Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
Unlocking the Past, Guiding the Future
In a milestone study published in Nature on April 30, northern New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo has, for the first time, led a genetic study confirming their ancestral connection to the famous Chaco Canyon — a monumental site central to Pueblo…
A 220-year-old mystery surrounding the remains of infamous German outlaw Johannes Bückler, known as “Schinderhannes,” has at last been solved. An international research team used cutting-edge forensic techniques to confirm that a skeleton long thought to be that of another…
New information on a mass burial found at the Bayanbulag site in Mongolia, which is thought to hold the remains of Han warriors who participated in the Han-Xiongnu War, has been revealed by a recent bioarchaeological study. The study, which…
The origins of the Huns, the formidable nomad warriors who changed European history in the late fourth century, have been a topic of discussion among scholars. In the past, experts thought the Huns descended from the Xiongnu, an empire that…
About 19,000 years ago, a prehistoric woman was buried inside El Mirón Cave, a huge rock shelter in Northern Spain. Her remains, discovered in 2010 by archaeologists Lawrence Straus of the University of New Mexico and David Cuenca Solana, were…
A genetic study has, for the first time, unraveled a matrilocal social system in Iron Age Britain, where land and connectedness with the community were passed down through a female lineage. This is a first for European prehistory and underlines…
A skull long thought to belong to Arsinoë IV, sister of Cleopatra, has been confirmed to be the remains of a boy with developmental disorders, according to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports. The research, led by…
A new study revealed key insights about Mediterranean language families’ origins, including Italo-Celtic and Graeco-Armenian branches of Indo-European. An international team of geneticists and archaeologists conducted this research. They examined how ancient migrations influenced the emergence of linguistic groups that…
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a unique ritual sacrifice involving close family members in the ancient Moche culture of Peru. Genetic analysis of six individuals buried in a 1,500-year-old tomb at Huaca Cao Viejo, part of the El Brujo archaeological…
Archaeologists have made a fascinating discovery in a Roman-era cemetery in Pommerœul, Belgium, revealing a skeleton composed of bones from at least five individuals, representing a span of over 2,500 years. Unearthed in the 1970s and first thought to date…
