Sept. 15 (UPI) --Hardened dental plaque coating the ancient teeth of Bronze Age pastoralists suggests the emergence of dairying and milk-drinking coincided with a wave of migration across the ...

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered a 3,800-year-old hexagon-shaped structure that they describe as a "pyramid." The maze-like structure is not as tall as Egypt's monuments, but currently ...

Archaeologists discovered a 3,000 BC board game in southern Russia that may represent one of the earliest known chess predecessors.

Miljana Radivojević and her colleagues discuss their research on a Bronze Age settlement called Semiyarka. - Courtesy Peter J. Brown Upon the open grasslands of what is now Kazakhstan, there once ...

Domesticated horses are ubiquitous enough in real life and fictional worlds for it to seem like they’ve always just been there, in their “final form,” so to speak. But where and when did we homo ...

The long-distance migrations of early Bronze Age pastoralists in the Eurasian steppe have captured widespread interest. But the factors behind their remarkable spread have been heavily debated by ...

Introduction: The nature of nomads, cultural variation, and gender roles past and present / Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson -- Reconsidering warfare, status, and gender in the Eurasian ...