Harald Ringbauer

@DranguiDardani @SkourEirini @YileiHuang317 Our Kamenice work is ongoing. You likely won't have to wait too much longer! But I cannot give definite dates at this point.

@HaraldRingbauer @SkourEirini @YileiHuang317 When will the Kamenice study be released?

It was a fantastic #ISBA10 in Tartu 🇪🇪 🦴🧬, exciting science and really well organized 👏👏 And so proud of the presentations by Xiaowen Jia and @SkourEirini. Plus @YileiHuang317 (whose work was there ;))

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Population history of the Southern #Caucasus: Archaeogenetic study generates #DNA transect spanning nearly 5,000 years. In: @CellCellPress by @SkourEirini, @xiaowen_jia, @HaraldRingbauer & an intl. team. #PopulationGenetics More: tinyurl.com/8r39ywfu & doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…

🧬 We’re excited our new paper on the population history of the Southern Caucasus is out today at @CellCellPress Thanks to amazing colleagues from Georgia, Armenia, Germany, & Norway🇬🇪 🇦🇲 🇩🇪 🇳🇴 @HaraldRingbauer @xiaowen_jia #MPI_EVA_Leipzig sciencedirect.com/science/articl…🔗

Postdoc position in my group in Tokyo! Please get in touch if you are interested. And happy to discuss projects - ranging from developing new methods to analysis of new genomes that we are now sequencing in the lab. riken.jp/en/careers/res… Lab page: speidellab.github.io

@Autariatae09 @SkourEirini @YileiHuang317 Our South Caucasus aDNA time transect study is now through peer review. It should be published in a few weeks. 🗓 In the meantime, you can find a preprint here: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@HaraldRingbauer @SkourEirini @YileiHuang317 Is there any updates on when the study is going to get released it’s been quite some time now

@mootspoints @iosif_lazaridis Yep, that's a fuzzy concept: At what point does ancestry become associated with a specific region? But it helps to name things, e.g., "steppe-related ancestry" as many researchers use. I would argue that naming Tafforalt/Marocco_EN as "North African" is useful, too.

@HaraldRingbauer @iosif_lazaridis And I worry a bit about restricting certain ancestries to certain continents/regions. For instance, I don’t think anyone would say Western hunter-gatherer (WHG) is the only indicator of “European” ancestry

New paper on Punic people ancient DNA led by @HaraldRingbauer nature.com/articles/s4158…

@mootspoints @iosif_lazaridis We don't need to invoke Marocco LN re-appearing or persisting in the IA (that's the point!) — all models for Punic individuals work well with Algeria IA as a single North African source.

@HaraldRingbauer @iosif_lazaridis Definitely, but I'm not sure this ancestry profile disappearing and then re-appearing is more parsimonious than continuity.

@mootspoints @iosif_lazaridis @HannahWells_13 I mean @mootspoints of course! 🙈

@mootspoints @iosif_lazaridis Hi @HannahWells_13 ! Ten Tweets is quite impressive for a  "quick question" ;) I am not using X/Twitter for posting anymore, and it's not great for a nuanced discussion. But I will attempt to reply here anyway.

@mootspoints @iosif_lazaridis @HannahWells_13 I appreciate your concern. North African aDNA data is painfully scarce, and no direct evidence exists to disprove your hypothesis of already European-admixed "local" LBA/IA ancestry. Our manuscript is definitely not the end of that story! :)

@mootspoints @iosif_lazaridis @HannahWells_13 4) I think Algeria IA or Guanche are the best proxies for North African IA ancestry. Arguing for "standing variation" in the absence of data is "Russell's teapot" at the moment - the burden of proof is on you. More North African aDNA from LBA and IA will help resolve this.

This ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide — but not its DNA go.nature.com/4lNdQE2

@gusion2512 @WarlordScyth @iosif_lazaridis @Gusion is correct. Not only in North Africa, but also in Sardinia & Iberia the coastal Phoenician-Punic sites did not have much long-term genetic impact - the present-day people there are genetically closer to local Iron Age populations.

@WarlordScyth @iosif_lazaridis @HaraldRingbauer What massive influx, it's just a small part from modern day coastal Tunisia, the rest of north Africa was inhabited by berbers. North Africans descend partly from Iberomaurisians which sets them apart from other eurasians

@MarcHaber I think excluding a subset of Iron Age individuals from Beirut as not being "Phoenician" based on their genetic ancestry alone would be also not optimal. Beirut 540–396 BCE is indeed quite late; but we discussed whether to use the label "Phoenician" with the Archaeologists.

"We added previously published sequences for 20 indivdiuals [sic] confidently classified as Phoenician or Punic (7 from 2 Sardinian sites, 1 from Ibiza and 12 from Beirut)" But 2 of those in Beirut were an Egyptian mom and her admixed son #Sec2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4158…

We are looking for a PhD student!🧬 📊 Research project: Elucidating the fine-scale demographic history of the Eastern Baltic by incorporating haplotype-based analyses and modelling 📍 Institute of Genomics, University of Tartu 📩 Application period: 1st–15th May 2025