New archaeological findings have upended our previous beliefs about early human migration with evidence that hunter-gatherers came ashore on the Mediterranean island of Malta about 8,500 years ago.
A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising ...
Long before agriculture, humans were transforming Europe’s wild landscapes. Advanced simulations show that hunting and fire use by Neanderthals and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers reshaped forests and ...
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9,500-year-old cremation site is challenging what we know about early human burial practices
Archaeologists may have just found evidence of hunter-gatherer funerals that might challenge previous theories. Charred remains were uncovered in an ancient rock shelter in the heart of Malawi, at the ...
Ancient DNA shows hunter-gatherers in parts of Europe survived for millennia after Anatolian farmers introduced agriculture.
Within a few centuries, the genetic landscape of the Rhine-Meuse region, including the wetlands, was completely reshaped. Our ...
Introduction / Hirofumi Matsumura, Hsiao-chun Hung, Li Zhen, Mariko Yamagata, Lin Qiang, Zhang Chi -- Huiyaotian Site in Nanning, Guangxi, China / Li Zhen, Hsiao-chun Hung, Huang Yun-zhong, and ...
Malta is one of the Mediterranean’s most remote islands. The nearest land is Sicily, about 85 kilometres north. Today, with ferries and planes, getting there is light work, but in the distant past, ...
Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...
Learn how ancient DNA reveals migrant women helped Europe’s hunter-gatherers adopt farming thousands of years later than the ...
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