Discover ancient DNA studies uncovering human ancestry, migrations, and population history.
For decades, Homo erectus has stood at the center of one of paleoanthropology’s biggest debates. The species was the first ...
DNA analysis has helped researchers identify four more crew members from Sir John Franklin’s ill-fated 1845 Arctic expedition, including a ...
A recent international study led by the University of Zurich examines links between human genetic diversity and language structure across ...
DNA from a 700-year-old mummy in Bolivia has revealed an unexpected chapter in the history of infectious disease. Researchers identified ...
A large genetic study of early medieval burials in southern Germany is changing how historians describe the end of Roman ...
New research from northern Scotland brings fresh detail to how early farming groups organized family ties and burial practices. Scientists ...
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 ...
