A long-debated question concerns the fate of archaic forms of the genus Homo: did they go extinct without interbreeding with anatomically modern humans, or are their genes present in contemporary populations? This question is typically focused on the genetic contribution of archaic forms outside of Africa. Here we use DNA sequence data gathered from 61 noncoding autosomal regions in a sample of...

Abstract A geoarchaeological coring survey of the Forum Boarium has shed considerable light on Rome's archaic landscape. We present first empirical evidence that substantiates ancient and modern assumptions about existence a river harbour ford in early Rome. Prior to growth city, riverbank — reconstructed as high ledge at base Capitoline Hill low-lying shore north Aventine was particularly adva...

Ishfaq Ahmad, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology David Andrews, University of Arkansas Azzedine Boukerche, University of North Texas Juergen Branke, University of Karlsruhe Jehoshua (Shuki) Bruck, California Institute of Technology Jens Clausen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Sajal Das, University of Teaxs at Arlington Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Mason University Afonso Ferre...

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The author argues that Hakka and southern Gan are sister dialects, as they share several innovations not found elsewhere; that they arose out of the Chinese dialect spoken in central Jiangxi in Song times, a stratified dialect which included a non-Chinese substratum, probably Miao-Yao; an archaic layer; and a more recent layer with an important Late Middle Chinese component. It is claimed that ...

Status Final Author(s) Ivan Martinez (AtoS), Miguel Angel Tinte (AtoS) This project is supported by the European Commission under the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Theme of the 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.