A new study of ancient pottery adds to evidence that hunter-gatherers in Europe ate more than meat and developed early ...
A new study published in PNAS Nexus suggests that the famous equality seen in some hunter-gatherer societies might be driven ...
Neolithic farmers belonging to what archaeologists refer to as the “Linear Pottery culture” began to expand across Europe ...
When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...
Genetic analysis of 5,500-year-old remains from a Swedish burial site has uncovered surprising family connections, revealing the important role of extended kinship in prehistoric communities.
This Ice Age pair of hunter-gatherers were both shorter than average for their population – one of them markedly so – and now we finally know why. A team of researchers from Europe re-examined the ...
Researchers analyzed DNA from a 5,500-year-old hunter-gatherer community’s burial site to understand family connections. The ...
The paper, published recently in PLOS One, describes an investigation of 112 ostrich eggshell fragments dating back more than ...
Since 2010, scientists have known that Neanderthals and our ancestors had offspring together, and those hybrid babies passed down their genes to many present-day people. But the idea of “archaic ...
Feed your starter on a weekly basis. Discard half a cup of starter and replace it with half a cup of water and half a cup of flour. There are many recipes for sourdough discard if you don’t like the ...
A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising ...
Ancient DNA shows that hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe endured for millennia, with women driving a gradual cultural shift toward farming.