Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Who lived at Machu Picchu at its height? A new study used ancient DNA to find out for the first time where workers buried more than 500 years ago came from within the lost Inca Empire. Researchers, including Jason Nesbitt, ᴀssociate professor of archaeology at Tulane University School of Liberal Arts, […]

AncientPages.com – Nomadic animal-herders from the Eurasian steppe mingled with Copper Age farmers in southeastern Europe centuries earlier than previously thought. In a new study published in Nature, researchers used ancient DNA to gain new insights into the spread of culture, technologies and ancestry at a crucial juncture in European history. The area around Odesa was a […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com –  A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Leicester have discovered that the genes required for learning, memory, aggression and other complex behaviors originated around 650 million years ago. The findings led by Dr. Roberto Feuda, from the Neurogenetic group in the Department of Genetics and Genome […]

AncientPages.com – The people known as the Picts have puzzled archaeologists and historians for centuries. They lived in Scotland during the early medieval period, from around AD 300 to AD 900, but many aspects of their society remain mysterious. The Picts’ unique cultural characteristics, such as large stones decorated with distinct symbols, and lack of written […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of present-day humans whose ancestors migrated out of Africa, but the question remained open on how much those genes are still actively influencing human traits — until now. A multi-insтιтution research team including Cornell has developed […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – People tend to think that the idea that biological Sєx is linked with one’s role in society belongs in the past. But was it even the case in prehistory? Archaeologists at the University of Göttingen have investigated the representation of gender in Neolithic and Bronze Age graves (around 5500 BC […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of an interbreeding event between Neanderthals and modern humans that occurred tens of thousands of years earlier than any other such event previously documented. The science team says there is evidence […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have analyzed ancient DNA from pre-Hispanic individuals in northern and central Mexico, revealing contributions from an unknown “ghost” population. The result of the study provides surprising information about the migration patterns of ancient Mexican civilizations. As explained in the study published in the journal Science, ancient DNA has revealed […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Humans inherited genetic material from Neanderthals that affects the shape of our noses, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. Modern human and archaic Neanderthal skulls side by side, showing difference in nasal height. Credit: Dr Kaustubh Adhikari, UCL The new Communications Biology study finds that a particular gene, […]