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Around 4,000 years ago the Bronze Age came to Britain. This was the crucial period that linked the Stone Age with the Iron Age, and during which it seems new people came in from continental Europe. What did the newcomers bring to these islands? Continue reading “A Mycenean link to Bronze Age Britain”
Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the corresponding paper by de Barros Damgaard P, Martiniano R, Kamm J, Moreno-Mayar JV, Kroonen G, Peyrot M, Barjamovic G, Rasmussen S, Zacho C, Baimukhanov N, Zaibert V, Merz V, Biddanda A, Merz I, Loman V, Evdokimov V, Usmanova E, Hemphill B, Seguin-Orlando A, Yediay FE, Ullah I, Sjögren KG, Iversen KH, Choin J, de la Fuente C, Ilardo M, Schroeder H, Moiseyev V, Gromov A, Polyakov A, Omura S, Senyurt SY, Ahmad H, McKenzie C, Margaryan A, Hameed A, Samad A, Gul N, Khokhar MH, Goriunova OI, Bazaliiskii VI, Novembre J, Weber AW, Orlando L, Allentoft ME, Nielsen R, Kristiansen K, Sikora M, Outram AK, Durbin R, Willerslev E. Continue reading “The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia”
Here we present the ‘Abstract‘ of the corresponding paper by Jeong C, Wilkin S, Amgalantugs T, Bouwman AS, Taylor WTT, Hagan RW, Bromage S, Tsolmon S, Trachsel C, Grossmann J, Littleton J, Makarewicz CA, Krigbaum J, Burri M, Scott A, Davaasambuu G, Wright J, Irmer F, Myagmar E, Boivin N, Robbeets M, Rühli FJ, Krause J, Frohlich B, Hendy J, Warinner C. Continue reading “Bronze Age population dynamics and the rise of dairy pastoralism on the eastern Eurasian steppe”
Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered a set of 1,500-year-old farming tools in Alexandria Troas, an ancient city in northwestern Turkey. Continue reading “Set of 1,500-year-old farming tools discovered in Turkey”
Excavations continued this year of the prehistoric settlement at the site of “Koimisi Therasias”. The settlement that takes up the summit and upper slopes of an impressive hill on the south side of today’s Therasia on the brow of the crater/caldera before it erupted, dates from the Early and Middle Bronze Age and offers important data on the Thera-Therasia complex during the earlier phases of the Bronze Age. Continue reading “Important finds from Therasia”
Using advanced digital imaging technologies, classics professor and archaeologist Dimitri Nakassis is changing long-held perceptions of how prehistoric Greek communities functioned. Continue reading “Bronze Age bookkeeping tablets reveal complex society”
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