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 …

The farming way of life originated in the Near East some 11,000 years ago and had reached
most of the European continent 5000 years later. However, the impact of the agricultural …

In the period between 5,300 and 4,900 calibrated years before present (cal. bp), populations
across large parts of Europe underwent a period of demographic decline,. However, the …

This Element was written to meet the theoretical and methodological challenge raised by the
third science revolution and its implications for how to study and interpret European …

Ancient human mobility at the individual level is conventionally studied by the diverse
application of suitable techniques (eg aDNA, radiogenic strontium isotopes, as well as …

This critical review focuses on inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)
based applications for isotope abundance ratio measurements in various clinical samples …

Isotopic investigations of two cemetery populations from the Corded Ware Culture in
southern Germany reveal new information on the dating of these graves, human diet during …

Mobility is one of the most fundamental aspects of a foraging society. Since prehistoric
mobility is often difficult to identify in the archaeological record, our understanding is largely …

Strontium isotope analysis has been successfully applied to archaeological questions of
residential mobility and animal husbandry for over three decades. To obtain a full …

The circular fortress of Trelleborg on Zealand in Denmark is well known as a military camp
with a key role in the formation of the Danish state under Harald Bluetooth in the tenth …