Tom Booth This seems relevant: existentialcomics.com/comic/145

⬇ Giant pedigrees connect 100s of ancient genomes from the early Medieval Awars of the Carpathian basin. Strictly patrilineal and avoiding any consanguinity whatsoever! It's mind-boggling what new insights into past social organization aDNA can create 🤯💀🧬

Epic Avar genealogy, 300 people, 9 generations.

Call for ancient DNA manuscript submissions for a
Genome Biology Collection. Deadline is 11/09/2024; contact Laura Weyrich
or me for details, or have a look there (correct link this time) 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

biomedcentral.com/collections/ad…

In our new preprint we propose that the likely route connecting Anatolian speakers with the Yamnaya (and thus with the speakers of Indo-European languages) is from the east. This thread summarizes different arguments for this hypothesis, as well as the alternative (from the west)

By god, this is bliss.

Come join me talk about the weird and wonderful things Bronze Age people did with their dead 💀

🎉The COMMIOS team are delighted to announce that bookings are now open for our #IronAgeLives conference, hosted on 7th June University of York in collaboration with the Prehistoric Society. Head over to prehistoricsociety.org/events/2024-06… to book your place!

New paper out! Morell et al. Patrilocality at the Beginning of Farming? An Isotopic Approach from SE Moravia in Journal of World Prehistory - contributing to showing the complexity of gendered movement in the Neolithic link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Two new chapters from my open-access textbook in human population genetics are now online:
- Population structure: I. Ancestry estimation
- Population structure: II. More about admixture
web.stanford.edu/group/pritchar…

Arbor Low
“Rev. Samuel Pegge's plan of Arbor Low from 1785 and his elevation drawing below. The plan to the upper right is by Steven Glover, 1829 and is said to be copied from an 'accurate drawing' by Samuel Mitchell.” stone-circles.org.uk/stone/arborlow…

I have a postdoc position available on our 'COREX: From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory' grant: ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/se…
... working at the intersection of archaeology, ancient DNA, computational modelling and stats

The three-letter acronyms (TLA) are multiplying, expanding into new territories and mutating into FOUR-letter acronyms.

Our decade-long search for the genetic traces of the earliest Indo-Europeans has culminated in the two preprints we are releasing today!

With Nick Patterson, David Anthony, and 91 co-authors, on 'The Genetic Origin of the Indo-Europeans'

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

I’ve learned in aDNA that the higher your expectation the next paper related to a topic - say the origin of Indo-European languages - will go a long way towards resolving it, the greater the likelihood it will just make it even more complicated.

biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our article in The Conversation about Umm Jirsan: theconversation.com/first-evidence…