@jonasholmjaeger
PhD Fellow | biomolecular archaeology | UCPH | Currently obsessed with sheep husbandry | aDNA, palaeoproteomics, isotopes | 🐑🧬🦷🦴 | if it’s old and/or dead I’m probably into it jonashjaeger.github.io
🧬 NEW JOB: @york-bioarch.bsky.social is hiring a Postdoc in Ancient DNA
Work on the RoBMobS project to explore mobility and diversity in Roman Britain using genomic data.
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📅 Apply by 24 March 2026
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A north arrow. This one is drawn as an actual arrow with fletchings and everything. The shaft is tapered down to the barbed point. At the tip is written "Nord" in nice cursive script.
#NorthArrow Frants Frederik Jonathan Møller 1811.
Good dynamism. Like the detail on the fletching. 8/10
🏺 🐺 🐕 My pet theory is that wolves' musicality and ability to sing WITH PEOPLE is a key reason why we were mutually attracted - domestication through shared aesthetic sensibility, not merely economics of being good at hunting or guarding or pulling sleds...
(this is going to be in #Matriarcha 📚)
I'm singing with my dog on a near-daily basis.
“Aa, det fille, det falle i min Hovedskalle.” sagde Kyllingen. “Lad os løbe!” sagde Hanen.
Also, I just learned right now that it's "pastime" and not "past-time".
I've reached the point where my favourite pastime these days is an endless loop of listening to The Cure, getting bouts of crippling anxiety and then recalibrating myself with a glass of Laphroaig #PhDlife
Hvad skal jeg med vand? Er det ikke sådan noget pøblen drikker?
I det mindste har du ikke behøvet at trække et par kilometers grøft for at konstatere at der ikke er noget.
Det hele ligger i restjorden. Frem med soldet.
And here I thought the hardest part of writing a research paper was doing the actual research and putting it on paper. - not all of the formalities required prior to submission...
Det er fandme svært at lave arkæologi når der ingen anlæg er i grøfterne.
I’m curious to see what such models might be able to do if applied to ancient DNA - especially for (ultra) low-coverage genomes.
Mama mia…
Never say never. Somewhere in the Siberian permafrost I guarantee you there is a fully preserved, fabulous Neanderthal gay dude. All you need then is just a swab from all of the… Right places.
Selvom verden er på vej lige ned i lokummet og der tilmed er udskrevet valg så er det altid noget at der trods alt er lidt gode nyheder.
This is not concerning at all.
“And on the 8th day the Lord took a ginormous hit on his bong and said: let there be deer!”
Eucladoceros:
Deer used to be wild.
Or “arrow” heads. Though experiments have shown that modern replicas can indeed be shot effectively from a bow they might as well have been used with an atlatl or similar technology.
Fischer et al. 2013: Late Palaeolithic Nørre Lyngby - a northern outpost close to the West coast of Europe, Quartär (60), 137-162.
While the Bromme people are pretty ephemeral in the archaeological record they did leave behind huge arrow heads along with a few other tools like awls and scrapers.
📷 Fischer et al. 2013
These people belong to a group today known as the Bromme Culture.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromme_...
If we’ll ever get the opportunity, these samples could hold traces of DNA from plants, trees and animals living during a period where semi-sedentary hunter-gatherers migrated into Southern Scandinavia.
If we’re right, this peat was formed during the Allerød, a 1200 year interstadial warm period from 11.800-10.600 BC, just before the end of the last ice age.
Wanna see something really cool?
Ancient pathogens in Medieval parchment 🦠🧬📝
Field sampling (potentially) Allerød peat for #eDNA #sedaDNA
That’s genius. I wonder what they’d call such a scheme?