and other institutions have discovered that radical inequality existed in burial practices among teenagers in Early Bronze Age Anatolia, predating the development of social hierarchies in the ...

Lead isotopes showed the silver differed from earlier Middle Bronze Age silver likely sourced from Anatolia. Instead, the results closely resembled Late Bronze Age silver, comparable to material f ...

Aerial view of the Bronze Age site of Basur Höyük. Credit: Basur Höyük Excavation Project At the threshold of written history, when the first civilizations began to consolidate in Mesopotamia and ...