In connection with the research project Metals & Giants, an international research team has shed new light on the metal trade in the Bronze Age – and opened up new perspectives on the connections between Sardinia and the Nordic countries, where the iconic horned helmets also appear.

Study has revealed new insights into Stone Age life and death, showing that stone tools were just as likely to be buried with women and children as with men.

Tiny metal figurines from Sardinia's Nuragic civilization in around 1,000 BC reveal extensive ancient Mediterranean metal trading networks

Middens, massive prehistoric rubbish heaps which became part of the British landscape, are revealing the distances people travelled to feast together at the end of the Bronze Age.

In the largest study of its kind, archaeologists from Cardiff University used cutting-edge isotope analysis on material found within six middens in Wiltshire and the Thames Valley.

The results, which reveal where the animals that were feasted on were raised, shed light on the catchment of these vast feasts, arguably the largest to take place in Britain until the medieval period.

An international research team of researchers from Germany, Austria, Poland, Czechia and Croatia led by the HistoGenes consortium has provided answers to the question how the Slavs transformed Europe with the first comprehensive ancient DNA study of medieval Slavic populations. By sequencing over 550 ancient genomes, the team has revealed that the rise of the Slavs was, at its core, a story of people on the move. Their genetic signatures point to an origin in the region stretching from southern Belarus to central Ukraine—a geographic area that matches what many linguistic and archaeological reconstructions had long suggested.