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DNA From a 5,000-year-old Tomb Reveals the Plague Might Have Wiped out Europe’s First Farmers

Archaeologists have debated the nature of this so-called Neolithic decline, but ancient DNA extracted from a collective tomb ...
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Ancient DNA is finally revealing who Europe’s first settlers were

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 ...
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Early Europeans may have eaten their enemies’ brains, archaeologists say

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Most Europeans had dark skin until 3,000 years ago, study finds

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 ...
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Early encounters--Native Americans and Europeans in New England from the papers of W. Sears Nickerson [edited by] Delores Bird Carpenter

Before the Mayflower: The Vikings and the French. The Wineland of Leif the Lucky. First Blood: The Death of the Carpenter of St. Malo. The Fight at Fortune: Champlain at Stage Harbor -- The Coming of ...