Ancient DNA analysis reveals how the rise and fall of the Roman Empire shifted populations in the Balkans, according to a study in Cell
Hunting of straight-tusked elephants was widespread among Neanderthals 125,000 years ago; the study has been published in PNAS
New insights into the genetic history of Bantu in Africa; it started in West Africa about 5,000 years ago, mainly driven by human migration
Historical violence in Tasmania: Victorian collector traded human Aboriginal remains and Tasmanian tigers for scientific accolades
San Juan ante Portam Latinam, in Spain, may offer proof of larger-scale warfare occurring in Neolithic Europe, 1,000 years earlier than previously understood
In search of the last Neanderthals: The Universities of Bologna, Siena, and Haifa will conduct a new ERC-funded project with 13 million euros
Is the Melun Diptych, 15th century French painting, depicting an Acheulean handaxe, an ancient stone tool used by hominins?
The paper Cannibalism and burial in the late upper Palaeolithic: Combining archaeological and genetic evidence has been published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews
The earliest Europeans were efficient scavengers: scavenging could have been a successful strategy for the first hominins in the Iberian Peninsula
Archaeometallurgists have been debating the exact origin of tin used in the Bronze Age for 150 years; a new study in Frontiers in Earth Science
