Arame's anthro blog

Elamites The paper by Amjadi et al. (2025) published ancient DNA from the Chalcolithic period of the South Zagros, dated to around 4600 BCE....

  The western Iranians. Three major ancient western Iranian groups were the Persians, Medes and Parthians. Until now we didn't have anc...

A PCA with Ancient and Modern Samples from Iran, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iraqi Kurdistan The Caucasian Albanian sample from Late Antiquity ...

The Eastern-Side Armenians Hovhannisyan et al. (2024) published numerous DNA samples from the Artsakh, Syunik, and Gardman regions. In addit...

Y-DNA from Rasuloğlu Höyük and the Hattian Context Yediay et al. (2024) published Bronze Age samples from the North Anatolian site of Rasulo...

Aratta Aratta was a semi-legendary land known from Sumerian epics. It probably existed during the first half of the third millennium BCE. It...

Genetic History of the Levant — Part A Recently there has been a surge of interest in Levantine genetics. Here is a summary of the genetic h...