Migration is a big topic today, but it was also important in our past.
Groundbreaking scientific methods can be used to explore past lives in ways unprecedented just a few years ago.
In this fascinating talk, leading archaeologist Duncan Sayer of the University of Central Lancashire will build on a recent paper published in Nature to describe how ancient DNA is helping us to explore the movement of people in the early Middle Ages, between AD 450-750.
Duncan will explain how ancient DNA evidence from several early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries is used to explore the lives of individuals, to disentangle their histories and explain how relationships played out within their communities across different ancestries evident from the genetic data.
Find out how, with this level of microhistory, it has been possible to observe African ancestors, see interaction between migrant families and identify marriage patterns.