Ancient chewing gum provides DNA clues
Masticated birch bark points to hunter-gatherer migrations.
Human DNA extracted from lumps of 10,000-year-old chewing gum is helping to unravel early settlement patterns in Scan...
Human DNA extracted from lumps of 10,000-year-old chewing gum is helping to unravel early settlement patterns in Scan...
People living on Lakshadweep, an archipelago off the south-western coast of India in the Arabian Sea, are genetically...
This pouch, made from three fox snouts expertly sewn together, is about 1000 years old, and when it was placed inside...
One of the most diverse language families in the world originated among millet farmers in North China around 7200 yea...
Working deep underground in a vast cavern system in modern-day Alabama, in the south-eastern United States, scientist...
As every researcher knows, a sample size of one is a dangerous thing. A single example might represent something very...
Is English “weird”? Many of us might feel this is true when we’re trying to explain the complex spelling rules of the...
Scientists sifting through dirt from a 10,000-year-old archaeological site in central Turkey are seeking a rare treas...
Aurochs, the huge, horned ancestors of modern cows, roamed Europe, Asia and North Africa for millennia before being d...
Analysis of remains from 66 ancient humans reveals that they suffered from an astonishing number of physical deformit...
A new study suggests a commonly held belief – that the majority of Native North, Central and South Americans derived ...
In a world first, a portion of an individual’s genome has been reconstructed from those of their living descendants, ...