Shifting Sands: Population Dynamics during the Muslim-Christian Transition in 11th-13th Century Algarve Caterina November 14, 2025 – 3 min read Share this post Papers Late Iron Age Mobility and Burial Practices in Celtic Switzerland Mobility Across the Alpine World Late Iron Age Switzerland was a world in motion. People moved across valleys, plateaus, and mountain corridors — sometimes locally, sometimes across remarkable distances. Hilltop strongholds, busy settlements, and busy trade routes linked Central Europe to the Mediterranean. Rather than imagining mass migrations, the evidence reveals By Caterina • 5 min read Papers Balkan Hunter-Gatherers Shaped Post-Ice Age Europe The Balkan Refugium: Europe's Ice Age Heartland When ice and bitter cold gripped most of Europe during the last Ice Age, the Balkans emerged as one of prehistory's great human refuges. River valleys, caves, and sheltered landscapes allowed people to endure where others could not. Far By Sven • 5 min read Papers Ancient DNA and matrilineal kinship in Iron Age Britain The Arras world: square barrows, chalk hills, and striking funerals In Iron Age Britain, one burial tradition stands out with unusual clarity: the cemeteries of East Yorkshire, spread across the Yorkshire Wolds. Here, the dead were laid beneath square barrows, small ditched monuments that from the air appear like geometric By Sven • 8 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Harrington Who the House of Harrington was The House of Harrington, often also spelled Harington, was an English noble house rooted in the world of medieval lordship, landed authority, military obligation, and service to the crown. In historical terms, it fits the classic pattern of an English baronial family: a lineage By Caterina • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Vernon House of Vernon Background The House of Vernon was one of those long-lived English noble families whose story begins in the age of the Norman Conquest and runs forward through centuries of estate management, service, marriage strategy, heraldry, and local authority. The family is traditionally linked to Vernon in Normandy, By Sara V • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Paget Who the Pagets were The House of Paget was an English noble house that rose through the machinery of Tudor and later British public life: royal administration, estate management, parliamentary service, military distinction, and the careful cultivation of status through marriage, office, and heraldry. In that sense the Pagets are By Caterina • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines Clan OCallaghan Clan OCallaghan Munster Gaelic lineage linked with haplogroup R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1a1a1a1a1a Clan OCallaghan was a Gaelic Irish family of Munster, rooted above all in the political and territorial world of north Cork and Duhallow, where kinship, land, military service, and lordship were tightly bound together. Their story belongs to that unmistakably Irish By Jamie L • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines Clan OMahony Clan OMahony Background Clan OMahony was one of the notable Gaelic Irish lineages of southwest Ireland, rooted in Munster and especially associated with the old kingdom-world of Desmond along the coasts of Cork and Kerry. Their heritage belongs to that distinctly southern Irish pattern in which authority came not only By Sara V • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines Clan ODonovan Clan ODonovan Background Clan ODonovan was a Gaelic Irish lineage of Munster, rooted above all in southwest Ireland, with deep associations in Cork and the wider Carbery world. Their story belongs to that distinctly Irish political landscape in which kin-group, territory, military strength, alliance, and remembered ancestry all mattered enormously. By Jamie L • 3 min read
Papers Late Iron Age Mobility and Burial Practices in Celtic Switzerland Mobility Across the Alpine World Late Iron Age Switzerland was a world in motion. People moved across valleys, plateaus, and mountain corridors — sometimes locally, sometimes across remarkable distances. Hilltop strongholds, busy settlements, and busy trade routes linked Central Europe to the Mediterranean. Rather than imagining mass migrations, the evidence reveals By Caterina • 5 min read
Papers Balkan Hunter-Gatherers Shaped Post-Ice Age Europe The Balkan Refugium: Europe's Ice Age Heartland When ice and bitter cold gripped most of Europe during the last Ice Age, the Balkans emerged as one of prehistory's great human refuges. River valleys, caves, and sheltered landscapes allowed people to endure where others could not. Far By Sven • 5 min read
Papers Ancient DNA and matrilineal kinship in Iron Age Britain The Arras world: square barrows, chalk hills, and striking funerals In Iron Age Britain, one burial tradition stands out with unusual clarity: the cemeteries of East Yorkshire, spread across the Yorkshire Wolds. Here, the dead were laid beneath square barrows, small ditched monuments that from the air appear like geometric By Sven • 8 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Harrington Who the House of Harrington was The House of Harrington, often also spelled Harington, was an English noble house rooted in the world of medieval lordship, landed authority, military obligation, and service to the crown. In historical terms, it fits the classic pattern of an English baronial family: a lineage By Caterina • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Vernon House of Vernon Background The House of Vernon was one of those long-lived English noble families whose story begins in the age of the Norman Conquest and runs forward through centuries of estate management, service, marriage strategy, heraldry, and local authority. The family is traditionally linked to Vernon in Normandy, By Sara V • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Paget Who the Pagets were The House of Paget was an English noble house that rose through the machinery of Tudor and later British public life: royal administration, estate management, parliamentary service, military distinction, and the careful cultivation of status through marriage, office, and heraldry. In that sense the Pagets are By Caterina • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines Clan OCallaghan Clan OCallaghan Munster Gaelic lineage linked with haplogroup R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a1a1a1a1a1a Clan OCallaghan was a Gaelic Irish family of Munster, rooted above all in the political and territorial world of north Cork and Duhallow, where kinship, land, military service, and lordship were tightly bound together. Their story belongs to that unmistakably Irish By Jamie L • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines Clan OMahony Clan OMahony Background Clan OMahony was one of the notable Gaelic Irish lineages of southwest Ireland, rooted in Munster and especially associated with the old kingdom-world of Desmond along the coasts of Cork and Kerry. Their heritage belongs to that distinctly southern Irish pattern in which authority came not only By Sara V • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines Clan ODonovan Clan ODonovan Background Clan ODonovan was a Gaelic Irish lineage of Munster, rooted above all in southwest Ireland, with deep associations in Cork and the wider Carbery world. Their story belongs to that distinctly Irish political landscape in which kin-group, territory, military strength, alliance, and remembered ancestry all mattered enormously. By Jamie L • 3 min read
