A wave of ancient DNA studies published in Nature has forced a sharp revision of how scientists understand the peopling of ...

Two researchers discuss how ancient DNA is used to track how people moved and lived during Britain's bronze age.

Recent archaeological discoveries are challenging established narratives of human origins and creativity. A 64,000-year-old cave art found in Europe is compelling scientists to rethink timelines of ...

Researchers at the University of Huddersfield have used ancient DNA to reveal that hunter-gatherers in one part of Europe survived for thousands of years longer than anywhere else on the continent—and ...

Ancient DNA studies show that between 6500 and 4000 BCE, descendants of western Anatolian farmers mixed with local hunter-gatherers across Europe, leading to a 70–100% ancestry turnover in most ...

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A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and hundreds of others. By Carl Zimmer In 1786, a British judge named William ...

More than 1,600 ancient genomes have helped to trace the roots of a host of genetic traits found in modern Europeans. The genomes suggest that many characteristics — including a heightened risk for ...

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