Ready for the final concert of the unbelievable Bach-Marathon, with Thomas-Organist Johannes Lang performing all(!) organ works from J.S.Bach in 14 back-to-back concerts, through 21 hours. I have attended 4 of the concerts, and it was a transcendental experience, for lack of adequate superlatives.

Motivated by this, the authors simply check mitochondrial diversity across centuries and in all of Europe from published data, and found a pattern that was there all along but nobody looked for it: 3/6

… with women, daughters and granddaughters all buried at the site. This is the opposite pattern of what we’ve seen in other large-pedigree studies from the Neolithic or later, which are all patrilocal. 2/6