A5037533102- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Marine animal studies overview
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Healthcare Systems and Practices
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Gut microbiota and health
- Meat and Animal Product Quality
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis
- Immune responses and vaccinations
- Service and Product Innovation
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
University of Aberdeen
2016-2025
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2015-2024
Universidad de La Laguna
2023
The Kids Research Institute Australia
2021
The University of Western Australia
2021
National Library of Scotland
2019
Max Planck Society
2014-2018
UNSW Sydney
2012
Durham University
2009-2011
University of Technology Sydney
2010-2011
The New World Arctic, the last region of Americas to be populated by humans, has a relatively well-researched archaeology, but an understanding its genetic history is lacking. We present genome-wide sequence data from ancient and present-day humans Greenland, Arctic Canada, Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Siberia. show that Paleo-Eskimos (~3000 BCE 1300 CE) represent migration pulse into independent both Native American Inuit expansions. Furthermore, continuity characterizing Paleo-Eskimo period...
<b>Objectives</b> To investigate patients' and family members' perceptions experiences of disclosure healthcare incidents to derive principles effective disclosure. <b>Design</b> Retrospective qualitative study based on 100 semi-structured, in depth interviews with patients members. <b>Setting</b> Nationwide multisite survey across Australia. <b>Participants</b> 39 80 members who were involved high severity (leading death, permanent disability, or long term harm) incident Recruitment was via...
Paleogenomic and archaeological studies show that Neolithic lifeways spread from the Fertile Crescent into Europe around 9000 BCE, reaching northwestern by 4000 BCE. Starting 4500 a new phenomenon of constructing megalithic monuments, particularly for funerary practices, emerged along Atlantic façade. While it has been suggested emergence megaliths was associated with territories farming communities, origin social structure groups erected them remained largely unknown. We generated genome...
This article addresses the issue of how government agencies are increasingly attempting to involve users in design public services. The examines codesign as a method for fostering new and purposeful interaction among service-delivery staff their customers. Codesign brings together stakeholders who, past, have had limited input into way services experienced. By participating this emerging discourse practice, can construct ways relating deliberating. data presented drawn from study initiated...
ABSTRACT Here we report bone phosphate oxygen (δ 18 O p ) values from perinates/neonates and infants (<3.5 years; n = 32); children (4–12 12); unsexed juveniles (16–18 2); adult bones ( 17) Wharram Percy, North Yorkshire, England, in order to explore the potential of this method investigate patterns past breastfeeding weaning. In prior studies, δ 15 N 13 C analyses collagen have been utilized weaning age large well‐studied assemblage, rendering material highly appropriate for testing...
Domestic dogs have been central to life in the North American Arctic for millennia. The ancestors of Inuit were first introduce widespread usage dog sledge transportation technology Americas, but whether adopted local Palaeo-Inuit or introduced a new population region remains unknown. To test these hypotheses, we generated mitochondrial DNA and geometric morphometric data skull dental elements from total 922 wolves spanning over 4500 years. Our analyses revealed that sites dating 2000 BP...
Establishing strontium isotope ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) geographical variability is a key component of any study that seeks to utilize isotopes as tracers provenance or mobility. Although lithological maps can provide guideline, estimations bioavailable Sr are often necessary, both in qualitative estimates local “catchments” and for informing/refining isoscape models. Local soils, plants and/or animal remains commonly included bioavailability studies, although consensus on what (and how extensively)...
The spread of Homo sapiens into new habitats across Eurasia ~45,000 years ago and the concurrent disappearance Neanderthals represents a critical evolutionary turnover in our species' history. 'Transitional' technocomplexes, such as Lincombian-Ranisian-Jerzmanowician (LRJ), characterize European record during this period but their makers significance have long remained unclear. New evidence from Ilsenhöhle Ranis, Germany, now provides secure connection LRJ to H. remains dated ago, making it...
Recent excavations at Ranis (Germany) identified an early dispersal of Homo sapiens into the higher latitudes Europe by 45,000 years ago. Here we integrate results from zooarchaeology, palaeoproteomics, sediment DNA and stable isotopes to characterize ecology, subsistence diet these H. sapiens. We assessed all bone remains (n = 1,754) 2016-2022 through morphology 1,218) or palaeoproteomics (zooarchaeology mass spectrometry 536) species proteome investigation 212)). Dominant taxa include...
ABSTRACT The reconstruction of diet and subsistence strategies is integral in understanding early human colonizations cultural adaptations, especially the Arctic—one last areas North America to be permanently inhabited. However, evidence for practices Western Alaska varies, particularly with regards emergence, importance, intensity sea mammal hunting. Here, we present stable carbon nitrogen isotope data from permafrost‐preserved hair two new prehistoric sites Alaska, providing a direct...
Shotgun metagenomics applied to archaeological feces (paleofeces) can bring new insights into the composition and functions of human animal gut microbiota from past. However, paleofeces often undergo physical distortions in sediments, making their source species difficult identify on basis fecal morphology or microscopic features alone. Here we present a reproducible scalable pipeline using both host microbial DNA infer material. We apply this newly sequenced specimens show that are able...
The expansion of Homo sapiens across Eurasia marked a major milestone in human evolution that would eventually lead to our species being found every continent. Current models propose these expansions occurred only during episodes warm climate, based on age correlations between archaeological and climatic records. Here, we obtain direct evidence for the temperatures faced by some humans through oxygen isotope analysis faunal remains from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria, earliest clear record H....
Abstract Vitamin D is essential for healthy skeletal growth and increasingly recognised its role in chronic disease development, inflammation immunity. 25-hydroxyvitamin 3 (25(OH)D ) concentrations are an indicator of vitamin status normally analysed plasma or serum samples clinical settings, while archaeological studies rely on the identification markers deficiency, such as rickets. Here, we determined 25(OH)D hair specimens (‘locks’) that had been sampled close to root, aligned by cut end,...
Bioavailable strontium isotope ratios ( 87 Sr/ 86 Sr) distribution across the landscape mainly follow underlying lithology, making Sr baseline maps (isoscapes) powerful tools for provenance studies. has already been used in Eastern Canada (EC) to track food and human remains origins, or reconstruct animal mobility. While bioavailable isoscapes EC can be extrapolated from global datasets using random forest modelling (RF), no regionally calibrated isoscape exists. Here, we produce a by...