DNA analysis is considered the gold standard for identifying victims of mass fatalities. But how does it work?

“This tells us that husbands moved to join their wives’ communities upon marriage, with land potentially passed down through the female line. It’s relatively rare in modern societies, but this might ...

Follow the complex story of migrations in Europe during the first millennium, as Germanic and Viking ancestry spread across the continent.

Researchers at the Hebrew University have developed an exceptionally accurate method for predicting chronological age from ...

Researchers said their findings suggest husbands relocated to the wife's household upon marriage – suggesting a female ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by studying ancient and modern DNA.

An international research team has found that black eye makeup used between the 9th and 7th centuries BCE in the northwest of ...

Ancient genomes reveal an Iron Age society centred on women A groundbreaking study finds evidence that land was inherited through the female line in Iron Age Britain, with husbands moving to live ...

Ancient DNA analysis has revealed that an Iron Age community in Dorset, England, was centered around bonds of female-line descent.

Iron Age archaeological find: British 'bling' from 2,000 years ago included horse harnesses The Melsonby Hoard, a collection of more than 800 Iron Age artifacts found in northeast England ...

A new study has revealed that women inherited land in Iron Age Britain and husbands moved to live with their wife’s community. A team of geneticists made the discovery by analysing the DNA from ...