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[Abstract] In this paper, we discuss novel and existing archaeological data from the San Bartolomé de Rebordáns site (Tui, Spain) that suggest the importance of Tude as a place of power in the Late Antique Sueve Gallaecia (411–585 CE) and later, in the Iberian Visigoth kingdom (585–711 CE). Here, we apply a combination of complementary techniques: archaeological survey, absolute radiocarbon dating, osteological and stable isotope analyses of the human remains, and the revision of the available contextual information. We recovered the remains of seven individuals with poor preservation and accelerated degradation from the Late Antique necropolis. These individuals were identified here as possible members of the social elite due to their archaeological context, becoming the first-time human remains relative to this social status within this chronology have been detected in NW Iberian Peninsula. The isotopic data obtained is broadly compared with contemporaneous sites along the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands for a complete interpretation. Additionally, we generate a simple routed and concentration-dependent Bayesian model to predict the source of dietary carbon in consumers, from which we calculate the marine radiocarbon reservoir effect. Despite the low number of individuals analysed, we argue that our results are of great archaeological significance as this represents the first biomolecular approach to the Late Antique (5th–8th centuries CE) social elite individuals from the northwestern and probably the whole Iberian Peninsula.

335 p., En el trabajo de investigación desarrollado dentro de la tesis doctoral titulada Pilgrimage to Santiago deCompostela: Osteological and Biomolecular Analisis of Medieval Individuals, se busca dilucidar cómo sedesarrolló la sociedad en el centro y a lo largo de la principal ruta de peregrinación europea durante laEdad Media, el Camino de Santiago. Por medio de una combinación de análisis osteológicos, isótoposestables y de dataciones de C14, se estudian las migraciones humanaspasadas y sus implicaciones sociales y económicas tras examinar a 359 individuos (196 humanos, 163fauna) procedente de 28 yacimientos arqueológicos localizados a lo largo del norte de la PenínsulaIbérica y con una cronología de entre los siglos IX-XV d.C.

Scandinavia spanning the Iron Age to the present, based on 48 new and 249 published ancient genomes and genotypes from 16,638 modern individuals. We find regional variation in the timing and magnitude of gene flow from three sources: the eastern Baltic, the British-Irish Isles, and southern Europe. British-Irish ancestry was widespread in Scandinavia from the Viking period, whereas eastern Baltic ancestry is more localized to Gotland and central Sweden. In some regions, a drop in current levels of external ancestry suggests that ancient immigrants contributed proportionately less to the modern Scandinavian gene pool than indicated by the ancestry of genomes from the Viking and Medieval periods. Finally, we show that a north-south genetic cline that characterizes modern Scandinavians is mainly due to the differential levels of Uralic ancestry and that this cline existed in the Viking Age and possibly earlier.

Santiago de Compostela is, together with Rome and Jerusalem, one of the three main pilgrimage and religious centres for Catholicism. The belief that the remains of St James the Great, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, is buried there has stimulated, since their reported discovery in the 9th century AD, a significant flow of people from across the European continent and beyond. Little is known about the practical experiences of people living within the city during its rise to prominence, however. Here, for the first time, we combine multi-isotope analysis (delta C-13, delta N-15, delta O-18(ap), delta C-13(ap) and Sr-87/Sr-86) and radiocarbon dating (C-14) of human remains discovered at the crypt of the Cathedral of Santiago to directly study changes in diet and mobility during the first three centuries of Santiago's emergence as an urban centre (9th-12th centuries AD). Together with assessment of the existing archaeological data, our radiocarbon chronology broadly confirms historical tradition regarding the first occupation of the site. Isotopic analyses reveal that the foundation of the religious site attracted migrants from the wider region of the northwest corner of the Iberian Peninsula, and possibly from further afield. Stable isotope analysis of collagen, together with information on tomb typology and location, indicates that the inhabitants of the city experienced increasing socioeconomic diversity as it became wealthier as the hub of a wide network of pilgrimage. Our research represents the potential of multidisciplinary analyses to reveal insights into the origins and impacts of the emergence of early pilgrimage centres on the diets and status of communities within Christian mediaeval Europe and beyond.

335 p., En el trabajo de investigación desarrollado dentro de la tesis doctoral titulada Pilgrimage to Santiago deCompostela: Osteological and Biomolecular Analisis of Medieval Individuals, se busca dilucidar cómo sedesarrolló la sociedad en el centro y a lo largo de la principal ruta de peregrinación europea durante laEdad Media, el Camino de Santiago. Por medio de una combinación de análisis osteológicos, isótoposestables y de dataciones de C14, se estudian las migraciones humanaspasadas y sus implicaciones sociales y económicas tras examinar a 359 individuos (196 humanos, 163fauna) procedente de 28 yacimientos arqueológicos localizados a lo largo del norte de la PenínsulaIbérica y con una cronología de entre los siglos IX-XV d.C.