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Ancient DNA analyses bring to life the 11,000-year intertwined genomic history of sheep and humans

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Researchers deciphered the prehistoric cultural trajectory of sheep.

118 genomes recovered from archaeological bones dating across 12 millennia and stretching from Mongolia to Ireland .

The earliest sheep-herding village in the sample, Akl Höyük in central Türkiye , has genomes that seem ancestral to later populations in the wider region.

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