National Geographic 08.2019

6 Three waves of immigrants settled prehistoric Europe. The last, some 5,000 years ago, were the Yamnaya, horse- riding cattle h ...

NEW GENETIC TESTING OF ANCIENT SETTLERS’ REMAINS IS REVEALING THAT EUROPE HAS LONG BEEN A MELTING POT, MADE UP OF IMMIGRANT BLOO ...

The horsemanship the Yamnaya brought to Europe lives on in their native region. A rider at the Zaporizhzhya Cossack Museum on Uk ...

THE IDEA THAT THERE WERE ONCE “pure” populations of ancestral Europeans, there since the days of woolly mammoths, has inspired i ...

DNA recovered from ancient teeth and bones lets researchers understand population shifts over time. As the cost of sequencing DN ...

In Sweden, ancient rock carvings (enhanced with modern red paint) echo cultural shifts brought by migrants—starting with hunter- ...

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University paleogeneticist David Reich. “There are no indigenous people—anyone who hear- kens back to racial purity is confronte ...

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of wheat, and probably herding small flocks of sheep and goats, some 10,300 years ago, near the dawn of the Neolithic period. Wi ...

of a skeleton. That realization, along with bet- ter sequencing machines, has helped drive the explosion in ancient DNA studies. ...

neatly contained in a wooden crate on the con- crete floor of the warehouse, a woman and child are buried together. When researc ...

Artifacts some 7,700 years old found at Aktopraklik, a Neolithic village in northwestern Turkey, offer clues to the early days o ...

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Masked figures at the annual carnival in Ottana, a village on the Italian island of Sardinia, act out human mastery over animals ...

When construction of Stonehenge began about 3000 B.C., Britain was inhabited by Neolithic farmers. A millennium later, when it w ...

uncomfortable when geneticists draw bold arrows across maps of Europe. “This kind of simplicity leads back to Kossinna,” says He ...

All senses on alert, a wolverine in Mon- tana’s Swan Valley triggers a camera trap while feeding on a deer carcass. These secret ...

BY DOUGLAS H. CHADWICK PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEVEN GNAM THE SURVIVORS WOLVERINES, THE SMALL AND FIERCE CARNIVORES OF THE FAR NORTH, AR ...

THE SITE WAS UNFENCED back then, and grizzlies often came to rummage for leftovers. Manville was watching a bear feast on a heft ...