Hanging Coffins, and the Bo People: Tracing a Cliffside Burial Tradition Across Southern China and Southeast Asia Caterina November 20, 2025 – 3 min read Share this post Papers Ancient DNA Reveals 4,000 Years of Population Shifts at the Ningxia Crossroads of Steppe and Yellow River China Late Neolithic Ningxia: A Genetic Crossroads Between Rivers, Mountains, and Steppe The article plunges the reader into late Neolithic Ningxia, more than four thousand years ago, when this bend of the Yellow River was already a busy corridor between very different worlds. By analysing the DNA of people buried at By Sara V • 7 min read Papers Potato-Driven Evolution: Adaptive Expansion of Salivary Amylase Genes in Indigenous Andeans Starch, Mummies, and Mountain Kingdoms: AMY1 in the Ancient Andes Starch, Mummies, and Mountain Kingdoms: AMY1 in the Ancient Andes Introduction: Life on the Andean Altiplano This comprehensive study takes readers high into the Andean plateau, to a world of terraced fields, burial towers, and lakeside villages, exploring how ancient By Sara V • 6 min read Papers Ancient DNA Uncovers Pre-Inca Coastal Migration and a Kin-Based Family Ossuary in Chincha, Peru Ancient Coastal Networks of Peru: Migration, Kinship, and Identity in the Chincha Valley Ancient Coastal Networks of Peru: Migration, Kinship, and Identity in the Chincha Valley (13th-15th Centuries AD) Long-Distance Coastal Migration: Linking Chincha to Peru's North Coast The ancient Pacific shore of Peru served as a vast By Jamie L • 12 min read Papers Ancient DNA Reveals 4,000 Years of Population Shifts at the Ningxia Crossroads of Steppe and Yellow River China Late Neolithic Ningxia: A Genetic Crossroads Between Rivers, Mountains, and Steppe The article plunges the reader into late Neolithic Ningxia, more than four thousand years ago, when this bend of the Yellow River was already a busy corridor between very different worlds. By analysing the DNA of people buried at By Sara V • 7 min read Papers Potato-Driven Evolution: Adaptive Expansion of Salivary Amylase Genes in Indigenous Andeans Starch, Mummies, and Mountain Kingdoms: AMY1 in the Ancient Andes Starch, Mummies, and Mountain Kingdoms: AMY1 in the Ancient Andes Introduction: Life on the Andean Altiplano This comprehensive study takes readers high into the Andean plateau, to a world of terraced fields, burial towers, and lakeside villages, exploring how ancient By Sara V • 6 min read Papers Ancient DNA Uncovers Pre-Inca Coastal Migration and a Kin-Based Family Ossuary in Chincha, Peru Ancient Coastal Networks of Peru: Migration, Kinship, and Identity in the Chincha Valley Ancient Coastal Networks of Peru: Migration, Kinship, and Identity in the Chincha Valley (13th-15th Centuries AD) Long-Distance Coastal Migration: Linking Chincha to Peru's North Coast The ancient Pacific shore of Peru served as a vast By Jamie L • 12 min read Papers Persistent Forager Ancestry and the Rise of Bell Beaker Peoples in the Lower Rhine–Meuse Region Persistent Foragers and Bell Beaker Expansions in Northwestern Europe Persistent Foragers and Bell Beaker Expansions in Northwestern Europe: Genetic Evidence from the Lower Rhine–Meuse Region Introduction: A Watery World Where Hunters Met Farmers The damp, reed-fringed landscapes of the Lower Rhine–Meuse region – encompassing the river deltas, peat bogs, By Caterina • 6 min read Papers Persistent Forager Ancestry and the Bell Beaker Expansion in the Lower Rhine–Meuse Region Persistent Foragers in a Farming World: The Lower Rhine–Meuse Story Persistent Foragers in a Farming World: The Lower Rhine–Meuse Story The waterlogged landscapes of the Lower Rhine–Meuse region reveal one of prehistoric Europe's most remarkable stories. Here, in the rivers, peat bogs and dunes of By Sven • 6 min read Papers Ancient DNA Reveals Central European Origins and Spread of Celtic Languages Tracing Celtic Voices Through Ancient DNA: From Bronze Age Europe to the Atlantic Edge Tracing Celtic Voices Through Ancient DNA: From Bronze Age Europe to the Atlantic Edge Introduction: Unraveling the Celtic Mystery This comprehensive study explores one of European prehistory's most enduring mysteries: how Celtic languages, now By Sven • 7 min read
Papers Ancient DNA Reveals 4,000 Years of Population Shifts at the Ningxia Crossroads of Steppe and Yellow River China Late Neolithic Ningxia: A Genetic Crossroads Between Rivers, Mountains, and Steppe The article plunges the reader into late Neolithic Ningxia, more than four thousand years ago, when this bend of the Yellow River was already a busy corridor between very different worlds. By analysing the DNA of people buried at By Sara V • 7 min read
Papers Potato-Driven Evolution: Adaptive Expansion of Salivary Amylase Genes in Indigenous Andeans Starch, Mummies, and Mountain Kingdoms: AMY1 in the Ancient Andes Starch, Mummies, and Mountain Kingdoms: AMY1 in the Ancient Andes Introduction: Life on the Andean Altiplano This comprehensive study takes readers high into the Andean plateau, to a world of terraced fields, burial towers, and lakeside villages, exploring how ancient By Sara V • 6 min read
Papers Ancient DNA Uncovers Pre-Inca Coastal Migration and a Kin-Based Family Ossuary in Chincha, Peru Ancient Coastal Networks of Peru: Migration, Kinship, and Identity in the Chincha Valley Ancient Coastal Networks of Peru: Migration, Kinship, and Identity in the Chincha Valley (13th-15th Centuries AD) Long-Distance Coastal Migration: Linking Chincha to Peru's North Coast The ancient Pacific shore of Peru served as a vast By Jamie L • 12 min read
Papers Ancient DNA Reveals 4,000 Years of Population Shifts at the Ningxia Crossroads of Steppe and Yellow River China Late Neolithic Ningxia: A Genetic Crossroads Between Rivers, Mountains, and Steppe The article plunges the reader into late Neolithic Ningxia, more than four thousand years ago, when this bend of the Yellow River was already a busy corridor between very different worlds. By analysing the DNA of people buried at By Sara V • 7 min read
Papers Potato-Driven Evolution: Adaptive Expansion of Salivary Amylase Genes in Indigenous Andeans Starch, Mummies, and Mountain Kingdoms: AMY1 in the Ancient Andes Starch, Mummies, and Mountain Kingdoms: AMY1 in the Ancient Andes Introduction: Life on the Andean Altiplano This comprehensive study takes readers high into the Andean plateau, to a world of terraced fields, burial towers, and lakeside villages, exploring how ancient By Sara V • 6 min read
Papers Ancient DNA Uncovers Pre-Inca Coastal Migration and a Kin-Based Family Ossuary in Chincha, Peru Ancient Coastal Networks of Peru: Migration, Kinship, and Identity in the Chincha Valley Ancient Coastal Networks of Peru: Migration, Kinship, and Identity in the Chincha Valley (13th-15th Centuries AD) Long-Distance Coastal Migration: Linking Chincha to Peru's North Coast The ancient Pacific shore of Peru served as a vast By Jamie L • 12 min read
Papers Persistent Forager Ancestry and the Rise of Bell Beaker Peoples in the Lower Rhine–Meuse Region Persistent Foragers and Bell Beaker Expansions in Northwestern Europe Persistent Foragers and Bell Beaker Expansions in Northwestern Europe: Genetic Evidence from the Lower Rhine–Meuse Region Introduction: A Watery World Where Hunters Met Farmers The damp, reed-fringed landscapes of the Lower Rhine–Meuse region – encompassing the river deltas, peat bogs, By Caterina • 6 min read
Papers Persistent Forager Ancestry and the Bell Beaker Expansion in the Lower Rhine–Meuse Region Persistent Foragers in a Farming World: The Lower Rhine–Meuse Story Persistent Foragers in a Farming World: The Lower Rhine–Meuse Story The waterlogged landscapes of the Lower Rhine–Meuse region reveal one of prehistoric Europe's most remarkable stories. Here, in the rivers, peat bogs and dunes of By Sven • 6 min read
Papers Ancient DNA Reveals Central European Origins and Spread of Celtic Languages Tracing Celtic Voices Through Ancient DNA: From Bronze Age Europe to the Atlantic Edge Tracing Celtic Voices Through Ancient DNA: From Bronze Age Europe to the Atlantic Edge Introduction: Unraveling the Celtic Mystery This comprehensive study explores one of European prehistory's most enduring mysteries: how Celtic languages, now By Sven • 7 min read
