This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's
most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly�…

Conflict and warfare are central but also disputed themes in discussions about the European
Neolithic. Although a few recent population studies provide broad overviews, only a very�…

The remains of past people are a testament to their lived experiences and of the
environment in which they lived. Synthesising the latest research, this book critically�…

Widely regarded as major visible field monuments of the Iron Age, hillforts are central to an
understanding of later prehistoric communities in Britain and Europe from the later Bronze�…

Large-scale archaeogenetic studies of people from prehistoric Europe tend to be broad in
scope and difficult to resolve with local archaeologies. However, accompanying�…

Recent aDNA analyses demonstrate that the centuries surrounding the arrival of the Beaker
Complex in Britain witnessed a massive turnover in the genetic make-up of the island's�…

The later phase of the Central European Early Neolithic witnessed a rise in collective lethal
violence to a level undocumented up to this date. This is evidenced by repeated massacres�…

Why do we fight? Have we always been fighting one another? This book examines the
origins and development of human forms of organized violence from an anthropological and�…

In our attempts to understand crime, researchers typically focus on proximate factors such as
the psychology of offenders, their developmental history, and the social structure in which�…

Studies of animal introductions have traditionally been the preserve of ecologists and
natural historians but here it is argued that exotic species are a rich source of cultural�…