Niels N. Johannsen

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: The model suggests that salient material culture innovation may occur or be primed in a late childhood or adolescence sweet spot when cognitive and physical abilities are sufficiently mature but before the full onset of the concerns and costs associated with reproduction.

TL;DR: It is found that the engravings from the South African Blombos Cave and Diepkloof Rock Shelter evolved over a period of 30,000 y to become more effective “tools for the mind,” that is, more salient to the human eye, increasingly expressive of human intent and identity, and easier to reproduce from memory.

TL;DR: In this article, an osteomorphological survey of evidence for draught utilisation of cattle in the South Scandinavian TRB culture is presented, focusing on morphological changes in the lower limb bones of domestic cattle from a large number of archaeological sites and from individual cattle skeletons found in bogs.