Hyperspectral imaging effectively discriminates rock blocks, sediment matrices, and fossil remains within the stratigraphic deposits of the Gran Dolina site (Atapuerca)
Researchers estimate that early humans began smoking meat to extend its shelf life as long as a million years ago
Oldest whale bone tools discovered, excavated from sites around the Bay of Biscay in Spain, along with bones from Santa Catalina Cave
The “mega-village” of Valencina de la Concepción, a large sustainable and egalitarian community at the height of the Copper Age
The frontiers of El Argar, the first state-society in the Iberian Peninsula, with its La Mancha and Valencia Bronze Age neighbours
Atapuerca rewrites the history of Europe’s first inhabitants with the oldest known face in Western Europe: a fossil of Homo affinis erectus from Sima del Elefante
The first Bronze Age settlement predating the Phoenician period in Maghreb, Morocco, has been found at Kach Kouch
Describing previously unknown aspects of Copper Age ceremonial clothing: the beads from the Tholos de Montelirio
A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, from the convent church of S. Antonio in Polesine, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to conceal their high altars
Water and gruel – not bread: the diet of early Neolithic farmers at Frydenlund, Fuenen, in Scandinavia; the study in Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
