The Bronze age demographic transformation of Britiain
In Norman Davies’ the excellent The Isles: A History, he mentions offhand that unlike the Irish the British to a great extent have forgotten their own mythology. This is one reason that J. R. R. Tolkien created Middle Earth, they gave the Anglo-Saxons the same sort of mythos that the Irish and Norse had. But […]
The Beaker is breaking!
The link is up, The Beaker Phenomenon And The Genomic Transformation Of Northwest Europe, but the paper is still processing: I’ll update the post when I can read the paper.
Bell Beaker going to crash-land and blow our minds soon?
Lovers of European prehistory and ancient DNA should stay tuned to @biorxivpreprint this week #BeakTheInternet — Pontus Skoglund (@pontus_skoglund) May 9, 2017 I’m pretty sure that the Beak part is not a typo…. (if it is, Pontus better delete it)
Bell Beakers and R1b
Over at Dienekes blog he has a post up about the extraction of R1b from a male who lived in Germany 4-5,000 in the past. This is important because R1b is one of the two most common male lineages (on the Y chromosome, passed from father to son) in Euro…