Who are the Orcadians ? In the 1970’s the historian Dr Ian Grimble presented a series of programmes for the BBC ‘Who are the Scots?’. It traced the emergence of a Scottish nation from its very beginnings. Today we have scientific methods to delve into the genetic ancestry of populations and in a recent blog post for the UHI Institute […]

New article out! Collaborative work led by arevsumer.bsky.social‬ who also wrote a thread 👇 outlining the numerous new results of the study. Here is Fig. 4, a visual representation of the main points. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08420-x #archeogenetics #Homosapiens #Neandertals

Female lineages and changing kinship patterns in Neolithic Çatalhöyük Arguments have long suggested that the advent of early farming in the Near East and Anatolia was linked to a ‘Mother Goddess’ cult. However, evidence for a dominant female role in these societies has ...

We focused on two areas, from the starting point of the Neolithic: Anatolia, in particular, Çatal Höyük, which #archeogenetics analyses was performed by our Turkish partners from the METU/Hacettepe aDNA lab... 3/10
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