Ancient Roman borders, such as the Limes wall, still shape well-being and personality today and have psychological and economic effects, according to a new study published in Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology
Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD; a new study has been published in Nature
New insights about Sagas and the literary tradition of Iceland can be found in ancient, reused parchments, written in Latin
Water and gruel – not bread: the diet of early Neolithic farmers at Frydenlund, Fuenen, in Scandinavia; the study in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
Nicolas Detering was investigating on how often the images and lives of saints continue to be referenced in literature, visual arts and popular culture
Central Europe’s first farmers from the Linear Pottery Culture lived in equality; the genetic study also reveals long-distance travelling in Neolithic societies
Stones and structures throughout Germany dating to the Roman period are being documented in a long-term research project, the large-scale online edition “disiecta membra. Stone Architecture and Urbanism in Roman Germany”
15,800-year-old engraved plaquettes from the Magdalenian site of Gönnersdorf, located in modern-day Germany, depict fishing techniques, including the use of nets, not previously known in the Upper Paleolithic
Kinship and ancestry of the Celts in Baden-Württemberg, Germany: genetic analyses of Celtic burial mounds from 500 BCE reveal close relationships
The analysis of fat traces in over one hundred pottery vessels reveals deep changes in prehistoric Central European culinary traditions