Modern humans have populated Europe for more than 45,000 years1,2. Our knowledge of the genetic relatedness and structure of ancient hunter-gatherers …
The origin, development, and legacy of the enigmatic Etruscan civilization from the central region of the Italian peninsula known as Etruria have been…
In this study, we conducted paleogenomic analysis on historical human skeletons excavated from archaeological contexts in France, specifically associa…
The Early Bronze Age in Central Europe (~ 2200–1600 BC) saw the emergence of hierarchical social organisation, expressed most visibly in large burial …
Our understanding of prehistoric societal organization at the family level is still limited. Here, we generated genome data from 32 individuals from a…
The Báthory family was one of the most powerful noble families in the medieval Hungarian Kingdom. Their influence peaked during the Ottoman occupation…
Burial in the Italian Bronze Age is often thought to consist mostly of single burials, cremations in necropolises or collective burials in tombs. Mult…
The material culture of the Late Chalcolithic period in the southern Levant (4500–3900/3800 BCE) is qualitatively distinct from previous and subsequen…
The skeletal remains of an individual colloquially referred to as Beachy Head Woman (BHW) were re-discovered in the Eastbourne Town Hall collection in…
For millennia, the Pontic-Caspian steppe was a connector between the Eurasian steppe and Europe. In this scene, multidirectional and sequential moveme…
多瑙河峡谷地区的 Lepenski Vir 是一个中石器时代和新石器时代的定居点,以艺术砂岩巨石而闻名,这些巨石通常与中石器时代-新石器时代转型阶段的梯形房屋遗迹有关。此外,新生儿的墓葬被切入这些建筑物的红色灰泥地板,但原因尚不清楚。我们制作了四个个体的古基因组——两个新生儿被发现在梯形房屋的地板下…
The Eastern Eurasian Steppe was home to historic empires of nomadic pastoralists, including the Xiongnu and the Mongols. However, little is known abou…