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The analysis of fat traces in over one hundred pottery vessels reveals deep changes in food consumption and preparation by communities living in central Germany between the Early Neolithic and the Late Bronze Age, as well as in their relation with innovations in pottery styles and decorations. In a groundbreaking study, researchers identified a generalized inclusion of dairy products in prehistoric diets, a preference in consuming pork with the arrival of communities from the Eurasian Steppe, an...

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Early Neolithic northerners were already taller than Mediterranean people, but the disparity between women and men was greater, which suggests that they gave preferential treatment to men

A genetic study of nearly 100 corpses in a French cemetery reconstructs seven generations of a Neolithic clan in which the men stayed in their places of origin for their entire lives while the women went to other groups

The "El Argar" civilization ruled over all of southern Spain between 2200 and 1550 BCE, until it suddenly ...

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By Jennifer Pinkowski

What did the Early Bronze Age men and women of the Argaric culture in the southeastern Iberian Peninsula look like? Researchers at the UAB have analysed the facial features of these individuals based on the digital and biological study of the...

Women were hunters, athletes, and important political figures, among other things. May 14, 2021 A reconstruction of a Wilamaya Patjxa vicuña hunt by artist Matthew Verdolivo, UC Davis IET Academic Technology Services. Courtesy Randall Haas. We like to think we know what our ancient female forebears were like. Yet a spate of recent discoveries confirms the truth: that we really have no idea. Clues from ancient texts and archaeological studies can give us a succinct picture of the important role...

Based on a grave and the artifacts found in it, archaeologists believe that women may have been powerful leaders in the south-eastern part of Spain during the Bronze Age. According to the Research Group in Mediterranean Social Archaeoecology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), females may have held very important leadership roles of the El Argar society around 4,000 years ago. A tomb that has been called Grave 38 was found in the La Almoloya site which is located in Murcia, Spain....