The Lady of Baza (Granada) (Chapa et al., 2020) and pottery from necropolis of Piquía (Arjona, Jaén). Credit: Alberto Sánchez A pioneering study from the University of Jaén reveals, through ...

Archaeological remains of one of the individuals excavated from the site of Hipogeu de Monte Canelas I, Portugal, and analysed by the archaeologist Rui Parreira and the anthropologist Ana Maria Silva.

The genetic pool of the ancient male population in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe was replaced by migrants from Central Europe thousands of years ago. The ancient population of the ...

The largest study to date of ancient DNA from the Iberian Peninsula (modern-day Portugal and Spain) offers new insights into the populations that lived in this region over the last 8,000 years. The ...

The Iberian Peninsula of modern day Spain and Portugal has long held one of human history’s lingering mysteries. Now, two new studies covering nearly 20,000 years have outlined the region’s ...

A recent study carried out by researcher Eduardo Orduña Aznar of the University of Barcelona provides new data on one of the most persistent enigmas in the linguistic history of the Iberian Peninsula: ...

DNA from 136 ancient Iberians reveals genomic and social transformations during the Copper Age to Bronze Age transition in southwestern Europe The third millennium BCE is a highly dynamic period in ...

There’s nothing quite like a picture of a smashed-up human skull to send you scurrying to an exhibition about some prehistoric culture you’ve never heard of before. The stark poster advertising ...