Reconstruction of the human peopling of Europe: a genetic insight

Despite the long-lasting and interdisciplinary work carried out by different research fields, such as archaeology, history, linguistics, genetics, palaeoanthropology, molecular anthropology, and more recently, palaeogenomics, the reconstruction of the human peopling of Europe is still a highly debated topic. The present issue– composed of review articles and research papers– is largely devoted to discussing and enlarging our current knowledge on the ancestries that contributed to the European genetic make-up through time.