Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chemical and DNA evidence reveal England was never isolated, with steady migration shaping communities for seven centuries.

DNA recovered from skeletons buried in a 7th-century cemetery on the south coast of England has revealed that the buried individuals had west African ancestry, raising further questions about early ...

Humans were migrating to early medieval England from much further afield than scientists once thought. Genetic analysis at a cemetery in Dorset and another in Kent has now revealed the skeletons of ...

Migration into England was continuous from the Romans through to the Normans and men and women moved from different places and at different rates, a study finds. The researchers found early medieval ...

Researchers give medieval Cambridge residents the 'Richard III treatment' to reveal hard-knock lives of those in the city during its famous university's early years. Study of over 400 remains from a ...

Very few people in England ate large amounts of meat before the Vikings settled, and there is no evidence that elites ate more meat than other people, a major new bioarchaeological study suggests. Its ...

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(CREDIT: Medieval Archaeology) The team analyzed more than 700 chemical signatures from skeletal remains found in early medieval cemeteries across England. These data were paired with ancient DNA from ...