Anticipating and addressing the social implications of scientific work is a fundamental
responsibility of all scientists. However, expectations for ethically sound practices can evolve�…

In the field of human history, ancient DNA has provided answers to long-standing debates
about major movements of people and has begun to inform on other important facets of the�…

Archaeologists for the first time in the history of the discipline are beginning to be faced with
a wide variety of different theoretical perspectives on the past. The majority of these have�…

Europe's prehistory oversaw dynamic and complex interactions of diverse societies, hitherto
unexplored at detailed regional scales. Studying 271 human genomes dated~ 4900 to 1600�…

The Archaeology of Human Bones provides an up to date account of the analysis of human
skeletal remains from archaeological sites, introducing students to the anatomy of bones�…

This Element was written to meet the theoretical and methodological challenge raised by the
third science revolution and its implications for how to study and interpret European�…

Change and Archaeology explores how archaeologists have historically described,
interpreted, and explained change, and argues that change has been under-theorised. The�…

This paper discusses and synthesizes the consequences of the archaeogenetic revolution to
our understanding of mobility and social change during the Neolithic period in Europe (6500�…

In this essay, we interrogate how aDNA analyses have been blended with the study of
migrations in European prehistory. Genetic research into ancient populations has given�…

Recent advances in archeogenetics have revived an interest in grand narratives in which
ethnic groups are once again thought to be agents of historical change. New scientific�…