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
Archaeological excavations in Romania reveal a possible ‘projectile workshop’ of early Homo sapiens, which may have changed their subsistence strategies compared to Neanderthals
An article published in Science shows the origins of donkey domestication Africa in 5,000 B.C.E, around the time when the Sahara became the desert region we know today
Ice Age wolf DNA reveals dogs trace ancestry to two separate wolf populations; a new study has been published on Nature
Norse settlers in Greenland exported walrus tusk ivory to Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, Kyiv was a very important trading city
Origins of the Black Death identified. Despite the pandemic’s immense demographic and societal impacts, its origins have long been elusive
Climate change reveals unique artefacts in melting ice patches, like a shoe at the place we today call Langfonne in the Jotunheimen mountains
The genetic origins of the world’s first farmers is being clarified by a new study, published on the Cell journal
