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Five thousand years ago, the thriving farming communities of northwestern Europe fell into a mysterious demographic slump.

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 ...

For most of Europe’s history, the people who lived there did not resemble the pale figures often shown in history books. New genetic research now shows that dark skin, dark hair, and dark eyes ...

The fossil from northern Spain has been nicknamed ‘Rosa’. Maria D. Guillén / IPHES-CERCA., Author provided (no reuse) Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a challenge, largely ...

The partial midface of a hominin fossil has been found in the Sima del Elefante cave site near Burgos, northern Spain, and dates to between 1.4 million and 1.1 million years ago. Its discovery enables ...