Keith Kloor

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Viking longship

Learn about the collection of medieval stone disks found in Ukraine and why researchers are speculating on their role as solar compasses for Vikings.

Medieval Solar Compasses May Have Guided Viking Sailors 

viking-boat-migration

Follow the complex story of migrations in Europe during the first millennium, as Germanic and Viking ancestry spread across the continent.

How Viking and Germanic DNA Spread Through the Iron Age Migrations

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Discover the new planets, moons, health advances, and ancient history uncovered in 2024. 

9 of the Most Remarkable Scientific Discoveries of 2024

autopsy-procedure-room

Learn about how ancient societies used autopsies and how they evolved into the procedure they are today.

Autopsies Have A Long and Complicated History

Examples of cranial trauma. Top) perimortem injury to the left posterior of the frontal bone (a), cutmarks can also be seen on the frontal bone (b) and patinated bevel of the internal cranial surface is apparent around the injury (c); middle) cranium with a perforating injury to mid-frontal bone (d), a closer view shows radiating fracture lines (e) and the internal view shows patinated bevel (f ); bottom) adult cranium (g), close inspection shows cutmarks running along the mid-frontal (h) and a perimortem blunt force fracture to the conjoining right frontal bone fragment (i) Images by Schulting et al. Antiquity, December 2024. (Credit: Schulting et al. Antiquity, December 2024.)

Cranial trauma - evidence.

Find out more about this historic find and how it illuminates a darker side of early human history. 

Bronze Age Bones Indicate Violent Death and Possible Cannibalism

Neanderthal and human skull

Learn how scientists examined DNA to find out the duration of Neanderthal-human interbreeding and track down the Neanderthal genes that humans inherited.

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