A new ancient-DNA study suggests the Bronze Age people who transformed Britain around 2400 BC didn’t arrive from Iberia, as older narratives of the “Bell Beaker” story sometimes implied. Instead, ...
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The Bronze Age changed everything but most people don’t know why
Around 3300 BC, humans entered a new era that would change history forever. Bronze replaced stone, writing emerged, trade ...
The ruins of a prehistoric skyscraper: New research is revealing how Cornish tin appears to have boosted a long-lost Bronze Age Mediterranean civilization. This aerial photo shows that civilization's ...
About 4600 years ago, the population of Britain was replaced by a people who brought Bell Beaker pottery with them. Now, ...
The study “radically transforms our understanding of social and economic relationships” in ancient civilizations. A new study has revealed the surprising role British innovation played in spurring ...
Some of Britain’s hedgerows are older than the Pyramids. From Dartmoor’s Bronze Age ‘reaves’ to our modern-day field boundaries, they still shape wildlife, farming and the countryside today ...
The newly discovered Bronze Age wheel at Must Farm (all photos by Dave Webb, © Cambridge Archaeological Unit) Archaeologists with the University of Cambridge have ...
Examples of cranial trauma. Top: Perimortem injury to the left posterior of the frontal bone (a), cutmarks can also be seen on the frontal bone (b) and patinated bevel of the internal cranial surface ...
New archaeological research is revealing that, more than a thousand years before Britain became part of the Roman Empire, it was part of an extraordinary Mediterranean-based trading network.
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