Ancient DNA from the skeleton of a baby who lived and died in southern Italy 17,000 years ago has painted a fascinating picture of the ill-fated infant and offers a rare snapshot into ancient life.

I resti scheletrici, trovati alla fine degli anni '90 nel sito archeologico di Grotta delle Mura (Monopoli), sono tra i pochi scheletri infantili del Paleolitico Superiore così ben preservati.

Mauro Calattini, an archaeologist at the University of Siena and one of the study authors, found the child's grave in 1998 while excavating the Grotta delle Mura cave in Monopoli, a town in the ...

The archaeologists were able to reconstruct the appearance, ancestry, and health from the remains of a 17,000-year-old infant found in the Grotta delle Mura cave in Monopoli, Puglia, Italy.

In 1998, researchers discovered the skeletal remains of a child carefully laid under rock slabs in the floor of the Grotta delle Mura cavern in Apulia, southern Italy. It was the only burial in ...

The skeletal remains were found in 1998 by archaeologists from the University of Siena in the Grotta delle Mura cave of Monopoli, Puglia, without any final possessions or ador[nments, according to ...

Nel 1998, nel sito archeologico di Grotta delle Mura, in Puglia, a Monopoli, era emerso un ritrovamento apparso fin da subito come molto importante. Si trattava della sepoltura di un bambino piccolo, ...

His remains were discovered in 1998, in the Grotta delle Mura cave in Monopoli, Puglia, according to a study recently published in Nature Communications. Archaeologist Mauro Calattini, one of the ...