Early herding communities of the Southern Iberian Peninsula used a wide variety of livestock management strategies
Spears from the Schöningen open-cast coal mine have been examined and show that wood was a crucial raw material 300,000 years ago
Chickens were widely raised across southern Central Asia from 400 BCE through medieval periods and likely dispersed along the ancient Silk Road
Archaeologists put on their lab coats analyzed pottery from Neolithic sites to illuminate ancient culinary practices
DNA study IDs descendants of George Washington from unmarked remains, findings to aid service member IDs going back to World War II
Ancient DNA reveals the appearance of Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou, a 6th century Chinese emperor; the study is published in Current Biology
Movement of crops, animals played a key role in domestication, as a long-term gene flow between wild and domestic species was much more common than previously appreciated
The dried milk brought in 1908 by Ernest Shackleton’s British Antarctic Expedition shows remarkable similarities with today’s milk
Museum collections targeted in the war on Ukrainian culture. A recent conference at Södertörn University’s Centre for Baltic and East European Studies brought together researchers and representatives
What Bronze Age teeth say about the evolution of the human diet: scientists extract microbiomes from two 4,000 year old teeth at Killuragh Cave