The Boncuklu petrous bones paid off: DNA extracted from them was a match for farmers who lived and died centuries later and hundreds of miles to the northwest. That meant early Anatolian farmers ...

Ancient DNA analysis has shed new light on sheep domestication's long and intertwined history, revealing that early farmers selectively bred these animals for specific traits, including a pristine ...

But not all of them. Most farmers from Anatolia (present-day Turkey) went on the move around 7,500 years ago, with a general westward shift from the Fertile Crescent to present-day Europe and the ...

Ancient DNA reveals that Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa, providing the earliest proof of prehistoric ...

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

Researchers led by population geneticist Mattias Jakobsson from Uppsala University in Sweden analyzed DNA from eight skeletons pulled out ... The researchers suggested that early Basques likely ...

Chinese rice and millet farmers spread south into a region ... the researchers say. Ancient DNA research in Asia is in the early stages, Pinhasi emphasizes. Further research will likely reveal ...

DNA is a mosaic of genetic fragments passed down through generations, but its clarity diminishes over time. While modern testing can trace ancestry through shared markers, the depth of this insight ...