Archaeological rats

@archaeorattus.bsky.social

Using rat bones to study trade, urbanism, and disease in medieval Europe and beyond. RATTUS project at BioArCH, University of York. https://sites.google.com/york.ac.uk/rattus/

For those of you who (wisely) haven’t been on Twitter lately and may not know, I recently had an article come out in the EHR on early medieval British plague and its broader historiographical implications. Just message me if you don’t have access and need a pdf! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Contextualising Edix Hill: First-Pandemic Plague and Britain*

Abstract:. The 2019 discovery of Yersinia pestis ancient DNA at Edix Hill in Cambridgeshire unquestionably confirms that plague was present in sixth-centur

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Sam & David are heading to the ‘Integrating ZooMS and Zooarchaeology’ workshop in Paris, to talk about how ZooMS collagen fingerprinting fits into our workflow for studying tiny rat bones - alongside zooarchaeology, radiocarbon, aDNA, and isotopes. Here we are doing our homework on the train...

two laptops open on a train table, with some coffee cups

More new followers- hello! As an introduction, I am currently a PDRA on the RATTUS project (@archaeorattus.bsky.social), applying isotope analysis to archaeological rats. If you want to find out more, heres an intro post I wrote for the RATTUS blog: the-rattus-project.blogspot.com/2024/09/meet... 🏺

Meet the team - Alice

Hi all! I am Alice and I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the RATTUS project. I am working with Michelle Alexander and Eric Guiry to ...

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