Fieldwork was supported by the Australian Research Council (Linkage Project LP110201128 and Discovery Project DP120100512), the Australian National University and Charles Darwin University.

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Over the past decade, the DNA ancestry-testing industry—based largely in the United States—has experienced a huge upsurge in popularity, thanks partly to rapidly developing technologies and the falling prices of products. Meanwhile, the notion of “genetic genealogy” has...

We thank Global Vision International, J. Power, W. Collinson and K. Potgieter-Forssman for help with tracking the radio-collared animals. This project was an initiative of the Carnivore Conservation Programme of the Endangered Wildlife Trust, South Africa, and the Wildl...

Every person’s life can be approached from various angles. Biographies are thus never complete narratives that tell entirely of a person’s life—all the events occurred, all the relations entered, all the emotions sensed, or all the opinions uttered—but are very fragment...

The core-samplingfield campaign, subsequent sub-sampling ofsediments and macrofossils, ITRAX-scans, and radiocarbon datingwere funded by the Svalbard Environmental Protection Fund(project 16/35 to WRF). Financial support for molecular analysisandfield work was provided ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the Sourtoe Cocktail, a custom in Dawson City, Canada’s Yukon, in which participants drink a shot of alcohol with a dehydrated human toe in it. Springing from a local legend, the thrill-inducing Sourtoe Cocktail has att...

Objectives A multi‐isotope study was conducted on individuals buried at Skriðuklaustur monastery (AD 1493–1554) to investigate their geographic origins and dietary composition. Comparative material from individuals excavated from Skeljastaðir, an inland farm site was al...

Machine learning algorithms can be trained to estimate age from brain structural MRI. The difference between an individual’s predicted and chronological age, predicted age difference (PAD), is a phenotype of relevance to aging and brain disease. Here, we present a new d...