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Adam Powell visit
PalaeoChron welcomed Adam Powell from the new Max Planck Institute at Jena (Germany) for a 3 day visit to discuss joint work and...
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More ZooMS'ing
Cara and Rachel spent a few days last week and this running samples for collagen fingerprinting from some of the material we are dating...
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Archaeology and Ancient DNA meeting (Cold Spring Harbour)
Tom Higham, along with David Reich (Harvard) and Svante Pääbo (Leipzig), organised a 2 day meeting in Cold Spring Harbour, New York, on...
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Krakow, Poland
PalaeoChron made a two day trip to Krakow to sample material from Polish Palaeolithic sites. Jarosław Wilczyński of the Polish Academy of...
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Analytica conference
This week, Thibaut attended the conference/fair Analytica 2016 In Munich. As we keep improving our methods for sample purification prior...
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Zagreb sampling
Tom Higham and Cara Kubiak visited the Croatian Academy of Sciences in May to take samples for a collagen peptide sequencing project...
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How ZooMS can be used to discover Palaeolithic human bones
The publication of our recent paper in Scientific Reports has capped a very exciting process of research. To cut a long story short, we...
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Slovakia sampling
In early April, after a successful sampling trip to the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Rachel travelled on further to Bratislava....
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Austria
Rachel and Tom went to Vienna to discuss sites and samples from the upper part of the River Danube in early April. We had discussions and...
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Wenner-Gren symposium, Portugal
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research organised a symposium recently in Sintra, Portugal on the "Human Colonization of...