Genome Research: origin and evolution of vine. Grapevine is among the world’s oldest crops. Wine was one of the oldest products traded
Runes were just as advanced as Roman alphabet writing: Johan Bollaert has investigated written language used in public inscriptions in Norway from the 1100s to the 1500s
Large-scale genomic analysis documents the migrations of Ice Age hunter-gatherers over a period of 30,000 years
Neanderthals are not the only species whose dentition is characterized by the possession of thin enamel: it was previously found in Homo Antecessor
In a trio of papers, published simultaneously in the journal Science, a massive effort of genome-wide sequencing shows the lively genetic history of the Southern Arc region
The Erralla dog, who lived in the Basque Country, is one of Europe’s most ancient domestic dogs (Magdalenian period)
Footprints indicate the presence of man in Southern Spain in the Middle Pleistocene, 200,000 years earlier than previously thought
European Middle Pleistocene populations had similar dental traits, suggesting that the settlement of Europe was the product of intermittent dispersals into Europe from a “mother” population
Ancient DNA pushes the herring trade back to the Viking age; a new study on the subject has been published on PNAS
Rocky landscapes and population dispersal: social resistance of Bronze Age communities in response to emerging state societies in the Iberian Peninsula
