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 ...

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 ...

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The Neolithic period began in southwest Asia ... to trace ancient population movements. Our new study has just been published in Nature. We analysed the ancient genomes (complete DNA sequences ...

New DNA research shows ... who specializes in the study of ancient populations, is making it possible to give a precise answer. The peoples of Europe and West Asia, as well as everyone descended ...

Insights Into South African Population History from 10,000-Year-Old Human DNA Sep. 19, 2024 — Ancient DNA has provided spectacular insights into human history, particularly in Europe and Asia ...

China's first pet cats arrived in the country around 1,400 years ago — likely via the famous Silk Road trading route, ancient ...

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 ...