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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Americas were the last continent to be inhabited by humans. An increasing body of archaeological and genomic evidence has hinted to a
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The use of ancient DNA, including samples of human remains around 45,000 years old, has shed light on a previously unknown aspect of
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first genetic data from Paleolithic human individuals in the U.K.—the oldest human DNA obtained from the British Isles so far—indicates the presence
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Under the aegis of the University of Oslo, an international research team has extracted and analyzed plant DNA from the sediments of the
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AncientPages.com - The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine for 2022 has been awarded to Svante Pääbo from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, "for his
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Crannogs are fascinating ancient artificial islands in Britain and Ireland. Previous studies have revealed hundreds of crannogs, mostly in Scotland, Ireland, and Northern
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - To learn more about the cradle of civilization, scientists rely on archaeology, ancient history, paleontology, and the study of DNA that help researchers
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Almost 300 years after the Romans left, scholars like Bede wrote about the Angles and the Saxons and their migrations to the British
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In the field of human genetics, the story of Mother Eve is a familiar one. It describes how all living humans descend from one
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AncientPages.com - Neanderthals have served as a reflection of our own humanity since they were first discovered in 1856. What we think we know about them has been shaped
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using fossilized eggs in up to 2,500-year-old feces from Viking settlements in Denmark and other countries, researchers at the University of Copenhagen's Department
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In 2004, construction workers in Norwich, U.K., unearthed human skeletal remains that led to a historical mystery—at least 17 bodies at the bottom
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using new scientific tools, University of Cincinnati archaeologists discovered that an ancient Greek leader known today as the Griffin Warrior likely grew up
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In a trio of papers, published simultaneously in the journal Science, Ron Pinhasi from the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology and Human Evolution and Archaeological
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - According to a long-lasting theory, South America was populated by ancient humans who arrived in North America from Siberia approximately 14,000 to 17,000
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Based on previous archaeological studies, researchers know that the Old Kingdom of Egypt and the Akkadian Empire, both Bronze Age civilizations, experienced sudden
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An abandoned Caribbean colony unearthed centuries after it had been forgotten and a case of mistaken identity in the archaeological record has conspired
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Altamura Man lived more than 130,000 years ago when ice sheets were expanding from out of Antarctica and Greenland. His fossilized skeleton
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. The data, published
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New genetic research from remote islands in the Pacific offers fresh insights into the ancestry and culture of the world's earliest seafarers, including
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The genomes of many human populations show evidence of founder events, which occur when a small number of initial members start a new
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A group of scientists has successfully sequenced and studied the whole genome of eight 1,700-year-old individuals dated to the Three Kingdoms period of
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - In 1347, the plague first entered the Mediterranean via trade ships transporting goods from the territories of the Golden Horde in the Black
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Wallacean islands have always been separated from Asia and Oceania by deep-sea waters. Yet, these tropical islands were a corridor for modern
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AncientPages.com - Every person alive on the planet today is descended from people who lived as hunter-gatherers in Africa. The continent is the cradle of human origins and ingenuity,
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first successfully sequenced human genome from an individual who died in Pompeii, Italy, after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Using new analyses, scientists have just found the last two of the five informational units of DNA and RNA that had yet to
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Trinity scientists, along with international colleagues, have explored the importance of sea travel in prehistory by examining the genomes of ancient Maltese humans
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species. It is thanks in part
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The first whole genome sequences of the ancient people of Uruguay provide a genetic snapshot of Indigenous populations of the region before they
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The huge Neolithic necropolis in Fleury-sur-Orne, Normandy, France is the resting place for a group of selected individuals who were buried in impressively
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - DNA is an essential component in the cells of all living organisms on this planet. It contains information that is critical for building
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Civilizations
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Avars' place in history has been marked and yet, it has long remained so enigmatic. These fierce nomadic warriors appeared riding from
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new comprehensive study of ancient human remains taken from a cemetery at a site called the Links of Noltland has revealed surprises
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Civilizations
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The mysterious, light-skinned Tarim Basin mummies unearthed in China have long puzzled scientists. Who were these ancient people? Where did they come from?
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