Summary Between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, many Neolithic societies declined
throughout western Eurasia due to a combination of factors that are still largely debated …

Recent genetic, isotopic and linguistic research has dramatically changed our
understanding of how the Corded Ware Culture in Europe was formed. Here the authors …

The third millennium BCE was a period of major cultural and demographic changes in
Europe that signaled the beginning of the Bronze Age. People from the Pontic steppe …

This paper discusses and synthesizes the consequences of the archaeogenetic revolution to
our understanding of mobility and social change during the Neolithic period in Europe (6500 …

Cultural evolutionary theory conceptualises culture as an information-transmission system
whose dynamics take on evolutionary properties. Within this framework, however, innovation …

Barrows, as burial markers, are ubiquitous throughout North-Western Europe. In some
regions dense concentrations of monuments form peculiar configurations such as long …

'Corded Ware'in central and eastern Europe is an archaeological phenomenon that has
generated multiple ideas and myths about the origins of the Indo-European language, large …

Background I arrived at this study along an experiential path. As a child I explored the
sunken and mysterious hollow ways of the chalk downland where I grew up and which have …

The Gjerrild burial provides the largest and best-preserved assemblage of human skeletal
material presently known from the Single Grave Culture (SGC) in Denmark. For generations …

With proper methodology, linguistic data allow—to a limited extent—reconstruction of
prehistoric protolanguages, charting genetic relationships between members of a language …