DNA from soil could soon reveal who lived in ice age caves

By Gerlinde Bigga, Scientific Coordinator of the Leibniz Science Campus "Geogenomic Archaeology Campus Tübingen", University of Tübingen

The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists’ ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible through technological advances in the way DNA is extracted from ancient bones and analysed.

These advances have revealed that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred – something that wasn’t previously thought to have happened. It has allowed researchers to disentangle the various migrations that shaped modern…

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