Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – With the help of the Neanderthal genomes of high quality that are available for studies, researchers can now identify genetic variants that were present in many or all Neanderthals. By using data from a huge
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Thousands of years ago the UK was physically joined to the rest of Europe through an area known as Doggerland. Then, a marine inundation took place during the mid-holocene and this event separated the British
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A long-lasting controversy about whether ancient Polynesians and Native Americans had contact – is over. Stanford Medicine researchers and their collaborators have found conclusive scientific evidence of contact between ancient Polynesians and Native Americans from
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The Caribbean was one of the last regions of the Americas to be settled by humans, but how, when, and from where they reached the islands remains unclear. According to a new study by an
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – People living in the southern areas of today’s Poland over 4,000 years ago were genetically similar to earlier communities from this area. Researchers from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań have now analyzed the DNA
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – People in Ireland now have more reason than ever to wonder where their ancestors came from. Ancient DNA reveals Irish are not Celts and it’s very possible ancestors of the Irish people came from Biblical
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The DNA of nine 13th century Crusaders buried in a pit in Lebanon shows that the soldiers making up the Crusader armies were genetically diverse and intermixed with the local population in the Near East. However,
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – A wave of migrants from what is now Greece and Turkey arrived in Britain some 6,000 years ago and replaced the existing hunter-gatherers living there, according to a new study. Researchers studied DNA samples of ancient
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – With a population of 330,000, Iceland is a country with its own peculiarities. Genes are no exception: isolation and inbreeding throughout its history make this northern Atlantic island a paradise for genetic studies. But who
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Starting about 7,000 years ago, something weird seems to have happened to men: Over the next two millennia, recent studies suggest, their genetic diversity –specifically, the diversity of their Y chromosomes – collapsed. So extreme
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An 11,500-year-old skeleton discovered in Alaska raises new questions about who inhabited North America in the distant past. Examination of the skeleton shows North America was settled by previously unknown people who lived there, creating
