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 …

The third millennium BCE was a pivotal period of profound cultural and genomic
transformations in Europe associated with migrations from the Pontic-Caspian steppe, which …

The present study aims to explore the hypothesis of a link between a population increase
derived from intensified food production and the development from the widespread cultural …

Joint inhumations of adults and children are an intriguing aspect of the shift from collective to
single burial rites in third millennium BC Western Eurasia. Here, we revisit two exceptional …

Abstract While International Relations scholars have recently excavated a number of
systems previously unstudied by the discipline, few have discussed the emergence of fully …

The last three decades have seen a rapid expansion in the number of biomolecular
techniques that can be applied to the human skeleton, revealing detailed accounts of past …

Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterised genetically at broad
regional scales. However, insights on the population dynamics in the contact zones are …

During the third millennium BC, new types of anthropogenic landscape emerged across
northern Europe: heathlands and pasture. These open landscapes afforded mobile …

Im Spätneolithikum des nördlichen Mitteleuropas zeugt das Aufkommen prachtvoller
Silexdolche, reichverzierter Glockenbecher und glänzender Metallartefakte von …

An abundance and diverse range of prehistoric fishing practices was revealed during
excavations between 2012 and 2022 at the construction site of the Femern Belt Tunnel …