Abstract
Accurate dating is essential to the interpretation of paleogenomic data. The gold standard method in archeology is radiocarbon dating. However, a major limitation of radiocarbon dating is the high amount of collagen extraction involved in the process. Consequently, almost half of all published ancient genomes lack reliable and direct dates, which results in obscure and contradictory reports. Here, we present the temporal population structure (TPS), a machine learning-based genomic dating method for genomes ranging from the fringes of the Late Mesolithic to modern times.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 100270 |
Journal | Cell Reports Methods |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 8 |
Early online date | 22 Aug 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 22 Aug 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was partially supported by the EPSRC Doctoral Training Partnership Grant EP/N509735/1 to U.E. and by the MRC ( MR/R025126/1 ), the Crafoord Foundation , the Swedish Research Council ( 2020-03485 ), and the Erik Philip-Sörensen Foundation ( G2020-011 ) awards to E.E. The computations were enabled by resources provided by the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing (SNIC) at Lund, partially funded by the Swedish Research Council through grant agreement no. 2018-05973 .
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Keywords
- Ancient DNA
- Archaeological Dating