When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that ...

Because cremation dominates the Urnfield period, the Late Bronze Age has long been a “blind spot” for biomolecular research. The new study published in Nature tackled that gap by focusing on ...

Until 20 years ago, little was known about the Bronze Age culture of the Hejaz, a mountainous region that abuts the Red Sea in western Saudi Arabia. Archaeological evidence was scant and the traces on ...

During an archaeological survey conducted in February, researchers from the Maritime Encounters program at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, identified six previously unregistered Bronze Age mines ...

Where Bronze Age civilizations got large amounts of tin, a scarce metal, to mix with copper into the era’s namesake gold-colored metal has long puzzled archaeologists. A big part of the answer lies in ...

Lead isotope analysis has emerged as a critical tool in the study of Bronze Age metallurgy, enabling researchers to decipher the provenance and circulation of metal resources used in ancient societies ...

According to a statement released by the University of Gothenburg, six Bronze Age copper, lead, and silver mines have been ...