Only some 3,500 years ago people began to colonize the South Pacific archipelagos of Oceania. An international team of researchers has now analyzed for the first time, the genomes of the first ...
Mary Prendergast, Ph.D., chair of humanities at SLU-Madrid, together with anthropologist Elizabeth Sawchuk, Ph.D., of Stony Brook University, recently published the article “Ancient DNA is a powerful ...
THE last Ice Age made much of the globe uninhabitable, but there were oases - or refugia - where people 20,000 years ago were able to cluster and survive. Researchers at the University of Huddersfield ...
In recent years, DNA evidence has added important new tools for scientists studying the human past. Now, a collection of reviews offers a timely update on how new genetic evidence, together with ...
Atlantic Technological University lecturer Chris Read explains the impact of his current archaeogenetics research and how he got started in this ground-breaking field. In the early 2000s, ...
In the mid-20th century, the discovery that the carbon-14 isotope decays at a fixed rate unleashed the “radiocarbon revolution”—by measuring how much the carbon in material had decayed, an estimate ...
People’s practice of burying human remains throughout modern history echoes diverse cultural, spiritual, and social beliefs, and is often considered to be a line in the sands of time between modern ...
The University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group has mapped out the dispersal of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, responsible for the current worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, putting Europe ...
A group of people set out from the Solomon Island chain in the southwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean and steered their outrigger canoes toward the horizon more than 3,500 years ago. These people and ...
Only some 3500 years ago people began to colonize the South Pacific archipelagos of Oceania. An international team of researchers including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of ...
Only some 3500 years ago people began to colonize the South Pacific archipelagos of Oceania. An international team of researchers including scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of ...