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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 **Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups**

“_We document an exception to this pattern in the wider Rhine-Meuse area in communities in the wetlands, riverine areas, and coastal areas of the western and central Netherlands, Belgium and western Germany, where we assembled genome-wide data for 109 people 8500-1700 BCE. Here, a distinctive population with high hunter-gatherer ancestry (∼50%) persisted up to three thousand years later than in continental European regions, reflecting limited incorporation of females of Early European Farmer ancestry into local communities._”

Olalde, I. et al. (2025) 'Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groups,' bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) [Preprint]. doi.org/10.1101/2025.03.24.644.

#Preprint #Science #Biology #Genetics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Europe @archaeodons

bioRxiv · Long-term hunter-gatherer continuity in the Rhine-Meuse region was disrupted by local formation of expansive Bell Beaker groupsThe first phase of the ancient DNA revolution painted a broad-brush picture of European Holocene prehistory, whereby 6500-4000 BCE, farmers descending from western Anatolians mixed with local hunter-gatherers resulting in 70-100% ancestry turnover, then 3000-2500 BCE people associated with the Corded Ware complex spread steppe ancestry into north-central Europe. We document an exception to this pattern in the wider Rhine-Meuse area in communities in the wetlands, riverine areas, and coastal areas of the western and central Netherlands, Belgium and western Germany, where we assembled genome-wide data for 109 people 8500-1700 BCE. Here, a distinctive population with high hunter-gatherer ancestry (∼50%) persisted up to three thousand years later than in continental European regions, reflecting limited incorporation of females of Early European Farmer ancestry into local communities. In the western Netherlands, the arrival of the Corded Ware complex was also exceptional: lowland individuals from settlements adopting Corded Ware pottery had hardly any steppe ancestry, despite a characteristic early Corded Ware Y-chromosome. The limited influx may reflect the unique ecology of the region’s river-dominated landscapes, which were not amenable to wholesale adoption of the early Neolithic type of farming introduced by Linearbandkeramik, making it possible for previously established groups to thrive, and creating a persistent but permeable boundary that allowed transfer of ideas and low-level gene flow. This changed with the formation-through-mixture of Bell Beaker using populations ∼2500 BCE by fusion of local Rhine-Meuse people (9-17%) and Corded Ware associated migrants of both sexes. Their expansion from the Rhine-Meuse region then had a disruptive impact across a much wider part of northwest Europe, including Britain where its arrival was the main source of a 90-100% replacement of local Neolithic peoples. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest.
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🇨🇦 Michael Porter 🇨🇦

Mastodon! I'm delivering a talk to a couple of grade 9 classes in a month on the use of space (mainly satellites, but probes to other planets, comets, etc., will be included).

How does your work benefit from satellites?

I'm thinking of a direct use of the data, as opposed to stuff like “internet access” or “my bank relies on satellites to transfer my grant money from one account to another” 😄

Anecdotes, rants, personal stories are all fair game 😊
(To the inevitable suggestion that I just Google this, yes, I can, and have, but I want the human element - I want to be able to say "someone I ‘know’ uses satellites for their job, and this is what they like about the tech”)

Hashtag suggestions are welcome.
(Also - question: Does Mastodon discriminate hashtags with different capitalization? Are #Astronomy and #astronomy functionally different? We *really* need some kind of ISO standard 😉)

#Archaeology #Physics #SolarActivity #Geology #SevereWeather #Climate #ClimateChange
#Satellite #Satellites #Agriculture #oceanography

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Martin Rundkvist

I've never been much of a Stone Age scholar, so a few years back I gave away all the books I had that dealt with the time before 2400 cal BC. This does not make me a narrowly specialised archaeologist. On the contrary, I have jumped wildly around the period 1700 BC to AD 1900. But my strongest period is the one from the arrival of the Huns in Europe to the arrival of monks in Sweden.

#archaeology
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

🔴 **Discovery of ancient garden beneath Jesus’ burial site backs up Biblical account**

“_The discovery of 2,000 year-old olive trees and grapevines are believed to reflect the Gospel of John's account of where Jesus was buried_”

🔗 independent.co.uk/news/science.

#Ancient #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Jerusalem #Christianity #Bible @archaeodons

The Independent · Discovery of ancient garden beneath Jesus’ burial site backs up Biblical accountBy Steffie Banatvala
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Nina Willburger

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A #Roman glass model of a #boat, dating 2nd c. AD. It was found in St. Aldegund in a 4th-century woman's grave. Six of such boats are known. We don't know their function: Were they used as women's urinals, as components of water clocks and sundials, as drinking cups?
Further information on glass boats:

web.archive.org/web/2022101307

Photo: GDKE Rheinland-Pfalz

A translucent blue glass vessel shaped like a boat, with a curved hull, upturned ends, and small protruding feet for support. The surface has visible cracks. A soft shadow is cast beneath the object on a neutral background.
#archaeology#RomanArchaeology
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Martin Rundkvist

No live European Association of Archaeologists conference in #Belgrade this year. Only online.

"The reason for this hard decision is the uncertainty surrounding the development of the current political situation in Serbia. The authorities' recent response to peaceful student and citizen protests compromised the autonomy of universities and increased the pressure upon both teachers and students."

#EAA2025#archaeology#serbia
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abadidea

I bring you the most important paper ever contributed to the especially crackpot-prone field of Minoan studies. A paper that will defeat Reviewer 2 once and for all. A paper that I definitely didn't write based on ideas I had while direly ill with a flu.

academia.edu: academia.edu/128559713/The_Utt

clean direct pdf: 0xabad1dea.github.io/bin/Utter

The Utterly Unhinged Elamo-Minoan Hypothesis April 1st, 2025
 Synopsis The most pressing question in all linguistics: what was the secret real identity of the language of the Minoans? Proto-Greek? Proto-Weak. Semitic? Semitisn’t. Luwian? Ludicrous. Hurrian? You better be hurryin’ back to the drafting board. I bring you a new, fresh and bold hypothesis for the true identity of the Minoan language of Linear A, a hypothesis so startling that you might interpret it as merely a bit of humor at the expense of equally tenuous but quite serious proposals, an amateur linguistics paper in Minecraft if you will. Haha, unless…? Unless Minoan really is Elamite.
#linguistics#archaeology#minoan
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