High-resolution studies on scales of decades to centuries indicate that social systems shift to greater complexity and back, a phenomenon usually referred to as social cycles. In archaeological data, ...

Bei ihrer jährlichen Anhörung warnten die Nachrichtendienste erneut vor einem Anschlagsrisiko durch Russland.

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Die Bundesregierung will erneut die Energiesteuer auf Kraftstoffe senken und einen Spritpreisdeckel einführen, um Verbraucher zu entlasten.

The Ursoaia Kiln (north-eastern Romania): a benchmark for Chalcolithic specialised pottery production

Nach Pressemeldungen über die Finanzierung von ISIS in Syrien und Irak (vergl. Antikenhandel auf Platz 2 im Handelsimperium des Terrors  A...

Autocracy wasn’t inevitable in early civilizations — many were more egalitarian. But when riches were there to monopolize, strongmen and inequalities emerged.

Der Archäologe begleitete den Stellmoor-Ahrensburger Tunneltal e.V. mit seinem Fachwissen und war Protagonist im Steinzeit-Film.

The study of the production, movement, processing and consumption of copper and bronze objects in the European Bronze Age (c. 2500–800 BC) reveals the underlying mobility and interconnectedness of Bro...

This Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet is focused on the Lake Chad region and the series of conflict- and climate-related issues that face the region. The fact sheet offers a range of recommended...

Sunday’s election could bring in Germany’s first far-right state government since the Nazi era

A later fifth-millennium cal BC tumulus at Hofheim-Kapellenberg, Germany - Volume 94 Issue 375

Tracing cascading continental-scale medieval megafloods across Europe indicates that current flood management is unprepared for such sequences, highlighting the urgent need for proactive flood risk management strategies that account for unusual series of extreme flood events.

The domestication of plants in southwest Asia was an evolutionary process that took place over several millennia in the Early Holocene. During this...

The long read: Given the size and age of the universe, it should be full of species with technology far more advanced than our own. But so far there is no trace

Abstract. Recent discoveries in Malta and Tunisia provocatively point to a possible web of Mesolithic/Epipalaeolithic sea crossings, encounters, and exchan

Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...

Two papers pin the deadly disease’s introduction on British colonists and suggest the continent held far more people than previously believed