Anyone who wants to understand the biological nature of humans and their special
characteristics must look far back into evolutionary history. Today's way of life is drastically …

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been infecting humans for millennia and remains a global health
problem, but its past diversity and dispersal routes are largely unknown. We generated HBV …

One of the world's foremost scholars of evolution tackles one of its essential mysteries: why
we believe. Our species diverged from the great apes six to eight million years ago. Since …

Scholars have long been interested in understanding conflict in prehistoric times. Skeletal
lesions attributable to interpersonal violence constitute the most direct evidence available to …

Sheep remains constitute the main archaeozoological evidence for the presence of Early
Neolithic human groups in the highlands of the Southern Pyrenees but understanding the …

Paleogenomic and bioanthropological studies of ancient massacres have highlighted sites
where the victims were male and plausibly died all in battle, or were executed members of …

Well-informed archaeological and bioarchaeological kinship analyses yield important new
understandings of prehistoric societies, open new avenues of exploration, and make …

Why did the farming lifestyle appear and proliferate so rapidly through the Mediterranean
basin between 7000 and 5500 bc? In this paper, I review the archaeological and …

Objectives To test a hypothesis on interpersonal violence events during the transition
between Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in the Eastern Pyrenees, to contextualize it in Western …

Escombros, ceniza y huesos, esto son los restos que a menudo nos encontramos al
explorar un antiguo campo de batalla o las ruinas de una aldea, tierra arrasada que …