Introduction to population genetics and biostatistics
Carlos D. Bustamante, Cornell University.
Beth Shapiro, Pennsylvania State University.

January 16

Introduction to history and linguistics
Christopher Ehret, University of California, Los Angeles.
Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles.
Paper for Seminar: Härke, et al., "Archaeologists and Migrations: A Problem of Attitude?" Current Anthropology, Vol. 39, No. 1 (Feb., 1998), pp. 19-45.

January 23

Etruscan history
Giorgio Bertorelle, University of Ferrara.
Papers for Seminar: Vernesi, et al., "The Etruscans: A Population-Genetic Study," Am. J. Hum. Genet. 74:694–704, 2004.
Ivanov, "Etruscan: Recent Discoveries."

January 30

Anglo-Saxon migration
Mark Thomas, University College London.
Papers for Seminar: Thomas, Stumpf and Härke, "Evidence for an apartheid-like social structure
in early Anglo-Saxon England," Proc. R. Soc. B (2006) 273, 2651–2657.
Weale, et al., "Y Chromosome Evidence for Anglo-Saxon Mass Migration," Mol. Biol. Evol. 19(7):1008–1021, 2002.

February 8

Disentangling Genes, Geography, and Language
Mark Stoneking , Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
Paper for Seminar: Stoneking, "Disentangling Genes, Geography, and Language"

February 15

Cultural and genetic identity in the Americas
Andrés Reséndez, University of California, Davis.
Paper for Seminar: Reséndez and Kemp, "Genetics and the History of Latin America" Hispanic American Historical Review 85:2, 283.

February 20

Historical linguistics and genetics (Bantu Expansion)
S.O.Y. Keita, Howard University.
Christopher Ehret, University of California, Los Angeles.
Papers for Seminar: Keita, "Explanation of the Pattern of P49a,f TaqI RFLP
Y-Chromosome Variation in Egypt," African Archaeological Review, Vol. 22, No. 2, June 2005.
Ehret, "Equatorial and Southern Africa, 4000 BCE - 1100 CE" Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History.
Wood, et al., "Contrasting patterns of Y chromosome and mtDNA variation in Africa: evidence for sex-biased demographic processes," European Journal of Human Genetics (2005), 1–10.

February 29

Pandemics, the Fall of the Roman Empire, and Molecular Biology
Michael McCormick, Harvard University.
Paper for Seminar: McCormick, "Toward a Molecular History of the Justinian Pandemic" in Lester Little (ed.), Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750 (Cambridge, 2006).

March 5

Linguistic modeling
Craig Melchert, University of California, Los Angeles.
Andrew Garrett, University of California, Berkeley.
Paper for Seminar: Garrett, "Convergence in the Formation of Indo-European Subgroups: Phylogeny and Chronology" in Phylogenetic methods and the prehistory of languages, ed. by Peter Forster and Colin Renfrew (Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2006), pp. 139-151.
Gray and Atkinson, "Language-tree divergence times support the Anatolian theory of Indo-European origin" Nature 426, 435-439 (27 November 2003).