the INTERACT project (ANR-17-FRAL-0010, DFG-HA-5407/4-1, 2018-2021) to M.R. and W.H., the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Grant agreement no. 771234-PALEoRIDER to W.E.S. as discussed by the authors, and the project RVO 67985912 of the Institute of Archaeology of the

TL;DR: It is shown that compared to low-coverage shotgun sequencing and 1240K capture, YMCA significantly improves the coverage and number of sites hit on the NRY, increasing the number of Y-haplogroup informative SNPs, and allowing for the identification of previously undiscovered variants.

TL;DR: In this paper, a rescue excavation at the hinterland site of Toprakhisar Hoyuk in Altinozu (in the foothills above the Amuq valley) adds to the understanding of the practice of foundation and termination rituals during the Middle Bronze Age and how these moments may have contributed to the political and cultural memory of a rural community living away from the centre.