@Boothicus

Bioarchaeologist and amateur scarecrow. Ancient Genomics Laboratory @TheCrick

 London, England
crick.ac.uk/research/find-a-researcher/thomas-booth
Joined May 2012
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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/article/…

Part of ancient Britain was a woman’s world, burials reveal

2000-year-old graves suggest women wielded as much—and sometimes more—power than men in some Celtic tribes

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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
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Delighted to see our new paper out in Nature nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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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/episode/m0…

Digging for Britain - Series 12: 4. Roman Crime and Ancient DNA

Gold is found at a bishop’s palace, a Roman crime is uncovered, detectorists unearth a staggering bronze age haul, and ancient DNA solves a medieval mystery.

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Lehti Saag@LehtiSaag8 Jan 2025
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.
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Happy New Year! Our Twigstats paper is now out! nature.com/articles/s41586-0…

High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe

Nature - Twigstats, a method for ancestry reconstruction, provides high-resolution genetic histories and movement patterns of people living in Europe during the first millennium ce.

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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.
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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 🧵
Map showing the location of Charterhouse Warren, Mendip, Somerset.

ALT Map showing the location of Charterhouse Warren, Mendip, Somerset.

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Lovely, beautiful and peaceful Somerset... "Bronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised" bbc.com/news/articles/crl3jn…

Somerset Bronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised

At least 37 people appear to have been butchered and likely eaten in a Bronze Age massacre in Somerset.

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👏👏 @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)
MPI-EVA Leipzig@MPI_EVA_Leipzig12 Dec 2024
Oldest modern human #genomes sequenced. These seven early #Europeans belonged to a small, isolated group that left no present-day descendants. Study @Nature led by @arevsumer, Kay Prüfer, Johannes Krause @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. tinyurl.com/mryrjyrn & nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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We are thrilled to announce our first invited speaker - Joanna Bruck! #Archaeology #Biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA #ISBA11 #ISBAconference #archaeologists
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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/d41586-0…
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Huw Groucutt@huw_groucutt10 Dec 2024
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.
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Dan Collis@d_collis5 Dec 2024
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
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Huw Groucutt@huw_groucutt3 Dec 2024
(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.
European Research Council (ERC)
@ERC_Research3 Dec 2024
📢 Results of the 2024 ERC Consolidator Grant competition are out. €678 million for 328 researchers. Who won funding? What will they investigate? Where will they conduct their research? #ERCCoG news 👉 europa.eu/!gWqYfc 🇪🇺 @HorizonEU
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What a job! 5 year independent fellowship at Cambridge University in ecology and conservation. jobs.ac.uk/job/DKK149/clare-…
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PhD opportunity in computational population genetics at @MPI_EVA_Leipzig: Join our fully funded project to develop IBD-segment tools, connecting high-quality genomes from 500 Black Death victims to modern Europeans. 🌍💻🧬 Please spread the word! 📢🙌 eva.mpg.de/de/karriere/stell…
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We have made a large update to HaploGrouper, our haplogroup assignment program. A notable addition is a fork of the ISOGG 2019 tree in which we correct the placement of 4k mutations by analysing 300k Y chromosomes. Repo in reply - see my thread on "the other place" for details:
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Want to work as a postdoc at @EMBL (diverse science+6 wonderful sites across Europe) or, if you are a faculty member now, want to have a sabbatical at @EMBL - live in Europe, work with some of the world's leading experimental and computational biologists? Apply below!
EMBL@embl25 Nov 2024
(1/3) 🚨 Fellowship application deadlines are coming up soon! 🚨 Apply until 31 December: 👉EMBL CPP fellowship: embl.org/about/info/scientif… 👉EMBL Sabbatical Visitor fellowship: embl.org/about/info/scientif… Don’t miss these opportunities to join EMBL’s scientific community!
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Threestoneburn stone circle below the Cheviot Hills in NE England, close to the Scottish border. And -shock- it doesn’t have 3 stones. What it does have is a close LINK to Avebury thanks to some old cobblestones. Intrigued? You will be. #StandingStoneSunday More to follow 1/🧵
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