Ancient DNA and the Iron Age Mediterranean: Interview with Dr. Hannah Moots

Tides of History

Wondery / Patrick Wyman

Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Ancient DNA has transformed our understanding of the more distant reaches of the human past, but what can it tell us about more recent ages of history? Dr. Hannah Moots has extensively investigated the genomic history of the Iron Age Mediterranean, offering striking new insights into an age of mobility and interaction over huge spaces.

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0:00.0	Wondery Plus subscribers can listen to Tides of History early and ad-free right now.
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0:13.8	Hi, everybody. From Wondery, welcome to another episode of Tides of History. I'm Patrick
0:22.0	Wyman. Thanks so much for joining me today. Over the past five years or so, we've talked a great
0:26.9	deal about ancient DNA on Tides of History. It's a truly groundbreaking tool for understanding
0:32.0	whole new aspects of the human experience. Ancestry, which the genomic record gives us direct
0:37.3	access to, is reflective
0:38.6	of so many different aspects of life in the past, ranging from migration to social structure
0:43.4	to identity. Now, that ancient DNA research has gotten the most attention when it provides a window
0:48.8	onto the more distant corners of our past, the Paleolithic, for example, and the better
0:53.6	documented portions of
0:54.7	prehistory from the last glacial maximum onward. But what about historical periods where
1:00.2	we also have written evidence and a rich archaeological record? What can ancient DNA tell us then?
1:06.1	The Iron Age Mediterranean was an extraordinarily vibrant time and place. It was full of
1:10.5	interactions and cultural cross-pollination between Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, and Transnese, Iron Age Mediterranean was an extraordinarily vibrant time and place. It was full of interactions
1:11.0	and cultural cross-pollination between Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Etruscans, and a huge variety
1:16.4	of indigenous peoples. How would our understanding of that age change if we could also see
1:21.1	ancestry through the genomic record? Well, that's precisely what we're going to learn today.
1:26.6	We have a fantastic guest with us who's doing some absolutely fascinating work on the Iron Age Mediterranean through the lens of genomics. Dr. Hannah Mutz received her PhD from Stanford University, completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the University of Chicago, and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Paleogenetics, a joint
1:45.0	institute of the Natur Historica Riksmuse in Stockholm and Stockholm University. She has published
1:51.5	extensively on the archaeogenomics of the Iron Age Mediterranean, along with a number of other
1:55.5	topics that I cannot wait to ask her about. Dr. Mutz, thank you so much for joining me today.
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