The world’s first horse riders: researchers discovered evidence by studying the remains of human skeletons found in burial mounds called kurgans
Plague trackers: Researchers cover thousands of years in a quest to understand the elusive origins of the Black Death
With the help of the analysis of ancient genomes, it has been possible for the first time to gain insights into kinship and marriage rules in Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece
Ancient DNA from medieval Germany tells the origin story of Ashkenazi Jews: the ancient DNA has been extracted from teeth
Footprints found in New Mexico’s Lake Otero Basin and claimed as evidence of ice age humans in North America need better dating
Ancient DNA pushes the herring trade back to the Viking age; a new study on the subject has been published on PNAS
What Can Furbearers Past and Present Teach Us About Future Conservation Efforts? Consequences of mass harvesting, ecosystem change
Archaeogenetic study reveals large-scale continental migration into the East of England during the early Medieval Period
Ancient DNA is rarely well-preserved in fossils, so scientists need to recognize possible hybridization of early humans from skeletons
Medieval mass burial shows centuries-earlier origin of Ashkenazi genetic bottleneck; a new study published on Current Biology