30 April 2024
It has long been accepted wisdom that hunter-gatherer societies lived primarily off of meat. But fresh data from an innovative...
17 February 2024
In 1990, hundreds of mummified bodies were found buried in boats in an inhospitable desert area in the Xinjiang Uyghur...
11 February 2024
A genetic analysis of bone fragments excavated from an archaeological site in Ranis, Germany provides conclusive evidence that modern humans...
24 December 2023
A new method of genetic analysis makes it possible to determine family relationships of prehistoric and historical individuals up to...
4 May 2023
A pendant made of a deer tooth that was exposed to DNA about 20,000 years ago has yielded clues about...
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...
22 November 2022
Over 7,000 languages are spoken around the world. This linguistic diversity, like biological traits, is passed down from generation to...
13 May 2022
Were Neanderthals really as well adapted to life in the cold as previously assumed, or did they prefer more temperate...
