A 6,800-year-old Serbian settlement called Opovo Ugar-Bajbuk was nearly twice larger than previously thought, covering 9.4 hectares with up to 711 residents from the Vinča culture. New geomagnetic surveys and radiocarbon dating reveal a well-organized community with low social inequality, evidenced by similar house sizes and cooperative large-scale earthwork projects without signs of coercion.
Archaeologists discovered two intact burials at Göbeklitepe in Turkey dating to 8,700–8,000 BCE, revealing that scattered human bone fragments found throughout the site likely came from ordinary subfloor burials that were displaced downslope by erosion as the settlement mound grew over millennia.