#ancientdna — Public Fediverse posts
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Scientists just found DNA from two human relatives we’ve never found a single fossil of, hiding in modern genomes. One mixed with us in Africa 800,000 years ago; the other reached us secondhand, through Denisovans. #paleoanthropology #humanevolution #ancientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-ghosts-in-the-genome
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Scientists just found DNA from two human relatives we’ve never found a single fossil of, hiding in modern genomes. One mixed with us in Africa 800,000 years ago; the other reached us secondhand, through Denisovans. #paleoanthropology #humanevolution #ancientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-ghosts-in-the-genome
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Two mummified bodies from colonial-era Chile just yielded the first ancient smallpox genomes from the Americas, a now-extinct viral lineage whose evolution stalled for two centuries, then rebounded right as vaccination began. #ArchaeoGenetics #AncientDNA #SmallpoxHistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-bodies-from-chile-just-rewrote
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Two mummified bodies from colonial-era Chile just yielded the first ancient smallpox genomes from the Americas, a now-extinct viral lineage whose evolution stalled for two centuries, then rebounded right as vaccination began. #ArchaeoGenetics #AncientDNA #SmallpoxHistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-bodies-from-chile-just-rewrote
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A cave 4,000m up in Ladakh just revealed a lost population: people with ancestry split almost perfectly between South Asians and Tibetans, mixing began ~2800 years ago, and one still carries a Denisovan altitude gene. #AncientDNA #Paleoanthropology #Archaeogenetics https://www.anthropology.net/p/ancient-genomes-from-a-cave-above
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A cave 4,000m up in Ladakh just revealed a lost population: people with ancestry split almost perfectly between South Asians and Tibetans, mixing began ~2800 years ago, and one still carries a Denisovan altitude gene. #AncientDNA #Paleoanthropology #Archaeogenetics https://www.anthropology.net/p/ancient-genomes-from-a-cave-above
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Ancient DNA Unveils Genetic Links and Social Structure of 4,000-Year-Old Chinese City
📰 Original title: Ancient DNA reveals a chilling secret at China’s 4,000-year-old Shimao city
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Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire’s #UptonLovell #Shaman was a woman
Exclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was maleThere are quite a few such cases where the analysis of #ancientDNA has led to a #gender reassignment, exposed the tendency of previous research to assume important people to have been male until proven otherwise. See my recent feature: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/11/prehistoric-women-ruled.html
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Ancient DNA analysis reveals Wiltshire’s #UptonLovell #Shaman was a woman
Exclusive: Analysis offers ‘smoking gun evidence’ that overturns previous assumption that bronze age individual was maleThere are quite a few such cases where the analysis of #ancientDNA has led to a #gender reassignment, exposed the tendency of previous research to assume important people to have been male until proven otherwise. See my recent feature: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2025/11/prehistoric-women-ruled.html
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New ancient DNA study of 142 medieval Swedish burials finds kids buried with adults were rarely close kin, but were sorted by sex just like adults. #archaeogenetics #medievalarchaeology #ancientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/equal-in-death-what-ancient-dna-reveals
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New ancient DNA study of 142 medieval Swedish burials finds kids buried with adults were rarely close kin, but were sorted by sex just like adults. #archaeogenetics #medievalarchaeology #ancientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/equal-in-death-what-ancient-dna-reveals
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A bit of an interesting historical curiosity: Based on ancient DNA analysis, common burial in Medieval times, including that of children, didn't necessarily have anything to do with being from the same family.
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A bit of an interesting historical curiosity: Based on ancient DNA analysis, common burial in Medieval times, including that of children, didn't necessarily have anything to do with being from the same family.
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Genetic Evidence Suggests Major Migration After Stone Age Population Collapse in Europe
📰 Original title: Ancient DNA reveals the mysterious collapse of Europe's megalith builders
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DNA from a 5,000-year-old French megalithic tomb reveals that the people buried before and after a population collapse were genetically unrelated, pointing to a major migration after a devastating… #science #ancientdna #megalith
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For centuries, people believed members of the powerful Medici family were murdered with poison. But modern DNA analysis points to a completely different killer: malaria.
#HistoricMysteries #Medici #Renaissance #History #AncientDNA #Archaeology #TrueHistory #HistoricalMystery #Malaria #Florence
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For centuries, people believed members of the powerful Medici family were murdered with poison. But modern DNA analysis points to a completely different killer: malaria.
#HistoricMysteries #Medici #Renaissance #History #AncientDNA #Archaeology #TrueHistory #HistoricalMystery #Malaria #Florence
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A one-year-old buried with gold and a drilled skull turns out to be the grandson of another elite Scythian, buried 50 km away. New ancient DNA shows steppe power was inherited, not earned. 🏺🧬 #Archaeology #AncientDNA #Scythians https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-golden-man-had-grandchildren
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A one-year-old buried with gold and a drilled skull turns out to be the grandson of another elite Scythian, buried 50 km away. New ancient DNA shows steppe power was inherited, not earned. 🏺🧬 #Archaeology #AncientDNA #Scythians https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-golden-man-had-grandchildren
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New Genetic Study Finds Late Neanderthals Were Not Highly Inbred
📰 Original title: Ancient DNA Reveals a Genetic Surprise in The Last Neanderthals
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24-Jun-2026
#AncientDNA found on #cave walls
Human DNA can survive on cave walls for thousands of years – shedding light on #prehistoric human activity even where bones, sediments or artifacts are absent -
24-Jun-2026
#AncientDNA found on #cave walls
Human DNA can survive on cave walls for thousands of years – shedding light on #prehistoric human activity even where bones, sediments or artifacts are absent -
24-Jun-2026
#Neanderthals in Western Europe were doing well right before they went extinct
Genetically healthy population was well-connected with other groups and did not interbreed with modern #humans -
24-Jun-2026
#Neanderthals in Western Europe were doing well right before they went extinct
Genetically healthy population was well-connected with other groups and did not interbreed with modern #humans -
24-Jun-2026
#AncientDNA reveals genetic history of #medieval #Sicily -
24-Jun-2026
#AncientDNA reveals genetic history of #medieval #Sicily -
Ancient human DNA recovered from Iberian cave walls, including blank surfaces used as negative controls. The walls themselves are archives of prehistoric presence, with or without the art. #Paleogenomics #CaveArt #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/cave-walls-hold-ancient-human-dna
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Ancient human DNA recovered from Iberian cave walls, including blank surfaces used as negative controls. The walls themselves are archives of prehistoric presence, with or without the art. #Paleogenomics #CaveArt #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/cave-walls-hold-ancient-human-dna
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Genome study of 27 late Neanderthals from Belgium and France finds no inbreeding, no genetic decline, and no recent modern human ancestry, raising new questions about how they disappeared. #paleoanthropology #Neanderthals #ancientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-bones-at-goyet
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Genome study of 27 late Neanderthals from Belgium and France finds no inbreeding, no genetic decline, and no recent modern human ancestry, raising new questions about how they disappeared. #paleoanthropology #Neanderthals #ancientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-bones-at-goyet
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A Mongolian cemetery traced through 6 generations of ancient DNA looked like a family burial ground. Machine learning + cultural phylogenetics say otherwise: wealth and political power decided who got buried where, not blood. #Archaeogenetics #Xiongnu #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/wealth-not-blood-decided-who-got
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A Mongolian cemetery traced through 6 generations of ancient DNA looked like a family burial ground. Machine learning + cultural phylogenetics say otherwise: wealth and political power decided who got buried where, not blood. #Archaeogenetics #Xiongnu #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/wealth-not-blood-decided-who-got
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5,500 years ago, plague was already killing children in Siberian hunter-gatherer families, no fleas, no cities, no farming required. Ancient DNA reveals a toxin that may explain why kids died and adults didn’t. #archaeogenetics #ancientDNA #paleopathology https://www.anthropology.net/p/lethal-plague-outbreaks-among-lake
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5,500 years ago, plague was already killing children in Siberian hunter-gatherer families, no fleas, no cities, no farming required. Ancient DNA reveals a toxin that may explain why kids died and adults didn’t. #archaeogenetics #ancientDNA #paleopathology https://www.anthropology.net/p/lethal-plague-outbreaks-among-lake
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#Archaeology
#AncientDNA provides evidence of earliest known #plague outbreakhttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/17/ancient-dna-evidence-earliest-known-plague-outbreak
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#Archaeology
#AncientDNA provides evidence of earliest known #plague outbreakhttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/17/ancient-dna-evidence-earliest-known-plague-outbreak
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DNA From 2,300-Year-Old Etruscan Grape Seeds Reveals Origins of Modern Wine
Analysis of grape seeds from ancient wells in Tusca…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #GreekWine #MediterraneanWine #AncientDNA #Archaeobotany #CetamuraDelChianti #EtruscanArchaeology #GeneticAnalysis #GrapevineDomestication #Greekwine #romantradenetworks #RomanViticulture #WhiteWineHistory #Wine #WineOrigins
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DNA From 2,300-Year-Old Etruscan Grape Seeds Reveals Origins of Modern Wine
Analysis of grape seeds from ancient wells in Tusca…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #GreekWine #MediterraneanWine #AncientDNA #Archaeobotany #CetamuraDelChianti #EtruscanArchaeology #GeneticAnalysis #GrapevineDomestication #Greekwine #romantradenetworks #RomanViticulture #WhiteWineHistory #Wine #WineOrigins
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DNA From 2,300-Year-Old Etruscan Grape Seeds Reveals Origins of Modern Wine https://www.diningandcooking.com/2683786/dna-from-2300-year-old-etruscan-grape-seeds-reveals-origins-of-modern-wine/ #AncientDNA #Archaeobotany #CetamuraDelChianti #EtruscanArchaeology #GeneticAnalysis #GrapevineDomestication #GreekWine #RomanTradeNetworks #RomanViticulture #WhiteWineHistory #Wine #WineOrigins
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DNA From 2,300-Year-Old Etruscan Grape Seeds Reveals Origins of Modern Wine https://www.diningandcooking.com/2683786/dna-from-2300-year-old-etruscan-grape-seeds-reveals-origins-of-modern-wine/ #AncientDNA #Archaeobotany #CetamuraDelChianti #EtruscanArchaeology #GeneticAnalysis #GrapevineDomestication #GreekWine #RomanTradeNetworks #RomanViticulture #WhiteWineHistory #Wine #WineOrigins
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11-Jun-2026
#AncientDNA study of post-Roman Europeans reveals the emergence of a complex new society
Study published in #Science challenges the myth of simple Barbarian domination in the Early #MiddleAges -
11-Jun-2026
#AncientDNA study of post-Roman Europeans reveals the emergence of a complex new society
Study published in #Science challenges the myth of simple Barbarian domination in the Early #MiddleAges -
Brain removal, whittled bones, and a 265km genetic network: a reanalysis of two Iron Age burials in northern Scotland reveals mobile kin, distant Orcadian relatives, and funerary practices stranger and more deliberate than almost anything else from the period. #IronAge #Osteoarchaeology #AncientDNA @Antiquity https://www.anthropology.net/p/bone-tools-and-borrowed-bodies-the
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Brain removal, whittled bones, and a 265km genetic network: a reanalysis of two Iron Age burials in northern Scotland reveals mobile kin, distant Orcadian relatives, and funerary practices stranger and more deliberate than almost anything else from the period. #IronAge #Osteoarchaeology #AncientDNA @Antiquity https://www.anthropology.net/p/bone-tools-and-borrowed-bodies-the
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Ancient Japanese dental calculus just got interesting: researchers found that Edo-period women who practiced ohaguro (tooth blackening) harbored a distinct lineage of an oral archaea, possibly shaped by the iron-rich cosmetic paste. #Anthropology #AncientDNA #OralMicrobiome https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-blackened-teeth-knew
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Ancient Japanese dental calculus just got interesting: researchers found that Edo-period women who practiced ohaguro (tooth blackening) harbored a distinct lineage of an oral archaea, possibly shaped by the iron-rich cosmetic paste. #Anthropology #AncientDNA #OralMicrobiome https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-blackened-teeth-knew
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3-Jun-2026
Ancient #genomes reveal the unique history of the #extinct #caveLionhttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1129552
#science #evolution #ecology #ancientDNA #lions #megafauna #animals
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Ötzi’s microbiome includes 5,300-year-old gut bacteria AND cold-adapted yeasts that appear to still be actively growing on his skin. The mummy is a living ecosystem. New research in Microbiome unpacks the layers. #Paleoanthropology #AncientDNA #Archaeogenomics https://www.anthropology.net/p/otzis-inner-ecosystem-what-5300-years
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A 19,000-year-old woman buried in an ochre-stained cave in Spain was still carrying Neanderthal bacteria in her dental plaque. Thirty years of excavation at El Mirón keep rewriting the Ice Age. #Paleoanthropology #AncientDNA #Prehistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-cave-that-kept-giving
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New ancient DNA from 203 Neolithic individuals shows the megalithic tomb communities of Central Europe weren’t defined by blood. A father and son were buried 225 km apart. Patchwork families are ancient. #Archaeogenetics #Neolithic #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-tombs-were-not-for-families