Here's a thread about our new preprint biorxiv.org/content/10.110… on human germline mutation.

Archwilio is a Wales-wide database of archaeological and historic information. It’s looked after by us! Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology. Anyone can access this data and it’s totally FREE!

Last night we were blessed with the most wonderfully magical night at Stonehenge . Not only did we get to see the northernmost moonset but also the most glorious northern lights… What a night to be a skyscape archaeologist Bournemouth Arch & Anth

excited to share a story I've been working on for a while— about a new wave of research investigating the expansive possibilities of ancient people's gender and how much we can ever know about someone's life from their grave
defector.com/can-we-exhume-…

A shot from the past, but here in the present.

Despite its Chalcolithic origins the barbed & tanged arrowhead now holds a place in modern symbolism. The triangular form and equal barbs was used in later iron arrows, even in your mouse cursor....

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New Preprint by Yilei Huang and with Shai Carmi:

Using IBD tracts in time transects boosts inferring effective population size trajectories. 📈🧬
We released this as a tool called TTNE, well-suited for the increasingly large aDNA time series.

doi.org/10.1101/2024.0…

New paper analysing comments posted on Stormfront by white nationalists about their genetic ancestry testing results. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This project has received financial support from Historic England. In almost 20 years of #archaeology this site in North-East #Yorkshire is the most impressive I have seen, in terms of the age and scale of production it's unprecedented in #Neolithic Europe
teesheritage.org.uk/neolithic-salt…

Sadly, in the early hours of Tuesday 7 May, Ely Museum was broken into. Thieves stole the East Cambridgeshire gold torc and a gold bracelet, both dating from the Bronze Age.

The police are currently investigating the theft. We will be closed to the public on Wednesday 8 May.

Rita Ora wearing antiquities at the #MetGala ? In an interview she says ‘first and second century BC’ sourced from ‘North Africa and Europe’. Would love to see the due diligence on the acquisition of those… 😶

The greys were trying to save us all along!

I’m thrilled to share the new preprint I’ve written with Christian D. Huber and Matthew Williams about the human transition from foraging to agriculture! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Please see the following thread about the work below! 🧵

Eeeeee ten years working in ancient DNA for me…here’s the photo of me taking the call from the President of the Natural History Museum - they had a problem and only the kind of man who owns a novelty Micky Mouse landline could help.

An interesting double burial from Czulice with children belonging to a Hun group displayed variation. Both were boys, but one had an altered scull, was equipped with prestigious object and displayed Asian genetic ancestry: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…