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Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 2015
The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000-1000 BC) was a period of major cultural changes. However, there is debate about whether these changes resulted from the circulation of ideas or from human migrations, potentially also facilitating the spread of languages and certain phenotypic traits. We investigated this by using new, improved methods to sequence
Martin Sikora   +70 more
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Archaeology, science-based archaeology and the Mediterranean Bronze Age metals trade [PDF]

open access: green, 2000
Archaeologists often seem either sceptical of science-based archaeology or baffled by its results. The underpinnings of science-based archaeology may conflict with social or behavioural factors unsuited to quantification and grouping procedures.
A. Bernard Knapp
openalex   +3 more sources

Direct detection of natural selection in Bronze Age Britain

open access: yesbioRxiv, 2022
We developed a novel method for efficiently estimating time-varying selection coefficients from genome-wide ancient DNA data. In simulations, our method accurately recovers selective trajectories, and is robust to mis-specification of population size. We
I. Mathieson, Jonathan Terhorst
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Tin from Uluburun shipwreck shows small-scale commodity exchange fueled continental tin supply across Late Bronze Age Eurasia

open access: yesScience Advances, 2022
This paper provides the first comprehensive sourcing analysis of the tin ingots carried by the well-known Late Bronze Age shipwreck found off the Turkish coast at Uluburun (ca. 1320 BCE).
W. Powell   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ancient DNA at the edge of the world: Continental immigration and the persistence of Neolithic male lineages in Bronze Age Orkney

open access: yesProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022
Significance The Orcadian Neolithic has been intensively studied and celebrated as a major center of cultural innovation, whereas the Bronze Age is less well known and often regarded as a time of stagnation and insularity.
Katharina Dulias   +26 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Women Social Status in the Ancient Civilization of Shahr-i Sokhta [PDF]

open access: yesزن در فرهنگ و هنر, 2019
Based on archaeological and anthropological findings, some of ancient societies were governed by social system of matriarchy. Among the ancient civilizations of Iran, Shahr-i Sokhta is a proper case for study to examine the social status of women, due to
Sadreddin Taheri
doaj   +1 more source

The Bronze Age in Ireland [PDF]

open access: yesBulletin of the American Geographical Society, 1913
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D., J. T., Coffey, George
openaire   +3 more sources

The genomic origins of the Bronze Age Tarim Basin mummies

open access: yesNature, 2021
The identity of the earliest inhabitants of Xinjiang, in the heart of Inner Asia, and the languages that they spoke have long been debated and remain contentious1.
Fan Zhang   +33 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Innovations of the Beginning of the Sixth Millennium BC in the Northern Pontic Steppe

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2021
This study focuses on the pottery-bearing (“Neolithic”) sites of the northern Azov Sea region. The vessels ornamented with comb imprints appeared there in the sixth millennium BC.
Kotova Nadezhda   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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