The Medieval Individual from Vladimir with a Unique Stone Pillow Burial Sven September 15, 2025 – 4 min read Share this post Papers Neolithic Tomb Kinship in Northern Scotland Stone Tombs in the Far North Along Scotland's northern edge, early farming communities built remarkable stone tombs in Caithness and Orkney. These carefully constructed monuments featured dry-stone walls, arranged chambers and piled cairns. More than containers for bodies, they were places where ancestry and belonging were physically built By Jamie L • 4 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 Neolithic Tomb Kinship in Northern Scotland Stone Tombs in the Far North Along Scotland's northern edge, early farming communities built remarkable stone tombs in Caithness and Orkney. These carefully constructed monuments featured dry-stone walls, arranged chambers and piled cairns. More than containers for bodies, they were places where ancestry and belonging were physically built By Jamie L • 4 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Askew Who were the Askews? The House of Askew was an English noble and landed family rooted above all in Lincolnshire, with a long association with South Kelsey and the wider life of the county. In the old English gentry pattern, this was not a house built only on grand titles By Jamie L • 2 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Darcy Background The House of Darcy was one of those solid English noble houses whose story is really a story about land, office, loyalty, and the long business of serving the crown. Rooted above all in Yorkshire and closely associated with Temple Newsam, the Darcys belonged to the baronial world of By Jamie L • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Brereton Who were the Breretons? The House of Brereton was one of those deeply rooted English landed families whose identity was bound up with one place, one county, and one long habit of service. They came from Brereton in Cheshire, and like many old county houses of northwest England, their rise By Jamie L • 3 min read Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Norreys Haplogroup R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a4b2c1a The House of Norreys The House of Norreys was an English noble house rooted above all in Oxfordshire, and especially associated with Rycote, landed authority, court service, and the careful business of staying important across generations. Its story fits a very recognisable English pattern: estates gave status, service By Caterina • 3 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
Papers Neolithic Tomb Kinship in Northern Scotland Stone Tombs in the Far North Along Scotland's northern edge, early farming communities built remarkable stone tombs in Caithness and Orkney. These carefully constructed monuments featured dry-stone walls, arranged chambers and piled cairns. More than containers for bodies, they were places where ancestry and belonging were physically built By Jamie L • 4 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 Neolithic Tomb Kinship in Northern Scotland Stone Tombs in the Far North Along Scotland's northern edge, early farming communities built remarkable stone tombs in Caithness and Orkney. These carefully constructed monuments featured dry-stone walls, arranged chambers and piled cairns. More than containers for bodies, they were places where ancestry and belonging were physically built By Jamie L • 4 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Askew Who were the Askews? The House of Askew was an English noble and landed family rooted above all in Lincolnshire, with a long association with South Kelsey and the wider life of the county. In the old English gentry pattern, this was not a house built only on grand titles By Jamie L • 2 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Darcy Background The House of Darcy was one of those solid English noble houses whose story is really a story about land, office, loyalty, and the long business of serving the crown. Rooted above all in Yorkshire and closely associated with Temple Newsam, the Darcys belonged to the baronial world of By Jamie L • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Brereton Who were the Breretons? The House of Brereton was one of those deeply rooted English landed families whose identity was bound up with one place, one county, and one long habit of service. They came from Brereton in Cheshire, and like many old county houses of northwest England, their rise By Jamie L • 3 min read
Haplogroups and Noble Lines The Noble House of Norreys Haplogroup R1b1a1b1a1a2c1a4b2c1a The House of Norreys The House of Norreys was an English noble house rooted above all in Oxfordshire, and especially associated with Rycote, landed authority, court service, and the careful business of staying important across generations. Its story fits a very recognisable English pattern: estates gave status, service By Caterina • 3 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
