Livestock played a role in prehistoric plague infections: Yersinia pestis genome has been discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth at Arkaim
A new study reconstructs the genetic history and interactions of populations in the Southern Caucasus over time, from the Early Bronze Age (circa 3500 BCE) to after the Migration Period (circa 500 CE)
A reexamination of ancient human migration routes out of Africa; a study published in the journal Comptes Rendus Géoscience
Interbreeding with Neanderthals may be responsible for modern-day brain condition, Chiari Malformation Type 1
Trade networks: the whole of the Eurasian demand for walrus ivory during the medieval period was heavily focused on Western Greenland
The origin and diversity of Greenland’s ancient sled dogs (or Qimmeq, pl. Qimmit), in a genetic study published in the journal Science
Researchers sequence first genome from ancient Egypt: DNA was extracted from the tooth of an individual buried in Nuwayrat
When ideas travel further than people: how the Neolithic way of life spread from the Fertile Crescent; a new study published in the journal Science
Newgrange: a new study, published in the journal Antiquity, casts doubt on ‘incestuous royalty’ in Neolithic Ireland
Ancient DNA reveals new clues about the incredible journey of dogs in the Americas; they went south not with the first hunter-gatherers, but with mobile farming communities
