Hannah Moots

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Archaeology & ancient DNA 🧬 Mobility, kinship & identity in the ancient Mediterranean 🏺 Ice Age communities of central Europe 🧊

A mosaic of painted tiled with various birds, a goat, a hare and a hedgehog, and a mythical creature with the body of a leopard and the head of human
A flyer with key details about the Call for Abstracts for the "Integrating Ancient DNA with Archaeological Theory and Practice" session at the Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference 2025. The full abstract can be found at https://www.trac.org.uk/trac-tida-2025/ and abstracts can be submitted by emailing Ezgi Altınıșk at ezgialtinisik@hacettepe.edu.tr or Hannah Moots at hannah.moots@su.se. The flyer features a picture of the Library of Celsus, built in 117 CE at Ephesus, Türkiye
A picture of two horses running (perhaps galloping, although I am no expert on horses), in focus while the grassy background they are passing is blurred, indicating their speed
Roman floor mosaic showing a Roman-era fortified farm and farmers raising a toast. From a 2nd-century home in El Alia, Tunisia. Now housed in the Bardo National Museum, Tunis.
A qpAdm plot (showing individual genomes represented as horizontal bars, each colored by the ancestry preparation from 7 relevant ancestry populations.
An image of a Mycenaean fresco showing a woman, dressed in yellow with a yellow dress with a yellow and red necklace, featured in the article reposted here, with the caption: "A 13th-century BC fresco from Mycenae." Photograph: Peter Eastland/Alamy and
6th-century mosaic of a ship in harbor a Ravenna. Image from www.ravennamosaici.it
The opening page of the Memorializing Connectivity site, created by Lindsey Mazurek, showing an aerial photo of the Piazzale at Ostia combined with a hand-drawn map
A black and white mosaics showing a dolphin in the foreground and two ships sailing towards a lighthouse
Geometric mosaic border featuring triangles and a two-stranded braid
Banner from the SMBE 2025 homepage, showing the conference date (July 20 -24, 2025), location (Beijing) and organizers (Chinese Academy of Sciences).