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Miren Iraeta Orbegozo

@mireniraorb.bsky.social

#Postdoc #aDNA #UNIL Personal website: https://researchprofiles.ku.dk/en/persons/miren-iraeta-orbegozo

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Hannah Moots@mootspoints.bsky.social · 3w ago

New paper (from my colleagues @cpgsthlm.bsky.social!) showing children in Viking-Age & Medieval Sweden were buried in gendered ways, but those buried together were rarely close biological relatives. A great example of how #AncientDNA sheds new light on childhood, kinship & social organization 🧬

Equal in death: Ancient genomic analysis of children’s early Christian burials

Ancient genomes challenge views of close kinship in multiple Christian burials, revealing flexible traditions around children.

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Nico Rascovan@nrascovan.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How did farming reach the Southern Andes? Through migration or cultural transmission? Our new paper in @nature.com combines ancient DNA, isotopes, archaeology & paleoclimate to reconstruct 2,000+ years of history in Uspallata, Mendoza. www.nature.com/articles/s41... A Thread🧵 (1/25+)

Local agricultural transition, crisis and migration in the Southern Andes - Nature

In the Uspallata Valley, agriculture was adopted by local populations, as evidenced by genetic continuity from earlier hunter-gatherers to farmers; maize-dependent groups from the same regional p...

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Miren Iraeta Orbegozo@mireniraorb.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Really excited to share our new paper on the Early Iron Age mass grave at Gomolava (9th c. BCE), a study I had the pleasure to work on during my PhD with an amazing group of co-authors across multiple disciplines. Open access link: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵👇

A large mass grave from the Early Iron Age indicates selective violence towards women and children in the Carpathian Basin - Nature Human Behaviour

In this analysis of biomolecular and archaeological data from a ninth-century BCE mass grave in the Carpathian Basin, Fibiger et al. find evidence for the targeted killing of mostly unrelated women an...

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Miren Iraeta Orbegozo@mireniraorb.bsky.social · 12mo ago

✨ Hello hello! ✨ We’re working to make the HAAM Steering Committee more diverse 🌍 and we’d love for you to apply in the upcoming elections 📩 📝 Apply here (it’s quick!);https://shorturl.at/un2eR And please share with others in your circles who might be interested 💌 Thank you! #HAAM #aDNA

Open call: Become member of the HAAM-community steering committee

Two years have passed since the foundation of the Human Ancient DNA, Ancestry, and Mobility (HAAM-) community and its first public appearance at ISBA10 in Tartu (Estonia). We are announcing our first ...

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Miren Iraeta Orbegozo@mireniraorb.bsky.social · last yr.

Thanks @smbe-idea.bsky.social for giving us the space to present the work we do at #HAAM. If anybody is interested in joining the steering committee, elections are open now! @haam-community.bsky.social

@ravinderkanda.bsky.social · last yr.

Huge thanks to @epifaniaarango.bsky.social and @cegamorim.bsky.social for organising the @smbe-idea.bsky.social symposium at #smbe2025, and all the participants for their thought provoking talks and discussion. Many interesting points raised! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

Maria Lopopolo@marialopopolo.bsky.social · last yr.

Did leprosy exist in the Americas before European invasion? Our lab #aDNA study at @institutpasteur.bsky.social supervised by @nrascovan.bsky.social in collab with @avanzich.bsky.social (CSU) finds M.lepromatosis in pre-colonial Ancestors from North and South America www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Pre-European contact leprosy in the Americas and its current persistence

Leprosy, primarily caused by Mycobacterium leprae, is considered a disease introduced into the Americas during European colonization. However, the recent discovery of a second pathogen causing leprosy...

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