New paper! By Meng Zhang, me & Dan Lawrence "Population dynamics of prehistoric East Asia (10−2 ka BP) & relationship with climatic & subsistence changes" Quaternary Science Reviews doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... C14 & settlement data compared with climate & diet within & across the region.

What am I missing? There's no mention of absolute dating of the art or cave deposits. Papers on the Irish Sea give a <75m drop relative to today, with 10s of km of water & no land bridge. I searched for the Lost Land Bridge Project for more detail but the only hit is this news story. I'm sceptical!

Dominic Manchee@dpmanchee.bsky.social · 3w ago

Impressive findings from Dr George Nash, from Liverpool University, and the the 'Lost Land Bridge' project team. Hopefully finding rock will lead to much more, say sediments with aDNA. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @aidanosullivan.bsky.social @graemewarren.bsky.social @boothicus.bsky.social

Check out our new review: Ancient DNA in motion! We examine how the integration of archaeogenomic data with archaeological evidence can help reconstruct past human mobility and interactions, as well as their consequences, while also addressing key terminological and interpretive limitations.

arXiv q-bio.PE Populations and Evolution@qbiope-bot.bsky.social · last mo.

Moots, Koptekin, Williams, Reingruber, Malmstr\"om, Mac Sweeney, Somel: Ancient DNA in motion: Studying past human mobility and interactions by integrating archaeogenetics and archaeology https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.09399 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.09399 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.09399

If you are interested in learning computational population genetics and ancient genomics, I have curated my list of workshops and online tutorials (and will continue to do so) indicating suitability for self-learners and status. You find the list [here](www.stephanschiffels.de/resources.html).

We're delighted to announce this year's Festival of Archaeology which will be held at Yeavering from Friday 31 July to Saturday 1 August 2026. Join us daily from 10am to 4pm for a host of activities. More details to come! Book your tickets here: ticketpass.org/event/EBUOPO... #FestivalofArchaeology

Funded PhD studentship with me and Dan Bradley @brad-dan.bsky.social at TCD. Medieval cattle and sheep genomics utilising parchment and bones! Deadline to apply is 27th May 🧬🐄🐑🧬 #aDNA

Victoria Mullin@victoriaemullin.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Come join our aDNA community at Trinity College Dublin and explore medieval ruminant genomes! Funded PhD studentship in ancient animal genomics at Trinity College Dublin. Deadline 27th May 2026 Please see the information attached for full description and application process.

30 SCIENTISTS SLAM STRAT STUDY 30 experts just published a series of three eLetters in Science May 4-9. The letters systematically dismantle the claims made by Surovell et al. that Monte Verde is <8k yr old, upholding the rigorously documented conclusion that Monte Verde really is 14.5kyo 🏺🧪🌎

Kristina Killgrove@killgrove.bsky.social · 4mo ago

30 experts from a range of disciplines have responded in print to a Science study published in March that questioned the 14.5kyo date of Monte Verde in Chile. 🏺🧪

How @camunicampop.bsky.social researchers are turning static snapshots of Victorian Britain into dynamic life histories. The team are linking over 200 million census records, revealing how people moved, worked and lived in ways never before possible. 🔎 Read on 👉 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/tracing...

Press Release - The Gefrin Trust is delighted to announce the acquisition of Maelmin Heritage Trail in Milfield, Northumberland. Read on for more! #GefrinTrust #Milfield #HeritageTrail #Northumberland #Archaeology

Announcing this year’s Jarrow Lecture: Bede, Providence, and Early Medieval Kingship. Full details here: medievalarchaeology.co.uk/2026-jarrow-...

An article last year claimed that tree-ring data shows a link between drought and late Roman conflicts such as the "Barbarian Conspiracy" of 367. We show problems with such claims and appeal for interdisciplinary palaeoclimatic research to respect historical method. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Drought, Conflict and the Use of Historical Data and Methodologies in Interdisciplinary Palaeoclimatic Research - Climatic Change

Climatic Change - A major challenge in the interdisciplinary study of past climates is ensuring that evidence and data relating to different disciplines are analysed effectively using appropriate...

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We just published a brief preprint on aDNA from two Medieval Ottonic emperors. 🧬👑 We confirm via IBD segments that remains attributed to Otto "the Great" and "Saint" Heinrich are third-degree relatives. As historically attested - suggesting that they are authentic. ✅️ doi.org/10.64898/202... (1/3)

This year's archaeology conferences are gonna be interesting. 🔥🧪🏺

Monte Verde, one of the earliest Indigenous sites in South America, is much younger than thought, study claims. But others call it 'egregiously poor geological work.'

A new analysis of archaeological layers at Monte Verde in Chile suggests that people lived there 4,200 years ago, not 14,500 years ago as originally proposed. But many experts point to errors in the m...

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Join us on 18th March for the next This is Archaeology lecture with Prof. Emily Williams, exploring the remarkable Melsonby Hoards, one of the largest groupings of Iron Age metalwork ever discovered in England. Free to attend (donations welcome) 👉 tinyurl.com/un9kp8z4

This is Archaeology. Collaboration in Action: the excavation and conservation of the Melsonby Hoards

A talk with Prof. Emily Williams, exploring the wonders of the Melsonby Hoards.

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Many place-names are deceptive, so it’s not surprising that many people have assumed that the striking place-name Pity Me can’t really be what it seems. What is it, though? Today's name story is written by Emeritus Professor Diana Whaley of @newcastleuni.bsky.social. www.snsbi.org.uk/exploring-na...

Pity Me – really? - SNSBI

Many place-names are deceptive, so it's not surprising that many people have assumed that the striking name Pity Me (best known from County Durham, but found more widely) can't really be what it seems...

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Readers of Current Archaeology Magazine have voted to make the Melsonby Hoard Iron Age find its ‘Rescue Project of the Year’. The hoard was excavated by @arcdurham.bsky.social, including Archaeological Services, with support from The British Museum and Historic England 👉 tinyurl.com/cjfmauj9

The first meeting in Ancient Biomolecules in Latin America is here! 🤩 and it will be held in Peru 🇵🇪 on Nov 2026 . More info 👇

@ancientbio-peru.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Amazing news for the end of the week! 🤩 Are you a researcher working in ancient DNA or proteins? 🧬 Are you from Latin America or work with Latin American samples in an ethical way? Would you like to share your reasearch and expand your network?

📰 Chemical signatures preserved in human bones show how social inequality in medieval England could be "measured at the dinner table" 🍽️ 🏺 #AntiquityResearch #ArchaeologyNews via @medievalists.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2026/02/medi...

Medieval Diets Varied by Social Status in England, Study Finds - Medievalists.net

New isotope research reveals how social status shaped medieval diets in England, showing differences between friars, townspeople, rural residents, and hospital burials.

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🏺 Brilliant stuff Harry! Genetics of people inhabiting the Lower Rhine-Meuse area through prehistory highlights the variable dynamics and regional diveristy in the interactions between groups carrying disparate ancestries. Lots of complicated stuff to unpack. Rhine-Meuse ancestry associated with...

Harry Fokkens@harryfokkens.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Proud that after five years of careful analysis and discussion our paper "Lasting Lower Rhine-Meuse forager ancestry shaped Bell Beaker expansion" has now been published.

🚩première conférence de la CRABi (Communauté de Recherche en #Archéologie #Biomoléculaire et #isotopique) à Bordeaux les 12 et 13 novembre prochain. toutes les informations sur crabi.sciencesconf.org L'appel à communication est ouvert jusqu'au jeudi 2 avril (23h59 CET).

📢Fellowship alert! We are recruiting 6 ECR Addison Wheeler Fellowships starting 01 Oct 2026 (for 36 months). Any discipline, any nationality. Details at www.dur.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/advanced-study/fellowships-funding/addison-wheeler-fellowship/ and durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

The Gefrin Trust is delighted to announce the publication of a landmark volume by Roger Miket entitled "Ad Gefrin: Brian Hope-Taylor and His Quest for the Early Medieval Kingdom of Northumbria." Get your copy at the Ad Gefrin Shop in Wooler! #Yeavering

I finally found time to read this. They don't discuss that their major identifications are soil-dwelling bacteria and not gut bacteria, which represent different hypotheses of the causes of bioerosion. Perhaps soil bacteria are what one would expect under both hypotheses after centuries of burial.

Tom Booth@boothicus.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’ve been waiting for something like this to come along! One for the bone diagenesis nerds. Preprint comparing patterns or bacterial bioerosion in ancient bones with metagenomic analysis of associated microbiomes. More diverse microbiomes in well-preserved bone. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

PhDs being offered across the Iapetus DTP for an October 2026 start: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... Please broadcast details of our Diversifying Talent Scholarship scheme too: www.findaphd.com/phds/program... @ukri.org #BlackAFinSTEM #firstgen

New paper out, mostly the work of my brilliant PhD student Meng Zhang! Isotopic evidence for changing diet and agriculture in China from the Neolithic to the Early Han period (10-2 ka BP) doi.org/10.1016/j.qu... Changing exploitation of millet & rice, and animal husbandry regimes over 8 millennia.

The #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge is in progress! This is your chance help Free UK #Genealogy deliver its FreePROBATE service – and to have the value of your donation doubled by those (including the Society for #OnePlaceStudies) who have pledged match funding. To find out more and to donate... 👇🏻

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📢 IMEMS and University College (Durham Castle) are delighted to invite applications for the 2026/27 Slater Fellowship, a three-month residential, senior fellowship at @durham.ac.uk during Epiphany Term 2027. ✉ Read more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

My department has an opening for a Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage as part of Durham University’s strategic Heritage 360 initiative durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Lessons learned: Recommendations for reproducible paleogenomic data analyses

Souilmi et al. propose essential guidelines to improve the reproducibility of paleogenomic data analysis. As ancient DNA research often relies on the destructive sampling of finite resources, these re...

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Confounding fuels misinterpretation in human genetics | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The scientific literature has seen a resurgence of interest in genetic influences on human behaviour and socioeconomic outcomes. Such studies face the central difficulty of distinguishing possible cau...

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