We assembled genome-wide data from 271 ancient Iberians, of whom 176 are from the largely unsampled period after 2000 BCE, thereby providing a high-resolution time transect of the Iberian Peninsula. We document high genetic substructure between northwestern and southeastern hunter-gatherers before the spread of farming. We reveal sporadic contacts between Iberia and North Africa by~2500 BCE and, by~2000 BCE, the replacement of 40% of Iberia's ancestry and nearly 100% of its Y-chromosomes by people with Steppe ancestry. We show that, in the Iron Age, Steppe ancestry had spread not only into Indo-European-speaking regions but also into non-Indo-European-speaking ones, and we reveal that present-day Basques are best described as a typical Iron Age population without the admixture events that later affected the rest of Iberia. Additionally, we document how, beginning at least in the Roman period, the ancestry of the peninsula was transformed by gene flow from North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean.

Dental calculus preserves oral microbes, enabling comparative studies of the oral microbiome and health through time. However, small sample sizes and limited dental health metadata have hindered health-focused investigations to date. Here we investigate the relationship between tobacco pipe smoking and dental calculus microbiomes. Dental calculus from 75 individuals from the 19th century Middenbeemster skeletal collection (Netherlands) were analyzed by metagenomics. Demographic and dental health parameters were systematically recorded, including the presence/number of pipe notches. Comparative data sets from European populations before and after the introduction of tobacco were also analyzed. Calculus species profiles were compared with oral pathology to examine associations between microbiome community, smoking behavior, and oral health status. The Middenbeemster individuals exhibited relatively poor oral health, with a high prevalence of periodontal disease, caries, heavy calculus deposits, and antemortem tooth loss. No associations between pipe notches and dental pathologies, or microbial species composition, were found. Calculus samples before and after the introduction of tobacco showed highly similar species profiles. Observed inter-individual microbiome differences were consistent with previously described variation in human populations from the Upper Paleolithic to the present. Dental calculus may not preserve microbial indicators of health and disease status as distinctly as dental plaque.

RESUMEN: Castillejo del Bonete es una cueva que fue utilizada y adaptada como monumento funerario durante la Prehistoria reciente. Abundantes piezas metálicas en óptimo estado de conservación se han recuperado de los túmulos construidos encima de la cueva, tanto en el interior de tumbas como fuera de ellas.El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar la colección metálica del yacimiento recuperada hasta finales de 2012. También el estudio arqueometalúrgico de varias de las piezas y una interpretación del conjunto en relación a su ámbito cultural y territorial. La investigación además incorpora datos inéditos de El Acequión, Albacete, para proporcionar una perspectiva comparativa sobre la procedencia del metal en la Edad del Bronce con los datos disponibles del área argárica.Las piezas metálicas son explicadas en sus respectivos contextos arqueológicos antes de ser analizadas por diferentes métodos y técnicas: isótopos de plomo, espectrometría por fluorescencia de rayos X, microscopía electrónica de barrido con microanálisis por espectrometría de dispersión de energías de rayos X, metalografía y análisis de microdureza.Los resultados revelan tipos y procesos metalúrgicos característicos del Calcolítico y fases antiguas de la Edad del Bronce. En general son piezas sin estaño pero con alto contenido en arsénico, procedentes en buena parte del área de Linares.Palabras clave: Edad del Bronce. Calcolítico. Cueva. Túmulo funerario. Cobre arsenicado. Isótopos de plomo. Arqueometalurgia. Cultura de las Motillas. 110Ignacio Montero Ruiz y otros autores / Cobre para los muertos. Estudio arqueométrico del material metálico...

Beads and pendants from the Castillejo del Bonete (Terrinches, Ciudad Real) and Cerro Ortega (Villanueva de la Fuente, Ciudad Real) burials were analysed using XRD, micro-Raman and XRF in order to contribute to the current distribution map of green bead body ornament pieces on the Iberian Peninsula which, so far, remain undetailed for many regions. XRD, micro-Raman and XRF analyses showed that most of the beads from Castillejo del Bonete (Late 3rd millennium cal. BC) were made from variscite or green phyllosilicates, while Cerro Ortega's (Late 4th millennium cal. BC) beads were made out of fossil wood or Clinochlore. Significantly enough, while XRD pointed to variscite as the main crystallo-graphic phase, the elemental composition did not match any elemental compositions of known and characterised sources, thus suggesting an unknown south-eastern source or an extra-peninsular origin of these ornamental pieces.