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.
Ancient genomes from 21 Palauan individuals show the island's first settlers already carried a roughly 60:40 East Asian–Papuan mixture, pushing the key admixture event back to before the island was even reached.
A preprint on ancient genomes from Ladakh traces three millennia of dynamic admixture between Tibetan-related, South Asian, and Central Asian ancestry, with Tibetan-related roots integrated for at least 1,500 years.
Eleven individuals from two Late Bronze-Age co-burials at Dongshantou, Jilin, all share Y-haplogroup C2b while mtDNA varies—evidence of a single patriline and female exogamy.
Twenty-eight Han-Dynasty genomes from Shandong support a model in which demic diffusion of Central-Plain Longshan populations, layered with regional interaction, drove the genetic formation of Han Chinese.
Fourteen ancient genomes from eight cliff-burial sites in Guangxi link modern Kra-Dai speakers to local people 1,500 years ago, while Hmong-Mien speakers show striking regional variation in local ancestry.
Fu Qiaomei's team analyzes 35 ancient genomes from four sites on the southeastern Mongolian Plateau, tracking population interaction behind Neolithic cultural diffusion over roughly 8,800 years.
Ancient genomes from 46 Qing-era skeletons in Sanmenxia show the Central Plains' genetic makeup stayed remarkably stable across the dynastic change, linking Tang-period populations directly to modern Han people of Henan.
A team led by Qiaomei Fu analyzed 35 ancient genomes from the southeastern Mongolian Plateau spanning 8,800–5,000 years ago, tracing local early-Holocene ancestry and later inflow from Hongshan-related groups around 5,700 years ago.