But against that background picture of health and disease was unequivocal evidence of violent injury around the time of death. Skulls had been smashed in with blunt weapons – probably adzes; legs had been hacked at, fracturing fibulae and tibiae. That focus on the legs suggests the attackers were not only interested in dealing fatal blows to their

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The persistence of the standard model is puzzling – and yet, despite a paucity of evidence, there are still a few archaeologists clinging on to it. This perplexes geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer, who has written: ‘The current orthodox view of the origins of the Celts is one of the last remaining archaeological myths left over from the nineteenth

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For most of our evolutionary history, we did indeed live in Africa – but not just the eastern savannahs, as previously thought: our biological ancestors were distributed everywhere from Morocco to the Cape.3 Some of those populations remained isolated from each another for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years, cut off from their nearest

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