Three ancient-DNA headlines in one month — Donghulin's unknown lineage, Palau's pre-admixture, the biggest Y-chromosome tree. A plain-language thread tying them together, and the methods that make bones speak.
Two Donghulin individuals share mtDNA haplogroup D4h on different branches, splitting ~13–14k years ago. Why the matrilineal mitogenome is the first genetic code rescued from millennia-old bone powder.
Months after its Chinese release, the Donghulin study was picked up by international archaeology media, spotlighting an unknown northern East Asian lineage that outlasted the Ice Age — and contrasting it with Europe's replacement model.
Why does the DNA of a Donghulin woman from 11,000 years ago force a rewrite of northern East Asian prehistory? A plain-language guide to "deeply divergent lineages" and the slow transition to millet farming.
Fu Qiaomei's team reports the first well-contextualized genomes from 11,000–9,000-year-old Donghulin remains: a previously unknown deep northern East Asian lineage in the lower layer, and population turnover by the upper layer.
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