DNA Archive
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – A new study reveals a long-isolated North African human lineage in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago during the African Humid
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A recent study has uncovered that modern humans descended from at least two ancestral populations, which initially diverged and later reconnected before spreading
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The question of when human language first emerged is a profound one rooted deeply in our history. Recent genomic evidence suggests that our
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Our DNA is truly remarkable, sparking profound questions about our existence and our place in the universe. With its distinctive 'double helix' shape, reminiscent
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the 370s, the Huns made a sudden appearance in Europe, establishing a significant yet brief empire. Scholars have long debated their origins,
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. - AncientPages.com - Researchers identified a genetic component in all Fulani populations, suggesting a shared ancestry possibly linked to the start of African pastoralism during
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Light eyes, hair, and skin are believed to have evolved multiple times as Homo sapiens moved out of Africa. In areas with lower UV
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Two landmark studies have successfully traced the origins of the Indo-European language family, which encompasses over 400 languages spoken by more than 40%
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Approximately 19,000 years ago, a woman from a hunter-gatherer community passed away and was interred in a cave located in northern Spain. In
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Linguistic Discoveries
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The origins of the Indo-European language family, which encompasses over 400 languages, including major groups like Germanic, Romance, Slavic, Indo-Iranian, and Celtic, spoken
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers from the Max Planck Institute and an international team studied over 700 human remains from the Early Middle Ages. They analyzed two
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Research conducted by the Francis Crick Institute has unveiled patterns of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD. Image credit: GrumpyBeere
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent comprehensive DNA study reveals that modern humans have a much longer and more complex history with archaic humans than previously believed.
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Despite awe-inspiring diversity, nearly every lifeform – from bacteria to blue whales – shares the same genetic code. How and when this
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - After modern humans migrated from Africa, they encountered and interbred with Neanderthals, leading to the presence of approximately 2–3% Neanderthal DNA in the genomes
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has provided a more precise timeline for when Neanderthals
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Armenians, historically residing in the Armenian highlands of Western Asia, were traditionally thought to be descendants of Phrygian settlers from the Balkans. This
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Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of California, Los Angeles, have revealed new insights into how ancient
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Vikings
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent study provides new insights into the origins of the first Viking settlers in Iceland and the Faroe Islands. Geneticists have examined
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Breathing in the thin air found at extreme altitudes poses a considerable challenge due to the reduced oxygen available with each breath. Remarkably,
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Evolution
Eddie Gonzales Jr. – AncientPages.com – Researchers suggest that the Denisovans, a newly identified hominin group, significantly influenced early human history through their interbreeding with modern humans. It
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A recent DNA study has yielded significant insights into life in ancient Pompeii. Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA collected from the well-known body
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Researchers have conducted an analysis of human remains from the Oakhurst rock shelter in southernmost Africa, successfully reconstructing the genomes of thirteen individuals
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Rapa Nui, also known as Te Pito o Te Henua (the navel of the world) or Easter Island, is one of the most
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A fossilized Neanderthal discovered in a cave system in the Rhône Valley, France, represents an ancient and previously undescribed lineage. This lineage diverged
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Paleontology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - An international team of scientists has made a groundbreaking discovery in paleogenomics. They have identified fossilized chromosomes in the remains of a woolly
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The study of ancient hominins, particularly Neanderthals, has been a subject of scientific inquiry since the discovery of their bones in 1856. This
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Featured Stories
AncientPages.com - High-resolution analysis of the genomes of individuals buried in a 4,500-year-old collective tomb at Bréviandes-les-Pointes, near the French town of Troyes, has revealed a surprising story
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AncientPages.com - Neanderthals, the closest cousins of modern humans, lived in parts of Europe and Asia until their extinction some 30,000 years ago. Genetic studies are revealing ever
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AncientPages.com - In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish cemetery in Germany. Not long after we made the data publicly
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The Iron Age in the highland region of Pang Mapha, northwestern Thailand, was characterized by a unique mortuary practice known as the Log
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new interesting DNA study reveals that the Blackfoot people trace their ancestry to a previously unknown genetic lineage that dates back approximately
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Emperor Wu, who reigned from 543 to 578, was a prominent figure in China's Northern Zhou dynasty. He is most notably recognized for
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - According to recent scientific findings, new DNA sequencing technologies have successfully identified the historical remains of George Washington's grandnephews - Samuel Walter Washington and
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Approximately 7,500 years ago, the last communities of hunter-gatherers in Western Europe came into contact with incoming Neolithic farmers. Over time, these hunter-gatherer
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Ruled by many Emperors, the mighty and vast Roman Empire covered territories that included Europe, North Africa, and Western Asia. Established in 27
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - In the early 1990s, excavations took place at Huseby-Klev, an early Mesolithic hunter-fisher site on the Swedish west coast, where a piece of
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new DNA study reveals contact with the Yamnaya people dramatically re-wrote Northern Europeans' genetic story. The Yamnaya (c. 3300 – 2600 BC -
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - One of the most intriguing archaeological pre-Columbian sites is Teotihuacán, which scientists still know relatively little about. Who were the people who built
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A new computational tool detects up to second to third-degree cousins using ancient genomes. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The high-altitude hero of the Himalayas, yak are among the few large animals that can survive the extremely cold, harsh and oxygen-poor conditions
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Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - A new study suggests that the difference in height between female and male individuals in northern Europe during the Early Neolithic (8,000–6,000 years
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