Roughly 10,000 years ago, humans started shifting from being nomadic hunter-gatherers to building large agricultural settlements, marking one of the greatest transformations in human history. This ...

When scientists pulled genetic material from a pair of naturally preserved bodies in the central Sahara, they expected to ...

Yeast is already a familiar ingredient to bakers and winemakers, but new research from the University of Georgia suggests it can also trace the footsteps of our ancestors. Humans domesticated baker's ...

The study of ancient DNA has revolutionised our understanding of human history, enabling scientists to decipher complex population dynamics over tens of thousands of years. By analysing genetic ...

While most people think of fossils and artifacts as the most important lines of evidence for understanding the past, genetic evidence also plays a major role. In this webinar, Miguel Vilar, Genetic ...

Migration into England was continuous from the Romans through to the Normans and men and women moved from different places ...