Announcements

Excited to announce a new collaboration with the Max Plack Institute for the History of Science on the medical history of lactose intolerance and its complex relationship with politics, genes, and microbes!

We are so happy to release two new albums from our dairy ethnographic work: Songs From the Mongolian Steppe, 4 tracks A collection of songs sung by our collaborators in rural Mongolia. Listen on Sound […]

We are so thrilled to release a short film about the prehistory, present, and future of Eurasian dairying based on our 2019 “Microbes on the Move – A Travelling Conference in Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan”! Special […]

The Macedonian version of the coloring book is now available! Thank you so much to Bojana Stojanova for generously translating the coloring book.

Join our PhD student Zandra Fagernäs on September 19th from 2pm-5pm in Berlin at Washington Platz for a Soapbox Science event on what you can learn from ancient dental calculus and paleofeces!

A big welcome to our two new undergraduate summer research assistants, Helena Moreno and Jamie Ostmann! Helena and Jamie will be on the Radcliffe Teams Project, “Reevaluating Mexico’s 16th century cocoliztli epidemics using ethnohistoric and […]

The 2020 DairyCultures nutritional and microbiome research is now underway under the leadership of Prof. Soninkhishig Tsolmon of the Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences! Thank you to Sonya and the whole team for their incredible […]

Our research on the identification of an artist among the religious women buried at the medieval site of Dalheim has inspired a prize-winning sonnet! Congratulations to Erin Redfern, whose poem The Artist was named runner-up for […]

Congratulations to OU student Shannon Fulton for passing her Master’s thesis defense today! Way to go Shannon!

We stand in support of Black Lives Matter. We strive to reveal the past and our shared human connections. We do not condone the use of our work to promote racist political ideologies. As part […]