The cannabis traces found at Jirzankal Cemetery in the Pamir Mountains had unusually high concentrations of THC.

Ancient genomes from modern Ukraine and Russia reveal the origins of the Yamna people, pastoralists who migrated from the Eurasian steppe to Europe 5,000 years ago, spreading their ancestry ...

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

A pair of landmark studies has genetically identified the originators of the massive Indo-European family of 400-plus ...

These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the ...

Grasslands in Asia and North America differ in their responses to drought, according to a paper in the journal Nature led by ...