We report genome-wide ancient DNA from 37 individuals retained after conservative archaeological and genomic reassessment of 53 screened samples from two Got...

A previously unsampled deep lineage in central Argentina was discovered that had distinctive genetic drift by 8,500 bp and persisted as the main Native American ancestry component in the reg...

Genetic study also reveals long-distance travelling in Neolithic societies

A whole-genome study of Armenians shows homogeneous genetic structure across the region, with a recent bottleneck explaining the distinctiveness of the Sasun population. Our findings reject the Balkan...

Professor Lord Colin Renfrew, a pre-eminent British archaeologist of prehistoric civilizations including the Cycladic, had died, aged 87.

A Danish scientist’s search for the earliest DNA in the United States uncovers profound ethical and personal dilemmas.

Buried beneath mountains of ash, the final moments of the citizens of Pompeii reveal intimate glimpses of horror and humanity.

Alphabetic writing found etched on clay cylinders unearthed from tomb in Syria

The north Black Sea (Pontic) Region was the nexus of the farmers of Old Europe and the foragers and

The Yamnaya archaeological complex appeared around 3300BCE across the steppes north of the Black and

Scientific Data - The Allen Ancient DNA Resource (AADR) a curated compendium of ancient human genomes

Ancient DNA from Soqotra, an island off the coast of Yemen, evidences a population history differing from other areas of the Arabian Peninsula and suggests there has not been complete population repla...

The Earth has lost approximately half of its large mammal species (≥45 kg, one-third of species ≥9 kg) over the past 120,000 years, resulting in depau…

Genome-wide data from 146 ancient Balkan individuals dating to the 1st millennium CE, together with detailed archaeological information, reveals internal migratory patterns during the Roman Empire and...

We gathered genetic data for 1,763 individuals from 147 populations across 14 African countries, and 12 Late Iron Age individuals, to trace the expansion of Bantu-speaking peoples over the p...

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Genome-wide analyses of ancient DNA from individuals from California and Mexico shed light on the spread of Mexican ancestry to California and how it correlates with linguistic flow.

In his 1956 book, "Profiles in Courage," Kennedy promoted the Lost Cause view of Reconstruction. Blanche Ames wasn’t having it.

Human and Neanderthal populations met and mixed on multiple occasions over evolutionary time, resulting in the exchange of genetic material. New genom…

Bonobo cooperation across groups offers a window into humanity’s evolutionary past.

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Recent studies have identified Northeast Africa as an important area for human movements during the Holocene. Eurasian populations have moved back into Northeastern Africa and contributed to the genet...

My perspective on the Gino-Ariely scandal, and what we should learn from it.

Two Early Upper Palaeolithic genomes of humans that lived 36,000–37,000 years ago in Crimea reveal migration and admixture dynamics against a backdrop of climate change.

Modern human range expansions have deeply influenced the spatial distribution of archaic introgression.

Sex-biased admixture can be inferred from ancestry-specific proportions of X chromosome and autosomes. In a paper published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, Micheletti et al.1 used this app...

Comparisons of Neanderthal genomes to anatomically modern human (AMH) genomes show a history of Neanderthal-to-AMH introgression stemming from interbr…

Nationwide genomic biobank in Mexico unravels demographic history and complex trait architecture from 6,057 individuals.

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An Owner's Guide to the Human Genome