Tom Booth

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.

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

@Boothicus - Is this true? x.com/lporiginalg/st…

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 science.org/content/articl…

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 :) rdcu.be/d6mb0

Matrilineal organisation of cemeteries in Iron Age Britain.

Delighted to see our new paper out in Nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

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. bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

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.

Happy New Year! Our Twigstats paper is now out! nature.com/articles/s4158…

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.

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 🧵

@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.

@Boothicus @RickSchulting About the cannibalism evidences found at Charterhouse Warren: It is also possible that some were thrown into the shaft alive and that the eating was a sad desperate attempt to stay alive. I wonder if there is a way to know that

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. ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d…

Lovely, beautiful and peaceful Somerset... "Bronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised" bbc.com/news/articles/…

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! archaeology.co.uk/vote

👏👏 @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)

We are thrilled to announce our first invited speaker - Joanna Bruck! #Archaeology #Biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA #ISBA11 #ISBAconference #archaeologists

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. nature.com/articles/d4158…

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.

Vote ‘Sarmatian’ in the Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year! archaeology.co.uk/awards/archaeo…

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

(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.