DNA from Soil Could Soon Reveal Who Lived in Ice Age Caves

DNA from Soil Could Soon Reveal Who Lived in Ice Age Caves

The team at GACT has been analysing sediments from Hohle Fels cave in Germany. Credit: Geogenomic Archaeology Campus Tübingen (GACT) The last two decades have seen a revolution in scientists’ ability to reconstruct the past. This has been made possible through technological advances in the way DNA is extracted from ancient bones and analysed. By Gerlinde Bigga These advances have revealed that Neanderthals and modern humans interbred – something…