A genomic analysis in samples of Neanderthals and modern humans shows a decrease in ADHD-associated genetic variants
A study suggests that northern and southern Italian populations may have begun to diverge as early as 19,000-12,000 years ago, from a genetic point of view
This study offers a detailed glimpse into the diets and lives of ancient Mongolians, underscoring the importance of millets during the formation of the earliest empires on the steppe
Early Neandertals in Western Europe were more closely related to the last Neandertals who lived in the same region as much as 80,000 years later, than they were to contemporaneous Neandertals living in Siberia
During the Iron Age around 300 AD something extraordinary was initiated in Levänluhta area in Isokyrö, SW Finland: the deceased were buried in a lake
A grape variety still used in wine production in France today can be traced back 900 years to just one ancestral plant, scientists have discovered.
An ancient population of Arctic hunter-gatherers, known as Paleo-Eskimos, made a significant genetic contribution to populations living in Arctic North America today
Two children’s milk teeth from a site in north eastern Siberia have revealed a previously unknown group of people lived there during the last Ice Age
A new study answers questions about the origins of the people who introduced food production–first herding and then farming–into East Africa
A new study points out that European speakers of Uralic languages like Estonian and Finnish also have DNA from ancient Siberians