Human historians are ever more vital in the age of AI – especially with the crucial need to capture the emotional and moral complexity behind world events.

Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over the Earth almost 13,000 years ago, which may have had a role in the disappearance of mammoths, mastodons and most of other megafauna at that time, and in the vanishing of the Clovis culture from the archaeological record in North America.

A complete plano-convex ingot has been found in Sweden for the first time. The results of the isotopic and chemical analyses carried out by archaeologists at the University of Gothenburg were unexpected. ”Due, in particular, to its shape and size, it seemed to us a Bronze Age artefact, but the ingot turned out to be made of a copper-zinc-tin-lead alloy, typical of the Iron Age and later periods”, says Serena Sabatini.

Recent research suggests that many of the Bronze Age people buried in Seddin, Germany, were not locals but came from outside the region. While archaeologists had previously uncovered artefacts from other parts of Europe around Seddin, this new study reveals that people themselves travelled and settled in Seddin.