ERC-funded research project investigating communities and connectivity in Iron Age Britain & beyond | Led by Prof Ian Armit @UoYArchaeology
Joined July 2020
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As one door closes another one opens... Huge congratulations to @LindseyBuster from all the COMMIOS team. 🥳🥳🥳
After weeks of having to keep this under my hat, I'm delighted to share some exciting news about my full-time move to York starting 1st October! Huge thanks to everyone who has helped along the way... 🤗🤗🤗
ukri.org/news/ukri-announces…
Unleashing the power of Sr isotopes to unlock the hidden (& surprising!) stories of LIA cremations... 👏 Congratulations to all involved! 🥳
🚨 Our new paper is out! "New rites, local lives": Sr isotope analysis of cremated individuals from the Iron Age cemetery at Westhampnett, West Sussex, UK doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.202…
Thanks to my co-authors @IanArmit, Andrew Fitzpatrick, @primeau_charlie and @Christophe_Fire!
For the Beaker-lovers out there, @IanArmit's keynote at the Transformation of Europe in the 3rd Millennium BC conference in Riva del Garda, is now available to watch on youtube: youtube.com/watch?v=i3eDExYc… 🥳🥳🥳
Congratulations @LindseyBuster! 🥳
Wow. 🤯What an amazng day @Commiosproject @PrehistSociety #IronAgeLivesconference with colleagus from @celtudalps43715 & @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. Thanks so much to all our speakers and attendees, & our chairs Prof. Mel Giles & @pre_historian. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did! 😊
Congratulations @LindseyBuster 🥳🥳🥳
So pleased to have contributed a small part to this wonderful new prehistoric gallery @MaidstoneMuseum! 🥰What an amazing collection & a fabulous new display. Congratulations to all involved! 🥂
Tickets are still available for our Iron Age Lives conference, hosted on 7th June at the University of York in collaboration with the Prehistoric Society.
Head over to prehistoricsociety.org/event…… to book your place!
Today members of the team enjoyed discussing their work with students taking the 'Life and Death in Iron Age Britain and Ireland' module as part of the MA in Iron Age and Celtic Archaeology @UoYArchaeology 🦴🧬📊📉
@Michaellegge91 @seba_metz @Maddy_Bleasdale @L_Castells
🎉The @Commiosproject team are delighted to announce that bookings are now open for our #IronAgeLives conference, hosted on 7th June @UniOfYork in collaboration with the @PrehistSociety. Head over to prehistoricsociety.org/event… to book your place!
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Had a wonderful time presenting new @Commiosproject isotope & DNA results for humans buried at Danebury Hillfort! @L_Castells is doing a full osteo reassessment and @SUERC1 will be doing AMS-dating! 🦴 Find out more at P3 or please find me and we can chat over ☕! #UKAS2024 – at Sowerby, England
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Enjoyed sampling for @Commiosproject at the Fishbourne Collections Discovery Centre @romanpalace @TheNovium today! And this time I had time to look around the palace once I was finished. Absolutely stunning mosaic floors 🤩
Great work @LindseyBuster @IanArmit! 🥳
COMMIOS PI @IanArmit had a fantastic week in Riva del Garda at the 'Transformation of Europe in the Third Millennium BC' conference (transformeurope1riva2023.com…). Thanks to Franco Nicolis and Volker Heyd for organising such a great meeting!
Fantastic #EAA2023 session today on the Iron age co-organised by CELTUDALPS and @IanArmit! @Michaellegge91 @Maddy_Bleasdale and @LindseyBuster really enjoyed sharing their research!
Tomorrow @Michaellegge91 @Maddy_Bleasdale and @LindseyBuster will be presenting in Session 141 "Iron Age Biocultural Dynamics in Continental Europe and Britain", 08:30-13:00 🧬🦷💀
On Saturday morning @ClaireEliseFis2 will be presenting on the amazing site of Duttlenheim (Session 506 at 15:00!) 🧬
Meet the newest member of the COMMIOS team! Sebastian @seba_metz is our postdoc in Bioinformatics. He will be analysing ancient human DNA to investigate population structure, diversity and kinships in Iron Age Britain (1/4)
Before joining COMMIOS, Sebastian investigated protists' diversity, distribution and roles in aquatic ecosystems. During his PhD, he studied photosynthetic Picoeukaryotes (≤2 μm in size) from freshwater environments (3/4)