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AADR

AADR gives the repository a release-based human ancient DNA family. Its public role is not to compete with the animal recovery program. Its role is to let readers see human ancient DNA in the same evidence landscape as animal ancient DNA, pollen, archaeology, and geography.

That matters because many public questions are comparative. A reader may want to know whether a region is visible only through animal evidence, whether human and animal signals overlap, or whether a country surface includes one human release context at all. AADR helps answer those questions in a versioned and bounded way.

What AADR Adds

AADR is strongest when readers need:

  • release-based human ancient DNA context
  • country and regional human aDNA visibility
  • broad comparison between human evidence, animal evidence, and environmental context

It helps the repository keep human ancient DNA visible as one distinct family rather than folding it into a generic "DNA" label.

What AADR Does Not Do

AADR is not the animal recovery program, and it is not a substitute for the narrower review surfaces that govern sample identity, locality, chronology, or coordinates.

It does not replace:

  • animal-source intake and project recovery review
  • sample-level locality and chronology evidence
  • pollen-derived environmental interpretation
  • archaeology-context families such as SEAD and RAÄ

Its public value comes from being clear about its role: broad human release context, not one universal proof layer.

Why Versioned Release Context Matters

Human ancient DNA releases change over time. If the repository did not keep the release context explicit, readers would have no stable way to understand why coverage, counts, or labels changed between publications.

Versioning is therefore part of public honesty. It lets readers tie an output back to a concrete release instead of treating human evidence as an untracked background layer.

How It Appears In Public Outputs

AADR appears where the repository needs a human ancient DNA family that can sit beside animal evidence and contextual layers without collapsing those domains into each other. It helps public readers compare evidence families instead of mistaking them for one fused dataset.

If You Need The Repository-Owned Records

The current versioned path for this family lives under:

  • data/aadr/v66/

That is the tracked repository location behind the current AADR-derived public surfaces.