Modern Human Expansion 300,000 Years Ago as a Driver of Neandertal Origins Sara V March 16, 2026 – 6 min read Share this post Papers Medieval Paleogenomics in Northern Latium Medieval Northern Latium: Coast, Hills, and New Towns North of Rome, medieval Latium offered three strikingly different communities: Santa Severa on the Tyrrhenian coast, Allumiere-La Bianca in the mineral-rich Tolfa Mountains, and Leopoli-Cencelle, a planned papal town. Together they reveal a medieval society that was busy, adaptive, and deeply connected. By Caterina • 1 min read Papers Genomic evidence for female exogamy in a Tang Dynasty clan The Naobaowan Cemetery on the Tang Frontier On the southern bank of the Yellow River, near the Kubuqi Desert in Inner Mongolia, the Naobaowan cemetery is not simply a cluster of old graves. It is a family landscape frozen in brick, dust, and memory. The dead belonged to an elite By Sven • 4 min read Papers Ancient DNA and Migrations in the Northern Black Sea Region Frontier of Empires and Riders: The Northern Black Sea as a Living Crossroads The Northern Black Sea region in the first millennium CE was where history never sat still. Sea met steppe, Greek-speaking town met horse-borne nomad, and every generation inherited a landscape layered with ruins, graves, old loyalties, and By Caterina • 6 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Royal House of OReilly The Royal House of OReilly Background The House of OReilly, or Ua Raghallaigh, was one of the great Gaelic Irish royal houses of East Breifne, rooted in the lands that later became County Cavan. Their story belongs to that distinctively Irish world of territorial kingship, kin-based lordship, cattle wealth, fortified By Jamie L • 2 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines Chen Clan Chen Clan The Chen Clan was one of the great enduring lineages of early imperial China, remembered not simply as a powerful family but as a model of what a leading Han and post-Han clan could be: learned, well connected, morally serious, and deeply embedded in government service. Their historic By Sara V • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House de Pomeroy Who Were the House de Pomeroy? The House de Pomeroy was a Norman and later English noble house whose story belongs to the great reshaping of England after 1066. Their roots lay in Normandy, almost certainly connected with La Pommeraye, a place-name that gave the family its surname before it By Jamie L • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Royal House of ONeill Haplogroup: R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1a1a1a1a1a2 The royal house and its origins The House of ONeill was one of the great royal lineages of Ireland, emerging from the wider Ui Neill world and rooted above all in Tir Eoghain in the north, in what is now chiefly County Tyrone and the wider Ulster region. By Sara V • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Royal House of ODonoghue Who the ODonoghues were The House of ODonoghue was one of the great Gaelic noble and royal houses of southwest Ireland, rooted above all in Loch Lein in County Kerry and remembered in the ODonoghue Mor tradition. Their story belongs to the old Munster pattern of Irish power: kingship tied By Sven • 3 min read Papers Medieval Paleogenomics in Northern Latium Medieval Northern Latium: Coast, Hills, and New Towns North of Rome, medieval Latium offered three strikingly different communities: Santa Severa on the Tyrrhenian coast, Allumiere-La Bianca in the mineral-rich Tolfa Mountains, and Leopoli-Cencelle, a planned papal town. Together they reveal a medieval society that was busy, adaptive, and deeply connected. By Caterina • 1 min read
Papers Medieval Paleogenomics in Northern Latium Medieval Northern Latium: Coast, Hills, and New Towns North of Rome, medieval Latium offered three strikingly different communities: Santa Severa on the Tyrrhenian coast, Allumiere-La Bianca in the mineral-rich Tolfa Mountains, and Leopoli-Cencelle, a planned papal town. Together they reveal a medieval society that was busy, adaptive, and deeply connected. By Caterina • 1 min read
Papers Genomic evidence for female exogamy in a Tang Dynasty clan The Naobaowan Cemetery on the Tang Frontier On the southern bank of the Yellow River, near the Kubuqi Desert in Inner Mongolia, the Naobaowan cemetery is not simply a cluster of old graves. It is a family landscape frozen in brick, dust, and memory. The dead belonged to an elite By Sven • 4 min read
Papers Ancient DNA and Migrations in the Northern Black Sea Region Frontier of Empires and Riders: The Northern Black Sea as a Living Crossroads The Northern Black Sea region in the first millennium CE was where history never sat still. Sea met steppe, Greek-speaking town met horse-borne nomad, and every generation inherited a landscape layered with ruins, graves, old loyalties, and By Caterina • 6 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Royal House of OReilly The Royal House of OReilly Background The House of OReilly, or Ua Raghallaigh, was one of the great Gaelic Irish royal houses of East Breifne, rooted in the lands that later became County Cavan. Their story belongs to that distinctively Irish world of territorial kingship, kin-based lordship, cattle wealth, fortified By Jamie L • 2 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines Chen Clan Chen Clan The Chen Clan was one of the great enduring lineages of early imperial China, remembered not simply as a powerful family but as a model of what a leading Han and post-Han clan could be: learned, well connected, morally serious, and deeply embedded in government service. Their historic By Sara V • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House de Pomeroy Who Were the House de Pomeroy? The House de Pomeroy was a Norman and later English noble house whose story belongs to the great reshaping of England after 1066. Their roots lay in Normandy, almost certainly connected with La Pommeraye, a place-name that gave the family its surname before it By Jamie L • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Royal House of ONeill Haplogroup: R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1a1a1a1a1a2 The royal house and its origins The House of ONeill was one of the great royal lineages of Ireland, emerging from the wider Ui Neill world and rooted above all in Tir Eoghain in the north, in what is now chiefly County Tyrone and the wider Ulster region. By Sara V • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Royal House of ODonoghue Who the ODonoghues were The House of ODonoghue was one of the great Gaelic noble and royal houses of southwest Ireland, rooted above all in Loch Lein in County Kerry and remembered in the ODonoghue Mor tradition. Their story belongs to the old Munster pattern of Irish power: kingship tied By Sven • 3 min read
Papers Medieval Paleogenomics in Northern Latium Medieval Northern Latium: Coast, Hills, and New Towns North of Rome, medieval Latium offered three strikingly different communities: Santa Severa on the Tyrrhenian coast, Allumiere-La Bianca in the mineral-rich Tolfa Mountains, and Leopoli-Cencelle, a planned papal town. Together they reveal a medieval society that was busy, adaptive, and deeply connected. By Caterina • 1 min read
