Ancient DNA reveals Ice Age hunter-gatherers preferentially targeted female mammoths; a new study is published in Current Biology
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The oldest shell jewellery workshop in Western Europe at the Palaeolithic site of La Roche-à-Pierrot in Saint-Césaire, Charente-Maritime The oldest workshop for making…
Livestock played a role in prehistoric plague infections: Yersinia pestis genome has been discovered in 4,000-year-old sheep tooth at Arkaim
A special issue in “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B” (2025) reframes the origins of domestication
Homo erectus at the Olduvai Gorge adapted to extreme climatic conditions, challenging our preconceptions of the adaptability of the earliest hominins
Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD; a new study has been published in Nature
Chickens were widely raised across southern Central Asia from 400 BCE through medieval periods and likely dispersed along the ancient Silk Road
Stone tool technology suggest that the commonly held view of a ‘revolution’ at the time of the dispersal of modern humans in Eurasia was a more nuanced and complicated process of cultural evolution
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
Paleolithic humans may have understood the properties of rocks for making stone tools, as they preferred middle-grained flint over fine-grained flint
