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    Women were at the centre of social networks in Iron Age Britain

    Published in Nature. Evidence from 2,000-year-old DNA reveals that women in Celtic society stayed in their ancestral communities after marriage, whereas men were mobile, and that the southern coast of Britain was a hotspot for cultural exchange. Marriage practices, particularly those that...
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    12,000-year-old spindle whorls and the innovation of wheeled rotational technologies

    ‘The wheel and axle’ revolutionized human technological history by transforming linear to rotary motion and causing parts of devices to move. While its ancient origins are commonly associated with the appearance of carts during the Bronze Age, we focus on much earlier wheel-shaped find–an...
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    H66a haplotype

    My mitochondrial haplotype is H66a. In an eupedia document I read that there were H66a in England and Bronze age Poland I would like to know more about the history of this haplotype.
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    Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia

    The Iberian Peninsula is a key region for unraveling human settlement histories of Eurasia during the period spanning the decline of Neandertals and the emergence of anatomically modern humans (AMH). There is no evidence of human occupation in central Iberia after the disappearance of...
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    Neolithic navigation

    The first Neolithic boats in the Mediterranean: The settlement of La Marmotta (Anguillara Sabazia, Lazio, Italy) Abstract Navigation in the Mediterranean in the Neolithic is studied here through the boats that were used, the degree of technical specialisation in their construction and, above...
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    Violence trends in the ancient Middle East between 12,000 and 400 BCE

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01700-y.epdf?sharing_token=DlR59Q8vFCPz1Iq8TeCIS9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OKyAVMuIKVUu3CqPi6YyliV65jqorO1bDGAhBUmJDIZRikRAK_fmj-g5EpHmBbZoB0IzPfBS0U_UdgsvwjJHtO3rB8XfMgzOzRmCQguNo_EZvB0EBXi7PtWtWIIVGg_N3iN9uZzTRbo21iLaMo_5Gm8tH3EO-THtWLLVfr4Av01g%3D%3D&tracki...
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    Female leadership in Copper Age Iberia (c. 2900–2650 BC)

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-36368-x "... for decades, archaeologists have struggled with the sex estimation of poorly preserved human remains. Here we present an exceptional case study that shows how ground‐breaking new scientific methods may address this problem. Through the...
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    Celtic and Italic from the West – the Genetic Evidence

    Tibor Fehér: Celtic and Italic from the West – the Genetic Evidence, Academia Letters, July 2021. Celtic studies in the last two decades lead by John T. Koch and Barry Cunliffe have questioned the validity of the long-time theory “Hallstatt Iron Age = proto-Celtic culture”, arguing for an...
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    Oral bacteria of a 19000 yo woman was analysed and related to later modern humans

    https://www dot pnas dot org/content/118/20/e2021655118 Title: The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome. PNAS 2018. "The oral microbiome plays key roles in human biology ..." "To better understand the evolution and changing ecology of the human oral...
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    The Bronze Age euro?

    www dot sciencedirect dot com/science/article/pii/S0305440321000492?via%3Dihub A small change revolution. Weight systems and the emergence of the first Pan-European money, 2300 to 800 BC. Metal trade in Europe increases in the course of the Bronze Age. Systematic fragmentation of metal...
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    Etruscan royal tombs in Albacete (Spain)?

    www dot abc dot es/cultura/abci-tumbas-reales-etruscas-albacete-202104071920_noticia.html (in Spanish, sorry) Etruscan tombs, or those of clear Etruscan influence, of relevant personalities who lived between the 7th and 2nd centuries BC. There are very significant similarities between the...
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    Complete human skeleton 9700 BC in Navarra

    www dot archyde dot com/the-man-of-loizu-the-oldest-complete-human-skeleton-found-in-navarra/ "The remains correspond to a male individual, between 17 and 21 years old, intentionally deposited inside this cave in the council of Aintzioa-Loizu. The skeleton is complete, anatomically connected...
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    Bell Beakers From West to East

    An important period of European prehistory is related to the Bell Beaker complex. An interesting study has been published in www dot encyclopedia dot com / humanities / encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps / bell-beakers-west-east
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