When archaeologists find adults and children buried together in medieval graves, it is often assumed that they were members ...

But unlike other artifacts unearthed at ancient sites, rock art is difficult to link to its creators. Since it often adorns ...

Researchers have long wondered whether upper-class members of the ancient nomadic warriors earned their social status through ...

Ancient DNA extracted from 27 late Neanderthal remains across Belgium’s Meuse Basin and two French sites reveals that the ...

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years. Using sterilized scalpels and two layers ...

For the first time, scientists have shown that ancient human DNA can survive for thousands of years on cave walls, opening new ways to study prehistoric human activity. This interdisciplinary study ...

A new fossil DNA study has rewritten the evolutionary history of the horse, showing that the extinct Dalian horse from northeastern China served as a genetic bridge between North America and ...

Plague swept through groups of hunter-gatherers in southeastern Siberia 5,500 years ago, leaving dozens dead in its wake—with DNA from Yersinia pestis bacteria still trapped inside their teeth.

Discovery in Siberia suggests bacterium from raw marmots devastated hunter-gatherer tribes about 5,500 years ago The earliest evidence for an outbreak of plague has been uncovered at late stone age ...

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal. Archaeologist Otto Geist first discovered the bones on an ...

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Genes for immunity forged in a germ-filled past are often blamed for making our bodies overreact to harmless triggers such as pollen or food. But evolution may not be so one-sided. Some ...