It's long been assumed the Jomon people, who had inhabited the Japanese archipelago since around 16,000 years ago, had multiple lineages resulting from different migration routes. But new genetic ...

Learn how ancient DNA reveals migrant women helped Europe’s hunter-gatherers adopt farming thousands of years later than the ...

Matthew Williams, academic affiliate assistant professor of biology at Penn State (left), and Christian Huber, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, are part of a team that used sophisticated ...

Advancements in genetic research have shed new light on the complex migrations and interactions that shaped Europe's history during the first millennium CE. Using a groundbreaking method known as ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research led by the Francis Crick ...