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Continuing my reportage of Saturday's one-day forum and book launch at St Anne's College, Oxford, I'm going to mesh a lecture on the day with a paper in the newly-published volume, to paint an emerging picture of Ireland's Celtic past.

The lecture was from William O’Brien...

A.A. Kazarnitsky of the Russian Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography has published what I previously searched for in vain - a study of the crania from the Copper Age Maikop Culture of the North Caucasus.* These fascinating people seem to pop up out of nowhere, which has long been a puzzle. I suspected that they had arrived from the south. The...

The Lebor Gabála Érenn...

Papers from the 2008 CECD conference on 'Demography and Cultural Macroevolution' appeared as a special issue of Human Biology, and are now freely available to download under an Open Access agreement: Human Biology April-June 2009...

It has long been something of a mystery how Y-DNA Haplogroup I1 could suddenly pop up in Jutland about 4,000 years ago. Yet Ken Nordtvedt, an expert on the haplogroup, assures us that it did. I suspected that this might have something to do with the hunting-fishing Ertebølle Culture...