2025 News from the MPI of Geoanthropology

New research traces the impact of climate change on language dispersal across Northeast Asia over the past 9,000 years more

A new study uses metabolic profiling to uncover ancient knowledge systems behind therapeutic and psychoactive plant use in ancient Arabia. more

A recent study published in iScience presents new insights into herding and land-use practices in the Lesser Caucasus during the Copper Age. Focusing on the high-altitude site of Yeghegis-1 in southern Armenia, the research reevaluates the long-standing views that mobile pastoralism played a central role in technological developments, resource procurement and trans-regional interactions in the region. more

The Group of Chief Scientific Advisors provides independent scientific advice and policy recommendations to the European Commission, informing decision-making and impacting EU legislation more

International researchers from a range of disciplines challenge long-held assumptions about one of the most transformative processes in human history more

A new book by Dr. Robert Spengler tackles one of the biggest questions in biology and the social sciences: domestication – what it is, how it occurred, and the role that humans really played in developing the first crops and livestock. more

New research in India challenges the idea that the Toba super-eruption caused a global volcanic winter. Instead, evidence points to unexpected regional warming.
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