Researchers from the UAB Department of Archaeology and Koç University (Turkey) validate two new biomarkers in prehistoric pottery to reveal the recipes of ancient cuisine. These compounds specific to animal and vegetable fats offer...
New findings by a UAB team at the archaeological site of Tell Lashkir, in northeastern Iraq, demonstrate that, some 5,000 years ago, their Bronze Age inhabitants were deeply involved in supplying bitumen to the bustling cities in the south through Mesopotamian trade...
Professor of Palaeontology at the Complutense University of Madrid, director of the UCM-ISCIII Centre for Human Evolution and Behaviour, and codirector of the Sierra de Atapuerca archaeological sites. Worldwide renowned palaeontologist and excellent science popularizer. He is autor, among other books, of La...
Fingerprints printed in ceramic pieces from Bronze Ages allow creating the profile of its manufacturer. A team of investigators from the Biologic Anthropology Unity of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona has applied forensic techniques to...
This thesis focuses its research on the study of the Tell Halula settlement in the Euphrates Valley, Syria, with the main objective of offering an overview of the life of the tools, from obtaining the raw materials to...
Paul Spence is Senior Lecturer at King's College London, where he has twice acted as Head of Department for what is the only academic department of digital humanities in the world. Paul Spence has worked as a journalist, has an academic background in Spanish and Latin American studies and is an expert in digital...
A new study from the UAB has identified the most ancient case of isolated bilateral macrodontia of mandibular second premolars reported to date. It is a relatively uncommon dental malformation that has been found in...
Through the study of the vegetation succession and sedimentological, geochemical and geomorphological data from the Lake of Banyoles (Girona, Spain), one study has shown that the Middle Holocene was marked by drying and cooling oscillations and by...
The tradition of burning the dead and placing their remains and those of the funeral pyre in ceramic urns spread in the second millennium BC throughout Europe, from the Carpathians and the Danube valley to the northeast of the...
Pollen analysis of a new pollen record from Lake Banyoles and its contextualisation with other archaeobotanical records from La Draga, has allowed characterising the environmental conditions in which Neolithic communities developed, and, at...
