Hannah Moots
@mootspoints.bsky.social
Archaeology and Ancient DNA 🧬
Mobility in the Iron Age and Roman Mediterranean 🏺
Human-Environment Interactions 🌱 🦣
Researcher @cpgsthlm.bsky.social
https://mootspoints.blogspot.com/
Mobility in the Iron Age and Roman Mediterranean 🏺
Human-Environment Interactions 🌱 🦣
Researcher @cpgsthlm.bsky.social
https://mootspoints.blogspot.com/
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Hannah Moots
@mootspoints.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Tides of History: S5 E102: Ancient DNA and the Iron Age Mediterranean: Interview with Dr. Hannah Moots
Ancient DNA has transformed our understanding of the more distant reaches of the human past, but what can it tell us about more recent ages of history? Dr. Hannah Moots has extensively investigated th...
wondery.com
The new episode of Tides of History is out today! It was truly a pleasure speaking with @patrickwyman.bsky.social about the Iron Age Mediterranean - everything from Carthage and the Phoenicians to the rise of Rome. wondery.com/shows/tides-...
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Our paper in the PNAS Special Feature on 🐕 is out!
We demonstrated the accuracy of imputing ancient canid genomes, looked at inbreeding levels over the past 10,000 years and found genomic regions resistant to ROH which were enriched for immunity and chemosensory genes.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We demonstrated the accuracy of imputing ancient canid genomes, looked at inbreeding levels over the past 10,000 years and found genomic regions resistant to ROH which were enriched for immunity and chemosensory genes.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Imputation of ancient canid genomes reveals inbreeding history over the past 10,000 years | PNAS
The multi-millennia-long history between dogs and humans has placed them at the forefront
of archaeological and genomic research. Despite ongoing e...
www.pnas.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Our paper in the PNAS Special Feature on 🐕 is out!
We demonstrated the accuracy of imputing ancient canid genomes, looked at inbreeding levels over the past 10,000 years and found genomic regions resistant to ROH which were enriched for immunity and chemosensory genes.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We demonstrated the accuracy of imputing ancient canid genomes, looked at inbreeding levels over the past 10,000 years and found genomic regions resistant to ROH which were enriched for immunity and chemosensory genes.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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"The late arrival of domestic #cats in China via the Silk Road after 3,500 years of human-leopard cat commensalism" spkl.io/63320AdF6i
He Yu, @joel-alves.bsky.social, @gregerlarson.bsky.social, Shu-Jin Luo & colleagues
#CellGenomics
He Yu, @joel-alves.bsky.social, @gregerlarson.bsky.social, Shu-Jin Luo & colleagues
#CellGenomics
November 27, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"The late arrival of domestic #cats in China via the Silk Road after 3,500 years of human-leopard cat commensalism" spkl.io/63320AdF6i
He Yu, @joel-alves.bsky.social, @gregerlarson.bsky.social, Shu-Jin Luo & colleagues
#CellGenomics
He Yu, @joel-alves.bsky.social, @gregerlarson.bsky.social, Shu-Jin Luo & colleagues
#CellGenomics
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When did the #cat stop walking by itself & become one of our favourite companions? It's much later than you think! Lovely couple of 🐱🧬papers out this week to add to our #pet themed posts @gregerlarson.bsky.social @pku1898.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #aDNA #zooarchaeology #cats #miaow
Cats became our companions way later than you think
In true feline style, cats took their time in deciding when and where to join us on the sofa.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
When did the #cat stop walking by itself & become one of our favourite companions? It's much later than you think! Lovely couple of 🐱🧬papers out this week to add to our #pet themed posts @gregerlarson.bsky.social @pku1898.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #aDNA #zooarchaeology #cats #miaow
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LAST CALL ☎️
Abstract submission for #ICP2026 closes on November 30th❗
Don't miss the opportunity to showcase your exciting ancient DNA research next summer 🦴🦣🐕👨🔬🧬
Abstract submission and more info here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
We are looking forward to welcoming you to beautiful Stockholm!
Abstract submission for #ICP2026 closes on November 30th❗
Don't miss the opportunity to showcase your exciting ancient DNA research next summer 🦴🦣🐕👨🔬🧬
Abstract submission and more info here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
We are looking forward to welcoming you to beautiful Stockholm!
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 AM
LAST CALL ☎️
Abstract submission for #ICP2026 closes on November 30th❗
Don't miss the opportunity to showcase your exciting ancient DNA research next summer 🦴🦣🐕👨🔬🧬
Abstract submission and more info here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
We are looking forward to welcoming you to beautiful Stockholm!
Abstract submission for #ICP2026 closes on November 30th❗
Don't miss the opportunity to showcase your exciting ancient DNA research next summer 🦴🦣🐕👨🔬🧬
Abstract submission and more info here 👉 icp2026.palaeogenomics.org
We are looking forward to welcoming you to beautiful Stockholm!
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We’re excited to offer a fully-funded PhD position (NERC & BBSRC-funded QUARTILES) focusing on oak conservation and restoration. The project features ancient DNA analysis of archeological oak specimens as a key element of the research. @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social #ancientDNA #conservation
QUARTILES DLA: Oak genetics through time: ancient DNA analysis of sub-fossil oak for woodland management and conservation at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - QUARTILES DLA: Oak genetics through time: ancient DNA analysis of sub-fossil oak for woodland management and conservation at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
We’re excited to offer a fully-funded PhD position (NERC & BBSRC-funded QUARTILES) focusing on oak conservation and restoration. The project features ancient DNA analysis of archeological oak specimens as a key element of the research. @uoa-archaeology.bsky.social #ancientDNA #conservation
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Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Delighted to see our paper characterising the inbreeding history of dogs and wolves over the past 10,000 years published this week in @pnas.org. Work led by the excellent @katiabou.bsky.social, and co-supervised by me, Laurent Frantz and Fernando Racimo www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Despite my insomnia, I'm very happy to share our preprint: a multi-disciplinary assessment of a sheep mass mortality event from ~18th century France. We report the first ancient sheeppox virus (think smallpox) and the Taenia hydatigena (nasty roundworm) genomes.
#aDNA
#aDNA
Evidence of sheeppox in 17th-19th century France: a multi-disciplinary investigation of a sheep mass mortality assemblage
Epizootic outbreaks posed major threats to food security, economic stability, and animal welfare in past communities. While these events and their impacts are well documented in historical records, ve...
www.biorxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Despite my insomnia, I'm very happy to share our preprint: a multi-disciplinary assessment of a sheep mass mortality event from ~18th century France. We report the first ancient sheeppox virus (think smallpox) and the Taenia hydatigena (nasty roundworm) genomes.
#aDNA
#aDNA
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Hello @science.org NativeBio has been on the forefront of this conversation from 2019 and even earlier (UW Indigenous grad school members Keolu Fox, Moroni Benally, Chad Uran, Marisa Duarte, Katrina Claw and many more). We've been on @scifri.bsky.social WAMU's 1A. We built the @d4itdr.bsky.social
Please Repost! We are in an era of huge gains in technology, discovery and data "sequestration". We need to be honest about what's happening and the terrible outcomes that could happen if we continue the 533 years of colonial extraction. www.science.org/content/arti...
How scientists are confronting the lingering imprint of colonialism
Science series to spotlight efforts to reduce parachute science, empower Global South countries
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Hello @science.org NativeBio has been on the forefront of this conversation from 2019 and even earlier (UW Indigenous grad school members Keolu Fox, Moroni Benally, Chad Uran, Marisa Duarte, Katrina Claw and many more). We've been on @scifri.bsky.social WAMU's 1A. We built the @d4itdr.bsky.social
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Human prehistory keeps delivering surprises, here in the shape of wolves. A very fun project to work on 👇
🐺 Wolves in dog's clothing 🐺
Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry.
Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?
Our latest in @pnas.org uncovers a surprise three to five thousand years ago: 2 canids in human contexts on a tiny island in the middle of the Baltic Sea, that ate marine food—but had 100% gray wolf ancestry.
Where they tame wolves, or even an incipient domestication?
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Human prehistory keeps delivering surprises, here in the shape of wolves. A very fun project to work on 👇
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Our paper is out! Although wolves and dogs can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, hybridization between the two is rare. We found that most dogs today have low but detectable levels of post-domestication wolf ancestry that has shaped their evolution in human environments. tinyurl.com/yt4x4r7n
A legacy of genetic entanglement with wolves shapes modern dogs | PNAS
Dogs evolved through interactions between people and gray wolves during the Late Pleistocene
and have been ubiquitous in human societies ever since...
www.pnas.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Our paper is out! Although wolves and dogs can interbreed and produce fertile offspring, hybridization between the two is rare. We found that most dogs today have low but detectable levels of post-domestication wolf ancestry that has shaped their evolution in human environments. tinyurl.com/yt4x4r7n
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During the earliest stages of domestication, dogs in archaeological sites would be indistinguishable from wolves.
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
During the earliest stages of domestication, dogs in archaeological sites would be indistinguishable from wolves.
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Unless you find them on a small island where no wolves would survive on their own, eating things wolves normally don’t eat.
Such as here:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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🚨 PNAS Special Feature 2 🐕
We used ancient DNA and dietary isotopes to show that landscape modification and the introduction of European dogs impacted dingo populations across Australia.
🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We used ancient DNA and dietary isotopes to show that landscape modification and the introduction of European dogs impacted dingo populations across Australia.
🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 24, 2025 at 9:22 PM
🚨 PNAS Special Feature 2 🐕
We used ancient DNA and dietary isotopes to show that landscape modification and the introduction of European dogs impacted dingo populations across Australia.
🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We used ancient DNA and dietary isotopes to show that landscape modification and the introduction of European dogs impacted dingo populations across Australia.
🔗 Full paper here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Excited to announce the closing workshop of our multidisciplinary research into the #archaeology of #wine in northern #Adriatic #Italy on Dec 1-2 in Verona! For those interested in participating online, please write [email protected]
For a sneak peek, go to: www.archaeoadwine.it 🍇 🍷
For a sneak peek, go to: www.archaeoadwine.it 🍇 🍷
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Excited to announce the closing workshop of our multidisciplinary research into the #archaeology of #wine in northern #Adriatic #Italy on Dec 1-2 in Verona! For those interested in participating online, please write [email protected]
For a sneak peek, go to: www.archaeoadwine.it 🍇 🍷
For a sneak peek, go to: www.archaeoadwine.it 🍇 🍷
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Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
$100 million prize goes to dynamic duo aiming to stop next pandemic before it starts
Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
n.pr
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Two scientists who are fast friends, one Nigerian and one American, have won the MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition for their network to catch the next disease with pandemic potential.
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At today’s plenary of the American Anthropological Association #TheDawnOfEverything was awarded the Staley Prize for ‘outstanding scholarship’ by the School for Advanced Research🙏
It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me
sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...
It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me
sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...
J.I. Staley Prize - School for Advanced Research
sarweb.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:01 AM
At today’s plenary of the American Anthropological Association #TheDawnOfEverything was awarded the Staley Prize for ‘outstanding scholarship’ by the School for Advanced Research🙏
It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me
sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...
It would have meant so much to David Graeber, as it does to me
sarweb.org/awards/j-i-s...
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I really enjoyed talking with Rachel Donald on my work documenting the origins and history of the @scientistrebellion.bsky.social movement and where it and the many other collective liberation movements that exist could go moving forwards, under increased reppression conditions we find ourselves in.
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I really enjoyed talking with Rachel Donald on my work documenting the origins and history of the @scientistrebellion.bsky.social movement and where it and the many other collective liberation movements that exist could go moving forwards, under increased reppression conditions we find ourselves in.
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OUT NOW!
A Social Archaeology of Kinship in Iberia and Beyond.
edited by Antonio Blanco-González & Eva Alarcón-García
📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at www.sidestone.com/books/a-soci...
#archaeogenetics #ancientDNA
A Social Archaeology of Kinship in Iberia and Beyond.
edited by Antonio Blanco-González & Eva Alarcón-García
📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at www.sidestone.com/books/a-soci...
#archaeogenetics #ancientDNA
November 19, 2025 at 10:59 AM
OUT NOW!
A Social Archaeology of Kinship in Iberia and Beyond.
edited by Antonio Blanco-González & Eva Alarcón-García
📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at www.sidestone.com/books/a-soci...
#archaeogenetics #ancientDNA
A Social Archaeology of Kinship in Iberia and Beyond.
edited by Antonio Blanco-González & Eva Alarcón-García
📚 Read online for free or purchase your own volume at www.sidestone.com/books/a-soci...
#archaeogenetics #ancientDNA
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NEW VIDEO! Investigating Elon Musk's very weird claims (based off of no evidence) about the Fall of Rome and birth rates led me down a very strange rabbit hole that shows how his catastrophic view of history informs the decisions he makes
youtu.be/s2fEaglzsR0
youtu.be/s2fEaglzsR0
Fall of Rome: Elon Musk’s Crazy Doomsday History
YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
NEW VIDEO! Investigating Elon Musk's very weird claims (based off of no evidence) about the Fall of Rome and birth rates led me down a very strange rabbit hole that shows how his catastrophic view of history informs the decisions he makes
youtu.be/s2fEaglzsR0
youtu.be/s2fEaglzsR0
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Our manuscript on bovine deep-time paleogenomics at Denisova Cave and in the broader mid-latitude Asia is online! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... 🦬🦴🧬
Main findings in the 🧵 below ⬇️
@cpgsthlm.bsky.social @genomebiolevol.bsky.social #aDNA
Main findings in the 🧵 below ⬇️
@cpgsthlm.bsky.social @genomebiolevol.bsky.social #aDNA
Paleogenomics Reveals a Loss of Bovine Lineages in Mid-latitude Asia Over the Last 200,000 Years
Abstract. Bovines have a complex yet poorly understood evolutionary history that is characterized by admixture and diversity loss during the Late Pleistoce
doi.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Our manuscript on bovine deep-time paleogenomics at Denisova Cave and in the broader mid-latitude Asia is online! doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... 🦬🦴🧬
Main findings in the 🧵 below ⬇️
@cpgsthlm.bsky.social @genomebiolevol.bsky.social #aDNA
Main findings in the 🧵 below ⬇️
@cpgsthlm.bsky.social @genomebiolevol.bsky.social #aDNA
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Are you participating in the 2025-2026 FIRST® LEGO® League UNEARTHED™? 🏺🧪
Here's my resource page: smitinathan.com/first-lego-l...
It includes:
▶️ Curated #archaeology YouTube videos
▶️ Resources made by archaeologists for #FirstLegoLeague
▶️ Guidance on how to chat with a real archaeologist
Here's my resource page: smitinathan.com/first-lego-l...
It includes:
▶️ Curated #archaeology YouTube videos
▶️ Resources made by archaeologists for #FirstLegoLeague
▶️ Guidance on how to chat with a real archaeologist
FIRST LEGO League Archaeology Resources - Dr. Smiti Nathan
Resources for FIRST LEGO League teams exploring archaeology. Includes videos, other links, and ways to connect with archaeologists.
smitinathan.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Are you participating in the 2025-2026 FIRST® LEGO® League UNEARTHED™? 🏺🧪
Here's my resource page: smitinathan.com/first-lego-l...
It includes:
▶️ Curated #archaeology YouTube videos
▶️ Resources made by archaeologists for #FirstLegoLeague
▶️ Guidance on how to chat with a real archaeologist
Here's my resource page: smitinathan.com/first-lego-l...
It includes:
▶️ Curated #archaeology YouTube videos
▶️ Resources made by archaeologists for #FirstLegoLeague
▶️ Guidance on how to chat with a real archaeologist
Reposted by Hannah Moots
Testing clay from the Roman pottery production site at Highgate Wood, North London and using Munsell colour charts to record the results. Same clay, different temperatures and kiln atmosphere. 🏺#Archaeology #AncientBluesky
November 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Testing clay from the Roman pottery production site at Highgate Wood, North London and using Munsell colour charts to record the results. Same clay, different temperatures and kiln atmosphere. 🏺#Archaeology #AncientBluesky
Excited to share that our cross-disciplinary conversation on ancient DNA and mobility is now published in Studies in Late Antiquity doi.org/10.1525/sla.... - and also out as an episode of the Byzantium & Friends podcast youtu.be/PdNeL6ika-k?... 🏺🧬
Human paleogenetics and late antique migration: a cross-discipline discussion
YouTube video by Medievalists
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Excited to share that our cross-disciplinary conversation on ancient DNA and mobility is now published in Studies in Late Antiquity doi.org/10.1525/sla.... - and also out as an episode of the Byzantium & Friends podcast youtu.be/PdNeL6ika-k?... 🏺🧬
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Museum workers at the MET petition for a union! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/a...
Met Museum Employees Petition to Create Union
www.nytimes.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Museum workers at the MET petition for a union! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/a...