Dispatches From Turtle Island

The earliest Celtic rulers in Europe for a period of about 350 year may have been mostly from the same matrilineally inherited royal dynasty...

The real breakthroughs in life expectancy came very late, starting in earnest after 1800 CE with major breakthroughs that reduced maternal, ...

Slavery was a significant institution in Viking society : The Norse system of thralldom was not always complete chattel slavery, but most...

A  2018 account of a Copper Age man buried with a crystal dagger and twenty young women in what is now Spain has to have been one of the mos...

The interracial intermarriage rate in Jim Crow America was about 1%. At that rate, if introgression of non-white individuals into whites co...

Endogamy, estimated to have lasted about 2,000 years, has produced genetically distinguishable differences between varna in the Indian cas...

In a late Neolithic culture of Northeastern France (ca. 4100 BCE to 3500 BCE), ancient DNA analysis of remains and consideration of their b...

While searching for the legal definition of " gentry " in English law, membership in which was a prerequisite to serving as a Just...

Bell Beaker blogger has an interesting post summarizing new evidence regarding the burial practices of Europeans in areas where the Bell Be...

Lubos has a wonderful biography of Oliver Heaviside , a self-taught man from a humble condition who was the source of many of the words and ...

Usually I discuss new findings in science. Today, I'll identify a number of issues that science has, nearly has, and may have the tools...

Lots of people are raised for substantial parts of their lives by people whom they are not genetically related to, and a new study of Korean...