Livestock played a role in prehistoric plague infections: Yersinia pestis genome has been discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth at Arkaim
A new study reconstructs the genetic history and interactions of populations in the Southern Caucasus over time, from the Early Bronze Age (circa 3500 BCE) to after the Migration Period (circa 500 CE)
Farming did not lead to entrenched economic inequality in ancient Carpathian communities; the study published in Science Advances
4,000-year-old teeth record the earliest traces of people chewing psychoactive betel nuts, from Burial 11 at Nong Ratchawat
Culinary traditions were largely unaffected at the time of the dispersal of millet and rice agriculture from Korea to Japan
Egyptian donkeys may have been incorporated into ritual burials – while local donkeys were part of the menu – in the Early Bronze Age at Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, in present-day Israel
A turning point in the Bronze Age Central Europe: the diet was changed and the society was transformed; the investigation at the cemetery of Tiszafüred-Majoroshalom
Women from Bronze Age Nubia already carried heavy loads on their heads, according to a new study in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Chemical analysis yields first evidence of wine from depas goblets, that even common people drank it in Troy
Cuneiforms: new digital tool for Researchers, thanks to the Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum Digitalis (TLHdig) which was launched on the Hethitologie-Portal Mainz platform (HPM)
