Łukasz Pospieszny

TL;DR: It is shown that the Bronze Age was a highly dynamic period involving large-scale population migrations and replacements, responsible for shaping major parts of present-day demographic structure in both Europe and Asia.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explain how the Corded Ware Culture in Europe was formed in terms of local adaptations and interactions between migrant Yamnaya people from the Pontic-Caspian steppe and indigenous North European Neolithic cultures.

TL;DR: A detailed study of a 5,000-y-old mass grave from southern Poland belonging to the Globular Amphora culture and containing the remains of 15 men, women, and children, all killed by blows to the head, provides an unprecedented level of insight into the kinship structure and social behavior of a Late Neolithic community.

TL;DR: An extensive programme of AMS-dating of charred broomcorn millet grains from 75 prehistoric sites in Europe provides a new, high-resolution chronological framework for this key agricultural development that likely contributed to far-reaching changes in lifestyle in late 2nd millennium bc Europe.

TL;DR: It is shown that the BAC represents a group different from other Neolithic populations in Scandinavia, revealing stratification among cultural groups, and the steppe ancestry seen in these Scandinavian BAC individuals can be explained only by migration into Scandinavia.