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New Publication: ‘Mixed ancestry of Europeans who settled Iceland and Greenland: 3D geometric-morphometric analyses of cranial base shape’ by Kimberly A. Plomp, Keith Dobney, Hildur Gestsdóttir and Mark Collard

October 19, 2023

Published in Antiquity, this paper reports that Greenlandic settlers during the early medieval period had a mix of British, Irish, and Scandinavian ancestries. This finding is based on 3D-shape analyses of human crania from Scandinavia, Britain, Ireland, and a Norse colony in Greenland.

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New Publication: 'Unravelling the skills and motivations of Magdalenian artists in the depths of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain)' by Diego Garate et al

October 18, 2023

Can small vertebrates tell us something about Palaeolithic rock art?

To know the answer, you have to read the contribution of Juan Rofes (Associate professor of UPSA) to this fantastic paper published in Scientific Reports, the “younger sibling” of Nature. Besides, you will learn about the complexity of the artistic production inside caves during the Upper Palaeolithic. There is...

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