Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – According to recent scientific findings, new DNA sequencing technologies have successfully identified the historical remains of George Washington’s grandnephews – Samuel Walter Washington and George Steptoe Washington Jr., and their mother, Lucy Payne Washington. The study
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Approximately 7,500 years ago, the last communities of hunter-gatherers in Western Europe came into contact with incoming Neolithic farmers. Over time, these hunter-gatherer populations were slowly replaced and absorbed by the farming communities. This period
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ruled by many Emperors, the mighty and vast Roman Empire covered territories that included Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. Established in 27 B.C. following the demise of the Roman Republic, the first Roman Emperor,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the early 1990s, excavations took place at Huseby-Klev, an early Mesolithic hunter-fisher site on the Swedish west coast, where a piece of ancient chewing gum was found. The masticates were made out of birch
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new DNA study reveals contact with the Yamnaya people dramatically re-wrote Northern Europeans’ genetic story. The Yamnaya (c. 3300 – 2600 BC – also called Yamna) culture were Nomadic herders living in an area we
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – One of the most intriguing archaeological pre-Columbian sites is Teotihuacán, which scientists still know relatively little about. Who were the people who built and lived in Teotihuacán? Established in the northeastern Basin of Mexico, Teotihuacán
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A new computational tool detects up to second to third-degree cousins using ancient genomes. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the University of Harvard in the USA have developed
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The high-altitude hero of the Himalayas, yak are among the few large animals that can survive the extremely cold, harsh and oxygen-poor conditions of the Tibetan Plateau. In the mountainous regions of Asia, yak and
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study suggests that the difference in height between female and male individuals in northern Europe during the Early Neolithic (8,000–6,000 years before present, bp) may have been influenced by cultural factors. The findings
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Despite the Roman Empire’s extensive military and cultural influence on the nearby Balkan peninsula, a DNA analysis of individuals who lived in the region between 1 and 1000 CE found no genetic evidence of Iron Age
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The 9,000-year-old shaman burial in Bad Dürrenberg, Germany, is one of Central Europe’s most spectacular discoveries. Discovered in 1934 during construction works, the double burial of an adult woman and an infant has long fascinated
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new genetic study reveals indigenous Mexicans migrated to California 5,200 years ago. Researchers have found evidence hunter-gatherers who came from Mexico spread unique languages from the south about 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers have found that previous studies analyzing the genomes of people with European ancestry may have reported inaccurate results by not fully accounting for population structure. By considering mixed genetic lineages, researchers at the National
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A research team led by the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) and Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) has identified the most widespread genetic contribution by Denisovans to date. The study reveals that the genetic variant observed,
AncientPages.com – For generations, Neanderthals have been a source of fascination for scientists. This species of ancient hominim inhabited the world for around 500,000 years until they suddenly disappeared around 40,000 years ago. Today, the cause of their extinction remains
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Contemporary humans carry in their cells a small amount of DNA derived from Neanderthals and Denisovans. “Denny,” a 90,000-year-old fossil individual, recently identified as the daughter of a Denisovan father and a Neanderthal mother, bears
