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
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
A team from Goethe University Frankfurt was searching for charcoal and found 4,300-year-old copper ingots, during a routine excavation in Oman
The world’s first horse riders: researchers discovered evidence by studying the remains of human skeletons found in burial mounds called kurgans
The gold from Troy, Poliochni and Ur all had the same origin, according to a new research published in the Journal of Archaeological Science
Afragola was buried by an eruption of Vesuvius: the village offers a rare glimpse at how people lived in Italy in the Early Bronze Age
Rocky landscapes and population dispersal: social resistance of Bronze Age communities in response to emerging state societies in the Iberian Peninsula
Orkney experienced a wave of immigration during the Bronze Age so large that it replaced most of the local population, ancient DNA analysis has revealed
