Just an FYI for people referencing the Civil Rights Movement as the ideal and legal means of protesting, students sitting in at lunch counters, in movie theaters, in bus terminals and marching in public parks were violating laws and ordinances and agents of the state were also…

A massive effort to sequence the DNA of Vikings across Europe was published in 2020. The study revealed family histories of Vikings who set forth—and died—far from home.

Learn more on #DNADay : scim.ag/6JL News from Science

“If you want to see climate change impacts in front of your face, come to Petra.” A new National Geographic Society project led by Dr. Victoria Herrmann is helping local communities save heritage sites threatened by climate change–including Jordan's iconic desert ruins: nationalgeographic.com/premium/articl…

The case of the missing daughters - how the longest #aDNA based family tree yet published (spanning 9 generations) reveals patterns of #patrilocality marriages to nonlocal women among 6th century #Avar communities:

science.org/content/articl… by Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social) via Science Magazine

It's #AnzacDay2024 , commemorating the first shots of the Battle of Gallipoli. In 2013, I visited the battlefield with a team of archaeologists to walk what one called 'the best-preserved World War I battlefield anywhere in the world': slate.com/news-and-polit… for Slate

Using DNA from hundreds of burials—including entire Avar cemeteries—researchers have filled in some of the gaps in history, using kinship data to reconstruct Avar mating patterns, mobility, and even local politics. scim.ag/6Io

At the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, over 10,000 men and horses died—yet few remains are found today.

A new book suggests that industrial-scale grave robbing, not just plowing and construction, led to the disappearance of these bones. scim.ag/6J4

Using DNA to analyze kinship, researchers can reconstruct family trees, social practices, and even local politics. A new paper from MPI-EVA Leipzig's Zuzana Hofmanova & colleagues shows just how informative the 'whole cemetery' approach can be: science.org/content/articl… News from Science

“Germany is violating international human rights standards, including the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly through the banning of protests, arresting and harassing of protesters, silencing of activists, shutting down of organisations.” - Civic Forum report

UN calls for investigation into mass graves uncovered at two Gaza hospitals raided by Israel apnews.com/article/un-isr…

The bottom falling out of the gasoline-powered car market in China seems like something the German car industry should be paying attention to. nytimes.com/2024/04/23/bus…

Happy birthday to the Reinheitsgebot, or Beer Purity Law, put in place 508 years ago to regulate what could be added to Bavarian beer. For more on the history of alcohol check out my National Geographic Magazine story: nationalgeographic.com/magazine/artic…

I am on a PODCAST ABOUT TRUE CRIME-Y MURDERS! But also science and archaeology, because these murders took place 7,000 years ago. #truecrimepodcast science.org/content/podcas… News from Science

Evidence has revealed the mysterious Avars were migrants from Mongolia—and their migration was, up to that point, the fastest long-distance movement in human history. #ScienceMagArchives scim.ag/6CN

Fantastic, heart-wrenching, hard-to-read reporting about the Gaza death of 6-year-old Hind Rajab, her family and the medics who came to rescue her from meg kelly, Hajar Harb, Louisa Loveluck, Miriam Berger and Cate Brown, graphics by Jarrett Ley washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

[CW: Description & depiction of human remains and gruesome details of #torture and #death .]

The disturbingly fascinating history of #RitualViolence - from Europe's first #Neolithic farmers to the Italian #Mafia (kind of):

science.org/content/articl… by Andrew Curry (spoke32.bsky.social) via Science Magazine

Some thousands-year-old brains could be a valuable scientific resource—and perhaps reveal clues to our past. scim.ag/6yz

If urban transport were a school class, cars would be the bully

Was very interested to get a sneak peak at this paper. 'It’s really a horror.’ Bones from across Europe suggest Stone Age ritual killings | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

French researchers say the unusual positions of three women buried in France 5600 years ago show they were killed by ritual strangulation. scim.ag/6y7