🧊🔬 Wow,
#science just discovered that
#Ötzi the
#Iceman has a cousin 5,000 years removed. 📜 Because apparently, the only thing harder to kill than a cockroach is a lineage from the Stone Age. 👨🔬👩🔬 What’s next, a family reunion with the Pharaohs?
https://blog.familytreedna.com/otzi-the-iceman-dna/ #FamilyHistory #Archaeology #AncientDNA #StoneAge #HackerNews #ngated
Ötzi the Iceman’s DNA Reveals a Living Relative 5,000 Years Later
For years, experts believed Ötzi the Iceman’s mitochondrial DNA lineage had vanished. New genetic analysis reveals it still survives today.
26-Mar-2026
#Medieval DNA reveals trans-Saharan connections, rapid genetic mixing, and leprosy in Islamic #Ibiza
Sounds like it was already a holiday hotspot ...
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1121342
#science #ancientDNA #humans
Medieval DNA reveals trans-Saharan connections, rapid genetic mixing, and leprosy in Islamic Ibiza
Medieval Ibiza was far from a quiet Mediterranean backwater. New DNA evidence shows that the island was part of a dynamic world linking Europe, North Africa and even the Sahel zone, south of Sahara. An international research team led from the Centre for Palaeogenetics (CPG), a joint venture between Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History, has revealed that its population was remarkably diverse, connected to Europe, North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa through trade, migration, and social networks. The study is published in Nature Communications.
New ancient DNA from 10th–12th century Islamic Ibiza reveals Sub-Saharan African individuals from Chad and Senegambia, rapid post-conquest admixture, and the first genetically confirmed leprosy case from medieval Islamic Iberia.
#Archaeogenomics #AncientDNA #MedievalHistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/the-cemetery-at-the-edge-of-the-islamic
The Cemetery at the Edge of the Islamic World
Thirteen medieval burials on Ibiza hold the genetic record of a conquered island, trans-Saharan networks, and a case of leprosy hidden in plain sight.
Two new genomic studies reveal Neanderthals as a patchwork of tiny, isolated groups — more genetically fractured than any living human populations. A single bottleneck nearly ended them 65,000 years ago.
#Neanderthals #AncientDNA #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Paleoanthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/one-species-barely-holding-together
One Species, Barely Holding Together
Two new genomic studies reveal Neanderthals as a patchwork of tiny, isolated populations — more genetically divided than any humans alive today
New mtDNA from 6 Neanderthal sites shows nearly all Late Neanderthals descended from one refugium population in SW France ~65,000 years ago — then collapsed again ~42,000 years ago.
#Neanderthals #AncientDNA #Paleoanthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/one-lineage-to-rule-them-all-the
One Lineage to Rule Them All: The Last Neanderthals Were Descended from a Single Refugium Population
New DNA confirms Europe's last Neanderthals descended from a single population that survived the MIS 4 glacial in southwest France.
The Old Irish Goat Carries 3,000 Years Of Irish History In Its DNA
“Goats tell us how human values changed through time by showing how and where we moved animals through trade or migration.”
#SciComm by @GrrlScientist
#history #Archaeology #ancientDNA #genomics #proteomics https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2026/03/22/the-old-irish-goat-carries-3000-years-of-irish-history-in-its-dna/
The Old Irish Goat Carries 3,000 Years Of Irish History In Its DNA
“Goats tell us how human values changed through time by showing how and where we moved animals through trade or migration.”
#SciComm by @GrrlScientist
#history #Archaeology #ancientDNA #genomics #proteomics https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2026/03/22/the-old-irish-goat-carries-3000-years-of-irish-history-in-its-dna/
The Old Irish Goat Carries 3,000 Years Of Irish History In Its DNA
“Goats tell us how human values changed through time by showing how and where we moved animals through trade or migration.”
#SciComm by @grrlscientist
#history #Archaeology #ancientDNA #genomics #proteomics https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2026/03/22/the-old-irish-goat-carries-3000-years-of-irish-history-in-its-dna/
Palau’s first settlers arrived ~3,200 years ago already carrying 40% Papuan ancestry — centuries before similar mixing happened elsewhere in the Pacific. New ancient DNA research rewrites the archipelago’s founding story.
#Paleoanthropology #AncientDNA #PacificPrehistory https://www.anthropology.net/p/palaus-first-settlers-were-already
Palau’s First Settlers Were Already a Mixed Population Before They Arrived
New ancient DNA research overturns assumptions about when Pacific peoples began mixing — and reveals nearly 3,000 years of unbroken genetic continuity in the western Pacific.
Check out this new paper that sheds light on the early
#evolution of elephants! Straight-tusked
#elephants once roamed across
#Eurasia, but one lineage became stranded in Japan?! 🐘🧬 Ancient
#mtDNA reveals Palaeoloxodon naumanni as an early-diverging lineage that survived in island isolation.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.114156 #MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #palaeogenetics #ancientDNA
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