PNAS publication “Genome-wide ancestry of 17th-century enslaved Africans from the Carribbean” published by EUROTAST researchers has been recognized as one of the Top Ten discoveries of 2015 by Archaeology Magazine: http://www.archaeology.org/issues/200-1601/features/3965-top-10-archaeological-discoveries-of-2015
After passing her PhD viva, former EUROTAST Fellow Dr Jessica Hendy started a position as a postdoctoral research assistant with Dr Camilla Speller at BioArCh, University of York. In her EUROTAST research she explored the development of novel archaeological-biomolecular methods to understand the health and diet of enslaved Africans during the transatlantic slave trade. In this new…
EUROTAST Fellow Erna Johannesdottir presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the British Associate for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology September 2015 in Sheffield. Her presentation, African dental modification practices in the era of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade was presented with EUROTAST Research Supervisor, Kate Robson Brown. Title: African dental modification practices in the era of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade…
Jessica Hendy has received the prestigious 2015-2016 Humanities Research Centre Fellowship for her research with EUROTAST. Her presentation, titled Molecular Perspectives on the Transatlantic Slave Trade, was nominated for displaying intellectual achievement and future potential and judged on her capacity to “communicate high-quality research clearly and engagingly to a non-specialist audience.” For more information, see the…
EUROTAST Fellow Ryan Espersen is presenting a paper at the upcoming EAA-SAA Joint Meeting Archaeological Perspectives on Slavery, Trade, and Colonialism in Curaçao, 5-7 November, 2015. Title: Manifestations of Race, Class, and Gender in Pre-Emancipation Colonial Saba, Dutch Caribbean Abstract: Saba is a small and steep island in the Dutch Caribbean, just 13 square kilometers in area and 890 meters in elevation,…
EUROTAST network members Marcela Sandoval Velasco, Kate Robson-Brown, Thomas Gilbert and Hannes Schroeder are presenting a paper along with their colleagues at the upcoming EAA-SAA Joint Meeting Archaeological Perspectives on Slavery, Trade, and Colonialism in Curaçao, 5-7 November, 2015. Title: The Freed Slaves of Saint Helena: Genomic Analyses of 19th Century Human Remains Shed Light on Enslaved Africans…
EUROTAST project coordinator Hannes Schroeder is delivering a keynote address at the upcoming EAA-SAA Joint Meeting Archaeological Perspectives on Slavery, Trade, and Colonialism in Curaçao, 5-7 November, 2015. Speaker: Hannes Schroeder Title: The EUROTAST Project: New Perspectives on the History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Its Legacies Today Abstract: The study of the…
EUROTAST fellow Marcela Sandoval is conducting her PhD at the University of Copenhagen at the Centre for GeoGenetics under the supervision of Dr. Hannes Schroeder and Professor Tom Gilbert. She is working to better understand the origins of Africans captured during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade through studying aDNA.
EUROTAST fellow Anuradha Jagadeesan is conducting her PhD at University of Iceland and deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland under the supervision of Dr. Agnar Helgason. She is working to complete a computational reconstruction of Hans Jonatan’s genome from those of his descendants. In this video Anuradha describes her research project.
Genetic population study of Y-chromosome markers in Benin and Ivory Coast ethnic groups Cesar Fortes-Lima, Nicolas Brucato, Myriam Croze, Gil Bellis, Stephanie Schiavinato, Achille Massougbodji, Florence Migot-Nabias, Jean-Michel Dugoujon In August 2015, EUROTAST research network members Cesar Fortes-Lima and Jean-Michel Dugoujon published a genetic dataset from 288 men in Benin and Ivory Coast. Benin has a…