Using advanced DNA analysis techniques, they traced the movement of populations across the continent, offering new insights into how ancient groups interacted and reshaped the genetic landscape of ...

A groundbreaking method, Twigstats, has revealed detailed waves of migration across Europe during the first millennium AD by analyzing ancient DNA with unprecedented precision. This research uncovered ...

Researchers developed a more precise method of understanding ancestry from ancient DNA and used it to identify previously unknown waves of migration. Researchers have identified three major waves ...

Documenting migrations by analysing changes in DNA has proven difficult due to the ... descendants of Roman gladiators within the ancient population. It found that a quarter of the ancestry ...

Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of ...

New research led by the Francis Crick Institute has revealed waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD. Using a refined method of analyzing ancient DNA ancestry, they ...

Waves of human migration across Europe during the first millennium AD have been revealed using a more precise method of analysing ancestry with ancient DNA, in research co-led by a UCL and Francis ...

A team of international researchers, led by Leo Speidel and Pontus Skoglund at the Francis Crick Institute, developed an innovative analytical approach called Twigstats that dramatically improves our ...

While the new project will analyse the DNA of over 1,000 ancient human remains from the past four and a half millenia, it is this specific era that has left historians baffled and divided.

The team was able to tease out the migration routes using a new, more precise, method of ancient DNA analysis, called Twigstats which can pick out small differences between genetically similar groups.