Center for the Human Past
relatedness
-
The Tie That Binds Us?
Read more →: The Tie That Binds Us?A new article discussing ancient DNA, kinship studies and human connection across time, co-authored by one of our former Human Past SCAS Fellows, Mehmet Somel, has just been published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal. Moots, H. M., Tsosie, K. S., & Somel, M. (2026). The Tie That Binds Us? Challenging the Primacy of DNA in Kinship Studies…
-
Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Genetic relatedness in Stone Age Scandinavia, speaker Helena Malmström
•
Read more →: Talks of the Past Open Seminar: Genetic relatedness in Stone Age Scandinavia, speaker Helena MalmströmAbstract Did genetic relatedness matter in Scandinavian Stone Age societies? And if so, how? The increase in the number of individuals with available ancient DNA data, coupled with new tools for assessing relatedness from such data, now allows us to infer kinship patterns beyond broad-scale population structures. This talk will summarise some of the ongoing…