Anthropology.netA Mongolian cemetery traced through 6 generations of ancient DNA looked like a family burial ground. Machine learning + cultural phylogenetics say otherwise: wealth and political power decided who got buried where, not blood. #Archaeogenetics #Xiongnu #AncientDNA https://www.anthropology.net/p/wealth-not-blood-decided-who-got
5,500 years ago, plague was already killing children in Siberian hunter-gatherer families, no fleas, no cities, no farming required. Ancient DNA reveals a toxin that may explain why kids died and adults didn’t. #archaeogenetics #ancientDNA #paleopathology https://www.anthropology.net/p/lethal-plague-outbreaks-among-lake
michael#Archaeology
#AncientDNA provides evidence of earliest known #plague outbreak
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jun/17/ancient-dna-evidence-earliest-known-plague-outbreak
SPAAM-community🎉 Want to get involved in #SPAAM?
Nominations are now open for 3 Steering Committee positions (2026–2028). We warmly encourage students, PhD candidates, and postdocs to apply and help shape our growing #community.
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#AncientDNA #Metagenomics #ECR #sedaDNA #aDNA #palaeogenomics #ancientgenomics #scientificcommunity
Nominations are now open for 3 Steering Committee positions (2026–2028). We warmly encourage students, PhD candidates, and postdocs to apply and help shape our growing #community.
https://tinyurl.com/mt5czhvt
📝 Voting begins in July
🌍 ~1h/week commitment
#AncientDNA #Metagenomics #ECR #sedaDNA #aDNA #palaeogenomics #ancientgenomics #scientificcommunity
11-Jun-2026
#AncientDNA study of post-Roman Europeans reveals the emergence of a complex new society
Study published in #Science challenges the myth of simple Barbarian domination in the Early #MiddleAges
Ancient DNA study of post-Roman Europeans reveals the emergence of a complex new society
A new study in Science has challenged the myth that life in the Little Hungarian Plain in the Early Middle Ages was dominated by "barbarians." The results have been published by the HistoGenes project, of which Patrick Geary, Professor Emeritus in the IAS School of Historical Studies, is co-principal investigator.
Brain removal, whittled bones, and a 265km genetic network: a reanalysis of two Iron Age burials in northern Scotland reveals mobile kin, distant Orcadian relatives, and funerary practices stranger and more deliberate than almost anything else from the period. #IronAge #Osteoarchaeology #AncientDNA @Antiquity https://www.anthropology.net/p/bone-tools-and-borrowed-bodies-the
Bone Tools and Borrowed Bodies: The Strange Burial at Loch Borralie
What two Iron Age individuals buried on Scotland’s northern coast reveal about mobility, kinship, and what the living did with the dead
Tom ElliottRoman Garum Science Claxon!
Themudo, Gonçalo Espregueira, Adolfo Fernández-Fernández, Patricia Valle Abad, et al. “Roman Atlantic Garum: DNA Confirms Sardine Use and Population Continuity in North-Western Iberia.” Antiquity 99, no. 406 (2025): 1049–64. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.73.
> the authors demonstrate that, despite being crushed and exposed to acidic conditions, usable DNA can be recovered from ichthyological residues at the bottom of fish-salting vats. At third-century AD Adro Vello (O Grove), Galicia, they confirm the use of European sardines (Sardina pilchardus) and move beyond morphology to explore population range and admixture and reveal the potential of this overlooked archaeological resource
Online Marketing ScoopsHow Neanderthal Genes Influence Today’s Sensitivity
Peter Dazeley//Getty Images Some people flinch at a needle prick faster than others. One possible reason, at least in a very specific experimental setting, may be old very old DNA. In a 2023 paper published in Communications Biology, researchers linked three Neanderthal-derived variants in the gene SCN9A to a lower threshold for one kind of pain test in modern humans: a skin-pricking test performed after the area had been sensitized with mustard oil.......Continue reading.... By: Tim […]https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2026/06/09/how-neanderthal-genes-influence-todays-sensitivity/
Ancient Japanese dental calculus just got interesting: researchers found that Edo-period women who practiced ohaguro (tooth blackening) harbored a distinct lineage of an oral archaea, possibly shaped by the iron-rich cosmetic paste. #Anthropology #AncientDNA #OralMicrobiome https://www.anthropology.net/p/what-blackened-teeth-knew
3-Jun-2026
Ancient #genomes reveal the unique history of the #extinct #caveLion
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1129552
#science #evolution #ecology #ancientDNA #lions #megafauna #animals