The paper Cannibalism and burial in the late upper Palaeolithic: Combining archaeological and genetic evidence has been published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews
Human remains at the Cueva de los Marmoles were subsequently manipulated and utilized, adding to a pattern in the Iberian Peninsula
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
China’s oldest water pipes, forming the earliest ceramic drainage system, were found at the neolithic walled site of Pingliangtai and were a communal effort, according to a new study published in Nature Water
Family trees from the European Neolithic: scientists gain insights into the social behaviour of a Neolithic community
4,000-year-old plague DNA found: the oldest cases to date in Britain; the paper is published in Nature Communications
Non-binary gender in prehistoric Europe: the methods currently available leave a lot of room for error, according to a new study in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal
Analysis of Bronze Age daggers has shown that they were used for processing animal carcasses and not as non-functional symbols of identity and status, as previously thought
