In a trio of papers, published simultaneously in the journal Science, a massive effort of genome-wide sequencing shows the lively genetic history of the Southern Arc region
Findings from 3,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal a complex trade network; the study is published in the most recent issue of Science Advances.
New analysis of obsidian blades reveals dynamic Neolithic social networks; the study has been published on PNAS
Settlements in western Asia Minor, during Middle and Late Bronze Age, could be assigned to the previously largely disregarded Luwian culture
The genetic origins of the world’s first farmers is being clarified by a new study, published on the Cell journal
The colored skeletons of Çatalhöyük: new insights about how the inhabitants of the “oldest city in the world” buried their dead
First evidence that giant ostrich-like birds once roamed Europe comes from the Taurida Cave in Crimea; that was discovered only the last summer
New research reveals that coprolites from Çatalhöyük have provided the earliest evidence for intestinal parasite infection in the mainland Near East
The human environmental footprint is not only deep, but old. Now, that story is digitally available through an open-access data platform: ZooArchNet
New analysis illuminates how much archaeological knowledge production has fundamentally relied upon site workers’ active choices in responding to labor conditions