Brandon McDonald
@brandonmcdonald.bsky.social
Classical archaeologist interested in environmental history of Graeco-Roman antiquity | Assistant Professor of Classical Studies @tuftsuniversity | DPhil @uniofoxford
I was in the field when this paper was published. Just came around to reading it in detail. LOADS of issues on both the historical and genetic fronts, enough to question their conclusions; though for the latter I'm no geneticist and thus await confirmation from the aDNA community.
August 19, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I was in the field when this paper was published. Just came around to reading it in detail. LOADS of issues on both the historical and genetic fronts, enough to question their conclusions; though for the latter I'm no geneticist and thus await confirmation from the aDNA community.
Link to the study: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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January 7, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Link to the study: www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...