Learn how ancient DNA and tooth enamel are rewriting England’s medieval history and showing connections between climate ...

A groundbreaking bioarchaeological study from the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge has shattered long-held assumptions about medieval migration patterns into England. Rather than arriving in ...

Throughout the thousand-year reign of the Roman Empire, disparate populations began to connect in new ways—through trade routes, economic and political collaboration, and joint military endeavors. Now ...

A major question in paleoanthropology—the field dedicated to studying human evolution—asks how humans migrated. Most research suggests that modern humans evolved in Africa, though of course we ended ...

In Anglo-Saxon times, more than three-quarters of the ancestry of people in parts of England was from recent north European migrants. The finding, which comes from sequencing the DNA of people buried ...

Matthew Williams, academic affiliate assistant professor of biology at Penn State (left), and Christian Huber, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, are part of a team that used sophisticated ...