Another step forward in radiocarbon dating: a high precision record of atmospheric radiocarbon shifts beyond 14,000 calendar years BP
Family trees from the European Neolithic: scientists gain insights into the social behaviour of a Neolithic community
PKU researchers reconstructed how the clay tiles from Qiaocun formed the earliest known composite-tiled roofs; the study is published in Scientific Reports
Contribution of cultural heritage values to steppe conservation on kurgans, ancient burial mounds of Eurasia; the study is published in Conservation Biology
Early humans in the Hula Valley invested in systematic procurement of raw materials hundreds of thousands of years ago
Spanish Levantine societies mastered climbing and the use of equipment that minimised the risk of practising it as far back as prehistoric times
Earliest evidence of forest management discovered at the La Draga Neolithic site; the study was published in the International Journal of Wood Culture
The so-called Unknown Kushan Script partially deciphered, the related Middle Iranian language has been preliminarly named Eteo-Tocharian
A model to estimate how much energy the original colonizers of New Zealand expended to maintain their body temperatures on the cold, harrowing ocean journey from Southeast Asia
Daughters breastfed longer, and women accumulated greater wealth in ancient California matriarchal society