Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

A huge study of ancient DNA reveals the origins of the Yamna, who spread across Eurasia around 5000 years ago, showing they ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo-European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

Ancient DNA analysis reveals that sheep were domesticated over 11,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent. By 8,000 years ago, ...

Archaeologists from Russia have uncovered four Neolithic settlements on the Kola Peninsula linked to the Scandinavian Gressbakken culture. Recent excavations, conducted in remote areas, revealed ...

The bones belonged to dozens of hunted species, the institute said, including woolly mammoths. The skeletons of at least 13 mammoths were discovered at the site, dating to a period researchers ...

Archaeologists from the Institute of History of Material Culture at the Russian Academy of Sciences have discovered four settlements dating back to the Late Neo ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...

Scientists uncovered evidence of the oldest hominin presence in Europe in modern-day Romania nearly two million years ago.

Sheep have been part of human life for over 11,000 years. First domesticated in the western Fertile Crescent, their impact ...

A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...