Michelle Gamble
Since finishing my PhD in Archaeology, specialising in Human Osteology and Palaeopathology at Newcastle University in 2011, I have remained active both in research and archaeological excavation as a freelance bioarchaeologist. My primary research interests are in health, disease and medicine in the past, particularly prehistoric periods. I am also very interested in North American archaeology/CRM and using human remains to explore relevant archaeological questions for all time periods.
My experience is varied, from completing osteological analyses on human remains from a variety of periods, to being the small finds registrar for the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute's excavations at Kissonerga-Skalia, Cyprus. I have also worked in commercial archaeology in the UK, Middle East, Cyprus, and Ontario.
I particularly enjoy teaching and fieldschool excavations as I like to work with students to help them achieve their academic and personal goals. My most recent post was as a post doctoral researcher at the Austrian Archaeological Institute, working with Dr Michaela Binder on a project entitled: 'Tracing 3000 Years of Disease History - In search of evidence of malaria in bone and dental samples from northern Africa, the Mediterranean, and Central Europe using innovative technologies and an interdisciplinary approach'.
Supervisors: Chris Fowler and Kirsi Lorentz
My experience is varied, from completing osteological analyses on human remains from a variety of periods, to being the small finds registrar for the Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute's excavations at Kissonerga-Skalia, Cyprus. I have also worked in commercial archaeology in the UK, Middle East, Cyprus, and Ontario.
I particularly enjoy teaching and fieldschool excavations as I like to work with students to help them achieve their academic and personal goals. My most recent post was as a post doctoral researcher at the Austrian Archaeological Institute, working with Dr Michaela Binder on a project entitled: 'Tracing 3000 Years of Disease History - In search of evidence of malaria in bone and dental samples from northern Africa, the Mediterranean, and Central Europe using innovative technologies and an interdisciplinary approach'.
Supervisors: Chris Fowler and Kirsi Lorentz
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Present-day people from England and Wales harbour more ancestry derived from Early European Farmers (EEF) than people of the Early Bronze Age1. To understand this, we generated genome-wide data from 793 individuals, increasing data from the Middle to Late Bronze and Iron Age in Britain by 12-fold, and Western and Central Europe by 3.5-fold. Between 1000 and 875 BC, EEF ancestry increased in southern Britain (England and Wales) but not northern Britain (Scotland) due to incorporation of migrants who arrived at this time and over previous centuries, and who were genetically most similar to ancient individuals from France. These migrants contributed about half the ancestry of Iron Age people of England and Wales, thereby creating a plausible vector for the spread of early Celtic languages into Britain. These patterns are part of a broader trend of EEF ancestry becoming more similar across central and western Europe in the Middle to Late Bronze Age, coincident with archaeological evidence of intensified cultural exchange2–6. There was comparatively less gene flow from continental Europe during the Iron Age, and Britain’s independent genetic trajectory is also reflected in the rise of the allele conferring lactase persistence to ~50% by this time compared to ~7% in central Europe where it rose rapidly in frequency only a millennium later. This suggests that dairy products were used in qualitatively different ways in Britain and in central Europe over this period.
Present-day people from England and Wales harbour more ancestry derived from Early European Farmers (EEF) than people of the Early Bronze Age1. To understand this, we generated genome-wide data from 793 individuals, increasing data from the Middle to Late Bronze and Iron Age in Britain by 12-fold, and Western and Central Europe by 3.5-fold. Between 1000 and 875 BC, EEF ancestry increased in southern Britain (England and Wales) but not northern Britain (Scotland) due to incorporation of migrants who arrived at this time and over previous centuries, and who were genetically most similar to ancient individuals from France. These migrants contributed about half the ancestry of Iron Age people of England and Wales, thereby creating a plausible vector for the spread of early Celtic languages into Britain. These patterns are part of a broader trend of EEF ancestry becoming more similar across central and western Europe in the Middle to Late Bronze Age, coincident with archaeological evidence of intensified cultural exchange2–6. There was comparatively less gene flow from continental Europe during the Iron Age, and Britain’s independent genetic trajectory is also reflected in the rise of the allele conferring lactase persistence to ~50% by this time compared to ~7% in central Europe where it rose rapidly in frequency only a millennium later. This suggests that dairy products were used in qualitatively different ways in Britain and in central Europe over this period.