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
Pollen analysis suggests peopling of Siberia and Europe by modern humans occurred during a major Pleistocene warming spell
Early ancestral bottleneck in the early to middle Pleistocene could’ve spelled the end for humans, a study published on Science
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
An extreme glacial cooling event around 1.1 million years ago challenges the idea of continuous early human occupation of Europe
Contribution of cultural heritage values to steppe conservation on kurgans, ancient burial mounds of Eurasia; the study is published in Conservation Biology
4,000-year-old plague DNA found: the oldest cases to date in Britain; the paper is published in Nature Communications
Human ancestors preferred mosaic landscapes and high ecosystem diversity, according to a new study in the journal Science