October 26, 2024 • An old Norse story tells of a king's man being tossed down a well in 1197. An archeologist teamed up with an evolutionary genomicist to study DNA of a skeleton found in that well.
A skeleton found in a well in 1938 appears to be the exact individual mentioned in a centuries-old text, complicating researchers' understandings of the genetics of southern Norwegians. By Isaac ...