Upcoming Papers ISBA 2018

[Angela]

This isn't all of them because it got a little too much, but it's the ones I thought looked interesting and that I thought other people here might find interesting.

Direct proteomic evidence of early dairying at Çatalhöyük
Richard Hagan (Jena/DE)

The genetic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the last 8000 years Iñigo Olalde (Boston, MA/US) Ancient DNA and the peopling of the British Isles – pattern and process of the Neolithic transition Selina Brace (London/GB) ​ Ancient genomes from the Lech Valley, Bavaria, suggest socially stratified households in the European Bronze Age Alissa Mittnik (Boston, MA/US) Tracing the origin and expansion of the Turkic and Hunnic confederations Pavel Flegontov (Ostrava/CZ) The first epipaleolithic genome from Anatolia suggests a limited role of demic diffusion in the development of farming in Anatolia Michal Feldman (Jena/DE) Genomic views of the poles of the Indo-European language distribution Marina Silva (Huddersfield/GB The Neolithic transition in the Iberian Peninsula – reviewing an old question from new laboratory and computational approaches Gloria Gonzalez-Fortes (Ferrara/IT) Genetic transition in the Swiss Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Anja Furtwängler (Tübingen/DE) Barbarian migration and social organization in medieval Europe – a paleogenomic approach C. Eduardo Guerra Amorim (Los Angeles, CA/US) A 1400-year transect of ancient DNA reveals recent genetic changes in the Finnish population Elina Salmela (Helsinki/FI) Demographic processes in the territory of Estonia from the earliest inhabitants to modern times Kristiina Tambets (Tartu/EE) Gene geography of the Russian Far East populations – faces, genome-wide profiles, and Y-chromosomes Oleg Balanovsky (Moscow/RU) Cattle on the Western Atlantic edge of Europe – a time series of ancient cattle genomes through Ireland and Britain Victoria E Mullin (London/GB) Migration and social organisation studies through ancient genomic analysis of multi-faith populations from medieval Sicily (ERC Project "Sicily in Transition", SICTRANSIT) Aurore Monnereau (York/GB) Kinship relationships and genomic origins of the peoples buried in an early medieval cemetery in central Europe David Díez del Molino (Stockholm/SE) Ancient genome-wide analysis of the early Neolithic mass grave individuals from Talheim, Germany Lena Granehäll (Bolzano/IT) Why were 17 people buried in a well in 12th century Norwich? Genome-wide analysis of medieval human remains from Chapelfield, Norwich, UK Tom Booth (London/GB) Maternal genetic origin of the Avar period (7th century) nomadic elite in the Carpathian Basin Anna Szécsényi-Nagy (Budapest/HU) First genetic data from the Holocene "Green Sahara" – new insights into the human mitochondrial phylogeny Stefania Vai (Florence/IT) Genetic continuity in the western Eurasian Steppe broken not due to Scythian dominance, but rather at the transition to the Chernyakhov culture (Ostrogoths) Mari Järve (Tartu/EE) Indian genetic heritage in Southeast Asian populations Piya Changmai (Ostrava/CZ) Genome-wide data describe Siberian ancestry in ancient Fennoscandia Kerttu Majander (Jena/DE) New chronology for Late Upper Palaeolithic sites in Belgium Jennifer A. Tripp (London/GB) New insights into British Neolithic milk consumption Sophy Charlton (London/GB) Early holocene dispersal of Near Eastern domesticates into high mountain Central Asia – Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) analysis of archaeofaunal remains from Obishir V, Kyrgyzstan William Taylor (Jena/DE) Bronze Age meat industry – ancient mitochondrial DNA analyses of pig (Sus scrofa) bones from the prehistoric salt mines of Hallstatt (Austria) Sabine Hammer (Vienna/AT) Search for plasmodium spp. in ancient Sardinian populations Megan Michel (Cambridge, MA/US) Revisiting the evolutionary history of Yersinia pestis during the second pandemic Amine Namouchi (Oslo/NO) Diet and population mobility in the Early Medieval Alpine area (Italy) Valentina Coia (Bolzano/IT) Diet and population mobility in the Early Medieval Alpine area (Italy)

https://programm.conventus.de/index...Source&cHash=f56de8409fa5e5de9009c61d27c0a281

 

[kuzmosi]

Thank you, but how can I read this studies?

 

[Jovialis]

Very exciting! Thanks for posting this Angela.

 

[Alyan]

The Neolithic Italy session must have the Italian samples in David Reich's recent interview.

 

[Angela]

Thank you, but how can I read this studies?

The conference is being held in September. Some of the papers might be published or in pre-print before then, however, so I'm keeping my eye out.

 

[Angela]

I'm particularly interested in this one:

Migration and social organisation studies through ancient genomic analysis of multi-faith populations from medieval Sicily (ERC Project "Sicily in Transition", SICTRANSIT)
Aurore Monnereau (York/GB)

It would be great if they've done an autosomal analysis of the Greek Orthodox people versus the Muslims. While it won't tell us how many Muslims were exiled later on, it will tell us something about the Muslim people who migrated to Sicily.

It's trickier with the Greek Orthodox versus any "Latins" they might have. The Greek Orthodox would presumably be the converted "natives", but perhaps there was some Byzantine influence? I think the Latin Christians would be the newer immigrants brought in to "pacify" the island.

 

[berun]

Why would be different the language use in Sicily from that of the south penninsula if conditions were alike, Latinization of tribals and preservation of Griko communities.

 

[Angela]

Why would be different the language use in Sicily from that of the south penninsula if conditions were alike, Latinization of tribals and preservation of Griko communities.

The study is about religious communities, not languages, although yes, they would have been speaking different languages. It's unclear, however, whether the "natives" only used Greek for religious services and some continued to speak Latin, or whether they used Greek for both.

As to mainland southern Italy, it wasn't under Moorish rule for between 200-300 years, which was the case for Sicily, so you wouldn't find communities of Moorish speaking people there, except for a little while in Foggia where some Moorish mercenaries were settled. They were later scattered, however.

The Griko speaking communities used to be numerous in Sicily as well, and they were present in Calabria, but now most of them are in the Salento in Puglia.

 

[Dibran]

hopefully some late iron age/pre 500AD M458 pops up in one of these papers!@

 

[Salento]

Why would be different the language use in Sicily from that of the south penninsula if conditions were alike, Latinization of tribals and preservation of Griko communities.

... “... Greek-speaking communities of Southern Italy cluster with their Italian-speaking neighbors suggesting a long-term history of presence in Southern Italy.” ...
...... “The genetic patterns observed in Southern Italy integrate the picture of the genomic structure of Europe and the Mediterranean, and support different histories behind the evolution of the Southern Italian ethno-linguistic minorities, moreover emphasizing the importance of considering complementary scales of investigations and detailed population samplings to assess demographic processes involving tightly related ancestries.” ....

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01802-4

https://www.eupedia.com/forum/threa...migration-layers-in-Sicily-and-southern-Italy

 

[Angela]

Another Tomenable downvote. The banned phantom poster strikes again.