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Tracing the Huns’ Genetic Legacy: A Eurasian Patchwork of Ancestry

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Credit: Boglárka Mészáros, BHM Aquincum Museum A team of geneticists, archaeologists, and historians from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the HistoGenes project examined the DNA of 370 individuals dating from the 2nd century BCE to the 6th century CE, spanning sites from Mongolia to Central Europe.

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“We Have Always Been Here”: How DNA and Oral Tradition Aligned to Tell the Picuris Pueblo’s Deep Past

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These stories speak of migration, of belonging, of origins tied to Chaco Canyon, one of the great ceremonial and cultural centers of the ancient Puebloan world. federally recognized tribe has led and co-authored a genomic study of its own ancestry. The interpretation was shaped by cultural context.

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The Geometry of Memory: How Knots Carry the Weight of Human History

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But beyond their everyday function of fastening and securing, knots hold something deeper: a story about the evolution of human cognition, the flow of culture, and the quiet persistence of shared technique across continents and millennia. The process of Gauss coding a simple knot. Image credit: Roope Kaaronen / University of Helsinki.

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Neanderthals and Modern Humans: A Shared Past Revealed Through DNA

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The Kennis brothers, courtesy of The Natural History Museum, London New Insights from Ancient Genomes A groundbreaking study analyzed 58 ancient Eurasian genomes alongside the DNA of 275 contemporary humans. The Genomic Landscape of Neanderthal Ancestry in Present-Day Humans Authors : Sankararaman, S., DOI : 10.1016/j.ajhg.2014.10.003

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. Army’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a group of soldiers of Japanese ancestry, during World War II.