Welcome to the British History Podcast. My name is Jamie and this is the Acovonic Beaker

burial project, part three I think, right?

Part three, yeah. Today we have a return of Maya Hool, the Acovonic Beaker burial project,

with hot off the press, new information on the BHP's favorite ancient Scott, Ava.

Yeah, all week there have been releases and as you're looking at this episode and listening

to this episode, chance star if you go onto bbc.co.uk, you'll see articles on this material.

So it's really exciting.

And what this is that we now have the results of Ava's DNA analysis. So DNA analyses like

this are blowing open the fields that deal with ancient people and previous work people.

This is just the very beginning of what's going to come in terms of the breakthroughs and

the detail on what our ancient and previous work answers were going back in the day.

Yeah, my understanding is this is going to lead us to Jurassic Park eventually.

Not even a little bit, but it's still very interesting.

And that is why we were so excited to have Maya back on and she's going to walk us through

all of the results today.

Alright, let's get it going.

So tell us a little bit about how did this final stage of the Ava project get started.

I understand that it was part of a bigger project that Ava was sort of wrapped into.

Could you tell us a little bit about that?

Yeah, so it's just been published this year.

Actually, there's a big piece of work that was led by a guy called Inigo Olaldi from Harvard

Medical School.

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