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THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN
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This article discusses the impact of genomic history, a subdiscipline that emerged in the study of the ancient Mediterranean in the 2010s. In 2014, scientists first published a method for extracting genetic material, which they christened aDNA (ancient DNA), from ancient human remains in hot climates. After a decade of research, genomic history is now poised to transform our understanding of Mediterranean premodernity, centering migration and conflict as the key mechanisms for cultural change. Despite years of critique, aDNA researchers have failed to seriously examine the bioessentialist assumptions implicit in their work—a failure that has led many to deploy language that is strikingly evocative of pre-World War II racialism. Even worse, some genomic historians continue to make troubling overtures toward the ethnonationalist Right, which has been ascendant across Europe and North America since the 2010s. This article traces the intellectual genealogy of genomic history from World War II to the present, examines recent attempts to answer criticism from the humanities and social sciences, and suggests paths for responsible use of aDNA in historical and prehistorical scholarship.
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This historiographical essay argues that genomic history of the ancient Mediterranean, which emerged after 2014 with methods for extracting ancient DNA from hot-climate remains, has revived bioessentialist assumptions and rhetoric strikingly reminiscent of pre-World War II racialism. Tracing the field's intellectual genealogy from the postwar UNESCO anti-racist consensus through David Reich's *Who We Are and How We Got Here* (2018) to post-2020 ethical reckonings, the author calls for abandoning the label "genomic history" and treating the genome as evidence about processes, not as a "master text" of history.
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- Genomic historians position aDNA as an authoritative "third source" for ancient history; Iosif Lazaridis is quoted calling it a source separate from the not "fully objective" nature of texts or the inscrutability of the archaeological record, and Reich claims "theory is always trumped by data" and that genome variation "has surpassed the traditional toolkit of archaeology."
- The essay draws explicit parallels between Reich's rhetoric and that of prewar racialists: Reich's framing of ancient groups such as "Ancient North Eurasians" as groups that "would without a doubt have been called a 'race' had they lived today," and his revival of a framework established by Gustaf Kossinna (1858–1931), whose "settlement archaeology" held a necessary correspondence between material culture, language, environment, and race. Sixty-seven social scientists signed an open letter condemning Reich's views after the book appeared.
- Case studies of early aDNA work show small, unrepresentative samples used for sweeping claims: Stamatoyannopoulos et al. (2017) used 241 living Peloponnesian individuals to "disprove" Fallmerayer's 1830 extinction thesis; Lazaridis et al. (2017) compared 19 ancient genomes from Crete and mainland Greece with 30 present-day residents of Greece and Cyprus; Schuenemann et al. (2017) used 151 individuals from skulls pilfered from Abusir el-Meleq with no known archaeological contexts, concluding ancient Egyptians had less sub-Saharan African ancestry than present-day Egyptians.
- Post-2020 responses are described as limited: the 2021 Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al. ethics manifesto (signed by Reich and Krause) devoted only a single dismissive paragraph to genomic history's interventions in racial or ethnonationalist controversies, and the author calls it "limited, defensive, and apparently nonbinding." Lazaridis et al.'s 2022 study added 215 coauthors including humanists and purged prewar race science from its bibliography, yet still closed its three-thousand-year period of study with the appearance of Slavs and Turks.
Methods
- Design: a historiographical and intellectual-genealogy essay, not an empirical study; the author traces bioessentialist readings of culture from their postwar disappearance to their return in Mediterranean premodernist scholarship.
- Data: published scholarship, chiefly David Reich's *Who We Are and How We Got Here* (2018) as the field's central methodological text, plus archaeogenetic publications from 2014 to the present (Stamatoyannopoulos et al. 2017; Lazaridis et al. 2017 and 2022; Schuenemann et al. 2017; Skourtanioti et al. 2023; Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al. 2021), read against prewar race science and cultural historicism (Kossinna, Madison Grant, Fallmerayer).
- Analysis: close rhetorical and methodological comparison between genomic-history claims and prewar racialist/cultural-historicist frameworks, organized in five parts covering origins (1960s–70s genetics, HGP, HGDP), Reich's monograph, the revival of cultural historicism, Mediterranean controversies 2015–2020, and the post-2020 aftermath.
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- Stated by the author: he acknowledges that flaws in genomic historians' work "should not foreclose the use of genetic or genomic data" in Mediterranean antiquity, and that these scholars "backpedaled their more sensational rhetoric" after the 2020 protests; he also concedes the "optimistic model" he proposes (the fate of craniometry) deserves caution given its post-1945 context.
- Stated by the author: he anticipates the objection that concentrating on Reich's monograph and its jacket copy is unfair, noting that the monograph "was obviously not peer reviewed."
- Evident from the text: the argument rests heavily on one popular synthesis (Reich 2018) and on rhetorical parallels rather than systematic sampling of the archaeogenetic literature; the author's own position is explicitly partisan ("I am personally doubtful that the so-called 'Yamnaya' people possess any greater validity than the 'Dinarics,' 'Nordics,' or 'brachycephaloids'"), and no quantitative or comparative coding of the corpus is described.
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“Scientists typically elided modern cultural labels with the geographical origin of a genetic sample.37”
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“Computing technology enabled premodernists to synthesize multiple large datasets at once.24”
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“Moreover, early historical geneticists were prone to making categorical mistakes.”
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“Around the time of America's victory in the Cold War, Mediterranean premodernists started becoming very interested in the nonhuman factors behind historical trends.22”
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“Thus, until around 2010, archaeogenetics made little pretense of offering a new methodology for writing history or prehistory.”
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“But in the late 2000s, scientists developed new technology to extract DNA from ancient human remains.This was given the sobriquet aDNA (ancient DNA).40”
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“Reich's book boasts an endorsement by Anne Wojcicki, the chief executive officer of the personal DNA ancestry company 23andMe, 72”
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“It was in response to this language that sixty-seven prominent social scientists signed an open letter condemning Reich's views shortly after Who We Are was published.92”
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“As late as 2020, Reich was spreading the genomic dragnet as widely as possible, calling for the elimination of laws that limited access to human remains, particularly the remains of indigenous people kept in museum “anatomical collections.”97”
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“This method arrived in Greece in 2023, when Krause's group identified a pattern of consanguineous endogamy in two Bronze Age burial groups in mainland Greece.132”
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“By 2021, the method of combining aDNA analysis with close attention to archaeological context had become more common.131”
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“The authors drew on an unspecified sample of genomes that had been recovered from individuals interred in southeastern Europe over a three-thousand-year period prior to “migrations associated with Slavic and Turkic speakers” in the medieval period.133”
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“The same year that Reich coauthored the article by Eisenmann et al., he described groups such as the Yamnaya as akin to”
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“Following 2021, Krause has coauthored several works with critics of aDNA research in which the authors advocate for anti-racist science and the repatriation of human remains in museum anatomical collections.124”
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“As early as 2018, Krause, Reich, and other genomic historians recognized the arbitrariness of their chosen naming conventions; see Stefanie Eisenmann et al.,”
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“Despite recent appeals to interdisciplinarity, genomic historians continue to position their dataset as the authoritative, objective record of premodernity.”
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“In positing a direct relationship between culture and biology, genomic historians have consciously or unconsciously revived the racialist assumptions that undergirded the study of the ancient past prior to World War II.”
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“The demise of racialism is plainly visible in the study of the ancient Mediterranean before and after 1945.”
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“Despite years of critique, aDNA researchers have failed to seriously examine the bioessentialist assumptions implicit in their work-a failure that has led many to deploy language that is strikingly evocative of pre-World War II racialism.”
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“In 2014, scientists first published a method for extracting genetic material, which they christened aDNA (ancient DNA), from ancient human remains in hot climates.”
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“The first publication on a method for extracting aDNA from human remains that had been preserved in hot climates, including the Mediterranean, appeared in 2014.41”
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“Despite years of critique, aDNA researchers have failed to seriously examine the bioessentialist assumptions implicit in their work-a failure that has led many to deploy language that is strikingly evocative of pre-World War II racialism.”
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“Regardless of their leaders' professions, the HGP and the HGDP seriously complicated the anti-racist consensus of the postwar period.”
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“Once these technologies came online, it suddenly became possible to argue for ancient migrations using ancient evidence itself.”
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“Reich and his collaborators were reviving a framework for European prehistory that had been established by the Aryanist archaeologist Gustaf Kossinna (1858-1931) in the early twentieth century.”
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“Elements of Kossinna's framework survived into the late twentieth century via the work of Marija Gimbutas [1921-1994], who was herself educated in Nazi Germany.66”
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“Among the scholars who began their careers firmly ensconced in the twin racialist and cultural historicist frameworks were V. Gordon Childe (1892-1957), Otto Frödin (1881-1953), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), Ashley Montagu (1905-1999), and Frank M. Snowden Jr. (1911-2007).”
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“(Although cultural historicism is not synonymous with racialism, the two theories are substantially codependent.80 )”
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“Such assumptions were an essential part of the paradigm of prewar archaeology: cultural historicism.”
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“These men sought to demonstrate their commitment to anti-racism during and after the war.82”
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“At the start of Who We Are, Reich announces that he will not engage with research that was published prior to 2009.76”
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“As such, genomic historians have shown themselves eager to jump into debates that had wound down by the early 1950s.”
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“In the early twentieth century, the Anglo-American archaeologists John Linton Myres (1869-1954), Alan Wace (1879-1957), Blegen, and Angel theorized that the “miracle” of ancient Greece depended on the “fusion” (rather than the succession) of different races in the Bronze Age.”
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“In a string of works published between 1938 and 1950, Angel used craniometry to divide the people of ancient Greece into five racial groups.”
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“Even German Aegean prehistorians persisted in characterizing Greek civilization as the “fusion” (Vereinheit) of Asia and Europe into the twentieth century.85”
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“Even though he classified skulls as “Nordic,” “Dinaric,” and so on, by the early 1940s, he ceased to see them as proof of ancient migrations.86”
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“Reich has embraced “race” as a metaphor to describe these communities.”
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“Cavalli-Sforza's genetic project in the 1990s had been doomed by its dismissive attitude toward stakeholders who objected to sampling.”
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“Genomic history was now running headlong into the same problem.98”
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“Morton (in Crania Aegyptiaca, which was published in 1844) and Nott and Gliddon (in Types of Mankind, which was published in 1854) falsified their craniometric readings in order to “prove” that ancient Egypt's ruling class was white.111”
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“In the United States, members of the so-called American School of Ethnology, which included Samuel George Morton (1799-1851), George Gliddon (1809-1857), and Josiah Nott (1804-1873), hoarded skulls taken from the graves of formerly enslaved Black Americans, indigenous peoples from around the world, the urban poor, and Egyptian mummies.109”
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“Reich immediately realized that similar methodologies could be used to find evidence of the ancient migrations that Cavalli-Sforza had failed to sufficiently document.96”
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“The backlash to the first generation of genomic historical studies goes a long way in explaining why-after nearly a decade of publications-archaeogenetics has only recently made inroads among scholars whose training is in the humanities and social sciences.”
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“The so-called debate over the “race” of the ancient Egyptians-which scholars now recognize as a debate about whether Black people could claim membership in the lineage of Western civilization at all-has been frozen in roughly these terms ever since.113”
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“Prior to the aDNA revolution, the same research group was using yDNA to classify genetic differences between Lebanese religious groups.119”
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“Concerns about the ethics of studying human remains-and particularly the remains of indigenous, enslaved, or otherwise marginalized people-were by far the most pressing for the genomic historians, as they presented legal obstacles for continued research.”
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“Emphasizing the necessary collaboration of history and archaeology with physical anthropology, Angel ceased to make aggrandizing claims of epistemic authority toward his colleagues.140”
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“Here, aDNA is disrupting nothing; it's confirming the prevailing narrative!”
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“a groundwork that was interested in documenting”
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- Not matchedcites Cavalli-Sforza, Menozzi, and Piazza, The History and Geography of Human Genes, 24
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“The authors of both studies parachuted into a long-dormant controversy and”
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“Nonetheless, genomic history retains a nativist substrate that has not really been dispelled.”
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“Genomic historians claim to have uncovered lost histories of migration, warfare, and cultural change.”
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“Even worse, some genomic historians continue to make troubling overtures toward the ethnonationalist Right, which has been ascendant across Europe and North America since the 2010s.”
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“It took about a decade for developments in the study of the human genome to have much impact on the study of the ancient Mediterranean.”
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“Spectacular discoveries in paleontology had bridged the gap between human and hominid history, opening the question of how human human civilization was. 25”
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“The growing reckoning with global warming in the late 1990s renewed attention to the role of climate in shaping history.23”
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“The earliest genomic studies of the ancient Mediterranean followed his lead.”
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“To bolster their thesis, the geneticists used aDNA to date the first arrival of Yersinia pestis (the pathogen that causes bubonic plague) and the horse into central Europe at around the same time.61”
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“Central to his argument is the claim that the genomic dataset can reconstruct the history of deep antiquity in ways that other datasets cannot.”
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“Moreover, I recognize that these scholars backpedaled their more sensational rhetoric after the 2020 protests for racial justice in the United States and United Kingdom.”
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“In one 2016 study, Reich, Krause, and Pääbo drew on a sample of sixty-nine individual genomes dated to a period of ten millennia to argue for an influx of genetic material from eastern to central Europe during the Early Bronze Age.”
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“The loci for this research were research groups led by Johannes Krause at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, and David Reich at Harvard Medical School.42”
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“Ultimately, the goal of genomic historians was to date the migration of proto-Indo-European language speakers from the Eurasian steppe as having occurred after 3000 BCE.62”
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“But these relevant contexts do not make it into Stamatoyannopoulos 46.”
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“A stream of publications that promised to lay out the geographies of human mobility in deep antiquity soon appeared.”
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“use a genetic sample of 241 living individuals in the Peloponnese to disprove a 190-year-old theory associated with the Tyrolean historian Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer (1790-1861).46”
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“Up to early 2018, Reich's laboratory had sequenced aDNA from some 2,110 individuals worldwide; his sample was disproportionately weighted (by both practical and legal considerations) toward northwestern Eurasia.”
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“They dated this migration simultaneously with the appearance the Corded Ware archaeological culture in central Europe, which they take as the Yamnaya culture's lineal descendent.60”
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“Like many historical geneticists, Stamatoyannopoulos et al. heavily massaged their data to screen out genetic traces of migrations in the past two hundred years.”
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“Two German scientists withdrew from Reich's project once they realized that he sympathized with Kossinna's theories.67”
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“Reich was incredulous; simultaneously, he downplayed the parallels between Kossinna and himself and questioned why Kossinna's racial beliefs should be relevant nine decades after his death.”
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“Reich continues to coauthor studies with, and use data produced by, 23andMe employees.73”
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“Reich's monograph was obviously not peer reviewed.74”
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“This is evident with Aegean prehistory, which has racked up an impressive number of archaeogenetic publications.83”
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“And even if Reich has explicitly denied the political consequences of his research, his publisher has been less reticent in this regard.The back cover of the 2019 Vintage paperback edition of his book misquotes John Hawks's 2018 Wall Street Journal review to label Reich's book a “potential political bombshell.””
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“In 2010, Pääbo's laboratory published a sequenced Neanderthal genome.”
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“They discovered that some present-day Europeans carry between 1 percent and 4 percent of their genome from Neanderthal ancestors.93”
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“Their conclusion from this small sample was that the ancient Egyptians had migrated to Africa from west Asia and thus were not really “African.”Significant migration from sub-Saharan Africa only took place in the past two thousand years.107”
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“(Possible skeletal remains containing aDNA from a Denisovan had been published by Krause et al.only in 2010.95 )”
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“In early 2017, Iosif Lazaridis and his coauthors made headlines with an aDNA study that purported to show that modern-day Greeks are the direct descendants of the ancient Mycenaeans and Minoans.”
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“On the other hand, some modern stakeholders (as we have seen with the case of Stamatoyannopoulos et al.'s study) were positively giddy to have their ancestors studied.”
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“The following year, Reich and his collaborators made the startling discovery that many people in the Asia-Pacific region appear to carry ancestry from a hitherto unknown group of hominid ancestors, which they labeled the Denisovans.94”
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“An aDNA study that was conducted on the genomes of nineteen individuals who were interred in ancient Beirut, Lebanon, and ninety-nine living individuals found that the present-day inhabitants of the country were genetically very similar to the Bronze Age Canaanites.118”
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“The aDNA laboratories publish dozens of studies each year, studies that often clear peer review quickly.”
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“Following the wave of antiracism protests in the summer of 2020, museums and other rights-holders began withdrawing scientific access to human remains in preparation for reinventory, repatriation, or reburial.”
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“The institutional climate turned hostile in the second half of the year.”
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“Despite bouts of negative press attention, they still benefited from the support of influential backers and continued access to sampling material.”
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“In 2021, Reich and Krause signed an ethics manifesto whose lead author was Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg, a researcher at Harvard Medical School.123”
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“As soon as they are published, university press offices translate the studies' scientific language into buzzworthy language, identifying how the studies have disrupted something.”
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“In the years following 2020, we have seen genomic historians of the ancient Mediterranean respond in a few different ways: vocalizing their commitment to ethical research; increased collaboration with archaeologists and ancient historians; and, perhaps productively, an interest in what information the genome can offer other than insights into migration.”
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“Furthermore, they recognized that the names of archaeological cultures are modern constructs.135”
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“More to the point for Mediterranean antiquity, Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al. devoted only a dismissive single paragraph to addressing genomic history's passion for intervening in racial or ethnonationalist controversies.128”
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“Some critics chafed that genomic historians were now writing their own ethical guidelines.126”
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“(Unfortunately, the authors of the latter study were condemned for accessing indigenous human remains without contacting living stakeholders, reminding us that even non-migrationist aDNA studies have problems.130 )”
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“For instance, they adopted a conciliatory tone toward the humanists, listing ancient historians, archeological scientists, and Aegean prehistorians among their 215 coauthors.”
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“As early as 2017 and 2018, researchers associated with Reich and Krause had recognized the genomic dataset's utility in reconstructing ancient social structures.”
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“They also purged prewar race science from their bibliography and concluded by acknowledging “the ancient individuals whose genetic data we analyzed and whose permission we could not directly ask.” 134”
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“Using this data, Lazaridis et al. hoped to trace the migration of ancient “Yamnaya” people into the Balkans during the Early Bronze Age.”
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“A pair of early aDNA studies demonstrated kinship within premodern burial groups in central Europe and the American Southwest.”
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“Opening with a meditation on method-this is where Lazaridis et al. referred to aDNA as a “third source” for the historian, a source that complements texts and archaeology-the authors discussed scenarios wherein aDNA evidence could be useful for historians.”
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“(As a nod to their own difficult disciplinary past, most physical anthropologists now call themselves biological anthropologists.)”
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“In both cases, the authors used their small, unrepresentative, and capriciously preserved datasets to draw sweeping conclusions.”
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“In both cases, the authors dismissed most, if not all, relevant historical or archaeological scholarship.”
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“But in reality, craniometry offered no such thing, and it effectively disappeared following World War II.”
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“However, critics immediately noticed that Lazaridis et al. cited Angel's craniometric research of the 1930s and 1940s as current scholarship.”
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“Lazaridis et al. did not cite any of the many publications that responded to his work.105”
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“Others have meditated on the methodological challenges that have been raised since 2017 and have sought out collaboration with archaeologists and historians.”
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“Indeed, two Reich-affiliated studies published in 2019 and 2022 confirm ancient Italy's place as the”
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“Some genomic historians have acknowledged lapses in research ethics prior to 2020.”
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“None of these skulls have known archaeological contexts, although carbon-14 dating places them between the New Kingdom and the Roman Period.106”
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“(Thus, Reich recently coauthored a study that has”
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“(Schuenemann et al. said very little about the formation of their sample, taking it as representative of Egyptian history as a whole-and not one specific upper Egyptian cemetery ransacked for skulls in the nineteenth century.)”
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“Where there are no legal barriers to studying human remains, Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al. made a vague commitment to consult living stakeholders.”
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“(Indeed, Stamatoyannopoulos et al.'s article, which was published only a few months prior to Lazaridis et al.'s article, partially relied on mtDNA evidence.100 )”
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“But this still leaves open the possibility of variation in some twenty million base pairs, and variations in these are responsible for physical appearance, genetic illnesses, and potentially other things.33”
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“Indeed, the abundance of so much new information reopened many scholarly questions that, in the twentieth century, had been considered resolved.”
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“Nearly the entire genome (99.9% was the rather arbitrary figure cited by backers of the HGP) is shared by all living human beings.”
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“Race science was about to reenter the picture.”
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“Unlike other formerly used datasets (such as skeletons), an individual person's genome is largely unaffected by the environment.It mostly reflects ancestry.”
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“Too many genomic historians believe that DNA represents the unquestionable master text of history.”
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“Fallmerayer (a sharp critic of the German philhellenism that peaked during the Greek War of Independence) argued that the race of ancient Greeks was extinct, having been replaced by Slavs, Albanians, and Turks during the Middle Ages.”
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“Evidence from biology trumps methods from the humanities and social sciences.”
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“Moreover, Stamatoyannopoulos et al.'s claims were obviously couched in the language of the Far Right, which took advantage of the crisis by rousing Greece's endemic xenophobia toward Slavs, Muslims, and others to gain parliamentary representation in the four general elections between 2012 and 2015.50”
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“Nonetheless, we are only beginning to see meaningful changes in the methods, assumptions, or practices embodied in the work of genomic historians.”
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“Leaving aside the issues of sample size and representativeness that plague aDNA research, the genomic historians faced serious problems of interpretation.”
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“Indeed, knee-jerk hostility toward the humanities and social sciences pervaded the first generation of aDNA studies published between 2015 and 2020.”
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“Kossinna saw prehistoric societies as facsimiles of the modern nation-state and held that there was a necessary correspondence between material culture, language, physical environment, and race.65”
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“This leaves us with an interesting but very hypothetical theory.”
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“as the premier Nordicist of the 1910s, he argued that biology was the unseen principle behind human history and that modern state borders needed to be redrawn to take it into account.”
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“In the spirit of accepting reductive answers, Reich conceives of the human past in terms of migration, replacement, warfare, and extermination.”
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“But we should notice the considerable overlap between the two men's rhetoric.”
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“But his rhetoric draws unavoidable parallels with the racialist rhetoric that was popular in Kossinna's day.”
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“Reich sees cultural historicism and racialism as independent phenomena.”
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“Indeed, Reich holds that postwar archaeology's rejection of migrationism can be explained only by the improper influence of politics (in this case, postwar anti-racism) over science.”
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“Kossinna's generation broadly agreed that changes in material culture meant changes in population.”
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“This term, popularized by the historian of archaeology Bruce G. Trigger (1937-2006), loosely described a paradigm of late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century scholarship that was generally dismissive of human beings' capacity to innovate or change over time.Rather, the spread of styles, technologies, or practices represented the replacement of one population by another, whether through conquest”
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“Grant and Reich share a basic rhetoric of replacement: the idea that the old ideas that constituted human history were wrong and that, thanks to modern science, we can know the truth.”
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“Although cultural historicists and genomic historians differ in their objectives, the questions they ask are identical: What were our origins?How did we get here?Why did we triumph over others?”
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“Grant posited that “race” predated all other forms of identity; only societies that realized the supremacy of biology deserved to exist.”
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“Yet, by the 1930s, this relatively liberal spin on racialism was in decline.”
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“His position is that aDNA proves that racism is fundamentally illogical.”
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“Angel appears to have downgraded race to a descriptive, rather than a prescriptive, category.”
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“Nonetheless, certain races carry genomic signifiers of ancient proto-races that no longer exist, races that have been christened “West Eurasians,” “Ancient North Eurasians,” “Early European Farmers,” and so on.”
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“But as he repeatedly stated, these “types” are essentially descriptive and have no bearing on history.”
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“Contemporary racial groups can only be traced back a few thousand years-that is, too late in the scheme of human evolution to be meaningful.87”
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“His certainty that these groups actually existed can be traced back to his involvement in the spectacular debut of aDNA research at the end of the 2000s.”
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“Before genomic historians were forced to reevaluate their public messaging in 2020, they were keen to parachute into longstanding debates regarding national, racial, or ethnic identity.”
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“Moreover, many of the racialized communities associated with said human remains-indigenous people, the descendants of enslaved Africans, and othershad good reason to be skeptical why well-funded, predominantly white American and European scientists now wanted access to the bones of their ancestors.99”
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“Many of the issues that plagued the first generation of genomic history studies published between 2015 and 2020 came precisely because its practitioners were amazed by their own capacity for science-and disregarded everyone else's.”
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“As we have already seen with Stamatoyannopoulos et al.'s 2017 study, early genomic historians were usually coy in addressing the questions that structured their research.”
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“The effort to use genetic material to “prove” the Greekness of contemporary Greece has been longstanding; as early as the 1980s, Greek scientists were using mtDNA to make the same point.”
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“Black abolitionists, including David Walker (1796-1830) and Alexander Crummell (1819-1898), countered by claiming that ancient Egypt was a Black civilization.112”
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“Religious identity is a fixed legal category in Lebanon, one with real consequences to members of different sectarian communities.”
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“No other field of premodern studies benefits from such close ties to industry.”
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“This would not be surprising to Lebanon's Maronite nationalists, who resent being called “Arab” because they are actually the pure-blooded descendants of the ancient Phoenicians.”
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“Prior to June 2020, genomic historians had been relatively insulated from critique.”
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“Publishing in those venues, archaeogeneticists make claims that extend far beyond the purview of the biological sciences, and they do so knowing how unlikely it is that their manuscripts will encounter humanists during peer review.120”
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“This buzz makes authors' articles more enticing to scientific journals, particularly those with industry readership, such as Nature, Science, and Cell.”
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“(As we will see in the next section, the recent inclusion of humanists as coauthors has not remedied the situation.)”
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“Genomic history did not emerge in just any time; it emerged in our time, the same 2010s when the Far Right was ascendant and the bioessentialist lexicon infiltrated discourses of culture, identity, and race across the political spectrum.122”
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“The buzz furthers public interest in personal DNA ancestry testing.121”
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“What we have is a bundle of loose strings that leads the authors, inter alia, to speculate on the skin color of the ancient Greeks.137”
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“Genomic history's most coherent recent attempt to address questions of methodology can be found in a 2022 study published by Lazaridis et al.”
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“But overall, genomic historians remain obsessed with prehistoric migration, population replacement, and the elusive “Yamnaya.””
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“(We would ignore the continued, intractable problem of sample size.)”
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“Even as genomic history's ethical issues remain partially unacknowledged, some promising trends in pre-2020 genomic history have advanced.”
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“Recent press comments by Reich's coauthors suggest that reluctant stakeholders continue to be bypassed.127”
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“Thus, genomic history's post-2020 trajectory offers Mediterranean premodernists conflicting signs.”
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“Inasmuch as Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al.'s statement marks a post-2020 reckoning in genomic history, it is limited, defensive, and apparently nonbinding.”
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“Lazaridis et al. would like us to have (in text, material culture, and aDNA) a series of imperfect datasets that, when superimposed, offer clarity.But that is not what we have.”
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“But this once again mischaracterizes the nature of the relationship between the National Socialists and their archaeology.”
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- Rests on an assumption: Race science made Nazism possible.
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“(Like many British archaeologists, Evans disliked Aryanism.104 )”
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“And in both cases, the authors fell victim to confirmation bias-which is to say that their work”
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“Bernal's theory, which in many ways is a creature of the nineteenth century, has never been accepted by prehistorians.”
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“Lazaridis et al.'s first target was Arthur J.Evans (1851-1941), who, in the 1890s, had held that the”
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“Rather than revealing the racial fusion of the ancient Greeks, physical remains could tell stories of diet, nutrition, and possibly social structure.139”
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“Accepting the limits of positivism does not mean rejecting the genome as evidence.”
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“Yet even the most recent research repeats genomic history's original sins-overhyped claims, bioessentialist assumptions about identity, winking reference to far-right tropes.”
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“Even as archaeogeneticists have dialed back their rhetoric since 2020, the field has yet to seriously question Cavalli-Sforza's groundwork in the 1960s-a groundwork that was interested in documenting”
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“Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al. made a limited commitment to conduct research on ancient human remains with the permission of present-day descendant groups.”
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“In 2017, Verena J. Schuenemann and her collaborators used a sample of genetic data from 151 individuals whose skulls were pilfered from tombs at Abusir el-Meleq, Egypt, and exported to Germany in the nineteenth century.”
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In the paper
“Although Angel continued to use bioessentialist (or even racialist) language well into the 1980s, his work clearly undercut the paradigm under which he had been trained.”
§ THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN > V. 2020 AND ITS AFTERMATH
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In the paper
“The aDNA researchers who accept the limits of their knowledge know that they are not writing or even contributing to “history”; like archaeologists, they are looking not at what happened in the past but at the processes by which the past happened.”
§ THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN > V. 2020 AND ITS AFTERMATH
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Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds. It may state two separate claims as one.
In the paper
“Craniometrists once promised they could (among other things) identify the biological secrets that made ancient Greeks great.138”
§ THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN > V. 2020 AND ITS AFTERMATH
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In the paper
“Migrations, wars, and other events that have been lost to human memory cannot be reconstructed as historical events.”
§ THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN > V. 2020 AND ITS AFTERMATH
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“Where legally mandatory, Alpaslan-Roodenberg et al. agreed to follow laws that restrict access to human remains-for instance, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA), which regulates federally funded museums that hold collections of archaeological objects and human remains from indigenous communities in the United States.”
§ THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN > The Ohio State University
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“The interest in”
§ THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN > The Ohio State University
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites Cavalli-Sforza, Menozzi, and Piazza, The History and Geography of Human Genes, 24
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plain- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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The paper relies on this without support.
The ethnonationalist Right has been ascendant across Europe and North America since the 2010s.
“which has been ascendant across Europe and North America since the 2010s.”
The paper relies on this without support.
A direct relationship between culture and biology is racialist.
“In positing a direct relationship between culture and biology, genomic historians have consciously or unconsciously revived the racialist assumptions that undergirded the study of the ancient past prior to World War II.”
The paper relies on this without support.
An individual person's genome is largely unaffected by the environment and mostly reflects ancestry.
“Unlike other formerly used datasets (such as skeletons), an individual person's genome is largely unaffected by the environment.It mostly reflects ancestry.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Race science made Nazism possible.
“The problem was not that the Nazis twisted archaeology or anthropology in their machinations to hoodwink the public; it was that race science made Nazism possible.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Prior to Lazaridis et al.'s article, few Mediterranean premodernists paid much attention to archaeogenetics.
“Prior to the publication of Lazaridis et al.'s article, few Mediterranean premodernists paid much attention to archaeogenetics.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Italian historiography exudes pride in the cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism of ancient Rome.
“Italian historiography exudes pride in the cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism of ancient Rome.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The use of pilfered human remains to reconstruct the phenotypes of ancient people is outrageous.
“What Gourdine et al. diplomatically left out is the sheer outrageousness of Schuenemann et al.'s entire project.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Scientists should not impose modern racial constructions onto the ancient world.
“why were scientists still obsessed with imposing modern racial constructions onto the ancient world?”
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Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN > Abstract
“David Reich's Who We Are and Where We Came From (2018)”
§ THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN > Abstract
“Who We Are and How We Got Here (2018)”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Parmenter, C. S.
- Affiliations
- The Ohio State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Parmenter, Christopher Stedman
- Venue
- History and Theory
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2023-10-08
- Volume
- 63
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 45-70
- ISSN
- 0018-2656 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-2303
- OpenAlex
- W4387451084
- Cited by
- 63
- References
- 36
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 40 · 2024: 19
- FWCI
- 40.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- History and Theory (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Race, Genetics, and Society
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Philosophy, History, and Historiography
- Keywords
- ancient DNA, ancient Mediterranean, race, racialism, ethnic nationalism, migration, conflict, cultural change, premodern period, intellectual genealogy
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