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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
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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
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating near the village of Offord Cluny in Cambridgeshire have discovered the remains of a man who lived between AD 126–228 during
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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
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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
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered a new repeat gene cluster sequence that is exclusively expressed in humans and non-human primates. The discovery, detailed in a
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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
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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
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Modern humans migrated to Eurasia 75,000 years ago, where they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals. A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - People who carry three gene variants inherited from Neanderthals are more sensitive to some types of pain, according to a new study co-led
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Africa is the birthplace of modern humans and the continent with the highest level of genetic diversity. While ancient DNA studies reveal some
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AncientPages.com - When researchers used DNA from the 10,000-year-old “Cheddar Man”, one of Britain’s oldest skeletons, they unveiled what the first inhabitants of what now is Britain actually
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Evolution
AncientPages.com - In 1933 a mysterious fossil skull was discovered near Harbin City in the Heilongjiang province of north-eastern China. Despite being nearly perfectly preserved – with square
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The diversity of family systems in prehistoric societies has always fascinated scientists. A groundbreaking study by Mainz anthropologists and an international team of
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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
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Evolution
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A research team used advanced sequencing technology to analyze Ötzi’s genome to obtain a more accurate picture of the Iceman’s appearance and genetic
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Archaeology
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
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AncientPages.com - Geneticists have now firmly established that roughly two percent of the DNA of all living non-African people comes from our Neanderthal cousins. It’s difficult to imagine
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Who lived at Machu Picchu at its height? A new study used ancient DNA to find out for the first time where workers buried
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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
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Evolution
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Leicester have discovered that the genes required for learning, memory, aggression and
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Archaeology
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
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Archaeology
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
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