Duncan Sayer

‘Really incredible’ sixth-century sword found in Kent | Archaeology | The Guardian theguardian.com/science/2024/d…

One of the most incredible artefacts I’ve seen in 12 series of Digging for Britain! But you’re going to have to wait until the new series airs to see what it is!

🎉We’re celebrating coming 1st out of all archaeology courses in the UK for our student positivity score #nss2023🎉 Thank you class of 2023, you had a tough start in 2020-21 and we really appreciate you recognising the work and effort we put in together

🎉Huge congratulations to @UCLan's Professor Anna Stec, who has received a Solidarity Medal from @fbunational for her groundbreaking fire research 👏

Our archaeologists have been part of an international team who’ve discovered the earliest human remains ever found in northern Britain @UCLanResearch ow.ly/Rt3p50MyHVP

There is still time to vote in the current Archaeology awards! archaeology.co.uk/vote UCLan Archaoelogy has been nominated twice- Vicki's Dolmen research and Duncan's Anglo-Saxon project. Congratulations to both, we are very proud! #archaeology #DNA #Dolmens

UCLan archaeology is nominated for not one but two Current Archaeology awards!! Vicki has been nominated for her dolmen project and Duncan for his Anglo-Saxon migration project! #Neolithic #Anglosaxon #UCLanResearch

Congratulations to Vicki and Duncan! Fantastic work! Don't forget to Vote for them using the link below: archaeology.co.uk/vote

To vote for UCLan's two nominated projects in the Current Archaeology Awards click here! archaeology.co.uk/vote Vicki's dolmens project and Duncan's Anglo-Saxon project!

Honoured that this year we’ve been nominated for CA archaeology research project of the year award for the aDNA paper we published in Nature @stschiff @JoGretzing . Please vote for us if you liked the work. archaeology.co.uk/awards/researc…

⚔️ A great way to start the week with 9 sixth form historians from OAT, investigating this question. Inspired by @DuncanSayer’s recent study.

Don't miss next month's Inaugural Professional Lecture from @DuncanSayer. @UCLanArchAnth #DNA 🧬 #Archaeology Book now! 🔽 uclan.ac.uk/events/listing…

📣Wed Nov 9th, 12noon, ⁦@DuncanSayer⁩ inaugural professorial lecture. “Love island, the first millennium AD:new DNA evidence allows us to see the personal story of early Anglo-Saxon migration into England” All welcome ⁦@UCLanResearch⁩ eventbrite.com/e/423256671097

@prussianblue111 @DuncanSayer @CurrentArchaeo Do you really think that every widely accepted historical narrative is 100% factual? What do you think the role of the historian is? The past is nothing if not exceedingly complicated and new discoveries will challenge us. We should be brave enough to consider them objectively.

@kuhaako12 She and the other burial of African ancestry will get there own paper - they need there own publication where the evidence can buy properly presented. I’ll tweet when it is out.

@CurrentArchaeo challenging our preconceptions, 33% of Updown girls ancestry was WestAfrican from her grandfather or great-gfather. Two women buried close were her greataunts and had 99% Continental Ancestry. All 3 had Anglo-Saxon goods– family was community in early England 3/5

@DuncanSayer @CurrentArchaeo Girl buried in Kent in 7th century 'was of West African descent' dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

@AndrewJ31680521 Thank you the whole team includes @JoGretzing @stschiff, 72 authors on the Nature paper and @samleggs22 and others on the CA special issue. It takes a big team to make this sort of work happen.

@DuncanSayer Your team has given us a whole new perspective on the origins of the British people. I’m sure we have been trading and mixing for far longer than lay culture perceives. Bronze Age trading in tin being a case in point..

A sensible article in the mail online Meet Updown Girl: 10-year-old child buried in Kent in the 7th century was of West African descent | Daily Mail Online dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ar…

'We’ve long known of remains of people like Updown Girl, as well as the mass movement of people from elsewhere to ancient Britain. But it did call to mind the absurdity of a phrase I’ve been hearing for years: 'indigenous Brits'' @kubared #Echobox=1665073466" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">inews.co.uk/opinion/west-a…