Hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been infecting humans for millennia and remains a global health
problem, but its past diversity and dispersal routes are largely unknown. We generated …

The island of Sardinia has been of particular interest to geneticists for decades. The current
model for Sardinia’s genetic history describes the island as harboring a founder population …

It has been hypothesized that the Neolithic transition towards an agricultural and pastoralist
economy facilitated the emergence of human-adapted pathogens. Here, we recovered eight …

Across Europe, the genetics of the Chalcolithic/Bronze Age transition is increasingly
characterized in terms of an influx of Steppe-related ancestry. The effect of this major shift on the …

Sardinians are “outliers” in the European genetic landscape and, according to paleogenomic
nuclear data, the closest to early European Neolithic farmers. To learn more about their …

In this paper we use a critically reflective research approach to analyze our efforts at
transformative learning in food systems education in a land grant university. As a team of learners …

Community Supported Agriculture operations (CSAs) have grown rapidly in recent years.
The original model, in which members support a farming operation by paying for produce in …

Burial rites are a mainstay of interpretations of Neolithic society, particularly in Britain where
the Neolithic record is dominated by funerary and ritual monuments. British Neolithic burials …

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a growing form of direct marketing connecting
farmers to consumers. The number of CSAs within California has steadily and rapidly …

Burial is a highly symbolic activity through which concepts of the world are reflected in the
representation and treatment of human remains. While mortuary studies in archaeology and …