Foreign Founders: Genetic Genealogy of the Medieval Piast Dynasty and Its Links to Other European Royal Houses Jamie L April 09, 2026 – 7 min read Share this post Papers Millet Farmers on the Steppe: Ancient DNA and Isotopes Reveal Mixed Farming–Herding at Bronze Age Erdaojingzi Yellow River Farmers on the West Liao Steppe: A Bronze Age Frontier Settlement The Erdaojingzi settlement in Inner Mongolia represents a remarkable Bronze Age frontier town where people, animals, and ideas from the Yellow River heartland met the open grasslands of the West Liao River Basin. Here, in what archaeologists By Caterina • 7 min read Papers The genetic legacy of the 17th-century colonial capital of St. Mary's City Archaeological Discoveries: Stories from Ancient Burial Grounds Archaeological Discoveries: Stories from Ancient Burial Grounds The world of archaeology opens windows onto long-lost civilizations, using ancient skeletons, burial mounds, and forgotten artifacts to tell stories that written records never preserved. At its heart lies a series of archaeological dig sites where By Caterina • 7 min read Papers Ancient DNA Unlocks Mammoth Ivory and Human Behavior at Hohle Fels Ancient DNA in Mammoth Ivory from Hohle Fels Ancient DNA in Mammoth Ivory from Hohle Fels: Unlocking the Genetic Secrets of Ice Age Craft Introduction: A Cave Workshop of the Ice Age The research takes readers deep into Hohle Fels, a remarkable cave in the Ach Valley of southwestern Germany, By Jamie L • 6 min read Papers Millet Farmers on the Steppe: Ancient DNA and Isotopes Reveal Mixed Farming–Herding at Bronze Age Erdaojingzi Yellow River Farmers on the West Liao Steppe: A Bronze Age Frontier Settlement The Erdaojingzi settlement in Inner Mongolia represents a remarkable Bronze Age frontier town where people, animals, and ideas from the Yellow River heartland met the open grasslands of the West Liao River Basin. Here, in what archaeologists By Caterina • 7 min read Papers The genetic legacy of the 17th-century colonial capital of St. Mary's City Archaeological Discoveries: Stories from Ancient Burial Grounds Archaeological Discoveries: Stories from Ancient Burial Grounds The world of archaeology opens windows onto long-lost civilizations, using ancient skeletons, burial mounds, and forgotten artifacts to tell stories that written records never preserved. At its heart lies a series of archaeological dig sites where By Caterina • 7 min read Papers Ancient DNA Unlocks Mammoth Ivory and Human Behavior at Hohle Fels Ancient DNA in Mammoth Ivory from Hohle Fels Ancient DNA in Mammoth Ivory from Hohle Fels: Unlocking the Genetic Secrets of Ice Age Craft Introduction: A Cave Workshop of the Ice Age The research takes readers deep into Hohle Fels, a remarkable cave in the Ach Valley of southwestern Germany, By Jamie L • 6 min read Papers Early Horse Riding Before Full Domestication: Insights from Ancient DNA and Archaeology Riders Before Domestication: Early Horse Taming on the Eurasian Steppe Riders Before Domestication: Early Horse Taming on the Eurasian Steppe This comprehensive examination sweeps readers back to a time when humans first dared to climb onto the backs of wild horses, long before the fully domesticated animals known from later By Caterina • 5 min read Papers Bronze Age Calabria DNA Reveals Inbred Community and a Rare Father–Daughter Incest Case Bronze Age People on the Edge of Italy: Demography and Mobility in Calabria The article plunges the reader into the rugged mountains of northern Calabria during the Middle Bronze Age (around 1780–1380 BCE), using ancient DNA to put flesh – quite literally – back on the scattered bones from one extraordinary By Caterina • 7 min read Papers Kinship and Violence in a Rare Viking-Age Multiple Burial from Semigallia, Latvia Viking Age Semigallian Burial Customs and a Rare Multiple Grave Viking Age Semigallian Burial Customs and a Rare Multiple Grave The article opens in the river valleys of southern Latvia, in the lands once held by the Semigallians – a Baltic people who lived along the Lielupe river system during the By Sara V • 6 min read
Papers Millet Farmers on the Steppe: Ancient DNA and Isotopes Reveal Mixed Farming–Herding at Bronze Age Erdaojingzi Yellow River Farmers on the West Liao Steppe: A Bronze Age Frontier Settlement The Erdaojingzi settlement in Inner Mongolia represents a remarkable Bronze Age frontier town where people, animals, and ideas from the Yellow River heartland met the open grasslands of the West Liao River Basin. Here, in what archaeologists By Caterina • 7 min read
Papers The genetic legacy of the 17th-century colonial capital of St. Mary's City Archaeological Discoveries: Stories from Ancient Burial Grounds Archaeological Discoveries: Stories from Ancient Burial Grounds The world of archaeology opens windows onto long-lost civilizations, using ancient skeletons, burial mounds, and forgotten artifacts to tell stories that written records never preserved. At its heart lies a series of archaeological dig sites where By Caterina • 7 min read
Papers Ancient DNA Unlocks Mammoth Ivory and Human Behavior at Hohle Fels Ancient DNA in Mammoth Ivory from Hohle Fels Ancient DNA in Mammoth Ivory from Hohle Fels: Unlocking the Genetic Secrets of Ice Age Craft Introduction: A Cave Workshop of the Ice Age The research takes readers deep into Hohle Fels, a remarkable cave in the Ach Valley of southwestern Germany, By Jamie L • 6 min read
Papers Millet Farmers on the Steppe: Ancient DNA and Isotopes Reveal Mixed Farming–Herding at Bronze Age Erdaojingzi Yellow River Farmers on the West Liao Steppe: A Bronze Age Frontier Settlement The Erdaojingzi settlement in Inner Mongolia represents a remarkable Bronze Age frontier town where people, animals, and ideas from the Yellow River heartland met the open grasslands of the West Liao River Basin. Here, in what archaeologists By Caterina • 7 min read
Papers The genetic legacy of the 17th-century colonial capital of St. Mary's City Archaeological Discoveries: Stories from Ancient Burial Grounds Archaeological Discoveries: Stories from Ancient Burial Grounds The world of archaeology opens windows onto long-lost civilizations, using ancient skeletons, burial mounds, and forgotten artifacts to tell stories that written records never preserved. At its heart lies a series of archaeological dig sites where By Caterina • 7 min read
Papers Ancient DNA Unlocks Mammoth Ivory and Human Behavior at Hohle Fels Ancient DNA in Mammoth Ivory from Hohle Fels Ancient DNA in Mammoth Ivory from Hohle Fels: Unlocking the Genetic Secrets of Ice Age Craft Introduction: A Cave Workshop of the Ice Age The research takes readers deep into Hohle Fels, a remarkable cave in the Ach Valley of southwestern Germany, By Jamie L • 6 min read
Papers Early Horse Riding Before Full Domestication: Insights from Ancient DNA and Archaeology Riders Before Domestication: Early Horse Taming on the Eurasian Steppe Riders Before Domestication: Early Horse Taming on the Eurasian Steppe This comprehensive examination sweeps readers back to a time when humans first dared to climb onto the backs of wild horses, long before the fully domesticated animals known from later By Caterina • 5 min read
Papers Bronze Age Calabria DNA Reveals Inbred Community and a Rare Father–Daughter Incest Case Bronze Age People on the Edge of Italy: Demography and Mobility in Calabria The article plunges the reader into the rugged mountains of northern Calabria during the Middle Bronze Age (around 1780–1380 BCE), using ancient DNA to put flesh – quite literally – back on the scattered bones from one extraordinary By Caterina • 7 min read
Papers Kinship and Violence in a Rare Viking-Age Multiple Burial from Semigallia, Latvia Viking Age Semigallian Burial Customs and a Rare Multiple Grave Viking Age Semigallian Burial Customs and a Rare Multiple Grave The article opens in the river valleys of southern Latvia, in the lands once held by the Semigallians – a Baltic people who lived along the Lielupe river system during the By Sara V • 6 min read
