Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sheep tooth from Arkaim has given scientists the first proof of Bronze Age plague in an animal, offering new clues about how the ...

A mysterious form of plague that spread across Eurasia thousands of years before the Black Death has finally revealed a crucial clue. Scientists analyzing ancient DNA discovered the bacterium Yersinia ...

Introduction: The nature of nomads, cultural variation, and gender roles past and present / Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson -- Reconsidering warfare, status, and gender in the Eurasian ...

A study of genomes from ancient Siberian people shows genetic linkages with people living in Estonia, Finland and Hungary today.

A wave of ancient DNA studies published in Nature has forced a sharp revision of how scientists understand the peopling of ...