The European project is due to wrap up in October 2023 after two years. The work has involved scrutinizing the written evidence of 10-plus Indo-European languages to find, for example, a word to ...

DNA from a 5,000-year-old French megalithic tomb reveals that the people buried before and after a population collapse were ...

Ancient DNA is turning Europe’s deep past from a sketch into a family album. Instead of guessing who first called the continent home, researchers can now read genetic traces from teeth, bones and cave ...

In this interview, Laura Spinney discusses how Proto-Indo-European spread through migration, social change, and population ...

A team of ecologists, biologists, geographers, geologists and Earth scientists from across Europe, working with a colleague from the U.K. and another from Canada, has found evidence suggesting that ...

Around 5,000 years ago, at the dawn of the Bronze Age, a mass migration of peoples from the grasslands of the Eurasian steppe poured into Europe. Called the Yamnaya, these horse herders introduced ...

Seaweed isn’t something that generally features today in European recipe books, even though it is widely eaten in Asia. But our team has discovered molecular evidence that shows this wasn’t always the ...

A new Simon Fraser University study has found men in ancient Europe likely had better access to protein-rich foods than women did. Analyzing samples from more than 12,000 skeletons from hundreds of ...