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Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad regional scales1–4. However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact zones are hampered by a lack of ancient genomic data sampled at high spatiotemporal resolution5–7. Here, to address this, we analysed shotgun-sequenced genomes from 100 skeletons spanning 7,300 years of the Mesolithic period, Neolithic period and Early Bronze Age in Denmark and integrated these with proxies for diet (13C and 15N content), mobility (87Sr/86Sr ratio) and vegetation cover (pollen). We observe that Dan...

Since its inception as a science, archaeology has taught us a lot about ourselves, our ancestors, and what the world was like in the distant past. It

When Roy van Beek was a teenager in the Netherlands in the early 1990s, he made a field trip to a local museum to see an exhibit of bog bodies: ancien

The first comprehensive survey of a 7,000-year-old burial tradition reveals an often violent final ritual.

Analysis by researchers at Wageningen University in the Netherlands reveals the majority of 'bog bodies'met a 'gruesome' end before being intentionally discarded into the wet, spongy bogland.