← All documentaries

The Haplogroup Journeys: the Rise and Fall

A ten‑minute visual tour of how major Y‑DNA and mtDNA lineages spread across continents from the Paleolithic to the Roman era.

Chapters

• 0:07 Origins of Major Haplogroups
• 1:34 Neolithic Farmer Expansions
• 3:01 Steppe Migrations and Bronze Age Transformations
• 4:28 Peopling of the Americas and Later Regional Diversification

On-screen text

• 0:07 Origins of Major Haplogroups
• 0:14 Origins of Major Haplogroups
• 0:31 La Braña: I2a & U5b1b (8.2 ka) Historical record · Lazaridis et al., 2014, Nature
• 0:49 Natufian L3 (5 ka, Israel) Historical record · Lazaridis et al., 2016, Cell
• 1:07 Çatalhöyük: G2a2 & N1a (7.5 ka) Historical record · Narasimhan et al., 2019, Nature
• 1:25 Rakhigarhi M (4.5 ka) Historical record · Shinde et al., 2019, Cell
• 1:34 Neolithic Farmer Expansions
• 1:41 Neolithic Farmer Expansions
• 1:58 LBK H (7 ka, Germany) Historical record · Haak et al., 2015, Nature
• 2:16 Hacilar J2a (3.8 ka) Historical record · Moorjani et al., 2016, Nature Communications
• 2:34 La Braña: I2a & U5b1b (8.2 ka) Historical record · Lazaridis et al., 2014, Nature
• 2:52 Kfar HaHoresh E1b1b1b2 (5 ka) Historical record · Kivisild et al., 2006, American Journal of Human Genetics
• 3:01 Steppe Migrations and Bronze Age Transformations
• 3:08 Steppe Migrations and Bronze Age Transformations
• 3:25 Yamnaya R1b‑Z2103 & U5b2 (5.3 ka) Historical record · Allentoft et al., 2015, Nature
• 3:43 Bell Beaker R1b‑M269 (4.5 ka) Historical record · Olalde et al., 2018, Science
• 4:01 Scythian R1a‑Z93 (2.5 ka) Historical record · Damgaard et al., 2018, Nature
• 4:19 Bell Beaker R1b‑M269 (4.5 ka) Historical record · Olalde et al., 2018, Science
• 4:28 Peopling of the Americas and Later Regional Diversification
• 4:59 12,600‑year‑old individual, Upward Sun River, Alaska Historical record · Rasmussen et al., 2014, Nature
• 5:55 9,000‑year‑old individual, Lagoa Santa, Brazil Historical record · Posth et al., 2018, Nature
• 6:43 2,000‑year‑old individual, Vagnari, Italy Historical record · Antonio et al., 2020, PLoS ONE

Sources

Historical record: Lazaridis et al., 2014, Nature · Lazaridis et al., 2016, Cell · Narasimhan et al., 2019, Nature · Shinde et al., 2019, Cell · Haak et al., 2015, Nature · Moorjani et al., 2016, Nature Communications · Kivisild et al., 2006, American Journal of Human Genetics · Allentoft et al., 2015, Nature · Olalde et al., 2018, Science · Damgaard et al., 2018, Nature · Rasmussen et al., 2014, Nature · Posth et al., 2018, Nature · Antonio et al., 2020, PLoS ONE

Sound: synthesized ambient (wind, drone, water) (CC0 — made by SoapBox). Made in 96 s of CPU.