4 April 2025
Research Uncovers a Long-Isolated North African Human Lineage in the Central Sahara from Over 7,000 Years Ago
A recent study conducted by a team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary…
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22 January 2025
Surprising Genetic Findings from Early Middle Ages Burial Sites in Austria
In a groundbreaking archeogenetic study, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in collaboration…
8 November 2024
Study refutes previous assumptions, DNA evidence rewrites story of people buried in Pompeii eruption
Researchers from the University of Florence, Harvard University, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology…
30 April 2024
Isotopic Evidence reveals surprising dietary practices of pre-agricultural human groups in Morocco
It has long been accepted wisdom that hunter-gatherer societies lived primarily off of meat. But fresh…
17 February 2024
Unexpected Origins of Mysterious Mummies Buried in Boats in a Chinese Desert
In 1990, hundreds of mummified bodies were found buried in boats in an inhospitable desert area…
11 February 2024
A new study provides evidence that modern humans, coexisted in the same region with Neanderthals for thousands of years
A genetic analysis of bone fragments excavated from an archaeological site in Ranis, Germany provides conclusive…
24 December 2023
Scientists have developed a new tool that enables them to identify prehistoric and historic individuals’ relatives up to the sixth-degree
A new method of genetic analysis makes it possible to determine family relationships of prehistoric and…
4 May 2023
DNA from 20,000-year-old deer-tooth pendant reveals woman who wore it
A pendant made of a deer tooth that was exposed to DNA about 20,000 years ago…
8 March 2023
In Lowbury Hill Mystery of Anglo-Saxons buried 1,400 years ago may soon be solved
The mystery surrounding the remains of two Anglo-Saxons buried 1,400 years ago in south Oxfordshire, identified…
22 November 2022
A new study says genes and languages aren’t always together
Over 7,000 languages are spoken around the world. This linguistic diversity, like biological traits, is passed…