This is quite an unexpected finding; there has been a paucity of ancient DNA from the Middle East, perhaps due to a combination of high temp...

An extensive English summary of an article in Russian by Gamkrelidze and Ivanov almost 30 years since the publication of their original book...

From  The Maikop Singularity: The Unequal Accumulation of Wealth on the Bronze Age Eurasian Steppe? by Philip L. Kohl (in Social Complexity...

I had seen bits and pieces of SA Grigoriev's ideas in various publications, but it's nice to see this work in its entirety  (althoug...

From the paper: The period between the 4th and 3rd millennia B.C. was the time of great cataclysmic events in the Caucasus; its cultural a...

This is a very interesting paper which suggests that collective work accompanied by feasting played an important role in the creation of G...