Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists have used mitochondrial DNA to trace a female lineage from northern coastal China to the Americas. By integrating contemporary and ancient mitochondrial DNA, the team found evidence of at least two migrations: one during
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A new study has given an intriguing glimpse of the hunting habits and diets of Neanderthals and other humans living in Western Europe. An international team of researchers led by the University of Southampton, examined chemical
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Humans inherited genetic material from Neanderthals that affects the shape of our noses, finds a new study led by UCL researchers. Modern human and archaic Neanderthal skulls side by side, showing difference in nasal height.
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – The first modern humans spread across Europe in three waves during the Paleolithic, according to a new study. The archaeological record of Paleolithic Europe leaves many open questions regarding the nature of the arrival of
AncientPages.com – Homo sapiens, our own species, evolved in Africa sometime between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Anthropologists are pretty confident in that estimate, based on fossil, genetic and archaeological evidence. Then what happened? How modern humans spread throughout the rest of the world is one of the most
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Maritime history dates back thousands of years, och there is no doubt many ancient civilizations had excellent knowledge of navigation and sailing. Once ancient civilizations understood the value of trading, many maritime routes were established,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – An unusual blinking fish, the mudskipper, spends much of the day out of the water and provides clues as to how and why blinking might have evolved during the transition to life on land in
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – How much do we know about the Neolithic lifestyle? According to a Professor, the stereotypical view of how Neolithic men and women lived is wrong! Dr. Karina Croucher, Associate Professor at the Archaeological and Forensic Sciences,
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – If you could travel back 100,000 years in time, you’d find yourself living among multiple groups of humans, including anatomically modern humans, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. But exactly what our Denisovan relatives might have looked like
Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – An analysis of ancient genomes suggests that different branches of the human family tree interbred multiple times and that some humans carry DNA from an archaic, unknown ancestor. Who was this mysterious ancient individual? Roughly
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The Denisovans and the Neanderthals are long gone, but their DNA can be found in certain modern humans. According to researchers, some present-day humans derive up to ~5% of their ancestry from archaic Denisovans, an
AncientPages.com – Humans are an interesting mixture of altruism and competition. We work together well at times and at others we will fight to get our own way. To try to explain these conflicting tendencies, researchers have turned to the
