boothicus.bsky.social
Bioarchaeologist. Amateur Scarecrow.
Ancient DNA Lab @ The Francis Crick Institute
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I assumed they were taking a swipe at Peter Hook.
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I know, I know, I had one too, I loved it. But now I’m reclaiming it for a phonetically appropriate but otherwise unprecedented usage.
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Yes! I wonder what they did with her head!?
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But the people on the steppe don’t seem to have been any more lightly pigmented than the people to their west, the bulk of the change seems to happen after their migrations and mixing across the rest of Europe.
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Generally yes, although (like everything!) it’s quite complex - it’s clear now that there were long-term interactions between groups on and off the steppe before we see major ancestry changes. Also technically they were already in Eastern Europe depending on where you draw the border.
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…hard, particularly by the Far Right, at a gestational time for the internet/social media, it must have gotten embedded in the bones of the internet!
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Interesting insight into AI if it’s peddling the (now outdated) Bryan Sykes/Stephen Oppenheimer (and more recently Walter Bodmer) work suggesting ancestry in Britain goes back to the end of the last Ice Age. That stuff has been hanging around in the ether since the naughties and was pushed quite…
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Yeh it’s weird I’d reposted the preprint when it came out a couple of weeks ago just assumed the paper had come out rapidly for some reason. Naughty, but happening increasingly it feels. I guess the results are not so controversial at this stage.
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…vitamin D/calcium deficiency brought on by higher latitude with less sunlight and a calcium/vitamin D deficient diet associated with early agriculture/pastoralism.
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Yes it seems to be pretty complicated - a mixture of migrations introducing new/increasing frequency of variants, selection acting on some variants, maybe even some drift. But the bulk of the selection seems to happen pretty recently - last 5000 years. Yes as you say, thought to be down to…
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I see, the usual then.
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I suppose it doesn’t really matter but I’m curious what the point of contention was?
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To me, ‘White English’ covers a more ethnicity-orientated identity but also incorporates the inherent messiness - it will include people who have parents, grandparents, great grandparents born outside of England.
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‘On a mountain of skulls, in the castle of pain, I sat on a throne of blood!’
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Given the resemblance, I wonder how far 300 being a firm part of the zeitgeist means that the helmets have just become shorthand for Ancient Greek warrior. It’s like a cross between 300 and Troy feat. Brad Pitt.
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Slightly obscure reference to the to the TV show Severance.
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A Bronze Age gold-worker’s hoard discovered near Urchfont, Wiltshire (WILT-C97E23). Wiltshire Museum hopes to acquire the hoard. The finder stopped digging when he realised what he had found, allowing archaeologists to block life the hoard and bring it to the British Museum for micro-excavation.
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I’d buy that t shirt.
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First I’ve heard!
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Interesting they also find in the Early Bronze Age communities living along the Danube look to be more interconnected (reproductively at least) than they were with communities that were closer by land. Nice highlighting of the importance of rivers as connection in this period.
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Isn’t much interrogation of whether people buried in these cemeteries represent co-habitants/communities or associations between ‘biological’ and social kinship but interesting even with those assumptions it erodes the idea of these societies all being strictly patrilocal w/ female exogamy.
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I sometimes wonder how HS2 measures up as one of the biggest publicly-funded programme of archaeological excavations there’s ever been in Britain.
“What about the railway?”
“What railway?”
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That rings a bell with me too but I’d be mighty proud of myself if o could remember precisely where it comes from!
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I don’t necessarily support that argument, but you can see the reasoning.