A groundbreaking study of ancient DNA reveals that all living humans descend from just three African hunter-gatherer populations around 50,000 years ago. Fossils and tools show these groups created ...
Every so often, a pandemic emerges that dramatically alters human society. The Black Death (1347 - 1351) was one; the Spanish flu of 1918 was another. Now there’s COVID-19. Archaeologists have long ...
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African beads show 4,000-year-old trade
The recent unearthing of ancient African beads has shed new light on the extensive trading systems that existed some 4,000 years ago. These discoveries have expanded our knowledge of international ...
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An aerial view of Hun-Xianbi culture burials. Both horses and warriors can be identified. (Credit: Zainolla Samashev) (CN) — A rapidly diversifying gene pool led to a decline of sedentary groups in ...
Archaeologists recently uncovered extraordinary artifacts from an ancient African Christian community in Israel, according to officials. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the finds on ...
From a burial site in Cameroon, archaeologists recovered human genetic material dating as far back as 8,000 years. By Carl Zimmer In October 2015, scientists reconstructed the genome of a ...
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