Communities and Connectivities: Iron Age Britons and their Continental Neighbours

Project Information

COMMIOS

Grant agreement ID: 834087

DOI

10.3030/834087

Project closed

EC signature date 1 August 2019

Start date 1 October 2019

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 3 264 872,00

EU contribution

€ 2 499 872,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF YORK
United Kingdom

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Publications

Book chapters (1)

Mobility and migration in Bronze and Iron Age Britain : the COMMIOS Project

Author(s): Ian Armit
Published in: Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia, 2022, Page(s) 280–291, ISBN 9780197267356
Publisher: British Academy
DOI: 10.5871/bacad/9780197267356.003.0013

Other (5)

A curated dataset and web application for Integrative Analysis of Ancient DNA from Britain and Ireland

Author(s): Sebastian Metz, Claire-Elise Fischer, Madeleine Bleasdale, Laura Castells Navarro, Lindsey Büster, Michael Legge, David Reich, Ian Armit
Published in: bioRxiv, 2025
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
DOI: 10.1101/2025.05.30.657009

The great Bronze Age migration

Author(s): Armit, I, Reich, D
Published in: British Archaeology, Issue 184, 2022, Page(s) 18-25
Publisher: Council for British Archaeology

Le projet COMMIOS. Un nouveau regard sue les populations de l’Age du Fer en Europe

Author(s): Fischer, C.-E., Bleasdale, M., Büster, L., Primeau, C., Booth, T., Reich, D., Armit, I.
Published in: Bulletin de l’Association française pour l’étude de l’âge du Fer, Issue 39, 2021, Page(s) 69–70
Publisher: l’Association française pour l’étude de l’âge du Fer

Supplementary File 1 from The prelude to industrial whaling: identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using Zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting

Author(s): van den Hurk, Youri; Sikström, Fanny; Amkreutz, Luc; Bleasdale, Madeleine; Borvon, Aurélia; Ephrem, Brice; Fernández-Rodríguez, Carlos; Gibbs, Hannah M. B.; Jonsson, Leif; Lehouck, Alexander; Cedeira, Jose Martínez; Meng, Stefan; Monge, Rui; Moreno, Marta; Nabais, Mariana; Nores, Carlos; Pis Millán, José Antonio; Riddler, Ian; Schmölcke, Ulrich; Segschneider, Martin; Speller, Camilla; Vret
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 10, 2023
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.24089461.v1

Using ancient DNA to detect Bronze Age population movement into Britain

Author(s): Ian Armit, Lindsey Büster, Claire-Elise Fischer and David Reich
Published in: Iron Age Danube Route, Issue 2, 2022, Page(s) 40-43, ISSN 2718-5400
Publisher: Iron Age Danube Route Association

Peer reviewed articles (6)

identifying the targets of ancient European whaling using zooarchaeology and collagen mass-peptide fingerprinting

Author(s): Youri van den Hurk; Fanny Sikström; Luc Amkreutz; Madeleine Bleasdale; Aurélia Borvon; Brice Ephrem; Carlos Fernández-Rodríguez; Hannah M. B. Gibbs; Leif Jonsson; Alexander Lehouck; Jose Martínez Cedeira; Stefan Meng; Rui Monge; Marta Moreno; Mariana Nabais; Carlos Nores; José Antonio Pis-Millán; Ian Riddler; Ulrich Schmölcke; Martin Segschneider; Camilla Speller; Maria Vretemark; Stephen
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 10, 2023, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.230741

Detection of chromosomal aneuploidy in ancient genomes

Author(s): Anastasiadou, K., Silva, M., Booth, T., Speidel, L., Audsley, T., Barrington, C., Buckberry, J., Fernandes, D., Ford, B., Gibson, M., Gilardet, A., Glocke, I., Keefe, K., Kelly, M., Masters, M., McCabe, J., McIntyre, L., Ponce, P., Rowland, S., Ruiz Ventura, J., Swali, P., Tait, F., Walker, D., Webb, H., Williams, M., Witkin, A., Holst, M., Loe, L., Armit, I., Schulting, R. and Skoglund, P.
Published in: Communications Biology, Issue 7, 2024, ISSN 2399-3642
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/s42003-023-05642-z

Kinship practices in Early Iron Age South-east Europe: genetic and isotopic analysis of burials from the Dolge njive barrow cemetery, Dolenjska, Slovenia

Author(s): Ian Armit; Claire-Elise Fischer; Hannah Koon; Rebecca Nicholls; Iñigo Olalde; Nadin Rohland; Jo Buckberry; Janet Montgomery; Philip Mason; Matija Črešnar; Lindsey Büster; David Reich
Published in: Antiquity, Issue 97: 392, 2023, Page(s) 403-418, ISSN 0003-598X
Publisher: Antiquity Publications Ltd.
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2023.2

New rites, local lives: Strontium isotope analysis of cremated human remains from the Late Iron Age cemetery at Westhampnett, West Sussex, UK

Author(s): Madeleine Bleasdale, Ian Armit, Andrew Fitzpatrick, Charlotte Primeau, Christophe Snoeck
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Issue 62, 2025, Page(s) 105037, ISSN 2352-409X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105037

Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age

Author(s): Nick Patterson, Michael Isakov,Thomas Booth,Lindsey Büster,Claire-Elise Fischer,Iñigo Olalde, Harald Ringbauer, Ali Akbari, Olivia Cheronet,Madeleine Bleasdale,Nicole Adamski, Eveline Altena, Rebecca Bernardos, Selina Brace, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht, Kimberly Callan, Francesca Candilio, Brendan Culleton, Elizabeth Curtis, Lea Demetz, Kellie Sara Duffett Carlson, Ceiridwen J. Edwards, Daniel M.
Published in: Nature, Issue 601, 2021, Page(s) 599-594, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04287-4

Ancient <i>Borrelia</i> genomes document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever

Author(s): Pooja Swali, Thomas Booth, Cedric C. S. Tan, Jesse McCabe, Kyriaki Anastasiadou, Christopher Barrington, Matteo Borrini, Adelle Bricking, Jo Buckberry, Lindsey Büster, Rea Carlin, Alexandre Gilardet, Isabelle Glocke, Joel D. Irish, Monica Kelly, Megan King, Fiona Petchey, Jessica Peto, Marina Silva, Leo Speidel, Frankie Tait, Adelina Teoaca, Satu Valoriani, Mia Williams, Richard Madgwick, Graham
Published in: Science, Issue 388, 2025, ISSN 0036-8075
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/science.adr2147