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On 7 Oct, 2015
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OCTOBER 2015: Erna Johannesdottir presents at BABAO Conference

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…

On 6 Oct, 2015
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OCTOBER 2015: EUROTAST fellow Jessica Hendy receives Humanities Research Centre Fellowship

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…

On 18 Sep, 2015
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EAA/SAA EUROTAST Presentation: Ryan Espersen on Race, Class, and Gender in Colonial Saba

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,…

On 18 Sep, 2015
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EAA/SAA EUROTAST Presentation: The Freed Slaves of Saint Helena: Genomic Analyses of 19th Century Human Remains Shed Light on Enslaved Africans Geographic Origins and Population Diversity

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…

On 17 Sep, 2015
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EAA/SAA Keynote: Hannes Schroeder on EUROTAST

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…

On 14 Sep, 2015
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EUROTAST Video: Marcela Sandoval

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.

On 17 Aug, 2015
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AUGUST 2015: PLOS ONE Publication of The Genomic Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Yungas Valley of Bolivia

The Genomic Legacy of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Yungas Valley of Bolivia Tanja Heinz, Jorge Mario Cárdenas, Vanesa Álvarez-Iglesias, Jacobo Pardo-Seco, Alberto Gómez-Carballa, Carla Santos, Patricia Taboada-Echalar, Antonio Salas In August 2015, EUROTAST research network members Tanja Heinz and Antonio Salas published research on the genetic ancestry of relatively isolated Afro-Bolivian communities in…

On 23 Jun, 2015
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EUROTAST VIDEO: Sarah Abel

EUROTAST fellow Sarah Abel is conducting her PhD at CIRESC (Centre international de recherches sur les esclavages) under the supervision of Professor Myriam Cottias. She is a Sociocultural Anthropologist who examines the impact of ancestry genetics tests on understandings of heritage and identity in the United States and Brazil. In this video Sarah describes the questions and concerns with this research.

On 20 Mar, 2015
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MARCH 2015: A Molecular Perspective on Disease in the Transatlantic Slave Trade

The EUROTAST fellows will be presenting the findings of their research at the upcoming Genetics/Heritage conference, 23-25 April at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool. Deadline for registration to attend the conference is March 30th. To attend the conference, visit the Genetics/Heritage website. Title: A molecular perspective on disease in the transatlantic slave trade Authors: Jessica Hendy, Matthew…

On 16 Mar, 2015
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MARCH 2015: A ‘New Guinea’ in the Americas: Enslaved Africans in the Eighteenth-Century Salvador, Brazil

The EUROTAST fellows will be presenting the findings of their research at the upcoming Genetics/Heritage conference, 23-25 April at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool. Deadline for registration to attend the conference is March 30th. To attend the conference, visit the Genetics/Heritage website. Title: A ‘New Guinea’ in the Americas: Enslaved Africans in the Eighteenth-Century Salvador, Brazil…