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Scientists Recovered 22,000-Year-Old Human DNA From Cave Dirt

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Scientists are getting astonishingly good at extracting ancient human DNA from mere dirt and dust, even when there are no physical remains left...

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Bison in the cave of Altamira, Cantabria. The surfaces of the caves with paleolithic art are now at the center of new research on the possibility of recovering traces of ancient human DNA. Photo: Daniel Villafruela / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 The article DNA from the walls of the caves, new perspectives to study the human presence in prehistory comes from Scintilena.

The study of the ancient human genome and the genetic structure of the populations that have succeeded in the Carpato-Danubian-Pontic space is today a rigorous discipline, based on paleogenomics...

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Scientists have found 22,000-year-old human DNA in the dust of a cave in Spain, without the presence of bone remains.

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Science Alert broke the news in Canberra, Australia on Saturday, October 31, 2026.
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