Archaeogenetic studies have described the formation of Eurasian ‘steppe ancestry’ as a
mixture of Eastern and Caucasus hunter-gatherers. However, it remains unclear when and …

Recent genomic analyses show that the earliest peoples reaching Remote Oceania—associated
with Austronesian-speaking Lapita culture—were almost completely East Asian, …

Anatolia was home to some of the earliest farming communities. It has been long debated
whether a migration of farming groups introduced agriculture to central Anatolia. Here, we …

Archaeological excavations at Göbekli Tepe, a transitional Neolithic site in southeast Turkey,
have revealed the earliest megalithic ritual architecture with characteristic T-shaped pillars. …

Objectives It is a big challenge to diagnose the motives behind trepanations in prehistoric
crania. Surgical‐therapeutic attempts may be apparent by the presence of fractures, however, …

Pastoral nomadism, as a successful economic and social system drawing on mobile herding,
long-distance trade, and cavalry warfare, affected all polities of the Eurasian continent. The …

In 2018, a well-constructed cist-type grave was discovered at Ba`ja, a Neolithic village (7,400–6,800
BCE) in Southern Jordan. Underneath multiple grave layers, an 8-year-old child …

The flanks of the Caucasus Mountains and the steppe landscape to their north offered highly
productive grasslands for Bronze Age herders and their flocks of sheep, goat, and cattle. …

This paper presents an archaeological–palaeopathological case study from Turfan (western
China). Although this area is located outside of the two focus regions of the special issue (…

Growing reliance on animal and plant domestication in the Near East and beyond during
the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) (the ninth to eighth millennium BC) has often been …