Radiocarbon dating of material from Late Pleistocene archaeological sites is challenging.
Small amounts of modern 14 C-labelled contamination will significantly affect the reliability of …

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 …

We present the high-quality genome sequence of a ∼45,000-year-old modern human male
from Siberia. This individual derives from a population that lived before—or simultaneously …

We report here the genome sequence of an ancient human. Obtained from ∼4,000-year-old
permafrost-preserved hair, the genome represents a male individual from the first known …

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 …

Physical principles and laws determine the set of possible organismal phenotypes. Constraints
arising from development, the environment, and evolutionary history then yield workable, …

Recent measurements on dendrochronologically-dated wood from the Southern Hemisphere
have shown that there are differences between the structural form of the radiocarbon …

Farming was first introduced to Europe in the mid-seventh millennium bc, and was associated
with migrants from Anatolia who settled in the southeast before spreading throughout …

The timing of Neanderthal disappearance and the extent to which they overlapped with the
earliest incoming anatomically modern humans (AMHs) in Eurasia are key questions in …

… This method removes contaminants more efficiently than a standard ABA pretreatment
and has been shown to yield significantly older dates for some samples (Turney et al. 2001; …