01 / RECONSTRUCTING THE HUMAN PAST
Archaeogenetics
Ancient genomes offer a window into population history, mobility, social organization and disease.
Explore this researchArchaeogenetics & forensic genetics
Tracing human lives
through DNA.
Restoring identities.
We study past populations through ancient DNA and apply forensic genetics to the identification of victims.
ArchaeoBiomiCs · University of the Basque Country
Our research
Connecting genetics,
archaeology and history.
From ancient populations to individual lives,
we explore the stories preserved in human DNA.
02 / RECOVERING IDENTITIES
Forensic genetics
& historical memory
Genetic identification of victims of the Spanish Civil War.
Explore this researchAbout ArchaeoBiomiCs
We are a research group at the University of the Basque Country, working at the intersection of ancient genomics, archaeology and forensic genetics.
We work together with anthropologists, archaeologists and historians to understand past societies and contribute to the identification of human remains.
We belong to the Grupo Consolidado Microfluidics & Biomics cluster UPV/EHU.
From our research
Selected publications
2026
Archaeogenetics
Lasting Lower Rhine–Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion
Olalde, I., Altena, E., Bourgeois, Q. et al. · Nature 652, 938–946 (2026)
2022
Archaeogenetics
A high-resolution picture of kinship practices in an Early Neolithic tomb
Fowler, C., Olalde, I., Cummings, V. et al. · Nature 601, 584–587 (2022)
2025
Forensic genetics
Exploring the association between SNPs and facial morphology in a Spanish population
Navarro-López, B., Wilke, F., Suárez-Ulloa, V. et al. · Scientific Reports 15, 13826 (2025)
News & Outreach
Latest updates
August 2026: Diego participates in the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in Athens, with a talk entitled “Shared ancestry across religious boundaries in medieval Córdoba, Spain”.
June 2026: Almudena participates in the International Conference on Palaeogenomics (ICP 2026) in Stockholm, presenting the poster “Archaeogenetic data reveals genetic diversity and social dynamics in ancient Empúries”.
June 2026: Iñigo gives the outreach talk “Vida y muerte en las sociedades megalíticas vascas: una mirada a nuestro pasado a través del ADN antiguo” at the University of the Basque Country summer course in Ataun.