Holy something You'll remember Ava, one of the most diligently studied and interesting Beaker women ever.  Now with ancient DNA it is ...

I just read from Anthrogenica that Jean Manco passed away Palm Sunday from cancer.  Very sad to hear. She wrote several books about the pe...

One of the more striking aspects of the bell beaker vessel is - it's size. In a way, bell beakers and giant beakers have something in ...

Below is linked a paper on the paleoecology of the Caspian Steppe.  The process of aridization can be viewed partly from the isotopes taken ...

As Polynesians conquered the Pacific, one place they didn't conquer was Alaska, because it is freaking cold there.  Plus, coconuts don...

Use-wear analysis bolstered a now erroneous perception that early copper weaponry were little more than male status symbols.  For whatever ...

Returning again to the chapter "Exploring new territories - Expanding Frontiers..." which seeks to understand the exploration of S...

Here's an interesting paper on the importance of the ass in the developing Near Eastern World Economy.  Before I get to the paper, let...

In places where swaddling was recently practiced, the desired end-state was to develop infants into taller, straighter adults.   Algonquians...

Here's an article from MessagetoEagle entitled "Facial Reconstruction of Ava: 3,700-Year-Old Bronze Age Woman" The reconstru...

After a long wait... the results of the British mobility project are published.  Hat tip Eurogenes. First of all, I'd like to thank th...

Some Beaker pots, more it seems from southerly latitudes, had a cross on the bottom, usually interpreted to be sun rays or maybe a wheel.  T...

After a long wait, Valera and Evangelista's paper is openly available (linked at bottom).  I'll move back and forth between the pape...

Reading two recent papers sparked some ideas about funerary wares.  The first was a discussion on the transition away from positive fun...

"Environmental Changes in North-Western Iberia Around the Bell Beaker Period" is a chapter looking at evidence of changes in the ...

I just changed my mind on ten things.  Seriously, this paper approaches Beaker pottery production through the lens of modern ethnography an...

European textile tools and resources change rapidly with the progress of the Beakers and Battle Axe folk.  In fact, for all the talk about ...