Making Ancestors: The Politics of Death in Prehistoric Europe

Project Information

ANCESTORS

Grant agreement ID: 885137

DOI

10.3030/885137

Project closed

EC signature date 30 April 2020

Start date 1 October 2020

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 943 548,00

EU contribution

€ 1 943 548,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (10)

Regional long-term analysis of dietary isotopes in Neolithic southeastern Italy: new patterns and research directions

Author(s): M.A. Tafuri, S. Soncin, S. Panella, J.E. Thompson, I.Tiberi, P.F. Fabbri, S.Sivilli, F. Radina, S. Minozzi, I.M. Muntoni, G. Fiorentino, J. Robb
Published in: Scientific Reports 13, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-34771-y

Prehistoric Italian foodways: Meta-analysis of stable isotope data from the Neolithic to the Iron Age

Author(s): Martina Farese, Silvia Soncin, John Robb, Mary Anne Tafuri
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 345, 2024, Page(s) 109056, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109056

Ancient microbial DNA and proteins preserve in concretions covering human remains

Author(s): Biancamaria Bonucci, Toni de-Dios, Rémi Barbieri, Jess Emma Thompson, Sofia Panella, Francesca Radina, Sandra Sivilli, Helja Kabral, Anu Solnik, Mary Anne Tafuri, John Robb, Christiana Lyn Scheib
Published in: iScience, Issue 28, 2025, Page(s) 113182, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.113182

Test of the lateral angle method of sex estimation on Anglo‐Saxon and medieval archaeological populations with genetically estimated sex

Author(s): Thompson, Jess E; Inskip, Sarah A; Scheib, Christiana L; Bates, Jessica; Ge, Xiangyu; Griffith, Samuel J; Wohns, Anthony Wilder; Robb, John E
Published in: Crossref, Issue 1, 2023, Page(s) 1475-4754, ISSN 0003-813X
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12927

Stable isotope analyses of amino acids reveal the importance of aquatic resources to Mediterranean coastal hunter-gatherers.

Author(s): Fontanals-Coll, M., Soncin, S., Talbot, H.M., von Tersch, M., Gibaja, J.F, Colonese, A.C., Craig, O.E.,
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Journal., Issue Volume 290, Issue 1993, 2023, ISSN 1471-2954
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1330

The use-life of ancestors: A rare example of Neolithic cranial retention and caching at Masseria Candelaro, Italy.

Author(s): Thompson, J.E., Panella, S., Soncin, S., Tafuri, M.A., Candilio, F., Muntoni, I., Sperduti, A., Robb, J.
Published in: European Journal of Archaeology, Issue Vol 27 Issue 4, 2024, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 1741-2722
Publisher: European Journal of Archaeology
DOI: 10.1017/eaa.2024.43

Sex bias in <scp>N</scp> eolithic megalithic burials

Author(s): Elliot Elliott; Tina Saupe; Jess E. Thompson; John E. Robb; Christiana L. Scheib
Published in: American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Vol 180, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 196-206, ISSN 2692-7691
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24645

Histotaphonomic analysis of bone bioerosion reveals a regional framework of diverse deathways in the Neolithic of Southeast Italy

Author(s): Thompson,J.E., Panella, S., Booth, T.J., Soncin, S., Rajkovaca, T., Giovanna, T., Giovanna Belcastro, Isetti, E., Mariotti, V., Muntoni, I.M., Radina, F., Sivilli, S., Traverso, A., Tafuri, M.A., Robb, J.E.
Published in: PLUS ONE, 2024, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304058

Neolithic Lifeways at the Microlevel: Isobiographies From Italy

Author(s): Silvia Soncin, Sofia Panella, Sara Bernardini, Jess Emma Thompson, Gwenaëlle Goude, Martina di Matteo, Francesca Alhaique, Krista McGrath, Francesca Radina, Sandra Sivilli, Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Valentina Mariotti, John Robb, Mary Anne Tafuri
Published in: International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2025, ISSN 1047-482X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/oa.70008

The Mediterranean archive of isotopic data, a dataset to explore lifeways from the Neolithic to the Iron Age

Author(s): Martina Farese, Silvia Soncin, John Robb, Ricardo Fernandes, Mary Anne Tafuri
Published in: Scientific Data 10 (1) 917, 2023, ISSN 2052-4463
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-023-02783-y