Tom Booth
@Boothicus
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Bioarchaeologist and amateur scarecrow. Ancient Genomics Laboratory @TheCrick
London, England
Joined May 2012
Prof Caroline Wilkinson at the @LJMU and @dundeeuni Face Lab did some facial reconstructions of two victims for History Cold Case: a child and a man. Caroline kindly updated these reconstructions with pigmentation predictions from the DNA. The girl may be one of the sisters.
Our superlatively-titled paper 'Genomes from a medieval mass burial show Ashkenazi-associated hereditary diseases pre-date the 12th century', is out now in @CurrentBiology - Bit of a long thread, but it is 18 years in the making…
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RT @Durotrigesdig: The Durotriges An Iron Age people with women at the centre of power, kinship and land ownership A great report on ou…
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RT @_larsporsena: Our new paper is out! Congrats to the whole team, especially the staff and students @bournemouthuni who have been excavat…
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Matrilineal organisation of cemeteries in Iron Age Britain.
Delighted to see our new paper out in Nature
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RT @TheCrick: Check out our Ancient Genomics Lab, including @pontus_skoglund, @boothicus and @tait_frankie, on tonight’s new episode of Dig…
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RT @LehtiSaag: Very happy to share the results of my @MSCActions project done at @UGI_at_UCL with @mt_genes and @pontus_skoglund from @TheC…
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RT @pontus_skoglund: Kicking off the new year, our paper by @leo_speidel et al. is out describing what to me is a breakthrough in ancient g…
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RT @AntiquityJ: NEW Analysis of over 3000 human bones from Charterhouse Warren, England, indicates they were massacred, butchered, and like…
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@JulienVillegas @RickSchulting Good point - there were no complete skeletons, everything was partial and mixed up, which means there were seems more likely it was bones/parts of bodies that were deposited.
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RT @fakehistoryhunt: Lovely, beautiful and peaceful Somerset... "Bronze Age massacre victims likely cannibalised"
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RT @theAliceRoberts: I'm delighted that CRYPT has been nominated for the @CurrentArchaeo Book of the Year Awards! If you'd read and liked i…
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RT @HaraldRingbauer: 👏👏 @arevsumer! Contains our IBD analysis led by @YileiHuang317: Multiple really long 20cm++ IBD segments link the tw…
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RT @ISBA11_Torino: We are thrilled to announce our first invited speaker - Joanna Bruck! #Archaeology #Biomoleculararchaeology #ISBA #ISBA…
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RT @andersbrgstrm: In this comment piece with @jfy133 and @twarinner, we highlight the mounting problems with data archiving and metadata r…
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RT @huw_groucutt: I will be advertising soon for postdoc positions in geoarchaeology and GIS for my Terraform ERC project, starting at the…
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Vote ‘Sarmatian’ in the Current Archaeology Research Project of the Year!
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RT @d_collis: Meet the #Sheffield Ancestors on Tuesday 10 December 7 till 9pm at @showroomcinema room 5: People of the Peaks by Tom @Booth…
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RT @huw_groucutt: (1/11) I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded a European Research Council ‘Consolidator Grant’. The TerraFo…
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RT @juliapgjones: What a job! 5 year independent fellowship at Cambridge University in ecology and conservation.
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