An extensive genetic study offers new insights into the history of migratory movements in the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years. Nomads from the steppes of Eastern Europe would have replaced a large part of the men. Skeletons from La Brana, found in northwest Spain. These two brothers wer
Thousands of years ago, the Sahara was surprisingly green, with rich vegetation, trees, and lakes covering almost all of what is now sandy desert. There were vast open grasslands, forests, rivers, lakes and wetlands, which allowed the survival of a wide variety of animal species. Antelopes, gazelles
Like ducal Burgundy, a true land of Western medieval monasticism, Transjuran Burgundy also presents itself as a land of predilection where many monastic foundations developed from the time of the Burgundian kingdom. It is also in these lands that we must look for the historical sources of Cluny beac
Morgane Ollivier, paleogenomician at the CNRS, seeks to make the DNA of soils speak. Tracking residues of human DNA as well as animal or plant species that have disappeared in the sediments, a new avenue of research. There is no reason to suspect that the sediment cores brought up from the depth