Chemical analysis of skeletal remains from medieval Cambridge indicates people from different social groups ate different foods, showing how inequality in medieval England was not just cultural, but also physically embodied.

Use wear and AI-simulated play indicate a stone artefact from the Roman Netherlands was a game board used to play a blocking game, pushing evidence for blocking games back centuries and providing a ground-breaking new method to study past games.

Discovery of 4,500-year-old archaeological sites on the remote Kitsissut islands, north of Greenland, shows the first people in the High Arctic were skilled seafarers who actively shaped Arctic ecosystems from the start, redefining how we understand Indigenous influence on Arctic environments.