A collaboration between the University of Huddersfield's Archaeogenetics Research Group and the University of Southampton's Center for Maritime Archaeology, has clarified the first settlement of New ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Ancient Mediterranean (Leipzig, Germany) and the University of Bologna (Italy) has ...

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Ancient Mediterranean (Leipzig, Germany) and the University of Bologna (Italy) has ...

The genetic analysis of 3,500-year-old bones from a Calabrian cave (Italy) yields unexpected revelations about the intimate life of a Bronze Age community. Beyond the expected kinships, researchers ...

The genetic evidence is consistent with a father-daughter union, making it one of the clearest and earliest documented cases of such extreme parental consanguinity in the archaeological record. A ...

have revealed evidence that incest was practiced by ancient people.A new study has uncovered evidence of incest between fathers and daughters at the time, based on the analysis of human remains from ...

The latest recipients of the most prestigious research funding prize in Germany have been announced: today, the Joint Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) ...

Consanguinity is the property of having a recent common ancestor with another individual. The genetic distance between two individuals can be expressed in meioses (the number of times the shared ...