Rewriting the Central European Early Bronze Age Chronology: Evidence from Large-Scale Radiocarbon Dating. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The transition from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe has often been considered as a supra-regional uniform process, which led to the growing mastery of the new bronze technology.
Philipp W Stockhammer +8 more
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Dairying enabled Early Bronze Age Yamnaya steppe expansions. [PDF]
Nature, 2021 During the Early Bronze Age, populations of the western Eurasian steppe expanded across an immense area of northern Eurasia. Combined archaeological and genetic evidence supports widespread Early Bronze Age population movements out of the Pontic–Caspian ...
Wilkin S +19 more
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Ancient genomes provide insights into family structure and the heredity of social status in the early Bronze Age of southeastern Europe. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Twenty-four palaeogenomes from Mokrin, a major Early Bronze Age necropolis in southeastern Europe, were sequenced to analyse kinship between individuals and to better understand prehistoric social organization.
Žegarac A +12 more
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Central European Early Bronze Age chronology revisited: A Bayesian examination of large-scale radiocarbon dating. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 In archaeological research, changes in material culture and the evolution of styles are taken as major indicators for socio-cultural transformation. They form the basis for typo-chronological classification and the establishment of phases and periods ...
Brunner M +3 more
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Why did the use of antimony-bearing alloys in Bronze Age Anatolia fall dormant after the Early Bronze Age?: A Case from Resuloğlu (Çorum, Turkey). [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 The archaeometallurgical and archaeological research carried out in Anatolia has provided numerous examples of diverse alloying practices representing different levels of societal interaction, from the extraction of ores to the trade of finished goods ...
Dardeniz G.
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Reconstructing Bronze Age diets and farming strategies at the early Bronze Age sites of La Bastida and Gatas (southeast Iberia) using stable isotope analysis. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 The El Argar society of the Bronze Age in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula (2200–1550 cal BCE) was among the first complex societies in Europe.
Knipper C +7 more
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The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia. [PDF]
Science, 2018 Ancient steppes for human equestrians The Eurasian steppes reach from the Ukraine in Europe to Mongolia and China. Over the past 5000 years, these flat grasslands were thought to be the route for the ebb and flow of migrant humans, their horses, and ...
de Barros Damgaard P +50 more
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The maternal genetic make-up of the Iberian Peninsula between the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2017 Agriculture first reached the Iberian Peninsula around 5700 BCE. However, little is known about the genetic structure and changes of prehistoric populations in different geographic areas of Iberia. In our study, we focus on the maternal genetic makeup of
Szécsényi-Nagy A +72 more
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Exceptionally high levels of lead pollution in the Balkans from the Early Bronze Age to the Industrial Revolution. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2018 Significance A detailed record of historical lead (Pb) pollution from a peat bog in Serbia provides a unique view on the extent and timing of Balkan mining and metallurgy.
Longman J +3 more
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Characterization of cosmetic sticks at Xiaohe Cemetery in early Bronze Age Xinjiang, China. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2016 Cosmetics have been studied for a long time in the society and culture research and its consumption is regarded as a cultural symbol of human society. This paper focuses on the analysis of the red cosmetic sticks, found in Xiaohe Cemetery (1980–1450BC ...
Mai H +5 more
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