While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

However, it is assumed that sub-Saharan headrests followed an Egyptian tradition. Egyptian examples survived because they were made of stone, unlike African headrests which were almost always made ...

These are the first ancient DNA samples from sub-Saharan Africa that date to this period. The researchers also analyzed the genomes of three people who lived in the Holocene, the period that began ...