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Andrew Millard
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Professor of Archaeology, Durham University|Christian|Archaeological Scientist|Genealogist|Chair http://genuki.org.uk|All views my own

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sapanthropologie.bsky.social
Société d'Anthropologie de Paris (SAP) @sapanthropologie.bsky.social · 3d
🚩première conférence de la CRABi (Communauté de Recherche en #Archéologie #Biomoléculaire et #isotopique) à Bordeaux les 12 et 13 novembre prochain.
toutes les informations sur crabi.sciencesconf.org

L'appel à communication est ouvert jusqu'au jeudi 2 avril (23h59 CET).
Première conférence de la Communauté de Recherche en Archéologie Biomoléculaire et isotopique - Sciencesconf.org
CRABi - Communauté de Recherche en Archéologie Biomoléculaire et isotopique - Bordeaux - Novembre 2026
crabi.sciencesconf.org

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@DurhamIAS.bsky.social @durhamias.bsky.social · 8d
📢Fellowship alert! We are recruiting 6 ECR Addison Wheeler Fellowships starting 01 Oct 2026 (for 36 months). Any discipline, any nationality. Details at www.dur.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/advanced-study/fellowships-funding/addison-wheeler-fellowship/ and durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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The Gefrin Trust @gefrintrust.bsky.social · 10d
The Gefrin Trust is delighted to announce the publication of a landmark volume by Roger Miket entitled "Ad Gefrin: Brian Hope-Taylor and His Quest for the Early Medieval Kingdom of Northumbria." Get your copy at the Ad Gefrin Shop in Wooler! #Yeavering

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Andrew Millard @archaeometer.bsky.social · Jan 12
They do point out that their methods recover damaged aDNA and will probably not pick up currently active bacteria, so we can't really say whether any of the species are active or not.

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Andrew Millard @archaeometer.bsky.social · Jan 12
I finally found time to read this. They don't discuss that their major identifications are soil-dwelling bacteria and not gut bacteria, which represent different hypotheses of the causes of bioerosion. Perhaps soil bacteria are what one would expect under both hypotheses after centuries of burial.
boothicus.bsky.social Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · Jan 2
I’ve been waiting for something like this to come along! One for the bone diagenesis nerds. Preprint comparing patterns or bacterial bioerosion in ancient bones with metagenomic analysis of associated microbiomes. More diverse microbiomes in well-preserved bone.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · Jan 2
I’ve been waiting for something like this to come along! One for the bone diagenesis nerds. Preprint comparing patterns or bacterial bioerosion in ancient bones with metagenomic analysis of associated microbiomes. More diverse microbiomes in well-preserved bone.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org

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Iapetus DTP @iapetusdtp.bsky.social · Dec 16
PhDs being offered across the Iapetus DTP for an October 2026 start:
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Please broadcast details of our Diversifying Talent Scholarship scheme too:
www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

@ukri.org #BlackAFinSTEM #firstgen

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Andrew Millard @archaeometer.bsky.social · Dec 9
New paper out, mostly the work of my brilliant PhD student Meng Zhang!
Isotopic evidence for changing diet and agriculture in China from the Neolithic to the Early Han period (10-2 ka BP)
doi.org/10.1016/j.qu...
Changing exploitation of millet & rice, and animal husbandry regimes over 8 millennia.
Redirecting
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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · Dec 6
The #BigGive #ChristmasChallenge is in progress! This is your chance help Free UK #Genealogy deliver its FreePROBATE service – and to have the value of your donation doubled by those (including the Society for #OnePlaceStudies) who have pledged match funding. To find out more and to donate... 👇🏻
Help deliver a unique FreePROBATE search service – Big Give
Free UK Genealogy provides free online access to over 500 million family history records, so anyone can build their own …
donate.biggive.org

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IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social · Nov 28
📢 IMEMS and University College (Durham Castle) are delighted to invite applications for the 2026/27 Slater Fellowship, a three-month residential, senior fellowship at @durham.ac.uk during Epiphany Term 2027.

✉ Read more and apply here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

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Andrew Millard @archaeometer.bsky.social · Nov 18
My department has an opening for a Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage as part of Durham University’s strategic Heritage 360 initiative durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Professor of Cultural and Natural Heritage
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · Nov 8
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Lessons learned: Recommendations for reproducible paleogenomic data analyses
Souilmi et al. propose essential guidelines to improve the reproducibility of paleogenomic data analysis. As ancient DNA research often relies on the destructive sampling of finite resources, these re...
www.cell.com

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John Benning @jbenning.bsky.social · Nov 7
Full OA paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Confounding fuels misinterpretation in human genetics | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
The scientific literature has seen a resurgence of interest in genetic influences on human behaviour and socioeconomic outcomes. Such studies face the central difficulty of distinguishing possible cau...
royalsocietypublishing.org

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Andrew Millard @archaeometer.bsky.social · Nov 5
Funded PhD opportunity at Durham University. Bayesian approaches to stratigraphic correlation. With me, @palaeosmith.bsky.social & Kilian Eichenseer. See the Iapetus site for details of eligibility and widening participation scheme. iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
Computational innovation for the energy transition: Bayesian stratigraphic correlation of subsurface data
iapetus.ac.uk

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Archaeometry @archaeometry.bsky.social · Nov 4
Now out on Early View: "U/Th Dating of Secondary Carbonate Deposits in Underground Galleries of Fourvière Hill (Lyon, France) Reveals a Water Supply System in Operation From the Roman Period to the Middle Ages" buff.ly/76PpH8q

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John Wainwright @tjohnwainwright.bsky.social · Nov 3
Anyone interested in a PhD project modelling resilience of dryland ecosystems in a changing climate, led by @ecogeo.bsky.social and with @blindmath.bsky.social, Denis Patterson and Roy Sanderson, please apply to our
@iapetusdtp.bsky.social PhD position iapetus.ac.uk/studentships...
A composite image of vegetation change at the Sevilleta LTER site in New Mexico USA, illustrating how grass landscapes on the left of the image are progressively invaded by shrubs, leading to a shrub-dominated landscape on the right. Image by John Wainwright

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · Oct 30
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Probably posted a preprint version of this before but good to see some formal testing of different hypotheses of descent/residence in prehistoric cemeteries of Europe, rather than just eyeballing the trends.
Was descent in Neolithic and Bronze Age Europe patrilineal or bilateral? | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Many studies have attempted to gain insights into the kinship systems of past human populations using ancient DNA data. Several studies focusing on Neolithic and Bronze Age European sites reported a h...
royalsocietypublishing.org

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Frido Welker @fridowelker.bsky.social · Oct 27
I'm hiring!⭐ As part of the DFF Sapere Aude-funded project MiddleEarth, I am looking for 1 postdoctoral researcher and 1 research assistant.

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Andrew Millard @archaeometer.bsky.social · Oct 27
Our new paper is out: StratoBayes: a Bayesian method for automated stratigraphic correlation and age modelling doi.org/10.5194/gchr... with @palaeosmith.bsky.social Kilian Eichenseer & Matthias Sinnesael
StratoBayes: a Bayesian method for automated stratigraphic correlation and age modelling
Abstract. Stratigraphic correlation and age modelling are fundamental to reconstructing Earth's history, biological evolution, and palaeoclimate, and underpin the exploration for subsurface resources....
doi.org

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25ᵗʰ Radiocarbon Conference @radiocarbon25.bsky.social · Oct 6
The poll for selecting the host city of the Radiocarbon 26 in 2028 is closed.

The winner is Tokyo, receiving 58% of all votes!

Congratulations to Tokyo team!

Thanks to the Cologne and Ottawa teams for their excellent proposals.

Thanks to Kim from @14cjournal.bsky.social for running the poll.
detailed poll results for selecting Radiocarbon 26 Conference host. 58% Tokyo, 28% Cologne, 16% Ottawa, 1% other

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Radiocarbon @14cjournal.bsky.social · Oct 3
👋 Hello, Bluesky! We’re Radiocarbon, an international peer-reviewed journal (since 1959) dedicated to advancing radiocarbon research, from calibration and chronology to applications across archaeology, geology, environmental science, and more. We’re glad to be here. #Radiocarbon #Geochronology

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Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources @dmnes.bsky.social · Oct 2
New blog post! We're not dead!

"On the Identity (and Individuation) of Proper Names"

dmnes.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/o...
On the Identity (and Individuation) of Proper Names
Though this blog has been rather quiet for rather longer than we might have liked, this doesn’t mean work isn’t being done…it’s just quiet, background work. But there’…
dmnes.wordpress.com

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Tom Booth @boothicus.bsky.social · Sep 25
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A fine new article by Chris Fowler discussing the complexities of genetic relatedness at Neolithic funerary sites across Europe. Argues the emphasis on patrilineal patterns and fitting established kinship/marriage schemes means subtle complexities are missed.

journals.openedition.org/bmsap/16175
Contextualizing descent in Neolithic northern Europe
Introduction Our ability to investigate kinship practices in Neolithic communities has been revolutionized by combining measurements of biological relatedness through ancient DNA analyses with oste...
journals.openedition.org

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Prof. Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social · Sep 25
New paper by Tamsin O’Connell:

This is a MUST read for all archaeologists who include isotopes in their projects.

“The signal and the noise: inherent challenges for isotopic studies in bioarchaeology”

doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

#stableisotopes
Redirecting
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The Gefrin Trust @gefrintrust.bsky.social · Aug 26
To celebrate the start of the 2025 excavation season, we've just released the Gefrin Trust's recent conversation with Professor Sarah Semple. Read on for more! gefrintrust.org/conversation...

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The Gefrin Trust @gefrintrust.bsky.social · Aug 23
Professor Sarah Semple (Durham University) and team are readying to lay out the trenches at Yeavering for another fantastic season of fieldwork. We can’t wait to see what they get up to! #Yeavering #DurhamArchaeology #GefrinTrust

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Pontus Skoglund @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social · Aug 16
Now recruiting for two positions in my lab:

Postdoc in computational analysis of ancient human genomes www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Bioarchaeology staff scientist supporting human aDNA projects www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Background: sites.google.com/view/skoglun...

Applications welcome!
Skoglund Lab - Ancient Genomics
Skoglund lab
sites.google.com

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Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit @oxradiocarbon.bsky.social · Aug 15
If you want to know more (or just about everything) about AMS, check out a brand new online book by one of the old masters Keith Fifield (ANU) with input from another - Martin Suter (ETH); hdl.handle.net/1885/733767269
The Methodology and Physics of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: A Handbook for Students and Practitioners
hdl.handle.net

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Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine @wdytyamagazine.bsky.social · Aug 13
Free UK Genealogy, the charity behind FreeBMD, FreeREG and FreeCEN, has started a crowdfunder for a new free probate records website:

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremaga...

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Prof. Rhiannon Stevens @nannonstevens.bsky.social · Aug 6
Now with correct link: doi.org/10.1038/s415...