Centuries-old cemetery points to colder climate as a factor in childhood vitamin D deficiency in industrial England
Children in 18th and 19th century England got sick with rickets at high rates, and most explanations point…
Denisovans had a distinctive look, protein and skull study suggests
Scientists in China have pulled ancient proteins from two bones found at the Xujiayao site and learned the…
Ancient DNA shows Ice Age Europeans stayed connected across long distances
People who lived in Europe more than 30,000 years ago were more connected than scientists believed. A team…
6,000-year-old infant from ancient Mesopotamia shows one of the world’s oldest signs of child abuse
A 6,000-year-old infant buried in ancient Syria has given researchers what looks like the oldest known case of…