Tom Rowsell (@Tom_Rowsell)

This really isn't objectively true. Ancient Greeks had some genetic affinities with other East med populations, but they were very much related also to neighbouring Europeans in the Balkans. Their culture was a fusion of the local Minoan/Pelasgian EEF derived maritime people - which is today and w...

Fascinating finds from the paper in this thread. The swampy region of Netherlands, Friesland, schleswig-holstein was host to a population with high WHG ancestry thousands of years after WHG went extinct. This unique group of swamp people eventually mixed with IE invaders to form the Bell Beaker fol...

A new study on Roman DNA from the University of Palma has confirmed what earlier papers such as Antonio et al (2019) found: that the Roman Republic was built by native Italians, but that Imperial Rome was swamped with migrants from Anatolia and the Levant. Links below ...

What are Zierscheibe? 🧵 On the internet, the word has been used to describe the specific Germanic sun wheel which was used by Himmler to decorate the floor of Wewelsberg castle (used as a school for the SS). In fact Himmler took the so called “sonnenrad” or” black sun” design from a Zierscheibe, but...