Ancient DNA solved the case.

A woman was buried with two children, but they were not her own. In another grave, two children were placed. They were not ...

A study of ancient human DNA from a wetland region in Belgium, western Germany, and the Netherlands yielded surprising information about early British history.

Within a few centuries, the genetic landscape of the Rhine-Meuse region, including the wetlands, was completely reshaped. Our ...

DNA analysis shows that hunter-gatherer graves on Gotland were shared by indirect relatives such as cousins, aunts and uncles ...

An archaeological study reveals how ancient hunter-gatherer groups lived—and survived—more than a thousand years ago in the ...

Ancient DNA shows that hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe endured for millennia, with women driving a gradual cultural shift toward farming.

Learn how ancient DNA reveals migrant women helped Europe’s hunter-gatherers adopt farming thousands of years later than the rest of the continent.

Early European hunter-gatherers developed a sophisticated method of information storage long before the advent of formal ...

Burned bone fragments found in northern Malawi have revealed the oldest cremation pyre ever found in Africa — and unearthed new mysteries that may be hard to solve. By analyzing the bones and pyre ...