Ancient DNA Reveals Mongolia’s First Nomadic Empire Was Multiethnic
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Long obscured in the shadows of history, the world’s first nomadic empire—the Xiongnu—is, at last, coming into view thanks to painstaking archaeological excavations and new ancient DNA evidence. Arising on the Mongolian steppe 1,500 years before the Mongols, the Xiongnu empire became one of Iron Age Asia’s most powerful political […]
DNA Reveals – One Of Sunken Warship Vasa’s Crewmen Was A Woman
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – When the human remains found on board the Swedish warship Vasa were investigated, it was initially determined that the skeleton designated “G” was a man. New research now shows that the skeleton is actually from a woman. About thirty people died when Vasa sank on its maiden voyage in 1628. […]
Beethoven’s Genome Offers Clues To Composer’s Health And Family History
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Ludwig van Beethoven’s genome has been sequenced for the first time by an international team of scientists using five genetically matching locks of the well-known composer’s hair. Painting of Ludwig Van Beethoven by Joseph Karl Stieler made in the year 1820. Karl Joseph Stieler (1781–1858 – Public Domain The research, […]
Hunter-Gatherer Genes Helped Early European Farmers Survive Disease – New Study
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com- When early Stone Age farmers first moved into Europe from the Near East about 8,000 years ago, they met and began mixing with the existing hunter-gatherer populations. Now genome-wide studies of hundreds of ancient genomes from this period show more hunter-gatherer ancestry in adaptive-immunity genes in the mixed population than would […]
Face Of Norwegian Boy Who Lived 8,000 Years Ago Reconstructed
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Using DNA analysis and modern forensic techniques, scientists have reconstructed the face of a Stone Age boy who lived in Norway. The Vistegutten – the boy from Viste died at only 14 years old. Why he pᴀssed away so early is unknown because it seems he was healthy. You can […]
Oldest Human Genome From The Iberian Peninsula Helps Reconstructing Human History
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An international team of researchers has analyzed ancient human DNA from several archaeological sites in Andalucía in southern Spain. The study reports on the oldest genome to date from Cueva del Malalmuerzo in southern Spain, as well as the 7,000 to 5,000-year-old genomes of early farmers from other well-known sites, […]
DNA Study Of Ice Age Survivors Reveals A Surprise About The Gravettian Culture
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Modern humans began to spread across Eurasia about 45,000 years ago. Still, previous research showed that the first modern humans that arrived in Europe did not contribute to later populations. A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution focuses on the people who lived between 35,000 and 5,000 years ago and […]
Common Ancestor Of Neanderthals And Humans That Lived 700,000 Years Ago Holds Clues To A DNA Mystery
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Like a merchant of old, balancing the weights of two different commodities on a scale, nature can keep different genetic traits in balance as a species evolves over millions of years. These traits can be beneficial (for example, fending off disease) or harmful (making humans more susceptible to illness), depending […]
Riddle How Human’s Uniquely DNA Evolved Solved By Scientists
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Humans and chimpanzees differ in only one percent of their DNA. Human accelerated regions (HARs) are parts of the genome with an unexpected amount of these differences. HARs were stable in mammals for millennia but quickly changed in early humans. Scientists have long wondered why these bits of DNA changed […]
Ethical Ancient DNA Research Must Involve Descendant Communities – Researchers Say
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com -The analysis of ancient DNA allows scientists to trace human evolution and make important discoveries about modern populations. The data revealed by ancient DNA sampling can be valuable, but the human remains that carry this ancient DNA are often those of the ancestors of modern Indigenous groups, and some communities have […]