Çatalhöyük hakkındaki arkeogenetik çalışmamızın Archaeology Magazine tarafından yılın en önemli 10 keşiflerinden biri olarak seçilmiş olması bizi çok mutlu etti! 💃🏻👩🏻‍🔬🧪🏺 archaeology.org/issues/janua...

@archaeologymag.bsky.social has announced their to 10 research findings of 2025! Many congratulations to @compevohumang.bsky.social and all the researchers involved in these studies! archaeology.org/collection/t...

We are delighted to learn that our Çatalhöyük archaeogenetics study published in @science.org was chosen as one of @archaeologymag.bsky.social 's top 10 discoveries of 2025. 💃🏻👩🏻‍🔬 🧪 🏺 archaeology.org/issues/janua...

Labımızın mezunu @meerf.bsky.social, Gene Forum 2025 kapsamında düzenlenen Artur Lind Bursu video yarışmasında Büyük Ödül’ü kazandı! 🍻🥳 Tema: 2035’te Bilimde İnsan ve Yapay Zeka 🎬 Kazanan video “The Code”u izleyin: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyKn...

🏺🧪 Our alumni @meerf.bsky.social has won the Grand Prize in the Artur Lind Scholarship video competition at Gene Forum 2025! 🎥 Theme: Human and Artificial Intelligence in Science in 2035 Watch the award-winning video The Code: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyKn...

I will be presenting my poster: “The Population Genetic History of the Hittite Capital Hattusa” at #ESEB2025 📍Poster #273 If you’re around, please come by, ask questions or have a chat, and let’s talk ancient DNA & population genetics!

Amazing #eseb2025 talk!

At #ESEB2025, Exploring Female Lineages & Mortuary Practices in Neolithic Çatalhöyük with insights from genomic & archaeological data. Don't miss Eren Yüncü’s presentation at 02:00 p.m.!

💀+🧬+🤖 = 🎬🔥 Makalemiz artık sadece okunmuyor, izleniyor! Kurgu değil, gerçek bilim 😍😎 Teşekkürler Hacettepe ❤️ @science.org 👇 Yapay zeka animasyonumuza acil bakın: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3_C...

Our genetic kinship estimation tool using deep learning is just out: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Our models trained on simulated data work effectively on real data from diverse backgrounds and often better than available tools. Congratulations @meerf.bsky.social and team!

Check this out 👇 🏺🧪

🚨 Big news! Our group member @asoylev.bsky.social co-authored two groundbreaking papers in @nature.com! 🧬 Here’s what they achieved 👇

New preprint alert 🚨 The tiniest bone in the human body appears to have the best DNA preservation: "The mini yet mighty staples" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

neolitik dönemde tarımın kulaktan kulağa yayılması @eksisozluk.com eksisozluk.com/neolitik-don...

🌾 Agriculture didn’t always spread with mobility of people. New ancient DNA research shows that in western Anatolia, while communities stayed put, farming and village life spread through the movement of ideas and practices.

🌾 Tarım, her zaman insanlarla birlikte göç etmedi. Yeni antik DNA çalışması gösteriyor ki, Batı Anadolu’da insanlar yerlerinde kalırken, tarım ve köy hayatı fikir ve pratikler yoluyla yayıldı.

Congratulations to my wonderful, brilliant friend @dilekopter.bsky.social on their Science paper “Out-of-Anatolia: Cultural and genetic interactions during the Neolithic expansion in the Aegean”. Truly exceptional work from one of the most amazing people out there! Check it out!

New genomic research suggests Çatalhöyük was a female-centered society. The discovery builds on past archaeological theories and evidence like this "mother goddess" statue. 🏺🧪

🧬In Neolithic Çatalhöyük, family was built on social relations rather than blood ties. Genetic analysis shows that over time, co-residents were no longer genetic relatives. Female subadults were buried with 5x more grave goods. 🔍A surprising story of Neolithic social life.

🧬 Çatalhöyük'te aile kan bağıyla değil hayat ortaklığıyla kurulmuş! Genetik analizler gösteriyor ki, zamanla aynı evde yaşayanlar biyolojik akraba olmaktan çıkıyor. Kız çocukları mezarlarda 5 kat daha fazla hediyeyle gömülüyor. 🔍 Neolitik sosyal yapının şaşırtıcı hikayesi.

Happy to share our new study I contributed to during my master’s: "Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük." @compevohumang.bsky.social

🙌 Exciting new study from #Anatolia published by @compevohumang.bsky.social in @science.org today! Anthropologists have long argued that kinship and family do not need to be genetically oriented. The study from Çatalhöyük wonderfully highlights this point also for Neolithic in Anatolia. Congrats!

Our research confirms the archaeological adage "pots don't equal people." and showed ideas traveled further than people in the ancient Aegean.

"Background mobility", the low but steady movement of individuals sharing ideas and materials, can explain how Neolithic practices spread without mass migration in early Neolithic of Western Anatolia.

In West Anatolia, we found thousands of years of genetic continuity despite rapid cultural changes. People adopted farming through idea exchange, not population replacement.

Key findings: Our results showed that the Neolithic transition wasn't uniform: some regions saw cultural adoption, others experienced population movement, and some combined both.

Integrating paleogenomics and material culture data we found a complex mosaic of cultural change dynamics. This new methodology integrating genomics and archaeology reveals the diverse ways people interacted and changed during this period.

Happy to share our new study from my PhD on the spread of farming across Anatolia and into the Aegean and then into Europe. @compevohumang.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 👇🏽

Hello, Sky! We're a research group from METU & Hacettepe from Türkiye — united by a passion for ancient DNA, archaeogenomics, and the deep story of human history. Posts in Turkish & English. Find us here too: 📸 @compevo_humang 🐦 @CompEvoMetu #AncientDNA #HumanHistory #Science #Anthropology