Tom Booth
@Boothicus
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Bioarchaeologist and amateur scarecrow. Ancient Genomics Laboratory @TheCrick
London, England
Joined May 2012
Prof Caroline Wilkinson at the @LJMU and @dundeeuni Face Lab did some facial reconstructions of two victims for History Cold Case: a child and a man. Caroline kindly updated these reconstructions with pigmentation predictions from the DNA. The girl may be one of the sisters.
Our superlatively-titled paper 'Genomes from a medieval mass burial show Ashkenazi-associated hereditary diseases pre-date the 12th century', is out now in @CurrentBiology - Bit of a long thread, but it is 18 years in the making… https://t.co/REcvulZ6A5
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The Durotriges An Iron Age people with women at the centre of power, kinship and land ownership A great report on our joint @tcddublin @bournemouthuni research project by @spoke32 in @ScienceMagazine
https://t.co/Q0D8b058Jh
science.org
2000-year-old graves suggest women wielded as much—and sometimes more—power than men in some Celtic tribes
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Our new paper is out! Congrats to the whole team, especially the staff and students @bournemouthuni who have been excavating this incredible site for 15 years (with much more left to uncover!) Widespread matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Up Na Mná :) https://t.co/OdQyQYR6nV
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Matrilineal organisation of cemeteries in Iron Age Britain.
Delighted to see our new paper out in Nature https://t.co/4dOTqJT2vS
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Delighted to see our new paper out in Nature https://t.co/4dOTqJT2vS
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Check out our Ancient Genomics Lab, including @pontus_skoglund, @boothicus and @tait_frankie, on tonight’s new episode of Digging for Britain. 🦴 Watch it now on iPlayer (from 46:00), or tune in to @BBCTwo at 20:00. https://t.co/26njMoExl1
bbc.co.uk
Gold is found at a bishop’s palace, a Roman crime is uncovered, detectorists unearth a staggering bronze age haul, and ancient DNA solves a medieval mystery.
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Very happy to share the results of my @MSCActions project done at @UGI_at_UCL with @mt_genes and @pontus_skoglund from @TheCrick. We used ancient DNA to reveal remarkably high genetic diversity in the region of modern-day @Ukraine over the last 3,500 years until ~500 years ago.
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Happy New Year! Our Twigstats paper is now out!
nature.com
Nature - Twigstats, a method for ancestry reconstruction, provides high-resolution genetic histories and movement patterns of people living in Europe during the first millennium ce.
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Kicking off the new year, our paper by @leo_speidel et al. is out describing what to me is a breakthrough in ancient genomics. By using genealogies to study ancestry we can get much more resolution to study finer-scale history. We call this method Twigstats.
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NEW Analysis of over 3000 human bones from Charterhouse Warren, England, indicates they were massacred, butchered, and likely partly consumed by enemies as a means to dehumanise them, questioning the idea that Early Bronze Age Britain was peaceful. #AntiquityThread 1/18 🧵
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Lovely, beautiful and peaceful Somerset... "Bronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised" https://t.co/5HTb9HD4VM
bbc.com
At least 37 people appear to have been butchered and likely eaten in a Bronze Age massacre in Somerset.
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I'm delighted that CRYPT has been nominated for the @CurrentArchaeo Book of the Year Awards! If you'd read and liked it, please vote for it here! https://t.co/VABIrgtPrs
archaeology.co.uk
Voting has now opened for the Current Archaeology Awards! Which people, projects and publications deserve recognition?
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👏👏 @arevsumer! Contains our IBD analysis led by @YileiHuang317: Multiple really long 20cm++ IBD segments link the two record 45ky-old sequenced modern human sites Zlatý kůň (Czechia) and Ranis (Germany). Showing they are closely related - within few generations. 😮😮 (1/3)
Oldest modern human #genomes sequenced. These seven early #Europeans belonged to a small, isolated group that left no present-day descendants. Study @Nature led by @arevsumer, Kay Prüfer, Johannes Krause @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. https://t.co/thySPSDXyR & https://t.co/IDwbcYjkkF
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We are thrilled to announce our first invited speaker - Joanna Bruck! #Archaeology #Biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA #ISBA11 #ISBAconference #archaeologists
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In this comment piece with @jfy133 and @twarinner, we highlight the mounting problems with data archiving and metadata reporting in ancient DNA research. The field cannot afford to keep neglecting this issue. https://t.co/gFm0GvtlPB
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I will be advertising soon for postdoc positions in geoarchaeology and GIS for my Terraform ERC project, starting at the University of Malta in a few months. More information soon, but message me if interested.
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Vote ‘Sarmatian’ in the Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year! https://t.co/nmmG2G0RXN
archaeology.co.uk
Below are the three individuals nominated for 2025’s ‘Archaeologist of the Year’, whose achievements reflect the diverse work taking place within our field. Voting has now closed, and all the winners...
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Meet the #Sheffield Ancestors on Tuesday 10 December 7 till 9pm at @showroomcinema room 5: People of the Peaks by Tom @Boothicus & @HunterArchSoc
@PeakDistrict @PeakDistrictNT @LoveThePeaks @HelpSheffield #sheffevents #Sheffieldissuper #DNA #Archaeology #Heritage #PeakDistrict
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(1/11) I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded a European Research Council ‘Consolidator Grant’. The TerraForm project (‘The Rise and Fall of Maltese Terraced Landscapes’) will begin in the spring of 2025.
📢 Results of the 2024 ERC Consolidator Grant competition are out. €678 million for 328 researchers. Who won funding? What will they investigate? Where will they conduct their research? #ERCCoG news 👉 https://t.co/BB63zeBC2x 🇪🇺 @HorizonEU
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What a job! 5 year independent fellowship at Cambridge University in ecology and conservation. https://t.co/FUf6MGMWFC
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PhD opportunity in computational population genetics at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig: Join our fully funded project to develop IBD-segment tools, connecting high-quality genomes from 500 Black Death victims to modern Europeans. 🌍💻🧬 Please spread the word! 📢🙌 https://t.co/CzhI595wEm
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