Western Eurasia witnessed several large-scale human migrations during the Holocene 1 , 2
, 3 , 4 – 5 . Here, to investigate the cross-continental effects of these migrations, we shotgun-…

Major migration events in Holocene Eurasia have been characterized genetically at broad
regional scales 1 , 2 , 3 – 4 . However, insights into the population dynamics in the contact …

The transitions from foraging to farming and later to pastoralism in Stone Age Eurasia (c. 11-3
thousand years before present, BP) represent some of the most dramatic lifestyle changes …

The transition from Late Palaeolithic to early Mesolithic cultures is strongly associated with
the major environmental and climatic changes occurring with the shift from the Younger Dryas …

In the summer of 1986 a mass grave was discovered along the bank of the river Tryggevælde
Å where it empties into Køge Bugt, the bay south of modern Copenhagen, Denmark. The …

The Danish Palaeolithic began during the Lateglacial (approximately 12,350 calBC) and
lasted for about four thousand years. Only a handful of sites and organic stray finds have been …

The settlement structure of two Late Upper Palaeolithic sites from Denmark is compared. The
Brommean site Stoksbjerg Bro is an intensively used site with two hearths and a dwelling. …

A series of latrines from Denmark, spanning the periods Viking Age to Renaissance (800s–1680s
AD), have been analysed for their contents of macroscopic plant remains, pollen, and …

What is left behind in our days is coloured not only by the social practice in the past but also
by our own abilities to understand, as we are biased in our academic disciplines and in …

… Kristoffer Buck Pedersen, Erik Brinch Petersen …