Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7,900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. Credit: Helena Malmström. CC0. New research shows that ancient southern African hunter-gatherer genomes...
Photograph of Star 1 before the human bone was CT scanned, radiocarbon dated and underwent ancient DNA extraction. Credit: Emily M Pigott. CC BY. A tiny 5cm long bone allows insights into the crucial period when Neanderthals disappeared and Homo sapiens replaced them....
