Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...

Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

Ancient DNA explains why some people live to be over 100 - Hunter-gatherer genes likely favoured during the last Ice Age ...

Perhaps also surprising, the remains of cats and artistic depictions of them have been observed in various archaeological ...

Based on genetic material preserved in birch bark tar from Estonia, researchers found that the teen likely had brown hair and brown eyes ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Ancient ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies found in Libya reveal an isolated North African lineage and rewrite the genetic history of the Green Sahara.

The team analyzed DNA from 225 ancient cat specimens collected across Europe, North Africa, and Anatolia. These were were bones and teeth spanning more than 10,000 years of human history. From these ...

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory.

In a recent study, researcher Dr. Hui Zhou and his colleagues conducted a genetic analysis of the genomes of individuals ...

Detailed studies of ancient DNA have provided important insights into the origins and history of infectious diseases. These studies have bettered the understanding of past human disease manifestations ...