The colored skeletons of Çatalhöyük: new insights about how the inhabitants of the “oldest city in the world” buried their dead
Orkney experienced a wave of immigration during the Bronze Age so large that it replaced most of the local population, ancient DNA analysis has revealed
A study published in the journal Science traces the evolution of the hepatitis B virus from prehistory to the present, revealing dissemination routes and changes in viral diversity
For the first time, it was possible to map the trade networks for metals and to identify changes in the supply routes, coinciding with other socio-economic changes detectable in the rich metal-dependent societies of Bronze Age southern Scandinavia
The recovery of distinctive fluted points from both America and Arabia provides one of the best examples of ‘independent invention’
A genomic analysis in samples of Neanderthals and modern humans shows a decrease in ADHD-associated genetic variants
A study suggests that northern and southern Italian populations may have begun to diverge as early as 19,000-12,000 years ago, from a genetic point of view
A 8,000 year old structure has been discovered, next to what is believed to be the oldest boat building site in the world on the Isle of Wight
Researchers have studied the evidence of prehistoric societies in the Neolithic Period in the Iberian Peninsula from the perspective of gender
New research reveals that coprolites from Çatalhöyük have provided the earliest evidence for intestinal parasite infection in the mainland Near East
