Introduction For several decades, the application of biomolecular techniques to archaeological material has had a profound impact on our understanding of the human past, from the reassessment of archaeological sites (Fowler et al. 2022; Schulting et al. 2019; Teschler-Nicola et al. 2020; Yaka et al. 2021), the identification of previously cryptic macroscale population movements (Brace et al. 2019; Cassidy et al. 2016; Fregel et al. 2018), and the discovery of a new species of hominin (Reich et al.
