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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 ...

Burials uncovered in northeastern France have drawn renewed attention to evidence of organised violence in Neolithic Europe. Archaeologists studying human remains from pits at Achenheim and Bergheim, ...

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 ...

Suzy White receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, and has previously received funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Piecing together the story of Europe’s earliest settlers is a ...

(CNN) – Early Europeans may have eaten their enemies’ brains and bone marrow. In a new study, a team of archaeologists examined the bones of at least 10 people from ancient Magdalenian culture.

Historic Huguenot Street strives to represent the early European settlers and those who both came before them and were enslaved by them Historic Huguenot Street tells the history of the ...