For what they were... we are

All archaeogenetics and no archaeology makes people go mad. So let's spice this a bit with this absolutely enticing video of a conferen...

I know, I know: I'm decaying into a total procrastinator. I don't have any excuse other than I don't feel like blogging as of l...

This is a most interesting study that brings to us potentially key information on the expansion of European Neolithic and the formation of m...

Or yet another ancient European DNA study, with some quirks and, critically, the first ancient farmer sample from the Eastern Mediterranean...

Marnie's blog points today to a very interesting review of the Early Neolithic Aegean. It is from a few years ago and hence totally ob...

Reconstructed home entrance (credit: Kvaekstad) Aşıklı Höyük (Aksaray province) is the oldest known Cappadocian Neolithic site, locat...

Archaeologists working in one of the most important archaeological sites of Europe, Yenikapı (Istanbul, Turkey), an emergency dig that h...

Only one is needed, and the 12,000 years-old village Hasakyef fulfills nine of the ten possible reasons to be declared World Heritage Si...

Pendik , a suburb of Istanbul on the Asian coast of the Bosporus, has produced a Neolithic settlement dating to c. 8500 years ago, includin...

While it is well known that Ankara was once the Easternmost Celtic capital (Ancyra, capital of Galatia ) not much is known of the previ...

Determining social relationships between populations in the past can be difficult. Trade can be inferred from evidence such as pottery with ...

As you probably know, Çatalhöyük (near Konya, Turkey) is one of the most emblematic sties of Middle Neolithic.  As genetic research was fr...

There is a new and quite interesting paper the reviews the domestication of the key Neolithic crops: Ehud Weiss and Daniel Zohary, The Neol...

The following paper offers some information on the genetics of Provenzals and some specific populations of Turkey (Foça, Izmir) which is com...

I mentioned in October the finding of what seems to be a whole family murdered at the Neolithic necropolis of Aktopraklık, near Bursa, Turk...

An intriguing and disturbing finding has been reported in Turkey: five people (two adults and three young children) were found in a shared g...