PNAS doi: 10.1098/rspa.2013.0395 An absolute chronology for early Egypt using radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical modellin...

This map was posted on Wikipedia and while I would not vouch for all its details, it is nonetheless and impressive effort of visually summ...

From the book of abstracts ( pdf ): MITOCHONDRIAL DNA AND PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS OF PREHISTORIC NORTH AFRICAN POPULATIONS North Africa is...

The bioarchaeology of the neolithic Carpathian Basin By the beginning of the 6th Millennium cal BC, the first farmers reached the Carpath...

The paper's conclusion: The main findings in this article can be summarized as follows. New data show that average male height in Eur...

This seems to parallel quite well with my hypothesis of a secondary expansion into Europe of the component I've labeled "West Asi...

I haven't read this, but the idea of looking at looking at nuclear sequences of mitochondrial origin (numt) as a way of testing for arch...

This is a nice demonstration of transfer of domesticated animals from Neolithic farmers to European hunter-gatherers. (Red=European, Yello...

Genetics doi: 10.1534/genetics.113.153973 Population Growth Inflates the Per-Individual Number of Deleterious Mutations and Reduces Their...

Journal of Language Relationship • Вопросы языкового родства • 10 (2013) • Pp. 85—137 The place of Armenian in the Indo-European language...

PLoS ONE 8(8): e71390. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071390 The First Peopling of South America: New Evidence from Y-Chromosome Haplogroup ...

Quaternary Science Reviews Available online 17 July 2013 The Vikings were not the first colonizers of the Faroe Islands Mike J. Church ...

Oldest Gaming Tokens Found in Turkey Small carved stones unearthed in a nearly 5,000-year-old burial could represent the earliest gaming...

PLoS ONE 8(8): e71004. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0071004 Environmental Roots of the Late Bronze Age Crisis David Kaniewski et al. Th...

PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1302730110 Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe Marie Soressia et al. Abstract Mode...

I had referred to this collection of papers before ,  and now all the PDFs appear to be available free of charge. This seems fairly inte...