Radiocarbon dating uses the decay of a radioactive isotope of carbon (14C) to measure time
and date objects containing carbon-bearing material. With a half-life of 5,700±30 years …

For over 70 years the introduction of natural sciences to archaeology and cultural heritage
has been ever growing with multiple contributions to deciphering the past. Novel techniques …

Summary Northern East Asia was inhabited by modern humans as early as 40 thousand
years ago (ka), as demonstrated by the Tianyuan individual. Using genome-wide data …

Summary The Eastern Eurasian Steppe was home to historic empires of nomadic
pastoralists, including the Xiongnu and the Mongols. However, little is known about the …

Abstract The stratigraphy at Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, spans the Middle to Upper
Palaeolithic transition, including an Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) assemblage argued to …

Elucidating when Neanderthal populations disappeared from Eurasia is a key question in
paleoanthropology, and Belgium is one of the key regions for studying the Middle to Upper …

We present analyses of the genome of a~ 34,000-year-old hominin skull cap discovered in
the Salkhit Valley in northeastern Mongolia. We show that this individual was a female …

Archaeological assemblages labeled as Initial Upper Paleolithic are often seen as possible
evidence for dispersals of Homo sapiens populations in Eurasia, ca. 45,000 years ago …

Since the initial identification of the Denisovans a decade ago, only a handful of their
physical remains have been discovered. Here we analysed~ 3,800 non-diagnostic bone …

The fossil record suggests that at least two major human dispersals occurred across the
Eurasian steppe during the Late Pleistocene. Neanderthals and Modern Humans moved …