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Ancient DNA from a ruined tomb near Jerusalem reveals a hidden human story from 3,000 years ago

Scientists recover ancient DNA left behind on cave walls for the first time

In an extraordinary breakthrough, researchers have isolated ancient human DNA from prehistoric cave paintings found in Spain and Portugal. Published in Nature Communications, this...

Scientists Unlock Hidden DNA From 1,300-Year-Old Manuscripts

Historic parchments may hold genetic clues that can be studied without harming the manuscripts. Scientists have shown that it is possible to collect cellular material from historic...

Ancient human DNA found on cave art for the first time

DNA from ancient humans has been found on a prehistoric cave painting and on cave walls, demonstrating the potential to one day identify individual artists and resolve the debate o...

Ancient ground squirrel droppings reveal Arctic's rich evolutionary history

Ground squirrel droppings, preserved for millennia in the Yukon's deep permafrost, have yielded an enormous amount of environmental DNA from dozens of species of plants, insects, m...

Ancient Human DNA on Cave Walls Could Reveal Who Touched These Sites — and Their Art

Learn how ancient DNA preserved on and near cave art in Spain and Portugal could open new ways to study prehistoric people.

Ancient cave paintings can harbor human DNA for millennia, scientists find

The breakthrough could reveal previously hidden ancient human activity inside caves, acting as ‘genetic archives’

Ancient DNA Reveals How Farming Spread and Nearly Broke a Civilization

Ancient DNA reveals how family bonds helped Andean communities survive climate crisis, disease, and the pressures of early farming. A recent study published in Nature reconstructs...

Genetic Material Recovered from 300,000-Year-Old Homo naledi Teeth

LEIPZIG, GERMANY—Live Science reports that proteomic analysis of 20 Homo naledi teeth determined that all […] The post Genetic Material Recovered from 300,000-Year-Old Homo naledi...

Ancient DNA offers hope for California's critically endangered black abalone

Black abalone once carpeted the rocky shores of California by the millions. The large, long-lived sea snails sustained Indigenous peoples along the coast for thousands of years, an...

Post-Roman Europeans: Ancient DNA Traces the Emergence of a Complex New Society

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -  A new study from the HistoGenes project, co-led by Patrick Geary, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, is providing scholars w...

Ancient DNA Shatters the Simple Story of Europe’s Origins

Ancient genomes from northwest Europe show that farming, foraging, migration, and marriage shaped prehistory in ways far more complex than earlier models suggested. When ancient DN...

Ancient DNA Reveals the Hidden Origins of China’s Mysterious Shimao Civilization

Ancient DNA from Shimao reveals local origins, broad prehistoric connections, a patrilineal social structure, and gender-specific patterns of human sacrifice. At Shimao, a vast sto...

Ancient DNA provides evidence of earliest known plague outbreak

Discovery in Siberia suggests bacterium from raw marmots devastated hunter-gatherer tribes about 5,500 years agoThe earliest evidence for an outbreak of plague has been uncovered a...

Ancient Denisovan DNA still shapes human immunity today

Ancient encounters between humans and the mysterious Denisovans are still shaping people today. By analyzing genomes from populations across the Pacific, researchers uncovered evid...

Ancient DNA reveals plague was already killing humans 5,500 years ago

Plague was already a deadly killer 5,500 years ago, long before cities, farming, or the rat-infested conditions usually linked to historic outbreaks. By analyzing ancient DNA from...

Ancient squirrel droppings unlock Ice Age DNA goldmine

There is still so much about the Earth that we do not know. Thousands of years of human history are locked in stone. Oceans are awash in secrets that have yet to be whispered. As g...

Ancient DNA shared with Neanderthals may explain human language

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible. Researchers found that these DNA regions, which act like volum...

Frozen squirrel scat preserves ancient DNA from hundreds of species

A complex ecosystem of woolly mammoths, bison, horses and big cats has been elucidated by studying the faeces of small rodents that probably ate the bigger animals

Ancient DNA Reveals People Traveled Over 400 Miles Along Peru’s Coast Before the Inca Empire — and K...

Learn how ancient DNA traced a massive pre-Inca migration along Peru’s coast, and how communities preserved their cultural identities for centuries afterward.

For The First Time, Ancient Human DNA Has Been Found Preserved on Cave Walls

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Ancient DNA reveals the mysterious collapse of Europe's megalith builders

DNA from a 5,000-year-old French megalithic tomb reveals that the people buried before and after a population collapse were genetically unrelated, pointing to a major migration aft...

1,500-Year-Old DNA Shows How Migration, Mixing, and Kinship Shaped Post-Roman Pannonia

Learn how ancient genomes from post-Roman Hungary reveal that northern Europeans moved into Pannonia without fully replacing local Roman-era communities.

Human DNA Detected on Cave Walls

MAÇÃO, PORTUGAL—Prehistoric human DNA has been detected on cave walls by an international team of […] The post Human DNA Detected on Cave Walls appeared first on Archaeology Magazi...