2026年1月5日
A Jilin University team reconstructs mitochondrial genomes of the Gansu-Qinghai Qijia culture (c. 2300–1500 BCE), tracing maternal diversity and links to later populations on the Tibetan Plateau.
Exploring population origins, migrations, interactions and change in East Asia and connected regions through ancient and modern genetic evidence, archaeology and history.
2025年12月30日
A year-end People's Daily feature surveys Qiaomei Fu's work on over a thousand ancient genomes, framing East Asian prehistory as an interwoven web of migration waves readable through molecular archaeology.
2025年12月29日
Paleoproteins and dental-calculus ancient DNA identified the Middle Pleistocene Harbin cranium as an early Denisovan, solving the group's morphology puzzle—and it made Science's 2025 top breakthroughs list.
2025年12月26日
The Shimao ancient-DNA study was named among China's top ten archaeology news of 2025. The 13-year, 169-sample Nature paper traces the city's population to local late-Yangshao ancestry and reveals a patrilineal social structure.
2025年12月24日
Who were the hanging-coffin people, and do any descendants survive? Ancient DNA shows the modern Bo of Yunnan share up to 79% ancestry with cliff-buried individuals in China and Thailand.
2025年12月19日
Paleoanthropologist John Hawks rounds up 2025's top ancient-DNA findings, including the ~200,000-year-old high-coverage Denisova 25 genome. This piece uses that list to review key breakthroughs.
2025年12月16日
Two IVPP projects were showcased at the World Archaeology Forum: one reconstructs 100,000 years of East Asian migration and adaptation from ancient DNA, the other traces Eastern Zhou population fusion in central Inner Mongolia.
2025年12月11日
A Sichuan University review synthesizes ancient-DNA evidence for 160,000 years of East Asian interactions and three archaic introgression waves, tracking adaptive variants such as EPAS1 and EDAR in ancient populations.
2025年12月9日
A joint Chongqing–Fujian exhibition features a skull reconstruction from Qihedong (~8,400 years old); its ancient DNA previously supported a southeast-Chinese coastal homeland for Austronesian ancestors.
