Duncan Sayer

TL;DR: Using rarecoal, a new method, it is estimated that on average the contemporary East English population derives 38% of its ancestry from Anglo-Saxon migrations, while the Iron Age samples share ancestors with multiple Northern European populations including Britain.

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that death is not taboo and that modern death scholars use archaeological source material as a way to understand the subtlety of the human experience Funerary archaeology is not a dangerous topic; rather it makes a very real and valuable contribution to modern society, providing one of the few ways that people can experience a corpse and so explore their own mortality and with it their place within the larger human story.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used K-function analysis to determine the proximity of statistically significant clusters within four early Anglo-Saxon cemetery sites: Wakerley, Norton, Berinsfield, and Lechlade.

TL;DR: In this article, the Max Planck Society, the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (771234-PALEoRIDER, to W.H., 805268-CoDisEASe to K. Bos; 834616-ARCHCAUCASUS to S.H. and AP08857177 to A.Z.

TL;DR: It is argued that post-mortem extrusion is improbable and that young infants and women found buried together are likely to have died together, but most deaths would not have been simultaneous and it is concluded that the early Anglo-Saxons engaged institutions which controlled female sexuality.