The project team comprises Dr. Eva Fernandez-Dominguez (Project PI, Department of Archaeology, University of Durham), Dr. Jessica Pearson (Co-I, Department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology, University of Liverpool), Dr. Jo-Hannah Plug (PDRA in Bioarchaeology, Department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology, University of Liverpool) and Dr. Kelly Blevins (PDRA in ancient human genomics, Department of Archaeology, Durham University). In close collaboration with archaeologists from Syria, Jordan, Spain, France, the Netherlands and the United States, the team aims to explore the role of biological kinship in the organization of PPNA through to PN communities in the Northern and Southern Levant using a combination of ancient DNA and stable isotopes of mobility (Strontium and Oxygen).
The research project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The duration of the project is from May 2021 to September 2024.
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