Dates of published aDNA samples. a) A per-publication-year transect of the density of the (log10) age of published ancient genomes. The publication dates and number of samples were taken from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) v.52.2. b) A temporal transect of population differentiation levels in Southwest Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean inspired by Lazaridis et al. (2016). The average dates for each sample in YBP were taken from the AADR v.52.2. For the plot in b), they were grouped into four epochs, with 3,200 YBP approximating the start of the Iron Age, 5,500 YBP approximating the start of the Bronze Age, 8,500 YBP approximating the start of the Neolithic period, and older years representing the Paleolithic period. For each epoch, the median pairwise FST values are displayed for the two regions. The FST values were calculated using the Eigensoft v8.0.0 smartpca software.