Medieval adults and children buried together in Sweden were rarely related, DNA study finds
Children buried beside adults in medieval graves have long been seen as family members. A new DNA study…
Ancient Greenland middens preserve traces of human microbes for 4,500 years, study finds
Ancient garbage dumps scattered across Greenland are helping scientists piece together how people lived thousands of years ago.…
Headless skeletons found at a 7,000-year-old settlement in Slovakia puzzle archaeologists
Archaeologists investigating a 7,000-year-old settlement in Slovakia have uncovered one of the most unusual burial sites from Europe’s…
DNA From Centuries-Old Sámi Burial in Finland Reveals Surprising Link to Iceland
A Sámi man depicted in art. Credit: François-Auguste Biard / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain Scientists have unlocked…
Ancient DNA study rewrites fall of Rome, reveals small migrations shaped Central Europe
A large genetic study of early medieval burials in southern Germany is changing how historians describe the end…
How ancient communities adapted their diets and farming strategies in prehistoric Poland
Archaeologists and bioarchaeologists have reconstructed three thousand years of diet and economy in Kuyavia, north-central Poland, tracing how…