New analysis challenges the idea that only elites were buried in passage tombs.

Ancient DNA reveals how the explosive expansion of Yamnaya steppe pastoralists began with a small community north of the Black Sea speaking ancestral Indo-European, and detects genetic links with Anat...

Sun stones and the darkened sun: Neolithic miniature art from the island of Bornholm, Denmark

Twigstats, a method for ancestry reconstruction, provides high-resolution genetic histories and movement patterns of people living in Europe during the first millennium ce.

Marine resources have been important for the survival and economic development of coastal human communities across northern Europe for millennia. Knowledge of the origin of such historic resources can...

Human populations across a vast area in northern Eurasia, from Fennoscandia to Chukotka, share a distinct genetic component often referred to as the Siberian ancestry. Most enriched in present-day Sam...

‘The darker angels of our nature’: Early Bronze Age butchered human remains from Charterhouse Warren, Somerset, UK

Nature - Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture

Beaver-based restoration is emerging as a cost-effective conservation and climate adaptation strategy, but efforts are constrained by limited knowledge of pre-colonial beaver distribution and their lo...

Ancient maize genomes reveal recurrent northward movements from its domestication center, culminating in two dispersals of US Southwest maize into the Ozark rockshelters in eastern North America. The 1,000-year-old maize genomes from the Ozarks provide insights into the origin of Northern Flints and the selection history of the wx1 gene, part of the starch metabolic pathway.

Children’s agential behaviours in the archaeological record have often been overlooked. Despite efforts to centre children in the past through ‘an archaeology of childhood’, there remains a fundamenta...

The Indo-European languages are among the most widely spoken in the world, yet their early diversifi

Gelabert et al. examine genomic and archaeological data from Europe’s earliest farming communities in Central Europe (5500–5000 bce). They find differentiated genetic networks but no evidence of unequ...

Research will combine archaeological, isotopic and ancient DNA evidence

Preservation of oral microbiome ancient DNA from Oceania is much better than human ancient DNA. The authors leverage this to demonstrate that oral microbial community composition in Oceania is not onl...

Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...