Thailand’s Iron Age Log Coffin culture: ancient DNA helps researchers elucidate the structure of a prehistoric community from Southeast Asia
Homo sapiens already reached northwest Europe more than 45,000 years ago and lived alongside Neanderthals, according to three new studies
Reanalysis of Iceman Ötzi’s genome reveals dark skin, male pattern baldness, and a high amount of Anatolian ancestry
Non-binary gender in prehistoric Europe: the methods currently available leave a lot of room for error, according to a new study in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal
Geochemical analyses of stone artefacts reveal long-distance voyaging among Pacific Islands during the last millennium
A new grammatical database, Grambank, documents the reveals accelerating loss of language diversity, in a study published in Science Advances
Ancient DNA reveals the multiethnic structure of the Xiongnu Empire, Mongolia’s first nomadic empire; the study has been published in Science Advances
Ludwig van Beethoven’s genome sheds light on chronic health problems and cause of death; the study has been published in Current Biology
Surprising similarities in stone tools of early humans and monkeys; the study has been published in Science Advances
Large-scale genomic analysis documents the migrations of Ice Age hunter-gatherers over a period of 30,000 years
