The European project is due to wrap up in October 2023 after two years. The work has involved scrutinizing the written evidence of 10-plus Indo-European languages to find, for example, a word to ...

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the continent home, researchers can now read genetic traces from teeth, bones and cave ...

“Before the last glacial period, Neanderthals had diverse maternal lineages. As ice sheets advanced and habitable territory shrank, survivors appear to have concentrated in a climate refugium in ...

A team of ecologists, biologists, geographers, geologists and Earth scientists from across Europe, working with a colleague from the U.K. and another from Canada, has found evidence suggesting that ...

Millennia-old pottery remains from across Europe reveal that ancient communities in the region made elaborate meals using a much greater variety of plant and animal products than previously believed, ...

Around 5,000 years ago, at the dawn of the Bronze Age, a mass migration of peoples from the grasslands of the Eurasian steppe poured into Europe. Called the Yamnaya, these horse herders introduced ...

Leveraging a unique statistical analysis and applying it to ancient DNA extracted from human skeletal remains, a team of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of ...

Seaweed isn’t something that generally features today in European recipe books, even though it is widely eaten in Asia. But our team has discovered molecular evidence that shows this wasn’t always the ...

Learn how ancient dental plaque, Neanderthal comparisons, and chitin-digestion genes show that Europeans rarely ate insects on purpose and were less equipped to break them down. Twenty-nine thousand ...