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New Light On Appearance Of Scythians In Northern Black Sea Region

AncientPages.com | March 11, 2017

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A subject that has long been debated is the appearance and disappearance of the mysterious Scythian tribes living in the southern steppes of

Archaeology

Ancient DNA Shows Neanderthals Used Plant-Based Medicine To Treat Pain And Illness

AncientPages.com | March 9, 2017

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeological discoveries have provided us with plenty of evidence that the Neanderthals were not as primitive as we previously thought. Scientists have examined

Archaeology

Ancient DNA Reveals A 50,000-Year-Old Secret And Re-Writes History Of Australia

AncientPages.com | March 8, 2017

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - By studying ancient DNA we can get a good glimpse into the distant past and learn about our ancestors. Scientists have now examined

Chaco Canyon was a hierarchically organized society with leadership inherited through the maternal line.

Archaeology

Ancient Chaco Was Organized Society Ruled By Women, Study Suggests

AncientPages.com | March 6, 2017

AncientPages.com - Using a combination of radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA, researchers show that a maternal dynasty ruled Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon, for more than 300

Archaeology

Neanderthal DNA Still Influence Modern Human Genes – Scientists Say

AncientPages.com | March 3, 2017

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Everyone living outside of Africa today has a small amount of Neanderthal in them. The last Neanderthal died 40,000 years ago, but much

Archaeology

Mystery Of Viking Ruler Rollo Continues – Surprising Discovery In Ancient Grave

AncientPages.com | January 22, 2017

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The mystery of Viking ruler Rollo continues. An ancient sarcophagus Fécamp, Normandy, France has been opened, and analysis has been conducted, but the

Ancient Irish genomes each show unequivocal evidence for massive migration.

Archaeology

Intriguing Genetics: First Ancient Irish Human Genomes – Sequenced

AncientPages.com | December 29, 2015

AncientPages.com - A team of geneticists from Trinity College Dublin and archaeologists from Queen’s University Belfast have sequenced the genomes of an early farmer woman, who lived near Belfast

Researchers had noticed that people from southern Europe tend to be shorter than those from northern Europe. The new study suggests that the height differential arises both from people in the north having more ancestry from Eurasian steppe populations, who seem to have been taller, and people in the south having more ancestry from Neolithic and Chalcolithic groups from the Iberian peninsula, who seem to have been shorter.

Archaeology

DNA Study Reveals How Europe’s Hunter-Gatherers Adapted To A New Way Of Life – Farming

AncientPages.com | November 24, 2015

AncientPages.com - The introduction of agriculture into Europe about 8,500 years ago changed the way people lived right down to their DNA. Now, an international team reports in Nature that researchers

A casting of the fossil found at what has become known as the Old Vero Man site in Vero Beach depicting an etching of a mastodon or mammoth.

Archaeology

Controversial Study Of Ancient DNA Could Re-Write History Of South Florida And Prove Humans And Huge Prehistoric Animals Co-Existed

AncientPages.com | September 23, 2014

AncientPages.com - By analyzing ancient DNA found at an archaeological dig in Vero Beach, Florida scientists are now trying to fill a fill a major gap in human

Archaeology

What Caused The Unexplained Change In Europeans’ DNA 4000-5000 Years Ago? Scientists Say The Genetic Turnover Remains A Mystery

AncientPages.com | August 27, 2014

Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Something very strange and unexplained happened with European DNA 4,000-5,000 years ago. For reasons totally unknown, the genetic markers of this first pan-European