Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare 1 .
However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage …

In this article, we approach the Neolithization of southern Scandinavia from an archaeolinguistic
perspective. Farming arrived in Scandinavia with the Funnel Beaker culture by the turn …

Recent genetic, isotopic and linguistic research has dramatically changed our understanding
of how the Corded Ware Culture in Europe was formed. Here the authors explain it in terms …

The three main types of tanged flint arrowheads (A, B, and C) characteristic of the Neolithic
Pitted Ware hunter, fisher and gatherers of southwestern Scandinavia are traditionally viewed …

When dealing with the Neolithic, one finds a period of great complexity concerning ritual,
social and economic life. This complexity provides wide ranging opportunities for studying the …

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 Gjerrild burial provides the largest and best-preserved assemblage of human skeletal
material presently known from the Single Grave Culture (SGC) in Denmark. For generations it …

This paper investigates to what extent the significant material changes observable at the
end of the Neolithic reflect transformations of the underlying social dynamics. Answering this …