Tom Booth

Bioarchaeologist and amateur scarecrow. Ancient Genomics Laboratory @TheCrick

[Tom Booth @Boothicus]

Prof Caroline Wilkinson at the @LJMU and @dundeeuni Face Lab did some facial reconstructions of two victims for History Cold Case: a child and a man. Caroline kindly updated these reconstructions with pigmentation predictions from the DNA. The girl may be one of the sisters.

[Tom Booth @Boothicus]

Our superlatively-titled paper 'Genomes from a medieval mass burial show Ashkenazi-associated hereditary diseases pre-date the 12th century', is out now in @CurrentBiology - Bit of a long thread, but it is 18 years in the making…

https://t.co/REcvulZ6A5

[Tom Booth @Boothicus]

@SpringBackBlack Hard to tell, it’s pretty incoherent, the choppy editing doesn’t help. What exactly do you think I’m being accused of?

[Durotriges Project @Durotrigesdig]

The Durotriges

An Iron Age people with women at the centre of power, kinship and land ownership

A great report on our joint @tcddublin @bournemouthuni research project by @spoke32 in @ScienceMagazine

https://t.co/Q0D8b058Jh

[Lara Cassidy @_larsporsena]

Our new paper is out! Congrats to the whole team, especially the staff and students @bournemouthuni who have been excavating this incredible site for 15 years (with much more left to uncover!)

Widespread matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Up Na Mná :)

https://t.co/OdQyQYR6nV

[Tom Booth @Boothicus]

Matrilineal organisation of cemeteries in Iron Age Britain.

[Dan Bradley @brad-dan.bsky.social @brad_dan]

Delighted to see our new paper out in Nature

https://t.co/4dOTqJT2vS

[Dan Bradley @brad-dan.bsky.social @brad_dan]

Delighted to see our new paper out in Nature

https://t.co/4dOTqJT2vS

[The Francis Crick Institute @TheCrick]

Check out our Ancient Genomics Lab, including @pontus_skoglund, @boothicus and @tait_frankie, on tonight’s new episode of Digging for Britain. 🦴

Watch it now on iPlayer (from 46:00), or tune in to @BBCTwo at 20:00.

https://t.co/26njMoExl1

[Lehti Saag @LehtiSaag]

Very happy to share the results of my @MSCActions project done at @UGI_at_UCL with @mt_genes and @pontus_skoglund from @TheCrick. We used ancient DNA to reveal remarkably high genetic diversity in the region of modern-day @Ukraine over the last 3,500 years until ~500 years ago.

[Leo Speidel @leo_speidel]

Happy New Year!
Our Twigstats paper is now out!
https://t.co/10ZOR8Mp5J

[Pontus Skoglund @pontus_skoglund]

Kicking off the new year, our paper by @leo_speidel et al. is out describing what to me is a breakthrough in ancient genomics. By using genealogies to study ancestry we can get much more resolution to study finer-scale history. We call this method Twigstats.

[🅰ntiquity Journal @AntiquityJ]

NEW Analysis of over 3000 human bones from Charterhouse Warren, England, indicates they were massacred, butchered, and likely partly consumed by enemies as a means to dehumanise them, questioning the idea that Early Bronze Age Britain was peaceful.

#AntiquityThread 1/18 🧵

[Tom Booth @Boothicus]

@JulienVillegas @RickSchulting Good point - there were no complete skeletons, everything was partial and mixed up, which means there were seems more likely it was bones/parts of bodies that were deposited.

[Tom Booth @Boothicus]

New paper by @RickSchulting on the Charterhouse Warren Early Bronze Age assemblage, representing dozens of people who had been subject to exceptional violence before and after death, before their remains were dropped into a deep shaft and buried.

https://t.co/6hCKyW6LU1

[Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunt]

Lovely, beautiful and peaceful Somerset...

"Bronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised"
https://t.co/5HTb9HD4VM

[Prof Alice Roberts💙 @theAliceRoberts]

I'm delighted that CRYPT has been nominated for the @CurrentArchaeo Book of the Year Awards! If you'd read and liked it, please vote for it here!
https://t.co/VABIrgtPrs

[Harald Ringbauer @HaraldRingbauer]

👏👏 @arevsumer! Contains our IBD analysis led by @YileiHuang317: Multiple really long 20cm++ IBD segments link the two record 45ky-old sequenced modern human sites Zlatý kůň (Czechia) and Ranis (Germany). Showing they are closely related - within few generations. 😮😮 (1/3)

[ISBA11 @ISBA11_Torino]

We are thrilled to announce our first invited speaker - Joanna Bruck!

#Archaeology #Biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA #ISBA11 #ISBAconference #archaeologists

[Anders Bergström @andersbrgstrm]

In this comment piece with @jfy133 and @twarinner, we highlight the mounting problems with data archiving and metadata reporting in ancient DNA research. The field cannot afford to keep neglecting this issue.
https://t.co/gFm0GvtlPB

[Huw Groucutt @huw_groucutt]

I will be advertising soon for postdoc positions in geoarchaeology and GIS for my Terraform ERC project, starting at the University of Malta in a few months. More information soon, but message me if interested.

[Tom Booth @Boothicus]

Vote ‘Sarmatian’ in the Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year!

https://t.co/nmmG2G0RXN

[Dan Collis @d_collis]

Meet the #Sheffield Ancestors on Tuesday 10 December 7 till 9pm at @showroomcinema room 5:

People of the Peaks by Tom @Boothicus & @HunterArchSoc

@PeakDistrict @PeakDistrictNT @LoveThePeaks @HelpSheffield #sheffevents #Sheffieldissuper #DNA #Archaeology #Heritage #PeakDistrict

[Huw Groucutt @huw_groucutt]

(1/11) I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded a European Research Council ‘Consolidator Grant’. The TerraForm project (‘The Rise and Fall of Maltese Terraced Landscapes’) will begin in the spring of 2025.