Ancient DNA extracted from a sediment core from a high-altitude Pyrenean lake in Spain reveals that fish may have been added to the lake by humans as early as the 7th century CE. The findings ...

By the Viking Age, cats with a new genetic haplogroup, IV-D, show up in York, Orkney, and even Galway, Ireland. The Norse ...

Research suggests cat sacrifices in Egypt may have helped shape the tameness of today’s house cats, reshaping the history of ...

One group of early farmers may have entered nearly empty land ... Then, after 4000 BC, it suddenly expanded north. DNA and artifacts show that farmers and foragers interacted for centuries ...

Results from these nuclear DNA analyses revealed that felines with ... Rather than silently trailing behind early farmers, slinking ever closer to human activity and community, cats likely moved ...

Archaeologists have long debated who was buried in these megalithic monuments and whether the tombs served other purposes, such as rituals, ceremonies, or displays. The prevailing view was that these ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

When processing sweet potato flour, she is able to add ingredients such as roasted soy bean flour, rice flour and maize flour to come up with baby foods ...

followed by early farmers from southwestern Europe around 1,000 years later. These people then mixed with the isolated Takarkori population, leaving their genetic signature behind. This included small ...

Thousands of ordinary Americans whose lives have been upended by forever chemicals are battling to end their use.