Ancient DNA explains why some people live to be over 100

Ancient DNA explains why some people live to be over 100 - Hunter-gatherer genes likely favoured during the last Ice Age ...
Greek Reporter

Ancient DNA Reconstructs a Bronze Age Community in Calabria, Southern Italy

A DNA study of a Bronze Age cave in Calabria sheds light on early populations that lived in southern Italy centuries before ...

Archaeologists uncover 3,000-year-old mysterious mass burial site

During their work, Guard Archaeology found the urns with the cremated bones of at least eight individuals all placed there in ...

Why the world’s oldest energy source is poised to power the future

Not too long ago, solar energy was considered expensive, inefficient and unreliable. Then everything changed. How a new ...

Ancient hunter-gatherer DNA may explain why some people live to 100 years or more

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors have given us many things. They passed down mastery of fire for cooking and early survival ...
La Brújula Verde

A unique Bronze Age community survived in a Calabrian massif devoted to herding and consuming milk and dairy products, despite being lactose intolerant

For the first time, a scientific team has succeeded in reconstructing the complete genetic and social profile of a ...

Bronze Age DNA from Calabria reveals a distinct mountain community

An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Ancient ...

A 4,000-Year-Old Sheep Just Helped Solve One of History’s Deadliest Mysteries

Scientists investigating an ancient mystery have uncovered the first evidence that a Bronze Age strain of plague infected livestock, not just humans. During the Middle Ages, a devastating outbreak of ...