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This will be a fantastic trip - a great opportunity to connect with colleagues in Japan with similar interests in metallurgy. Thank you to the Daiwa Foundation!

If you’re in/around London next week & want to hear me speak about lots of fun early medieval isotopes + aDNA come along on Tuesday! ⚛️🧬☠️

Update: Rose says that Pieta ❤️ x-rayed the chape - it is now thought that the piece of sword is actually part of the chape. Will email you both the Xrays!

Turns out it's not on the HER, but I'll contact Rose at NLM to see if there's further info.

Very interesting! Will look into the HER. There are quite a few Scandinavian objects from that area, very much 'by'-name country!

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Oh wow, thank you Dr Gregory!

Thank you Helen! I'm pretty shocked to be nominated!

HEAS Seminar Series - Archaeological Science - HEAS As part of the HEAS Seminar Series in Archaeological Science, Jane Kershaw from the University of Oxford will give a talk on How lead isotope analysis of silver sheds new light on the origins of the V...

If you are interested in hearing about the results of our ERC project on Viking-Age silver, I will be giving at talk at @heasvienna.bsky.social on Monday 12.30 CET - details in link
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You're an inspiration to all of us, Judith!

The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia - Nature Screening shotgun-sequencing data from ancient humans covering 37,000 years of Eurasian history uncovers the widespread presence of ancient bacterial, viral and parasite DNA and zoonotic pathogens coi...

Lots here for Viking folks - new aDNA evidence for several infectious diseases among Viking-Age populations in Scandinavia, including malaria, leprosy and louse-borne relapsing fever.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It's a good question. They did both. They traded in some items (furs, slaves, swords), but I would argue that you can't really 'trade' in people: a slave trace involves coercion. They also launched out-and-out raids e.g. over the Caspian, which were akin to their raids in Western Europe.

Thank you! And, I think so too.

Vikings were captivated by silver – our new analysis of their precious loot reveals how far they travelled to get it New analysis of silver items in the Bedale hoard reveals Scandinavians travelled to the east to trade much earlier than previously thought.

A piece in The Conversation, contextualising our results from the Bedale hoard

theconversation.com/vikings-were...

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Thanks so much Simon!

Thanks Trix!

I was just there!

Viking silver hoard reveals far-reaching trade links between England New research into a remarkable Viking-Age silver hoard discovered in North Yorkshire, led by Dr Jane Kershaw,  Associate Professor of Viking Age Archaeology, School of Archaeology, has shed light on

www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-08...

Pleased that this is now out! See the Bedale hoard as part of the Viking North exhibition at York Museum.

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Can't wait to hear more about the wooden box/casket - amazing!

Wonderful news!

I love this one, and the Hawes museum! Great displays on lead mining and butter making too.

Super, thanks Tom. That's such an interesting thought, and is plausible in the (postulated) historical context. Those individuals have been analysed from a lot of different angles now - I'll need to put everything together!

Thanks Adrian, great post! My take-away was that the St John's burials looked quite Danish (with interesting central European ancestry that is also seen in Dk), but the Ridgeway burials had more British ancestry, which is unexpected. Have I got that right? @boothicus.bsky.social

Islamic Archaeology Day 2025 The 9th annual Islamic Archaeology Day, co-organised by SOAS and UCL, will be held at the UCL Institute of Archaeology on Saturday 1 February.

Islamic Archaeology Day 2025

The 9th annual Islamic Archaeology Day, co-organised by @soasuni.bsky.social & @uclofficial.bsky.social will be held at the IoA on Saturday 1 February.

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