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Researcher of ancient Mayan human remains uncovers site used in male, twin sacrifices
WUNC Chapel Hill· 2 days agoNPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Rodrigo Barquera, a researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary ...
Malaria History, Colonization-Related Spread Revealed in Ancient DNA Sequencing Study
GenomeWeb News· 6 days agoAn international team led by investigators at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
DNA suggests Mayans sacrificed boy siblings
The Week via Yahoo News· 6 days agoDNA analysis began in 2015, and "we kept rerunning the tests because we couldn't believe that all of them were male," said the study lead author Rodrigo...
DNA reveals mystery of Maya human sacrifice
Boing Boing· 7 days ago"There were two big moments of surprise here," said Rodrigo Barquera of the department of archaeogenetics at the Max Planck Institute ...
DNA reveals ritual of sacrificing boys, including twins, in ancient Mayan city, scientists say
CBS News· 7 days agoItzá, built on what is now Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, has been investigated by archaeologists for...
Remapping global history through 5,500 years of malaria
UC Newsroom· 6 days ago...a doctoral researcher at the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center Archaeoscience of the Ancient...
Ancient DNA Illuminates the History of Malaria, One of the World's Deadliest Diseases
Smithsonian Magazine· 5 days ago“It’s the last place on Earth I would expect to find a malaria infection,” Megan Michel, an ...
Who were the victims of Maya sacrifice? Ancient DNA reveals an unexpected finding
CNN.com· 7 days ago“There were two big moments of surprise here,” said lead study author Rodrigo Barquera, a researcher...
A surprising history of malaria is revealed by clues from ancient bones
WAMC Northeast Public Radio· 6 days agoMalaria is at least 5,500 years old, the study found and might even be much older, the researchers...
Hidden tunnel under Mayan temple reveals new gruesome details of human sacrifices
The Independent via Yahoo News· 6 days agoCo-author Dr Kathrin Nägele, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ...
