Archaeogenomic insights into commensalism and regional variation in pig management in Neolithic northwest Europe | PNAS The relationship between humans and pigs has changed dramatically since their domestication in southwest Asia and subsequent human-induced introduc...

Archaeogenomic insights into commensalism and regional variation in pig management in Neolithic northwest Europe www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep The origins and prehistory of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are incompletely understood; to address this, we generated data from 118 ancient genomes spanning 12,000 years sampled from across Eurasia. Ge...

Another low key blockbuster from the Dublin aDNA 118 ancient sheep genome!

When people with steppe ancestry migrated across Europe in the 3rd Millennium BC, they brought their sheep with them. That must have been herd going.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep The origins and prehistory of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are incompletely understood; to address this, we generated data from 118 ancient genomes spanning 12,000 years sampled from across Eurasia. Ge...

Thread and open access version to come-
Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep | Science search.app/gtSKYHF5HqRa...

#adna

Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain Nature - An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.

Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain rdcu.be/d72Fj - a fascinating paper from my @tcddublin.bsky.social colleagues Lara Cassidy, Dan Bradley and others, shedding light on the prominent role of women in Celtic societies

Part of ancient Britain was a woman’s world, burials reveal 2000-year-old graves suggest women wielded as much—and sometimes more—power than men in some Celtic tribes

The Durotriges

An Iron Age people with women at the centre of power, kinship and land ownership

A great report on our joint @tcddublin.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social research project by @spoke32.bsky.social in @science.org 😊👍

www.science.org/content/arti...

Delighted that our new paper on female-centred kinship in Celtic Britain is out in Nature

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Back home in Derry

Snow on the hills in co Derry