Origins of the Black Death identified. Despite the pandemic’s immense demographic and societal impacts, its origins have long been elusive
A new study published in Science Advances by an international team of geneticists, anthropologists and archeologists lead by scientists from the Archaeogenetics Department of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, helps illuminate the history of the Scythians with 111 ancient genomes from key Scythian and non-Scythian archaeological cultures of the Central Asian steppe
A genomic analysis in samples of Neanderthals and modern humans shows a decrease in ADHD-associated genetic variants
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
An ancient population of Arctic hunter-gatherers, known as Paleo-Eskimos, made a significant genetic contribution to populations living in Arctic North America today
The Justinianic Plague began in 541 in the Eastern Roman Empire, ruled at the time by the Emperor Justinian I, and recurrent outbreaks ravaged Europe and the Mediterranean basin for approximately 200 years
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