A cross-cultural study reveals how the consumption of wine and beer facilitated the evolution of human societies

Moms and daughters were at the center of the family in ancient Çatalhöyük, ancient DNA and archaeological evidence suggest

Queen’s University is a globally engaged, research-intensive institution dedicated to attracting and supporting exceptional PhD students who will significantly advance our research mission.

Researchers in Japan have developed a plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours, offering up a potential solution for a modern-day scourge polluting oceans and harming wildlife.

German Excellence Commission approves up to 60 million euros for Kiel research on humans and the environment in the past.

The German Research Foundation announced which collaborative research projects will receive funding for the next seven years as Clusters of Excellence.

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Across Neolithic Europe, megalithic monuments – including stone circles and gallery graves – were constructed by early farming communities, representing a supra-regional cultural phenomenon1. The coll...

Archaeologists can estimate a person's sex with 95% accuracy, but many experts are focused on what can be learned about humans outside the male/female gender binary.

Der Übergang von der nomadischen zur sesshaften, auf Landwirtschaft beruhenden Lebensweise zu Beginn der Jungsteinzeit war einer der tiefgreifendsten Einschnitte in der Geschichte der Menschheit. Schon lange diskutiert die Wissenschaft, ob dieser Entwicklungsschritt, verbunden mit weiteren Innovationen und damit steigender Produktivität der Landwirtschaft, schnell zu sozialer Ungleichheit führte – und damit letztendlich die Keimzelle aller Wohlstandsunterschiede bis in die Gegenwart darstellt.

Im Präpariersaal zergliedern Medizinstudierende Leichen. Wir haben sie monatelang begleitet: von der Angst vorm ersten Schnitt bis zum Begräbnis ihres Körperspenders.