Celtic Mobility and Funerary Practices in Late Iron Age Switzerland Sven September 10, 2025 – 3 min read Share this post Papers DNA and Contamination Analysis of the Turin Shroud Samples A Famous Cloth Through Fire, Chapels, and Courts The Turin Shroud sits at the crossroads of faith, power, and disaster. It is a long linen cloth marked with the front and back image of a man bearing brutal wounds. For centuries it has drawn pilgrims, doubters, rulers, and scientists. What By Caterina • 6 min read Papers Ancient DNA and Dynastic Rule among Iron Age Scythian Elites The Steppe World of the Scythian Age Across Eurasia's vast grasslands in the first millennium BC, a remarkable world stretched from the Altai Mountains to the Black Sea. Horse-riding communities moved with herds across this immense belt of steppe, yet it was no empty wilderness. It was crowded By Sara V • 5 min read Papers 6,000 Years of Genomic History in the Middle Yellow River The first farmers of the middle Yellow River and the people of Xiaowu More than six thousand years ago, in the heartland of the Yangshao world along the middle Yellow River, some of the earliest farming communities in northern China took root. One key site was Xiaowu in western Henan, By Jamie L • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Howard Family Who the Howard family was The Howard family was one of the great powerhouses of English noble history, a house of dukes, earls, soldiers, courtiers, and survivors, most famously known as the family of the Dukes of Norfolk and the Earls of Arundel. In haplogroup terms, the primary family line By Sara V • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Paston Family The Paston Family Who the Pastons were The Paston family were one of the most famous gentry houses of late medieval England, rooted in Norfolk and remembered above all because they left behind something most families did not: their voices. Linked here with the primary family haplogroup I2a1b2a2a2b, the Pastons By Caterina • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House de Saddington The Noble House de Saddington Background The de Saddington family was an English noble and landed house rooted in Leicestershire, its name taken from the village of Saddington itself, in the old heartland of the Midlands. Like many medieval English gentry families, they grew out of place, property, and service: By Sven • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Bardolf The Noble House of Bardolf Background The Bardolf family were a medieval English baronial house, rooted above all in eastern England and especially in Norfolk, and their story belongs squarely to the hard-edged world of Plantagenet aristocracy. Their linked primary haplogroup here is R1b1a1b1a1a2a1a1, a branch associated in ancient DNA By Caterina • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines Clan Armstrong Clan Armstrong Background Clan Armstrong was one of the great riding families of the Scottish Borders, rooted above all in Liddesdale, Eskdale, and the rough frontier country of the western marches between Scotland and England. This was not a polite, courtly landscape. It was a hard border society of watchfulness, By Jamie L • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines Spanish Habsburg Spanish Habsburg Background The Spanish Habsburgs were the Spanish ruling branch of the wider House of Habsburg, a dynasty that began in the old Habsburg heartlands of what is now Switzerland and Austria before spreading its power across Europe through shrewd marriages, inheritance, and politics. In Spain, this branch came By Jamie L • 3 min read
Papers DNA and Contamination Analysis of the Turin Shroud Samples A Famous Cloth Through Fire, Chapels, and Courts The Turin Shroud sits at the crossroads of faith, power, and disaster. It is a long linen cloth marked with the front and back image of a man bearing brutal wounds. For centuries it has drawn pilgrims, doubters, rulers, and scientists. What By Caterina • 6 min read
Papers Ancient DNA and Dynastic Rule among Iron Age Scythian Elites The Steppe World of the Scythian Age Across Eurasia's vast grasslands in the first millennium BC, a remarkable world stretched from the Altai Mountains to the Black Sea. Horse-riding communities moved with herds across this immense belt of steppe, yet it was no empty wilderness. It was crowded By Sara V • 5 min read
Papers 6,000 Years of Genomic History in the Middle Yellow River The first farmers of the middle Yellow River and the people of Xiaowu More than six thousand years ago, in the heartland of the Yangshao world along the middle Yellow River, some of the earliest farming communities in northern China took root. One key site was Xiaowu in western Henan, By Jamie L • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Howard Family Who the Howard family was The Howard family was one of the great powerhouses of English noble history, a house of dukes, earls, soldiers, courtiers, and survivors, most famously known as the family of the Dukes of Norfolk and the Earls of Arundel. In haplogroup terms, the primary family line By Sara V • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Paston Family The Paston Family Who the Pastons were The Paston family were one of the most famous gentry houses of late medieval England, rooted in Norfolk and remembered above all because they left behind something most families did not: their voices. Linked here with the primary family haplogroup I2a1b2a2a2b, the Pastons By Caterina • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House de Saddington The Noble House de Saddington Background The de Saddington family was an English noble and landed house rooted in Leicestershire, its name taken from the village of Saddington itself, in the old heartland of the Midlands. Like many medieval English gentry families, they grew out of place, property, and service: By Sven • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Bardolf The Noble House of Bardolf Background The Bardolf family were a medieval English baronial house, rooted above all in eastern England and especially in Norfolk, and their story belongs squarely to the hard-edged world of Plantagenet aristocracy. Their linked primary haplogroup here is R1b1a1b1a1a2a1a1, a branch associated in ancient DNA By Caterina • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines Clan Armstrong Clan Armstrong Background Clan Armstrong was one of the great riding families of the Scottish Borders, rooted above all in Liddesdale, Eskdale, and the rough frontier country of the western marches between Scotland and England. This was not a polite, courtly landscape. It was a hard border society of watchfulness, By Jamie L • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines Spanish Habsburg Spanish Habsburg Background The Spanish Habsburgs were the Spanish ruling branch of the wider House of Habsburg, a dynasty that began in the old Habsburg heartlands of what is now Switzerland and Austria before spreading its power across Europe through shrewd marriages, inheritance, and politics. In Spain, this branch came By Jamie L • 3 min read
