Dan Bradley
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Dan Bradley
@brad-dan.bsky.social
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Archaeogenomic insights into commensalism and regional variation in pig management in Neolithic northwest Europe www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Archaeogenomic insights into commensalism and regional variation in pig management in Neolithic northwest Europe | PNAS
The relationship between humans and pigs has changed dramatically since their domestication in southwest Asia and subsequent human-induced introduc...
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March 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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Another low key blockbuster from the Dublin aDNA 118 ancient sheep genome!

When people with steppe ancestry migrated across Europe in the 3rd Millennium BC, they brought their sheep with them. That must have been herd going.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep
The origins and prehistory of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are incompletely understood; to address this, we generated data from 118 ancient genomes spanning 12,000 years sampled from across Eurasia. Ge...
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January 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Thread and open access version to come-
Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep | Science search.app/gtSKYHF5HqRa...

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Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep
The origins and prehistory of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are incompletely understood; to address this, we generated data from 118 ancient genomes spanning 12,000 years sampled from across Eurasia. Ge...
search.app
January 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain rdcu.be/d72Fj - a fascinating paper from my @tcddublin.bsky.social colleagues Lara Cassidy, Dan Bradley and others, shedding light on the prominent role of women in Celtic societies
Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain
Nature - An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.
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January 30, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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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.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social research project by @spoke32.bsky.social in @science.org 😊👍

www.science.org/content/arti...
Part of ancient Britain was a woman’s world, burials reveal
2000-year-old graves suggest women wielded as much—and sometimes more—power than men in some Celtic tribes
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January 16, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Delighted that our new paper on female-centred kinship in Celtic Britain is out in Nature

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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January 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Back home in Derry
January 5, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Snow on the hills in co Derry
January 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM