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)
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
Butchered bones from the Early Bronze Age site of Charterhouse Warren suggest violent ‘othering’ of enemies in Bronze Age Britain
Oldest known alphabet unearthed at Tell Umm-el Marra, once an ancient Syrian city: the writing is dated to around 2400 BCE, Early Bronze Age
The ‘urban revolution’ was slow in Bronze Age Arabia: the site of al-Natah, occupied 2400-1500BCE, was an early transitional stage between pastoralism and complex urban settlements
New discoveries found in Iraqi Kurdistan key to the emergence of agriculture and first city-states: the UAB archaeological project
Hazor, one of the largest “megacities” of the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean was abandoned: its resettlement occured in the Iron Age
Archaeologists from Newcastle University have unearthed evidence for an evolving sacred landscape spanning centuries in Crowland, Lincolnshire.
Researchers find indications of a patrilineal descent system for western Eurasian Bell Beaker communities: family relationships that link Britain to Altwies ‘Op dem Boesch’, Luxembourg
Climate change likely impacted human populations in the Neolithic and Bronze Age; harsher European climates were associated with decreased populations and increased social inequality
