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Stone age

The first quantitative assessment of radiocarbon chronologies for initial pottery in Island Southeast Asia supports multi-directional Neolithic dispersal

Ethan E. Cochrane, Timothy M. Rieth, Darby Filimoehala

published 02 Jun 2021

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Local economies and household spacing in early chiefdom communities

C. Adam Berrey, Robert D. Drennan, Christian E. Peterson

published 27 May 2021

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Into the fire: Investigating the introduction of cremation to Nordic Bronze Age Denmark: A comparative study between different regions applying strontium isotope analyses and archaeological methods

Samantha S. Reiter, Niels Algreen Møller, Bjarne Henning Nielsen, Jens-Henrik Bech, Anne-Louise Haack Olsen, Marie Louise Schjellerup Jørkov, Flemming Kaul, Ulla Mannering, Karin M. Frei

published 12 May 2021

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Insight into the introduction of domestic cattle and the process of Neolithization to the Spanish region Galicia by genetic evidence

Marie Gurke, Amalia Vidal-Gorosquieta, Johanna L. A. Pajimans, Karolina Wȩcek, Axel Barlow, Gloria González-Fortes, Stefanie Hartmann, Aurora Grandal-d’Anglade, Michael Hofreiter

published 28 Apr 2021

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A sexual division of labour at the start of agriculture? A multi-proxy comparison through grave good stone tool technological and use-wear analysis

Alba Masclans, Caroline Hamon, Christian Jeunesse, Penny Bickle

published 14 Apr 2021

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Selection preferences for animal species used in bone-tool-manufacturing strategies in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Justin Bradfield, Andrew C. Kitchener, Michael Buckley

published 01 Apr 2021

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Genome-wide analysis of nearly all the victims of a 6200 year old massacre

Mario Novak, Iñigo Olalde, Harald Ringbauer, Nadin Rohland, James Ahern, Jacqueline Balen, Ivor Janković, Hrvoje Potrebica, Ron Pinhasi, David Reich

published 10 Mar 2021

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Potential interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers in the Western Mediterranean: The geochronological data revisited

Thomas Perrin, Claire Manen

published 03 Mar 2021

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Stable isotope analysis of human bone from Ganj Dareh, Iran, ca. 10,100 calBP

Deborah C. Merrett, Christina Cheung, Christopher Meiklejohn, Michael P. Richards

published 02 Mar 2021

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Early Holocene Scandinavian foragers on a journey to affluence: Mesolithic fish exploitation, seasonal abundance and storage investigated through strontium isotope ratios by laser ablation (LA‐MC-ICP‐MS)

Adam Boethius, Mathilda Kjällquist, Melanie Kielman-Schmitt, Torbjörn Ahlström, Lars Larsson

published 20 Jan 2021

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Genomic Steppe ancestry in skeletons from the Neolithic Single Grave Culture in Denmark

Anne Friis-Holm Egfjord, Ashot Margaryan, Anders Fischer, Karl-Göran Sjögren, T. Douglas Price, Niels N. Johannsen, Poul Otto Nielsen, Lasse Sørensen, Eske Willerslev, Rune Iversen, Martin Sikora, Kristian Kristiansen, Morten E. Allentoft

published 14 Jan 2021

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Investigating Neolithic caprine husbandry in the Central Pyrenees: Insights from a multi-proxy study at Els Trocs cave (Bisaurri, Spain)

Cristina Tejedor-Rodríguez, Marta Moreno-García, Carlos Tornero, Alizé Hoffmann, Íñigo García-Martínez de Lagrán, Héctor Arcusa-Magallón, Rafael Garrido-Pena, José Ignacio Royo-Guillén, Sonia Díaz-Navarro, Leonor Peña-Chocarro, Kurt. W. Alt, Manuel Rojo-Guerra

published 06 Jan 2021

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A Neolithic mega-tsunami event in the eastern Mediterranean: Prehistoric settlement vulnerability along the Carmel coast, Israel

Gilad Shtienberg, Assaf Yasur-Landau, Richard D. Norris, Michael Lazar, Tammy M. Rittenour, Anthony Tamberino, Omri Gadol, Katrina Cantu, Ehud Arkin-Shalev, Steven N. Ward, Thomas E. Levy

published 23 Dec 2020

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