When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

The Late Bronze Age “Urnfield” world is famous for cremation - yet that very practice usually destroys the biological clues archaeologists need. Now, an international team has used rare inhumation ...

A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising information about early British history.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ancient hunter-gatherers from Europe may have voyaged across the Mediterranean to Northern Africa around 8,500 years ago, new ...

For decades, scientists believed that domestic cats arrived in Europe alongside early human farmers migrating from Asia. However, groundbreaking genetic research now shows that cats actually spread ...

Ancient DNA shows that hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe endured for millennia, with women driving a gradual cultural shift toward farming.

Learn how ancient DNA reveals migrant women helped Europe’s hunter-gatherers adopt farming thousands of years later than the rest of the continent. For thousands of years, communities living along the ...