Neolithic Sardinians (4442–3050 BCE)
A coastal, cavernous world where farmers and foragers shaped Sardinia’s first villages and genes
Ancient and historical cultures
DNA Spotlights
Explore the places, time periods, and published research behind ancient DNA samples and the cultures associated with them.
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Roman Sardinia: Shores of Movement
Three Roman-era burials from Alghero reveal a small, vivid window into island life and mobility
Sicily Early Bronze Age Peoples
Archaeology and ancient DNA reveal shifting communities across Sicily, 2872–1400 BCE.
San Teodoro Epigravettian of Sicily
Late Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers on Sicily’s rugged northeastern shores, glimpsed through archaeology and DNA
Himera 409 BCE: Echoes from a Burned City
Genetic and archaeological traces from Himera (Sicily) at the moment of its destruction
Himera, 480 BCE: City at the Crossroads
Archaeology and ancient DNA illuminate a cosmopolitan Himeran community in a year of war
Himera: Voices of Archaic Sicily
Genomic and archaeological glimpses into a Sicilian Greek city-state (500–400 BCE)
Himera: Sicily’s Classical Crossroads
A coastal city where Greek colonists, indigenous Sicels and wider Mediterranean currents met
Polizzello Voices: Iron Age Sicily
A hilltop community where stones, pottery and DNA speak of Mediterranean ties
Sicily Late Bronze Age: Marcita Echoes
Fragments of a coastal society at Marcita (1400–900 BCE), seen through bones and genes
Late Mesolithic Sicily – Grotta dell'Uzzo
Cave communities on Sicily's rugged shorelines whose maternal lines trace Mesolithic Europe
Stentinello of North Sicily
Early Neolithic lives at Grotta dell’Uzzo captured in archaeology and DNA