DNA Archive

People With Neanderthals’ Pain-Related Gene May Suffer More On A Daily Basis

AncientPages.com | July 27, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - With the help of the Neanderthal genomes of high quality that are available for studies, researchers can now identify genetic variants that were

Archaeology

DNA From Doggerland That Separates The UK From Europe – New Study

AncientPages.com | July 20, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Thousands of years ago the UK was physically joined to the rest of Europe through an area known as Doggerland. Then, a marine

Genetic samples for the study were taken from inhabitants of South America, Mexico and Polynesia, including Easter Island, home to these famous statues.

Archaeology

DNA Results Show: Polynesians, Native Americans Made Contact Before European Arrival

AncientPages.com | July 9, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A long-lasting controversy about whether ancient Polynesians and Native Americans had contact – is over. Stanford Medicine researchers and their collaborators have found

Archaeology

Ancient DNA Sheds Light On How The Caribbean Islands Were Settled

AncientPages.com | June 24, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The Caribbean was one of the last regions of the Americas to be settled by humans, but how, when, and from where they

Archaeology

Bronze Age DNA Shows Direct Genetic Link To Current Inhabitants Of Southern Poland

AncientPages.com | May 4, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - People living in the southern areas of today's Poland over 4,000 years ago were genetically similar to earlier communities from this area. Researchers

Archaeology

Ancient DNA Reveals Irish Are Not Celts – Irish Ancestors Came From Biblical Lands – Scientists Say

AncientPages.com | March 30, 2020

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - People in Ireland now have more reason than ever to wonder where their ancestors came from. Ancient DNA reveals Irish are not Celts

The bones of the Crusaders found in a burial pit in Sidon, Lebanon. Credit: Claude Doumet-Serhal

Archaeology

DNA Of Nine 13th Century Crusaders Provides A Glimpse Into Soldiers’ Life And Death

AncientPages.com | April 22, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The DNA of nine 13th century Crusaders buried in a pit in Lebanon shows that the soldiers making up the Crusader armies were genetically

Archaeology

Migrants From Turkey And Greece Arrived In Britain Some 6,000 Years Ago

AncientPages.com | April 16, 2019

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A wave of migrants from what is now Greece and Turkey arrived in Britain some 6,000 years ago and replaced the existing hunter-gatherers

Archaeology

Who Were The First Icelanders?

AncientPages.com | June 4, 2018

Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - With a population of 330,000, Iceland is a country with its own peculiarities. Genes are no exception: isolation and inbreeding throughout its history

Archaeology

Puzzling Biological Event 7,000 Years Ago – Something Weird Happened To Men

AncientPages.com | June 1, 2018

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Starting about 7,000 years ago, something weird seems to have happened to men: Over the next two millennia, recent studies suggest, their genetic

North America Was Settled By Previously Unknown People - 11,500-Year-Old Skeleton Suggests

Archaeology

North America Was Settled By Previously Unknown People – DNA From A 11,500-Year-Old Skeleton Reveals

AncientPages.com | January 3, 2018

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - An 11,500-year-old skeleton discovered in Alaska raises new questions about who inhabited North America in the distant past. Examination of the skeleton shows