Our new paper is out! Ancient teeth provide new insight into the lives of the world’s first farming villagers  - Durham University

Looking for an internship to gain more anthropology experience? Due to visa issues we now have availability for a couple of interns in the @ArcheOsUgent lab this coming winter. Find out more at

✨ Congratulations to Dr Kelly Blevins from @ArcDurham on winning a prestigious Wellcome Early Career Award to research the evolution of tuberculosis! ✨ Learn more about Kelly's project: https://t.co/ono2PlBZ6X #Archaeology #DUresearch #DUextraordinary #DUinspire #DurhamUni

Next November 15th is the anniversary of the publication of the first aDNA paper, the #QuaggaPaper. To celebrate this milestone, join us at the #QuaggaQonference with @LudovicLorlando @SelBrace and Robert Fleischer. https://t.co/seBoTEVEhq

Really proud to co-author this paper on the genetic history of the Rapa Nui people. The genomes of 15 Rapa Nui reveal admixture with ancient South Americans took place soon after first landfall w. no later drop in gen. diversity consistent with 'ecocide'. https://t.co/FjBAWY2Bxs

✨Our *first* #PAASTACommunity conference is fast approaching! (26 September)✨ The full programme is now live on our website and registration will remain open until the 20th of September! And trust us, it's not an event you will want to miss! ;) https://t.co/2atgj0HWJq

Enormous thanks to all the speakers at #EAA2024 Session 731! On Friday night we had more time to chat over a drink and amazing food at Peppo Al Cosimato, Trastevere.

#EAA session 731 was a blast! It was exhausting but very gratifying. Amazing talks and excellent discussion. Thanks to my co-organisers @Blevinske Berenice Chanel and Jo Hannah Plug!

#EAA2024 is now closing with a piano recital at the University venue. Had a great time in Rome this year, caught up with friends, made new exciting collaborations and ate enormous amounts of pasta! Very happy to have been here!

#EAA2024 session 731 is over but the discussion is still going! Beer helps!

Last talk at #EAA24 session 731. Brian Ensor is talking about kinship at Catal Hoyuk part 2: the biological data

Now Katarzyna Harabasz is presenting on funerary rites at Catal Hoyuk charnel house. #EAA2024 Session 731

Mehmet Somel is presenting at #EAA2024 Session 731 on lack of female exogamy and maternal relatedness in Catal Hoyuk!

At session 731 we are moving to DNA, population affinity and funerary rites. Now featuring presentations from @Blevinske and Dilek Koptekin on Northern Levant and Anatolian Neolithic sites!

Kevin Daly is "Following the Hoof-prints" at #EAA2024 Session 731. Talking about small ruminant domestication in SW Asia from a genomic perspective!

Moving on to animal domestication and social change at #EAA2024 Session 731! Now Max Price will talk about livestock and social change in the PPNB of S Jordan

Hannah Plug will present now onine the results of Sr and O isotope analysis in Pre pottery and Pottery Neolithic sites in SW Asia as part of our Leverhulme Project @WhatIsInAHouse #EAA2024 Session 731

At #EAA Session 731 Albert Epitie will talk about metric and non metric dental traits at the Neolithic transition in SW Asia!

Now Olivia Orri is presenting on behalf of the Halula team about grave goods and exchange networks at MLPPNB Tell Halula #EAA2024 session 731

At #EAA2024 session 731 Kevin Kay is talking now about how body data speaks to social structure in feminist, more than humanist frames