Genetic tests of ancient settlers' remains show that Europe is a melting pot of bloodlines from Africa, the Middle East, and today's Russia. Three waves of immigrants settled prehistoric Europe.

Light skin is a relatively recent feature of Europeans, according to a groundbreaking new study. While prior research has shown that many prehistoric humans across the continent had darker skin ...

Evidence from a prehistoric site at the shore of the Dnister river in modern-day Ukraine shows that people living during the ...

The new findings contradict previous assertions that Ashkenazi mitochondrial lineages originated in the Near East, or from mass conversions to Judaism in the Khazar kingdom, an empire in the north ...

The Yamnaya Impact on Prehistoric Europe (YMPACT) is an international and interdisciplinary research project based at the University of Helsinki Department of Cultures and funded by the European ...

Prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe experienced significant demographic shifts at the end of the last Ice Age, particularly during the Final Paleolithic (14,000-11,600 years ago).

Then they used a statistical tool called the "Cologne Protocol." The method enabled them to estimate population sizes and densities of prehistoric humans across different regions of Europe over time.

A new study sheds light on how prehistoric hunter-gatherer populations in Europe coped with climate changes over 12,000 years ago. Led by scientists from the University of Cologne, a team of 25 ...