The Bronze Age

View from Stora Förvar Cave on Stora Karlsö Island, Sweden. Credit: Jan Storå / Stockholm University

Remains of wolves from thousands of years ago on an isolated Baltic island suggest that humans brought them and managed their lives

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Genetic and isotopic analysis showed that these were gray wolves and not dogs, but their aquatic diet, low genetic variation, and signs of injury raise the possibility of ongoing contact with prehistoric communities.
Map of sampling sites for olive and grapevine archaeobotanical finds. Credit: Riehl et al., 2025, PLOS One, CC-BY 4.0 ([https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/))

Bronze and Iron Age farmers invested in irrigation to preserve grapevine crops – and committed to wine production

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Close-up of a Nuragic bronze, a bronze statuette about 10 cm high with a horned helmet. The statuette is found in the ritual complex of Abini, in central Sardinia. Credit: Heida V. Norgard, courtesy of the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari.

Metals reveal: The Bronze Age was much more interconnected than we thought

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As part of the Metals & Giants research project, an international team of researchers has shed new light on the metal trade in the Bronze Age – and discovered a much wider network of connections than previously estimated.
Horseback riding. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The mutation that changed history: How horses became rideable

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New research reveals that two genetic mutations were key to the domestication of the horse in the Bronze Age – making it calmer and more resistant to carrying riders, and changing the face of transportation and warfare in the ancient world
Credit: The silver hoard from Maras ad-Din, circa 600 BC - Photograph by Dr. Shai Bar

New research conducted at the University of Haifa: Silver was used as a means of payment in the Land of Israel more than a thousand years before the invention of currency

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Analysis of dozens of silver hoards from the Bronze and Iron Ages and 230 chemical samples shows an established weight economy, standards, and even counterfeits – from the 17th century BC to the 6th century BC; led by Dr. Tzilla Eshel
Children make pottery. The image was prepared using DALEE

Disclosure: Children decorated pottery in the Syrian kingdom 4500 years ago

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On pottery discovered at Tel Hama in the Jordan Valley, the fingerprints reveal the work of children in the Bronze Age
Canaanite finds from Megiddo Hill (courtesy of Megiddo Archaeological Expedition)

Researchers have analyzed the genetics of the Canaanites and its relationship to modern populations such as Jews, Palestinians and Bedouins

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The DNA analysis showed that the Canaanites were created from the mixing of populations that migrated to the southern Levant mainly from the Caucasus region (or western Iran) with ancient local populations that stayed there, a process that lasted at least 1,000 years
The gate looking at. Photo by Emil Algam, Antiquities Authority.

In Kiryat Gat, the oldest gate in Israel was discovered

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In an excavation by the Antiquities Authority prior to the construction of a Mekorot company water line in the Kiryat Gat area, an ancient gate was discovered, approximately 5,500 years old * This gate was part of the fortification system of one of the hills
The dolmen is 4,000 years old this year. Photo: Gonen Sharon, Tel Hai Academic College.

A rare ancient and mysterious over 4,000-year-old dolmen decorated with ancient rock art has been uncovered

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A typical Early Bronze Age jug. He was discovered buried under the floor of a building. Photo: Dr. Ron Barry, courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority

The remains of a 10,000-year-old city were discovered in rescue excavations during the widening of a road in the lowlands

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In a unique community excavation and the largest in Israel to date, researchers from the University of Haifa together with school students from the area of ​​the Menashe Regional Council are uncovering Tel-Assor, a Canaanite settlement from the Bronze Age

The largest community archaeological excavation in Israel brought hundreds of XNUMXth graders out of their classrooms and into the excavation of the past

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Prof. Wayne Horowitz (right) and Dr. Eilat Mazar from the Hebrew University hold the part of the tablet that was revealed. (Photo: Sashon Tiram)

The first letter from Jerusalem: researchers from the Hebrew University discovered the oldest document written in Jerusalem

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