In a region known for hosting some of the earliest evidence of modern humans, DNA analysis was sparse. Until now.
Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia, where researchers have reconstructed the genomes of thousands of people. However, fewer than two ...
Two recent studies have cast doubt on a popular theory that the ancient residents of Easter Island suffered a societal ...
A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.
An ancient building in modern-day Syria has long been considered an example of what is known as a domestic “house church.” But a new study challenges this idea. Since its discovery by modern ...
M embers of the San and Khoe Indigenous populations of southern Africa can still trace much of their genetic ancestry back to ...
Archaeological Findings as Witnesses to East-West Belt and Road Exchanges, a salon as part of the series of activities of the ...
The modern West traces its heritage to Greece and Rome, societies that themselves owed a debt to the cultures that preceded ...
Horses were the primary means of locomotion for travel, communication, agriculture, and warfare across much of the ancient ...
DNA analysis shows that people from Easter Island had contact with Indigenous Americans around the 1300s, and finds there was ...
Researchers analyzed human remains from the Oakhurst rock shelter in southernmost Africa and reconstructed the genomes of ...