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New computational tool detects up to second to third degree cousins using ancient genomes

Shanghai Archaeology Forum honors Christina Warinner with 2023 Research Award

Limestone serves as a repository of microbial genetic information

Exhibit opens today at the Natural History Museum in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Research team used advanced sequencing technology to analyze Ötzi’s genome to obtain a more accurate picture of the Iceman’s appearance and genetic…

Scientists gain insights into the social behaviour of a Neolithic community

Genetic study finds early evidence for contact between late farming groups and early pastoralists in the northwestern Black Sea region

Restoring the 'Sutherland Nine' to their community

Scientists are rebuilding microbial natural products up to 100,000 years old using dental calculus of humans and Neanderthals

The Xiongnu dominated the Eurasian steppes two millennia ago and foreshadowed the rise of the Mongol Empire

Scientists have sequenced the composer’s genome using five genetically matching hair locks

A human genome from the Ice Age refuge in southern Spain

Large-scale genomic analysis documents the migrations of Ice Age hunter-gatherers over a period of 30,000 years – they took shelter in Western Europe…

New archaeogenetic data allow exciting insights into the social order of the Aegean Bronze Age

Research team analyzed genome-wide data for 33 Jewish individuals from 14th century Erfurt, Germany

Archaeogenetic study reveals large-scale continental migration into the East of England during the early Medieval Period

Multidisciplinary team studied ancient plague genomes

To shed light on the archipelago’s settlement history, researchers sequenced and analyzed sixteen ancient genomes

New research reveals how the black rat colonised Europe in the Roman and Medieval periods

New study of ancient milk proteins reveals the changing pastoralist strategies that laid the groundwork for the great steppe migrations of the…