Tue 27 Oct · 6:30pm
The Laneway Social, East End · Adelaide
what ancient bones say about who people loved
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Your Topic:Dead Men Do Tell Tales: What Ancient DNA Reveals About Love, Family & Marriage 1,350 Years AgoWhat can the DNA of people buried 1,350 years ago tell us about who they loved, married and called family?Quite a lot, as it turns out.In three Austrian cemeteries once used by communities associated with the Avars, researchers recovered ancient DNA that gives us an extraordinary glimpse into family life more than a thousand years ago.But having the DNA is only the beginning.To understand how these individuals were connected, researchers needed to ask a surprisingly modern question: what if we treated an ancient cemetery like a social network?Using statistical techniques similar to those used to study networks such as Twitter, Dr Simon “Jono” Tuke and his collaborators have been able to examine patterns of genetic relatedness between individuals and investigate what those connections can reveal about…
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Tue 27 Oct 2026, 6:30pm.
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The Laneway Social, East End, Adelaide, SA.
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