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 …

Three archaeological sites on California’s Channel Islands show that Paleoindians relied
heavily on marine resources. The Paleocoastal sites, dated between ~12,200 and 11,200 …

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 …

… Douglas J. Kennett shows that the trends in cultural elaboration were, in part, set into motion
by a series of dramatic environmental events that were the catalyst for the unprecedented …

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 role of climate change in the development and demise of Classic Maya civilization (300
to 1000 CE) remains controversial because of the absence of well-dated climate and …

RATIONALE To elucidate the extent to which the major cultural transformations of farming,
pastoralism, and shifts in the distribution of languages in Eurasia were accompanied by …

The deep population history of East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a lack of
ancient DNA data and sparse sampling of present-day people 1 , 2 . Here we report genome-wide …

Archaeological data indicates that socially and politically complex hunter-gatherer societies
had become well established on the southern California coast by AD 1300. Major …

We assembled genome-wide data from 16 prehistoric Africans. We show that the anciently
divergent lineage that comprises the primary ancestry of the southern African San had a …