Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January, 2009), pp. 75-89 (15 pages) Analyses were performed of plant remains from the Late Neolithic (in Slovenian terminology corresponding to ...

Southeastern Europe played an important role in the spread of the agricultural lifestyle during the Neolithic 9000 to 8000 years ago. Expanding early farming groups introduced many cultural and ...

Ancient DNA analysis, the study of DNA extracted from ancient archeological specimens, is carving a new understanding of human history. Written in nucleotide bases are complex stories of how ancient ...

An analysis of ancient human genomic data suggests that Copper Age farmers and steppe pastoralists may have interacted 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. The findings, published in Nature, ...

A DNA study has not only clarified the picture of how different groups intermingled during the European Stone Age, but also how certain groups of people were actually isolated. Scientists at Uppsala ...