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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study along with excavations in Belize has revealed early Maya trace their roots to previously unknown ancient immigrants carrying maize
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study challenges the notion that the Ohlone migrated to the San Francisco Bay Area between A.D. 500-1,000. Scientists who conducted
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Something very strange and unexplained happened with European DNA about 5,000 years ago. For reasons totally unknown, the genetic markers of this first
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the University of Oxford's Big Data Institute have taken a major step towards mapping the entirety of genetic relationships among humans:
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team led by researchers at the University of Huddersfield has used ancient DNA to rewrite the history of the Orkney islands
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Sediments in which archaeological finds are embedded have long been regarded by most archaeologists as unimportant by-products of excavations. However, in recent years
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A major new study of ancient DNA has traced the movement of people into southern Britain during the Bronze Age. In the largest
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Human DNA can be extracted from the 'cement' head lice used to glue their eggs to hairs thousands of years ago, scientists have
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Analysis of ancient DNA from one of the best-preserved Neolithic tombs in Britain has revealed that most of the people buried there were from
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - New research revealing a major migration to the island of Great Britain offers fresh insights into the languages spoken at the time, the
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A man's claim to be the great-grandson of legendary Native American leader Sitting Bull has been confirmed using DNA extracted from Sitting Bull's
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News
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international group of scientists has studied a genome sequence of a unique individual known as the Segorbe giant and his DNA reveals
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ancient DNA extracted from human bones has rewritten early Japanese history by underlining that modern day populations in Japan have a tripartite genetic
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Scientists have discovered the skeleton of a teenage hunter-gatherer who died more than 7,000 years ago. It is a highly significant archaeological discovery
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - There are many ways to investigate the ancient history of a particular region and the migration of people. The field of archaeogenetics has
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Researchers have known from several lines of evidence that the ancient hominins known as the Denisovans interbred with modern humans in the distant
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It is not the first time scientists say modern humans and Neanderthals are closely related. Only this time, scientists have determined how much
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The great Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452 -1519) is long gone, but a new DNA study reveals he has 14 living male
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Denisova Cave in southern Siberia is the type locality of the Denisovans, an archaic hominin group who were related to Neanderthals. The dozen
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - About 1,000 years ago, two Vikings from the same family traveled abroad to fight. One of the Viking warriors went to England where
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Featured Stories
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - There is a fascinating ancient underwater cemetery in Florida, North America. It is called Windover Pond, and it is 8,000 years old. Windover
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Very few complete genomes older than 30,000 years have been sequenced which is why this particular study sheds new light on the theory
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Civilizations
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Vikings left an everlasting legacy in Ireland. While you are in Ireland, you can visit archaeological places where battles between Vikings and the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Despite marked differences in burial customs, architecture, and art, the Minoan civilization in Crete, the Helladic civilization in mainland Greece and the Cycladic
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers from several universities around the world have studied ancient burial sites linked to some of the earliest houses in history around 10,000
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - To obtain the complete genetic information from Neanderthals, including the chromosomal DNA stored in the cell nucleus, it was long needed to find
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Scythians were a multitude of horse-warrior nomad cultures dwelling in the Eurasian steppe during the first millennium BCE. Because of the lack
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - These people are a medical mystery. They have been encountered worldwide and examined by numerous specialists, but no-one has been able to explain
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A team of researchers led by Harvard Medical School's David Reich analyzed the genomes of 263 individuals in the largest study of ancient
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Dogs are our beloved pets, and they have been our companions for a very long time, or maybe even longer than we previously
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have analyzed the genome of the oldest human fossil found in Mongolia to date and show that the 34,000-year-old woman inherited around
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study shows Neanderthals and modern humans are more related than previously thought. Studies of the Y chromosomes of Neanderthals and Denisovans
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A fascinating DNA study of more than 400 Viking skeletons has just re-written history. Today we know with certainty some Vikings were not
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DNA
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The oldest mitochondrial genome of a Neanderthal found in Central-Eastern Europe is reported by a team of researchers of the Max Planck Institute
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