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Hugh McColl

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Hugh McColl @hmcccoll.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Excited to share our preprint on the spread of megaliths in Neolithic Europe. Trade networks formed in the wake of migrations, and megaliths then spread within those networks. On their own, migration and cultural diffusion tell an incomplete story. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Migrations facilitated the cultural diffusion of megaliths in Neolithic Europe
Around 6700 BP (years before present), Neolithic Europe saw the emergence of megalithic monuments in northern France, followed by a rapid spread to the rest of the continent1. However, whether this wa...
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fseersholm.bsky.social @fseersholm.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
A little bit of reading material for your easter vacation: We found evidence of a population collapse in France 5,000 years ago in our new paper in Nature Evology and Evolution. Check it out! www.nature.com/articles/s41... #NeolithicDecline #ancientDNA
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Population discontinuity in the Paris Basin linked to evidence of the Neolithic decline - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Analysis of ancient human genomes from a Neolithic collective gallery grave in northern France points to population discontinuity and turnover between the third and fourth millennium BC.
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fseersholm.bsky.social @fseersholm.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Interested in working on pathogen DNA with the king of ancient disease, Martin Sikora? Check out this new postdoc opening at GeoGenetics, University of Copenhagen! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Postdoctoral positions in Ancient Pathogen Genomics at Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
We are seeking two highly motivated and independent postdoctoral researchers with a strong computational and analytical background to join our research in ancie
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fseersholm.bsky.social @fseersholm.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Keen to work on the co-evolution of domesticates, humans and their pathogens? Come join us at Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen! We're hiring a postdoc in ancient genomics for a super cool project on Neolithic Sweden: employment.ku.dk/faculty/?sho... Please share! #AcademicJobs #AncientDNA
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Postdoc in ancient genomics
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