A non-exploitative economy favoured richness and diversity of the Copper Age communities in the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula
Contribution of cultural heritage values to steppe conservation on kurgans, ancient burial mounds of Eurasia; the study is published in Conservation Biology
The Ivory Lady at Valencina was the highest status individual in an Copper Age society in ancient Iberia, according to peptide analysis
In a trio of papers, published simultaneously in the journal Science, a massive effort of genome-wide sequencing shows the lively genetic history of the Southern Arc region
Owl-shaped plaques may have been on Copper Age children’s wish list, in the Iberian Peninsula: the study is published in Scientific Reports
Rocky landscapes and population dispersal: social resistance of Bronze Age communities in response to emerging state societies in the Iberian Peninsula
Cueva de Ardales, a famous rock art cave in Spain, was used by ancient humans for over 50,000 years; the study was published on PLoS ONE
A new study suggests that 6000-years-ago people across Europe shared a cultural tradition of using freshwater mussel shells to craft ornaments
Two studies, one looking at Iberian hunter-gatherers between 13,000 and 6,000 years ago and another looking at Iberian populations over the last 8000 years, add new resolution to our understanding of the history and prehistory of the region