When off work, the sheepherders would gather to speak Euskara (the Basque language), eat traditional foods, play music and perform dances from the old country. Annual “sheepherders balls ...

From his home on a hill in Channel-Port aux Basques, Peter Glass can see just about everything he loves about the coastal town. He can pan from mountaintops to ocean swells in a matter of seconds.

Researchers led by population geneticist Mattias Jakobsson from Uppsala University in Sweden analyzed DNA from eight skeletons pulled out of El Portalón cave in the Basque country of northern Spain.