Updates 2024

A recent study revisits 19th-century museum collection to test the utility of ZooMS proteomic techniques to taxonomically identify bone fragments and ultimately provide new insights into human-animal interactions trough time
 
In a new study published in PLOS ONE, a team of researchers from the Department of Archaeology at MPI GEA, the University of Pisa and Le Mans Université reveal early Etruscan urban life histories.
A new research article published in Antiquity examines obsidian fragments from a newly discovered Copper Age site in Armenia. The finds reveals greater social connectivity across the landscape trough time.
 
A recent study published in PLoS ONE reveals repeated human occupation at the Umm Jirsan lava tube from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. The findings shed light on diets, cultural practices, and interactions with the landscape, offering a glimpse into the lives of early peoples on the Arabian Peninsula
A recent systematic review by new Human Palaeosystems Group member Dr. Lucy Timbrell highlights links between climate change, population dynamics and archaeological diversity in eastern Africa during the Middle Stone Age, the period of prehistory linked to the emergence of our species.
New interdisciplinary research reveals a shift towards reliance on millet, a drought resistant crop, during the beginning of the Late Bronze Age
Hudson is one of 43 Fellows elected to the Society at their recent meeting in February 2024
Review of the new book by Jürgen Renn and Hanoch Gutfreund in Nature
Interview Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Interview in German, paywalled):
Assessment and classification of the special climate year 2023 with climate researcher Ricarda Winkelmann
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