Paleolithic human DNA reveals eastwest connections across Ice Age Europe
Oct 23, 2026
More than 30,000 years ago, people associated with one of Europe's major Paleolithic cultures (the Gravettian) were more interconnected than previously thought. An international research team led by the University of Vienna has uncovered new genetic evidence of long-distance connections between thes
e populations. Published in Science Advances, the study combines genomic data from rare human remains with human DNA preserved in cave sediments. ...read more read less