Sheeppox virus (SPPV) is a major livestock pathogen causing economic hardship through reduced production and death of vulnerable sheep, with written descriptions of sheeppox-like disease recorded sinc...

Published in Norwegian Archaeological Review (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Building from a “mystery cemetery” to a multivocal project, what began as a small archaeological study grew into an intercultural collaboration between Indigenous communities, archaeologists and genom...

In the Uspallata Valley, agriculture was adopted by local populations, as evidenced by genetic continuity from earlier hunter-gatherers to farmers; maize-dependent groups from the same regional p...

Temperatures in the El Niño region in the Pacific Ocean are the warmest they've been on record at this time of year. And the peak is still months away.

Abstract. The unusual burial of a young woman in the Pica Oasis in the Atacama Desert (northern Chile) during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 900–1450) ra

Analyses of ancient DNA from hunter-gatherers near Lake Baikal in southeast Siberia around 5,500 years ago indicate that highly virulent Yersinia pestis emerged earlier than previously estimated, far from the next known cases of infection in Late Neolithic Europe.

The findings also reveal that while people in other regions resorted to violence, inhabitants of the Uspallata Valley lived peacefully with migrants during a time of crisis.

As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Ancient Genomics, Vanesa Villalba Mouco from Institute of Evolutionary Biology, Barcelona will give a talk on Ancient Genomics of Al-Andalus: tracing identity, ki...

The Kura-Araxes Culture (3500–2500 BCE) is often depicted as a homogeneous pastoralist horizon, yet its internal economic and mobility strategies remain poorly understood. This study for the first tim...

In the Uspallata Valley, agriculture was adopted by local populations, as evidenced by genetic continuity from earlier hunter-gatherers to farmers; maize-dependent groups from the same regional p...

Microbial colonization and biofilm formation drive persistent infections on medical devices, often under fluid flow. Here, the authors engineer buckling-induced wrinkled and folded patterns with preci...

Leprosy, primarily caused by Mycobacterium leprae, is considered a disease introduced into the Americas during European colonization. However, the recent discovery of a second pathogen causing leprosy...

Nature - ‘Exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death.

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...

New study fills major gap in genetic map of ancient human migrations

At long last, scientists have a nearly complete cranium from hominins known as Denisovans

A major new study led by Dr Aurélie Manin from the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford has traced the incredible journey of humankind’s best friend across the Americas, showing how dogs

The decision means that the US biomedical agency has to restore funding to hundreds of research projects, but the government will likely appeal.

Traditionally, lithic artefacts have served as the principal proxy for the definition of archaeological cultures in the Upper Paleolithic. However, the culture-historical framework in use, constructed...

Analysis of ancient DNA, stable isotope data and archaeological evidence from the Fujia archaeological site in eastern China suggests it was populated by a matrilineal Neolithic community between 2750...

Scientists find DNA from an enigmatic bacterium in 1000-year-old skeletons