Nikola Theodossiev

TL;DR: The whole-genome capture approach makes it less costly to sequence aDNA from specimens containing very low levels of endogenous DNA, enabling the analysis of larger numbers of samples, increasing resolution in population genetic analyses.

TL;DR: Using whole-genome sequencing data, it is confirmed that the Iceman is, indeed, most closely related to Sardinians and it is shown that this relationship extends to other individuals from cultural contexts associated with the spread of agriculture during the Neolithic transition, in contrast to individuals from a hunter-gatherer context.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a good factual account of the Late Iron Age in North-West Thrace, focusing on the archaeological and written evidence, and on the subjects of spatial organisation and territories, chronology, mortuary practices and settlement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extended the study of the regions where gold funeral masks were widespread in the late 6th-early 5th centuries BC and studied the cultural interrelations between ethnically different people in this territory, while the iconography of the local metalwork allows some religious concepts to be considered.

TL;DR: In the last decades of the 6th and early 5th centuries BC, eleven gold and one gilded silver funeral masks have been discovered in the southern parts of the Central Balkans as discussed by the authors.