Radiocarbon dating meets Egyptology and Biblical accounts in the city of Gezer: new dates allow testing of proposed correlations between texts and archaeological remains
San Juan ante Portam Latinam, in Spain, may offer proof of larger-scale warfare occurring in Neolithic Europe, 1,000 years earlier than previously understood
Climate change likely impacted human populations in the Neolithic and Bronze Age; harsher European climates were associated with decreased populations and increased social inequality
Cranial traumas show dramatic increase as the first cities were being built: in the 12,000 years before antiquity, the share of violent death rose at first and then fell back
Archaeometallurgists have been debating the exact origin of tin used in the Bronze Age for 150 years; a new study in Frontiers in Earth Science
An excavation in Boğazköy-Hattusha has brought to light a cuneiform tablet with an unknown Indo-European language the land of Kalašma
A 3,800-year-old extended family from the “Nepluyevsky” kurgan; 32 individuals from the burial site in the southern Ural region show patrilineality and patrilocality
Ancient metal cauldrons give us clues about what people ate in the Bronze Age in the Caucasus region during the Maykop period (3700–2900 BCE)
Patrilocality and hunter-gatherer-related ancestry of populations in East-Central Europe during the Middle Bronze Age
Contribution of cultural heritage values to steppe conservation on kurgans, ancient burial mounds of Eurasia; the study is published in Conservation Biology
