Screenshot of a PDF of the published article. Title: "The tie that binds us? Challenging the primacy of DNA in kinship studies and re-centring community in defining human connections across time"

DNA is not the same as kinship.

Our perspective paper argues that treating genetics as the ultimate proof of identity or family can:

• erase community-defined relationships
• reinforce Western biases
• and even cause real harm in policy + research

Special Issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Cover of the April 2026 issue of Antiquity, featuring an image of an aqueduct.

Our April issue is out now! Featuring great #archaeology such as:

🍽️ Cuisine and culture in Viking Age England
🦠 Parallels between Early Modern plague and Covid-19
🛶 The dangerous maritime journeys taken by the first people in the High Arctic

& more! 🏺
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Oh great. Too much to read all of a sudden. 😉

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Dynamic new edited volume on the Bronze Age in the Atlantic Archipelago.

I do enjoy that term just to for the opportunity to say ‘archipelago.’

www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...

I got mine in '89 or earlier. Used it to drink gin from😉

A small 37 year old egg cup with Flag Fen Bronze Age Excavation 1000 B.C. written on it.

Here is mine😉

6,000-Year-Old Monuments Reveal Hidden Patterns Across the Spain–Portugal Border - Arkeonews Scientists uncover hidden patterns behind 6,000-year-old megalithic monuments along the Spain–Portugal border, revealing how ancient

arkeonews.net/6000-year-ol...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Greate analysis Graham. Quite convincing.

EGP1K: Whole-Genome Sequencing of 1,024 Egyptians Characterizes Population Structure and Genetic Diversity www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...

Population discontinuity in the Paris Basin linked to evidence of the Neolithic decline - Nature Ecology & Evolution Analysis of ancient human genomes from a Neolithic collective gallery grave in northern France points to population discontinuity and turnover between the third and fourth millennium BC.

Here’s the paper:

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

I was pleased to be invited to comment on this new paper on the genetic analysis of people buried in the Bury megalithic gallery grave in the Paris Basin as it saves me making a thread of my thoughts on here!

rdcu.be/fbyll

Live From Minneapolis (3/31/2026) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

For the first time ever, Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will stream the two opening songs of the Springsteen & E Street Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour kickoff in Minneapolis — live and free at approximately 7:30 p.m. CT tonight!

2,600-Year-Old Middle Eastern Shipwreck Reveals Raw Iron Trade That Could Rewrite Ancient Warfare - Arkeonews A 2,600-year-old shipwreck in the Middle East reveals raw iron blooms transported, challenging long-held assumptions about ancient warfare

arkeonews.net/2600-year-ol...

www.nature.com/articles/s40...

Archaeologists Uncover Massive 6,000-Year-Old Megalithic Tomb in Lublin - Arkeonews New archaeological discoveries in Lublin reveal a massive Neolithic megalithic tomb linked to the Funnelbeaker culture, offering new

arkeonews.net/archaeologis...

Tomorrow, tune in for the first two songs from the opening night of the Springsteen & E Street Land of Hopes & Dreams American Tour, live from Minneapolis, MN. The livestream will be free on YouTube, as well as for subscribers in the nugs app.

Zotero allows you to annotate refs and also store pdfs and highlight parts that then remain marked as bookmarks in a side panel. I've tried many programmes, but for me Z was most convenient.

Was It Really a King’s Tomb? Scandinavia’s Largest Mound May Tell a Darker Story - Arkeonews Scandinavia’s largest burial mound, Raknehaugen, may not be a king’s grave after all. New research suggests it was built as a ritual response

arkeonews.net/was-it-reall...

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How DNA in dirt is shaking up the study of human origins Nature - Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history.

Researchers are pulling clues from genetic material in ice age soils and rewriting chapters of human history

go.nature.com/4dMysup

Famous 5,000-Year-Old Stone Circle No Longer Unique After Dozens of Similar Discoveries - Arkeonews Ancient stone circles discovered in the Middle East reveal that Rujm el-Hiri—once thought unique—is part of a vast Bronze Age architectural

arkeonews.net/famous-5000-...

Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Faunal exploitation at the elephant hunting site of Lehringen, Germany, 125,000 years ago

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New study of fauna at Lehringen spear site, known since 1948 and always talked about with caveats [❓but maybe the spear is a co-incidence❓], finds it's "the most convincing #Neanderthal site with evidence of a successful elephant hunt with a thrusting spear..."

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

This is figure 1 from “Genomic history of early dogs in Europe.” It shows genomic screening identifies early dogs in Europe.

Domesticated dogs were already widely distributed in western Eurasia at least 14,200 years ago, according to two studies published in Nature. The papers report the oldest known dog genomes to date.
go.nature.com/4lWrxBe
go.nature.com/3NPY9zE
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Close-up of a person wearing a blue uniform sleeve with a German flag patch above a circular badge reading “CHRU – Cultural Heritage Response Unit".

The Cultural Heritage Response Unit (CHRU), developed by German partners as part of the #KulturGutRetter project by the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW), the LEIZA and the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), has been officially registered in the EU Civil Protection Mechanism.

TAG 2026 is go! Excited to be hosting in Exeter this year, 14-16 December. Get those session proposal thinking caps on!

Neolithic trackway discovered amid mission to recreate ancient wetlands They say pollen, plant remains, insects and microscopic organisms were preserved underneath peat.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Modeling identities among the first-sedentary communities: Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia The discovery of the earliest clay ornaments in Southwest Asia (15,000 years ago) made by children and adults is reported.

These were made by adults and children. Modeling identities among the first-sedentary communities: Emergence of clay personal ornaments in Epipaleolithic Southwest Asia | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Vehicles of change: two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Vehicles of change: two exceptional deposits of destroyed chariots or wagons from Late Iron Age Britain

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Evidence of a warp-weighted loom in the Bronze Age settlement of Cabezo Redondo (south-east Spain) | Antiquity | Cambridge Core Evidence of a warp-weighted loom in the Bronze Age settlement of Cabezo Redondo (south-east Spain)

Here's a link to the original study: doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Race, ethnicity don’t match genetic ancestry, according to a large U.S. study Data from the All of Us program confirm what many geneticists have long promoted

In case anyone needs a reminder, "geneticists have long established that race and ethnicity are sociocultural constructs and not good proxies to describe genetic differences in disease risks and traits among groups." www.science.org/content/arti... @science.org @rpocisv.bsky.social

Early colonization before inundation consistent with northern glacial refugia in Southern Doggerland revealed by sedimentary ancient DNA | PNAS Prior to the formation of the present-day North Sea during the mid-Holocene, North-Western Europe was connected through the Doggerland landmass. Wh...

🏺DNA in sediments from the sunken North Sea world of Doggerland. Evidence of temperate tree species several thousand years earlier than expected. Mixing/reworking of sediDNA occurs more readily in sandy sediments than in silty/fine sand contexts.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...