Earliest use of psychoactive and medicinal plant ‘harmal’ identified in Iron Age Arabia, according to a new study published in Communications Biology
Bodies previously attributed to the Roman Conquest of Britain at Maiden Castle Iron Age hillfort in Dorset, did not die in a single dramatic event
Diversity Statistics of Onomastic Data Reveal Social Patterns in Hebrew Kingdoms of the Iron Age; a new study published in PNAS
Tel Shiqmona, an Iron Age purple dye “factory” in Israel was in operation for almost 500 years, using mollusks in large-scale specialized manufacturing process; a study published in PLoS ONE
Iberian nailed head ritual was more complex than expected at the sites of Puig Castellar and Ullastret, according to a new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
Ancient DNA unlocks new understanding of migrations in the first millennium AD; a new study has been published in Nature
The ancient copper industry in King Solomon’s mines, located in the Timna Valley, did not pollute the environment
Microscopic study of milk teeth reveals mystery of death of Iberian culture newborns buried inside homes; the study in the Journal of Archaeological Science
A new study, published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, compared rates of violence in Viking Age Norway and Denmark societies
Archaeologists report earliest evidence for plant farming in east Africa, from Kakapel; a trove of ancient plant remains excavated in Kenya
