The immediate aftermath of Roman occupation in Britain is often stereotyped as a post-imperial anti-climax during which the Roman way of life…
Recent analysis of 12 teeth, first excavated at the Palaeolithic site of La Cotte de St Brelade in Jersey between 1910 and…
Fifteen thousand years ago, nomadic hunter-gatherers set up camp at Les Varines, Jersey. Their existence was no hand-tomouth search for subsistence, though:…
In this month’s ‘Science Notes’, we explore the evolution of the Y chromosome in Neanderthals and Denisovans (an extinct subspecies of humans,…
Neanderthals must be the most-familiar members of our extended family tree. Since the first discoveries of their bones in the 1850s (a…
Where do we come from? A new exhibition encompassing genetics and archaeology tells the long tale of migration in the British Isles.…