Tree rings and strontium point researchers to the provenance of 400-year-old timber; the study is published in PLoS ONE
High-status Danish Vikings wore exotic beaver furs; identified by ancient proteins, fur was important as a trade and status item
The first successfully sequenced human genome from a Pompeiian n individual who died after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 CE
Denisovans, a sister species of modern human, inhabited Laos by 164-131,000 years with important implications for populations out of Africa and Australia
Sofie Schiødt has been able to help reconstruct the embalming process used to prepare ancient Egyptians for the afterlife. It is the oldest surviving manual on mummification yet discovered
A grape variety still used in wine production in France today can be traced back 900 years to just one ancestral plant, scientists have discovered.
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 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
