Thanks for the plug! The module was designed for intro History courses, but it should be able to work just as well for Biology & Archaeology classes. After all, we wouldn't have any of the paleogenetics (#aDNA) w/o the archaeology, & the archaeology is crucial to DATING--which is vital to History.
September 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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If you can't make the talk, I'll be posting an expanded bibliography later in the day on my Academia page. If you've never read anything on the paleogenetics of pathogens, the best starting point is this: www.cell.com/current-biol... #OpenAccess #histmed
The Recovery, Interpretation and Use of Ancient Pathogen Genomes
Sebastián Duchêne and colleagues highlight the impact of advances in ancient DNA techniques on our understanding of the emergence and persistence of pathogens from a historical and epidemiological perspective.
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January 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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What can paleogenetics tell us about our earliest ancestors? http://aeon.co/magazine/science/what-can-paleogenetics-tell-us-about-prehistory/ via @aeonmag
January 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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I've had several people ask me for my "take" on a recently pub'd article on the Justinianic Plague (= 1st Plague Pandemic, which I'll just call "JP" for short). But one of the things I've been trying to cultivate is more general confidence among historians in reading new work in paleogenetics.
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Archaeoethnologica: Acta Archaeologica Nº 76/1- 2025
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/acta...
#Archaeology #Prehistory #ClassicalArchaeology #Protohistory #Eneolithic #BronzeAge #IronAge #BellBeaker #kinship #paleogenetics #house #settlement #architecture #journals #openaccess
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August 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Mammoth teeth from British Columbia, ~36,000 and ~25,000 years old, contain ~21% and ~35% Columbian DNA respectively, showing repeated interbreeding. https://getnews.me/hybrid-mammoths-interbred-across-north-america-fossil-study-shows/ #mammoths #hybridization #paleogenetics
September 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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'Raised from the grave with the voodoo of paleogenetics, stitched together from junk genes and fossil marrow steeped in the blood of sociopaths and high-functioning autistics'
January 7, 2024 at 8:30 PM
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Byzantium & Friends: Pathogen Paleogenetics and Late Antique Disease: A cross-discipline discussion www.medievalists.net/2024/06/path... #history
Pathogen Paleogenetics and Late Antique Disease: A cross-discipline discussion - Medievalists.net
A roundtable discussion of how the study of ancient pathogen DNA intersects with the study of disease in late antiquity. Can laboratory scientists and cultural historians find ways to interface given ...
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June 10, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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I read it too.
I just think paleogenetics is pretty cool.
I just think paleogenetics is pretty cool.
July 5, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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The thing I love most about paleogenetics is the juxtaposition between the cold stats and the hot sex. A field of super-wonky computational nerdery in pursuit of working out when, where, and how many times various hominids got it on....
November 26, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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Why? B/c the field has moved on. Kolganova makes a passing reference to paleogenetics (aDNA) as being of value in confirming the presence of #YersiniaPestis in archaeological sites. But she cites only 1 study, from a field that has exploded the past decade: ethos.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/31/
Plague (Yersinia Pestis)
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May 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Archaeoethnologica: Acta Archaeologica Nº 76/1- 2025
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/acta...
#Archaeology #Prehistory #ClassicalArchaeology #Protohistory #Eneolithic #BronzeAge #IronAge #BellBeaker #kinship #paleogenetics #house #settlement #architecture #journals #openaccess
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/acta...
#Archaeology #Prehistory #ClassicalArchaeology #Protohistory #Eneolithic #BronzeAge #IronAge #BellBeaker #kinship #paleogenetics #house #settlement #architecture #journals #openaccess
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Archaeoethnologica: Acta Archaeologica Nº 76/1- 2025
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/acta...
#Archaeology #Prehistory #ClassicalArchaeology #Protohistory #Eneolithic #BronzeAge #IronAge #BellBeaker #kinship #paleogenetics #house #settlement #architecture #journals #openaccess
+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/07/acta...
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Archaeoethnologica: Antropologia Portuguesa N.º 41 - 2024
INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/01/antr...
#Archaeology #Anthropology #MedievalArchaeology #ClassicalArchaeology #journals #openaccess #Europe #America #funerary #paleogenetics #landscape #Ethnography
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3 Their common trench is the Ukrainian landmass, as it has been for centuries, so to what extent these people are brothers ultimately depends on whether we’re talking poetry, politics or paleogenetics.
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What race(s) are Ukrainians? — From tall timbers to the Pontic steppe – The Occidental Observer
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March 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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I think topical or community Fediverse Relays could be very useful (in addition to generic ones).
Ex: a Paleogenetics relay server, or an animal photography relay server, or a company focused relay server, etc
Especially for single-user, community, team, organization, themed, etc server […]
Ex: a Paleogenetics relay server, or an animal photography relay server, or a company focused relay server, etc
Especially for single-user, community, team, organization, themed, etc server […]
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February 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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@cheeaun
I ran it on my account.
It seems like it didn't go into my historic posts, and only considered very recent stuff.
I don't post much over there anymore, so results are weird.
For example, I used to post a lot about human behavioral sciences and paleogenetics. But it doesn't mention […]
I ran it on my account.
It seems like it didn't go into my historic posts, and only considered very recent stuff.
I don't post much over there anymore, so results are weird.
For example, I used to post a lot about human behavioral sciences and paleogenetics. But it doesn't mention […]
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December 24, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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ICYMI: New online! The genesis of paleogenetics
The genesis of paleogenetics
Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 27 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41576-025-00835-0In this Journal Club, Maanasa Raghavan recalls a 1984 paper by Higuchi et al. that demonstrated how sequencing ancient DNA provides unique evolutionary insights.
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April 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Canid evolution has been a decades-long fascination for me. ?s are timing & geographic split btwn wolf & coyote, & their MRCA. Genetics & morphology can help form theories. Divergence estimates range from 1.5 million to 200,000 years ago. But estimates rely on.. 1/2
#Paleogenetics #paleontology
#Paleogenetics #paleontology
August 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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Plague in ancient Egypt? 🦠 DNA from a 1686-1449 BCE mummy reveals Yersinia pestis, marking the first prehistoric genome of the pathogen outside Eurasia. A glimpse into ancient pandemics & their global reach. 🌍 #Archaeology #Paleogenetics #PlagueHistory
The 3,300-year-old Yersinia pestis genome of an ancient Egyptian mummified individual - -
Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, ravaged humankind with three historically documented pandemics. Paleogenetic analysis of human skeletons additionally show the presence of Y. pestis in…
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January 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Moving up in the world: my 2020 essay proposing a new understanding of the circumstances leading up to the #2ndPlaguePandemic (the Black Death) now stands as the #1 output among all AHR articles since they started tracking digital impact. academic.oup.com/ahr/article/... #paleogenetics #histmed 🧪
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A topical or community Fediverse Relays — ex: a Paleogenetics relay server, or an animal photography relay server, or a company focused relay server, etc —
Would be similar to the old PlanetPlanet river-of-news feed-reader blogs […]
Would be similar to the old PlanetPlanet river-of-news feed-reader blogs […]
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February 22, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Thanks! Being able to think about distinct *strains* of pathogens (and not just generic "plague") is really the transformative gift that paleogenetics has brought to the field of disease history. Still a lot of kinks to work out, due to the fragmentary quality of the evidence. But yes, ♣️♥️♠️♦️!!
December 8, 2024 at 10:21 PM
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"Vampires are back now, all raised from the grave with the voodoo of paleogenetics, stitched together from junk genes and fossil marrow steeped in the blood of sociopaths and high-functioning autistics."
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
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US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’
Heliospect’s services were marketed at up to $50,000 for 100 embryos, undercover footage shows
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