Richard Mortimer

TL;DR: Genome-wide data from 400 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans is presented, finding limited genetic affinity between Beaker-complex-associated individuals from Iberia and central Europe, and excludes migration as an important mechanism of spread between these two regions.

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, 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: Today’s British are more similar to the Iron Age individuals than to most of the Anglo-Saxon individuals, and it is estimated that the contemporary East English population derives 30% of its ancestry from Anglo- Saxon migrations, with a lower fraction in Wales and Scotland.

TL;DR: In this paper, the first identification of birch bark tar from early Medieval archaeological contexts in the UK has been reported, and the results indicate a later period of use for the material than has been previously observed and raise the question of whether this indicates evidence of a longer continuity of use than hitherto recognised or a later reintroduction of the technology in the Medieval period.