Discover ancient DNA studies uncovering human ancestry, migrations, and population history.
Most people living outside Africa carry small traces of Neanderthal DNA. These inherited fragments appear across many human chromosomes. One ...
Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from four elite burials in the Ulitau region of central Kazakhstan and traced their ancestry ...
A 5,500-year-old cemetery on Gotland is offering a close look at family life among one of the last hunter-gatherer groups ...
For decades, archaeologists described European prehistory as a sequence of large migrations and rapid genetic change. A new ancient DNA ...
Archaeologists have identified the oldest human remains yet found in northern Britain as those of a young girl who lived ...
An international research team has confirmed the earliest known genetic diagnosis in an anatomically modern human, identifying a rare skeletal ...
Scientists recovered the oldest known genome of Treponema pallidum from human remains dated to about 5,500 years ago in the ...
A major new bioarchaeological study is reshaping how scholars understand migration into England during the early medieval period, showing a ...
For decades, human betaherpesviruses 6A and 6B were thought to be relatively recent scientific discoveries, having only been identified in ...
New genetic research from southern Spain is shedding light on how prehistoric monuments retained their significance long after their construction. ...
