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
A new study tells the genetic history of the domestic horse over the last 5,000 years by using the largest genome collection ever generated for a non-human organism
A new study found that the genomics of yams supports West Africa (the Niger River Basin) as a major cradle of crop domestication
Researchers combining genetics, archaeology, history and linguistics have gained new insights into the history of inner Eurasia, once a cultural and genetic crossroads connecting Europe and Asia
During the Crusades, warriors travelled from western Europe to the near East, where they mixed and had families with local people, and died together in battle
New evidence also shows extra mixing between Papuans and one of the two Denisovan groups, suggesting that this group actually lived in New Guinea or its adjacent islands
A new study, published in PNAS, discovered kin relationships among Stone Age individuals buried in megalith tombs on Ireland and in Sweden