An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers – A critique

DISCUSSION Earlier this month the much awaited Bronze Age Indus Valley Civilization (IVC) paper on the Harappan genomes was released (1). Unfortunately, only one of the sampled skeletons yielded usable DNA fragments. The main conclusions of the paper, which relied primarily on this single sequenced genome, named I6113, and 11 previously sequenced BA individuals in …

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