Adrian Timpson

This study identifies the oldest known plague strains in Lake Baikal hunter-gatherers 5500 years ago, showing early outbreaks were lethal and challenged the idea that agriculture was necessary for plague epidemics.

The paper analyzes the relationship between spatiotemporal cultural variation and genomic data to determine how cultural affiliation influences burial practices.

This paper analyzes metadata reporting in 30 paleogenomic studies, finding inconsistent reporting of archaeological data and proposing a minimum information checklist for future studies.