Modern-day populations in India descend from a mixture of peoples living thousands of years ago in South ... Asia, including the Bronze-Age Indus Valley Civilization, two studies reveal. In the ...

These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic.

Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...

People who moved out of southern China cultivated big changes across ancient Southeast Asia, a new analysis of ancient human DNA finds. Chinese rice and millet farmers spread south into a region ...

Two centuries later, the inhabitants of Mödling and Leobersdorf—neighboring sites south of Vienna—shared ... about this research, titled 'Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite ...

The extraction of genetic material from archaeological remains, known as ancient DNA, is helping scientists gain insights into our distant past. With advances in sequencing technology, these ...

provides the first genetic evidence of major demographic changes among hunter-gatherer populations in eastern and south-central Africa during the last Ice Age. The analysis includes the earliest DNA ...