The Bronze Age Shaman: A Woman Identified by DNA as Long-Distance Traveler and Ritual Specialist
The Egtved Girl, buried around 1370 BCE in Denmark, was identified by isotopic analysis as a long-distance traveler from southwestern Germa…
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From 3 million years ago to the dawn of our era: archaeological discoveries, palaeogenetics, cave art and the great transformations of human societies.
The Egtved Girl, buried around 1370 BCE in Denmark, was identified by isotopic analysis as a long-distance traveler from southwestern Germa…
Read →Ancient DNA analyses of hundreds of skeletons confirm that the populations who built Stonehenge, Carnac, and the Irish dolmens were replace…
Read →A genomic study published in Science Advances reveals the existence, 6,000 years ago on the Bogota altiplano, of an unknown prehistoric pop…
Read →A giant skull from China, a mandible from the Tibetan plateau, and a novel epigenetic method: how scientists reconstructed the face of our …
Read →Researchers from the Francis Crick Institute and the University of Liverpool have sequenced the oldest and most complete genome ever obtain…
Read →A study published in Nature reveals that Yersinia pestis was killing Siberian hunter-gatherer communities 5,500 years ago, long before citi…
Read →A study published in <em>Nature</em> in June 2026 has overturned one of the most widely held hypotheses about Neanderthal extinction. The 2…
Read →What if the Neanderthals' demise was due not only to climate or competition from Sapiens, but to a hidden flaw in their blood? A blood-grou…
Read →A First Art team, with the Max Planck Institute, has recovered ancient human DNA straight from the walls of eleven caves in Spain and Portu…
Read →By sequencing DNA from 27 Neanderthals across ten caves in Belgium and France, a Max Planck team shows they formed a well-connected regiona…
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