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This is a truly fascinating film, made by the people of Burkina Faso documenting their own, now vanishing tradition of iron smelting and fo...

Four human remains dated to the Bronze Age were sequenced for mitochondrial DNA in Santimamiñe cave (Kortezubi, Biscay, Basque Country), a...

Recently sequenced Roman, Iron Age and Anglo-Saxon DNA sequences from England help to clarify the issue of the impact of Germanic migration...

A recent study has sequenced the DNA of an ancient Thracian woman but, for some reason, instead of looking at her comparison with modern Bu...

Old map of Avesbury and the nearby hillfort Recent field work at the town of Amesbury , specifically in Blink Meadow, has resulted in i...

Prolific researcher Chiara Barbieri has put online another interesting study on African genetics, this time about the Bantu populations of ...

I'm fusing here data from two different and complementary sources: Hui Li et al. Y chromosomes of prehistoric people along the Yangtz...

Honestly, I have all kind of doubts but that's what a new study claims on the basis of just a few hypervariable sequence markers: H...

Kristiina called my attention recently to this open access article on the ancient mtDNA of a district of South-Western Siberia known as Bar...

I am getting updated with a rather long backlog, so I will speed things up placing here in nearly telegraphic style the informative snippet...

One of the earliest cases of overexploitation and pollution in Europe has been found in SE Iberia, a key center of Early Bronze in Wester...

A new study of the Iberian script findings withing the (partly disputed but most likely very real) ostraka graffiti at Iruña-Veleia (Basque...

Paleorama [es] has an interesting article on how the Ancient Cantabrian castro (fortified town) at Monte Ornedo, located in the modern m...

When discussing a recent revision of the ancient Etruscan mtDNA sequences, it became evident that haplogroup assignation was not really be...