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7+ hour, 50+ min ago   (433+ words) In the right sample, it can reveal relationships that bones alone cannot show: who was related, which groups moved, where populations mixed, and which genetic changes survived after a community disappeared. It can also show what ancient DNA cannot do....

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (669+ words) Arkæologi VestjyllandArchaeologists in western Denmark discovered the 1,300-year-old burial of a Viking girl whose clothes and jewelry remain intact. Archaeologists in western Denmark discovered a rare 1,300-year-old grave of a young Viking girl with an even rarer find inside: remnants…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago   (268+ words) THE Tarlac State University’s Center for Peace, Indigenous Peoples Resources and Development (CPIPRD) is pursuing development on ancestral domain as it presented progress on its research on Indigenous communities. Known as ‘Integrated Governance, Health, and Nutritional Assessment of the Ayta…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (349+ words) Ancient rock art at Murujuga, or the Burrup Peninsula, in Western Australia, has seen much larger damaged than previously anticipated due to industrial pollutants found in air emissions. About 932 miles north of Perth, Murujuga contains one of the world’s most…...

1+ day, 17+ hour ago   (209+ words) A 17th-century grave in Poland contained the remains of a woman whom people believed brought bad luck to society. So she added a padlock and a sickle to her dead body. Researchers have detailed their findings four years after making…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1359+ words) The burial of a young woman of high rank, with Scandinavian ancestry and a meat-based diet, reveals her contemporaries’ fear that she might return as a demon. Researchers have documented for the first time the combination of a sickle and…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (450+ words) Archaeologists in Serbia have determined that a human tooth more than 6,500 years old is an ancient pendant that was likely worn on a string. For nearly two decades, the artifact was kept in a museum as a bead made from…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (68+ words) The Times A shield-maiden, a dwarf and a bear — the mysteries revealed by Viking graves In The Sea-King and the Sorceress, the historian Neil Price examines 21 individuals from ancient Norse burial sites, unearthing strange, sinister and profound surprises £1 for 3 months…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (722+ words) Newswise — Anthropology Professor and Department Chair Britney Kyle, Ph.D., spent her sabbatical sharing her expertise in examining human skeletons with students and faculty from the University of Prishtina in Kosovo, a country in Southeast Europe. During a five-week partnership…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1180+ words) A rare Viking Age burial in western Denmark is preserving something archaeologists almost never get to see: traces of the clothes worn by a young person some 1,300 years ago, still caught between the metal ornaments that once held them in…...