St Helena’s “liberated” Africans came from West Central Africa between northern Angola and Gabon, according to a new study published in The American Journal of Human Genetics
Early ancestral bottleneck in the early to middle Pleistocene could’ve spelled the end for humans, a study published on Science
A 3,800-year-old extended family from the “Nepluyevsky” kurgan; 32 individuals from the burial site in the southern Ural region show patrilineality and patrilocality
Ancient DNA from a 2,900-year-old clay brick coming from the palace of Neo-Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II, in the ancient city of Kalhu, reveals a time capsule of plant life
Patrilocality and hunter-gatherer-related ancestry of populations in East-Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age
Reanalysis of Iceman Ötzi’s genome reveals dark skin, male pattern baldness, and a high amount of Anatolian ancestry
Ancient DNA reveals an early African origin of Cattle in the Americas, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports
Linguistics and genetics combine to suggest a new hybrid hypothesis for the origin of the Indo-European languages
Ethical challenges of studying historical DNA that connects living people to enslaved and free African Americans at Catoctin Furnace, an early ironworks (18th–19th century)
Ancient DNA reveals diverse community at Machu Picchu, according to a new study published on Science Advances