Analysis of 258 ancient genomes from southern Germany reveals a major demographic shift during the late fifth century, yet family structures persisted from Late Roman times, demonstrating cultural con...

A Metal Period burial at Nagsabaran reveals how scurvy and hip ankylosis combined to reshape one life — and how a community responded.

The problem with reading disease from bone is that disease changes the bone you're reading

Archaeologists and student excavators uncovered a Viking Age pit full of dismembered remains near Cambridge, England.

Departmental team demonstrates that pottery from Viking-Age England was very rarely used to cook fish

A new bioarchaeological study of an Early Iron Age burial pit in Serbia finds that the victims were overwhelmingly women and children — and that this was almost certainly not an accident.

What happened to four children on Andean peaks 500 years ago, and what their frozen bodies are still telling us

Anglo-Saxon-era skeletons discovered in England show signs of violent deaths. The pit dates back 120...

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What a crushed spine in the Atacama Desert reveals about danger, labor, and ancient mining

Archaeological finds from the planned HS2 train line have been shown exclusively to the BBC.

More than 14,000 years ago, a wolf pup ate a piece of woolly rhino. Scientists have analyzed the rhino's DNA to figure out why it went extinct.

In this lecture, Monica Green explores how pathogen palaeogenetics, through ancient microbial genomes, is transforming our understanding of the evolution and global circulation of premodern infectious...

A collection of bones from Casablanca holds important new clues to the origins of modern humans and Neanderthals.

University of BradfordAt the University of Bradford, our focus is on creating the conditions for social, cultural, and economic impact. Our work to expand opportunity and enable students to reach thei...

A 14th-century teenager died from the Black Death in Edinburgh. Learn how researchers discovered the pathogen in his teeth, and how this may be the first scientific evidence of the plague in the city.

Bronze instrument or carnyx dug up in Norfolk in area inhabited by Celtic tribe led by warrior who fought Romans

Archaeologists have found evidence of 340 Roman graves but say the site could hold more.

THIS STUDY PRESENTS THE RESULTS of a large-scale isotopic meta-analysis of early medieval England which reveals migration patterns from c ad 400–1100. These patterns are gendered, regionally distin...