DNA Archive

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time, a group of researchers have successfully extracted ancient DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick. Currently housed at the National

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Early colonial settlers likely survived the harsh frontier conditions of 17th-century Delaware because they banded as family units to work alongside enslaved African

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study reveals that Luzio, the oldest human skeleton found in São Paulo state (Brazil), was a descendant of the ancestral

AncientPages.com - Nomadic animal-herders from the Eurasian steppe mingled with Copper Age farmers in southeastern Europe centuries earlier than previously thought. In a new study published in Nature, researchers used

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

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

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.

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - People tend to think that the idea that biological sex is linked with one's role in society belongs in the past. But was

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

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

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

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - What the human genome is lacking compared with the genomes of other primates might have been as crucial to the development of humankind

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - If you could travel back 100,000 years in time, you'd find yourself living among multiple groups of humans, including anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals,

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Long obscured in the shadows of history, the world's first nomadic empire—the Xiongnu—is, at last, coming into view thanks to painstaking archaeological excavations

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Denisovans and the Neanderthals are long gone, but their DNA can be found in certain modern humans. According to researchers, some present-day

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - When the human remains found on board the Swedish warship Vasa were investigated, it was initially determined that the skeleton designated "G" was

Conny Waters -  Ancientpages.com - Traces of ancient empires that stretched across Africa remain in the DNA of people living on the continent, reveals a new genetics study

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ludwig van Beethoven's genome has been sequenced for the first time by an international team of scientists using five genetically matching locks of

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Ashaninka are the most numerous Indigenous people living in the rainforests of Peru and Brazil where they inhabit a crucial area between

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of researchers has analyzed ancient human DNA from several archaeological sites in Andalucía in southern Spain. The study reports on

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Like a merchant of old, balancing the weights of two different commodities on a scale, nature can keep different genetic traits in balance