Genetic analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton from southern France has reshaped the story of how Europe’s last Neanderthals lived and died. The individual, nicknamed “Thorin,” belonged to a previously ...

Ancient DNA from six grave sites shows that Europe's megalithic architecture was built by communities bound by social ties, ...

However, groundbreaking ancient DNA analysis has revealed that these complex social structures were actually widespread in Central Europe more than 5,000 years ago. An international team of ...

Ancient genomes from northwest Europe show that farming, foraging, migration, and marriage shaped prehistory in ways far more ...

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the continent home, researchers can now read genetic traces from teeth, bones and cave ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analyzing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...

Researchers have created the world's largest ancient human gene bank by analyzing the bones and teeth of almost 5,000 humans who lived across western Europe and Asia up to 34,000 years ago. By ...

Scientists analyze 22,000 genomes documenting hundreds of genetic changes due to natural selection over the past 10,000 years, including variants linked to celiac disease and multiple sclerosis The ...