Despite increasing interest in the relationship between culture transformation and abrupt
climate change, their complexities are poorly understood. The local impact of global …

From around 2750 to 2500 bc, Bell Beaker pottery became widespread across western and
central Europe, before it disappeared between 2200 and 1800 bc. The forces that propelled …

We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the
largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect of …

With the emergence of chiefdoms, a new ideology of inherited social difference had to be
created and sustained over time. One way that inherited social inequalities may have been …

This paper presents the first comprehensive pan-Iberian overview of one of the major episodes
of cultural change in later prehistoric Iberia, the Copper to Bronze Age transition (c. 2400–…

… changes that are documented for the third millennium BC, social conflict, and/or a realignment
of the political order toward more decentralized and more egalitarian polities (Lillios 1993b…

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 …

Archaeological investigations of late prehistoric Iberia between the Neolithic and Bronze
Age (6000–1500 BCE) have long been a battleground between indigenist and exogenous …

This paper assesses long-term trends in human activity across the Iberian Peninsula
associated with the spread of agriculture. In order to improve our understanding of regional …

… Lowland Copper Age communities may even have associated a powerful social and symbolic
meaning with amphibolite, which might account for its preference as a raw material (Lillios…