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View of the Takarkori rock shelter in Southern Libya. Credit: Archaeological Mission in the Sahara, Sapienza University of Rome

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Research Uncovers a Long-Isolated North African Human Lineage in the Central Sahara from Over 7,000 Years Ago

4 April 2025

A recent study conducted by a team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, including senior author...

An Avar-period cloak clasp from a female grave at Moedling, Austria. Archers were associated with a higher social status. Credit: Benedict Seidl

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Surprising Genetic Findings from Early Middle Ages Burial Sites in Austria

22 January 2025

In a groundbreaking archeogenetic study, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in collaboration with an international team,...

Group of casts from the House of the Golden Bracelet. Casts no. 50-51-52, date of creation 1974. Photo: Archaeological Park of Pompeii

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Study refutes previous assumptions, DNA evidence rewrites story of people buried in Pompeii eruption

8 November 2024

Researchers from the University of Florence, Harvard University, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig analyzed the...

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Isotopic Evidence reveals surprising dietary practices of pre-agricultural human groups in Morocco

30 April 2024

It has long been accepted wisdom that hunter-gatherer societies lived primarily off of meat. But fresh data from an innovative...

Wenying Li, Xinjiang Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology

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Unexpected Origins of Mysterious Mummies Buried in Boats in a Chinese Desert

17 February 2024

In 1990, hundreds of mummified bodies were found buried in boats in an inhospitable desert area in the Xinjiang Uyghur...

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A new study provides evidence that modern humans, coexisted in the same region with Neanderthals for thousands of years

11 February 2024

A genetic analysis of bone fragments excavated from an archaeological site in Ranis, Germany provides conclusive evidence that modern humans...

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Scientists have developed a new tool that enables them to identify prehistoric and historic individuals’ relatives up to the sixth-degree

24 December 2023

A new method of genetic analysis makes it possible to determine family relationships of prehistoric and historical individuals up to...

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DNA from 20,000-year-old deer-tooth pendant reveals woman who wore it

4 May 2023

A pendant made of a deer tooth that was exposed to DNA about 20,000 years ago has yielded clues about...

Scientists examine what was found in the burial. University of Reading

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In Lowbury Hill Mystery of Anglo-Saxons buried 1,400 years ago may soon be solved

8 March 2023

The mystery surrounding the remains of two Anglo-Saxons buried 1,400 years ago in south Oxfordshire, identified as a man and...

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A new study says genes and languages aren’t always together

22 November 2022

Over 7,000 languages are spoken around the world. This linguistic diversity, like biological traits, is passed down from generation to...

Research Uncovers a Long-Isolated North African Human Lineage in the Central Sahara from Over 7,000 Years Ago

Surprising Genetic Findings from Early Middle Ages Burial Sites in Austria

Study refutes previous assumptions, DNA evidence rewrites story of people buried in Pompeii eruption

Isotopic Evidence reveals surprising dietary practices of pre-agricultural human groups in Morocco

Unexpected Origins of Mysterious Mummies Buried in Boats in a Chinese Desert

A new study provides evidence that modern humans, coexisted in the same region with Neanderthals for thousands of years

Scientists have developed a new tool that enables them to identify prehistoric and historic individuals’ relatives up to the sixth-degree

DNA from 20,000-year-old deer-tooth pendant reveals woman who wore it

In Lowbury Hill Mystery of Anglo-Saxons buried 1,400 years ago may soon be solved

A new study says genes and languages aren’t always together

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