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Ancient DNA at the edge of the world: Continental immigration and the persisten...
Dulias, Katharina; Foody, M George B; Justeau, Pierre; Silva, Marina; Martiniano, Rui; Oteo-García, Gonzalo; Fichera, Alessandro; Rodrigues, SimãoOrkney was a major cultural center during the Neolithic, 3800 to 2500 BC. Farming flourished, permanent stone settlements and chambered tombs were constructed, and long-range contacts were sustained. From ∼3200 BC, the number, density, and extravagance of settlements increased, and new ceremonial monuments and ceramic styles, possibly originating in Orkney, spread across Britain and Ireland. By ∼2800 BC, this p...
Biomolecular insights into North African-related ancestry, mobility and diet in...
Silva, Marina; Oteo-García, Gonzalo; Martiniano, Rui; Guimarães, João; von Tersch, Matthew; Madour, Ali; Shoeib, Tarek; Fichera, AlessandroHistorical records document medieval immigration from North Africa to Iberia to create Islamic al-Andalus. Here, we present a low-coverage genome of an eleventh century CE man buried in an Islamic necropolis in Segorbe, near Valencia, Spain. Uniparental lineages indicate North African ancestry, but at the autosomal level he displays a mosaic of North African and European-like ancestries, distinct from any prese...
Maternal relationships within an Iron Age burial at the High Pasture Cave, Isle...
Dulias, Katharina; Birch, Steven; Wilson, James F.; Justeau, Pierre; Gandini, Francesca; Flaquer, Antònia; Soares, Pedro; Richards, Martin B.Human remains from the Iron Age in Atlantic Scotland are rare, which makes the assemblage of an adult female and numerous foetal bones at High Pasture Cave, on the Isle of Skye, particularly noteworthy. Archaeological evidence suggests that the female had been deposited as an articulated skeleton when the cave entrance was blocked off, marking the end of use of the site. Particularly intriguing is the depositio...