New data uncovered on Bronze Age humans’ diet and the arrival of new crops in the Iberian Peninsula
Research has shed new light on Bronze Age man’s diet and the arrival of new crops in the Iberian Peninsula at that time.
5,000-year-old Iceman had 61 Tattoos
Ötzi, a human who lived around 3300 BC, had at least 61 tattoo markings on his body when he died and his body was frozen in a glazier along the Italian-Austrian border.
A Lady of York: migration, ethnicity and identity in Roman Britain
Modern methods of analysis applied to cemeteries have often been used in our pages to suggest generalities about mobility and diet. But these same techniques applied to a single individual, together with the grave goods and burial rite, can open a special kind of personal window on the past.
A Lady of York: migration, ethnicity and identity in Roman Britain
Modern methods of analysis applied to cemeteries have often been used in our pages to suggest generalities about mobility and diet. But these same techniques applied to a single individual, together with the grave goods and burial rite, can open a special kind of personal window on the past.
The Legion Re-Envisioned Analysis of the Roman Military: 4th Century AD
The fascination European thought has had with the Roman Empire is the result of several salient characteristics particular to that empire. Rome was the only political entity to successfully found an empire that united all the elements of the Mediterranean world.
Study sheds new light on Stone Age Central Europe
Indigenous hunter-gatherers and immigrant farmers lived side-by-side for more than 2,000 years in Central Europe, before the hunter-gatherer communities died out or adopted the agricultural lifestyle.
Ancient peoples lived high up in the mountains of the French Alps, archaeologists find
A 14 year research project in France’s Parc National des Eìcrins has shown that people have been living in the high slopes of the French Alps for over 8000 years.
From Cornwall to Corinth: Was there a 'tin road' across Europe 2,500 years ago?
During the sixth century BC the Greeks used tin from Cornwall for making bronzes. This precious metal was transported by boat along the Atlantic coast, through the Straits of Gibraltar and across the Mediterranean to Greece.
Mesolithic Childhoods: Changing Life-Courses of Young Hunter-Fishers in the Stone Age of Southern Scandinavia
The children seem to have started to engage in the adult world by the age of seven or eight, and by the age of around fourteen years, their graves are inseparable from those of the adults.