Chickens were widely raised across southern Central Asia from 400 BCE through medieval periods and likely dispersed along the ancient Silk Road
Ancient DNA analysis reveals six cases of Down syndrome, three of which were from the Iberian Peninsula’s Iron Age, in Navarre
Stone tool technology suggest that the commonly held view of a ‘revolution’ at the time of the dispersal of modern humans in Eurasia was a more nuanced and complicated process of cultural evolution
Thailand’s Iron Age Log Coffin culture: ancient DNA helps researchers elucidate the structure of a prehistoric community from Southeast Asia
Patrilocality and hunter-gatherer-related ancestry of populations in East-Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age
Researchers has discovered evidence of a human presence at Tam Pà Ling, in mainland Southeast Asia, between 86,000 and 68,000 years ago
4,000-year-old plague DNA found: the oldest cases to date in Britain; the paper is published in Nature Communications
New insights into the diet of people living in Neolithic Britain and found evidence that cereals, including wheat, were cooked in pots
New research demonstrates important connections between climate change and civil unrest among the ancient Maya
Denisovans, a sister species of modern human, inhabited Laos by 164-131,000 years with important implications for populations out of Africa and Australia