Revealing and understanding the mechanisms behind social inequality in prehistoric
societies is a major challenge. By combining genome-wide data, isotopic evidence, and …

Both terms require a definition. For the purposes of this chapter thresholds are found where
different elements were brought into contact with one another and where it was possible for …

The Bronze Age was the first epoch in which societies became irreversibly linked in their co-
dependence on ores and metallurgical skills that were unevenly distributed in geographical …

Chance discoveries of weapons, horse bones and human skeletal remains along the banks
of the River Tollense led to a campaign of research which has identified them as the debris …

The aim of this study is to further the discussion as to whether copper was extracted locally
or imported to Sweden during the Bronze Age or if both of these practices could have …

Societies of the later Early to Middle Bronze Age (ca. 2200–1600 BC) in the Carpathian
Basin exhibited complex, hierarchical and regionally influential socio-political organisation …

" This book is about the prehistory of Scandinavia, from the first inhabitants to their Viking
descendants. Scandinavia in this study includes the modern countries of Denmark, Sweden …

It is notable how little gender archaeology has been written for the European Neolithic, in
contrast to the following Bronze Age. We cannot blame this absence on a lack of empirical …

We present results of the largest multidisciplinary human mobility investigation to date of
skeletal remains from present-day Denmark encompassing the 3rd and 2nd millennia BC …

In recent decades, there has been a dramatic increase in information from archaeological
skeletons about violent encounters that took place within and among societies, especially …