Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent archaeogenetic studies have shown that human migrations and individual mobility played a bigger role in prehistory than previously anticipated. With the movement of people, also culture, technical know-how, language and social practices were often
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Butterflies and moths share “blocks” of DNA dating back more than 200 million years, new research shows. Scientists from the Universities of Exeter (UK), Lübeck (Germany) and Iwate (Japan) devised a tool to compare the
AncientPages.com – The people known as the Picts have puzzled archaeologists and historians for centuries. They lived in Scotland during the early medieval period, from around AD 300 to AD 900, but many aspects of their society remain mysterious. The Picts’
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – In testing the genetic material of current populations in Africa and comparing against existing fossil evidence of early Homo sapiens populations there, researchers have uncovered a new model of human evolution, overturning previous beliefs that a
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of present-day humans whose ancestors migrated out of Africa, but the question remained open on how much those genes are
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – How do today’s Indigenous communities of South America trace back to the history of human migration and contact in the continent? Graphical abstract. Credit: Current Biology (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.05.013 An international team has worked to
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have identified three 4,000-year-old British cases of Yersinia pestis, the bacteria causing the plague—the oldest evidence of the plague in Britain to date, reported in a paper published in Nature
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The evolution of our species is a fascinating and complicated subject. Scientists often discuss our long-gone relatives, the Neanderthals, and some studies attempt to unravel the truth about the intriguing Denisovans. There are also other
AncientPages.com – Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years ago, and that a great human diaspora across much of the rest of the world occurred between perhaps 60,000 and 50,000 years ago. In new research
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of an interbreeding event between Neanderthals and modern humans that occurred tens of thousands of
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The course of human history has been marked by complex patterns of migration, isolation, and admixture, the latter a term that refers to gene flow between individuals from different populations. Admixture results in a blending
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – There is broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa. But many uncertainties remain, and competing theories about where, when, and how. An international research team led by McGill University and the University of California-Davis
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA from pre-Hispanic individuals in northern and central Mexico, revealing contributions from an unknown “ghost” population. The result of the study provides surprising information about the migration patterns of ancient Mexican
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have used mitochondrial DNA to trace a female lineage from northern coastal China to the Americas. By integrating contemporary and ancient mitochondrial DNA, the team found evidence of at least two migrations: one during
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Humans inherited genetic material from Neanderthals that affects the shape of our noses, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. Modern human and archaic Neanderthal skulls side by side, showing difference in nasal height.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Breakthroughs in ancient genome reconstruction and biotechnology are now revealing the rich molecular secrets of Paleolithic microorganisms. In a new study published in Science, a transdisciplinary team of researchers led by the Leibniz Institute for Natural
