Mauro Pala

Biographic Data

ID296775
NAMEMauro Pala
GIVEN NAMESMauro
FAMILY NAMEPala
SIGNATUREPALA M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Huddersfield
ORCID0000-0001-9202-8331
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Genetic and historical perspectives on the early medieval inhumations from the Menga dolmen, Antequera (Spain)

    Open AccessMarina Silva, Leonardo García Sanjuán et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2026References: 83

    Despite poor preservation, DNA of Menga1 was captured and sequenced. • Menga1’s ancestry consistent with that of medieval groups from Spain. • Contributions from Iberian and North African sources into Menga1’s ancestry. • Menga dolmen used as a medieval burial place, four millennia after it was built. The Menga dolmen, part of the UNESCO World Heritage site at Antequera (Malaga, Spain), was built in the fourth millennium BCE in the Neolithic peri…

  • West African ancestry in seventh-century England: Two individuals from Kent and Dorset

    Open AccessDuncan Sayer, Joscha Gretzinger et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2025References: 27

    Archaeogenetics, the study of ancient DNA, can reveal powerful insights into kinship and the movement of individuals in (pre)history. Here, the authors report on the identification of two individuals with genetic profiles consistent with recent sub-Saharan African ancestry, both of whom were buried in early-medieval cemeteries in southern Britain. Focusing primarily on a sub-adult female from Updown in Kent, the authors explore the societal and c…

  • Ancient genomes reveal cosmopolitan ancestry and maternal kinship patterns at post-Roman Worth Matravers, Dorset

    Open AccessM George B Foody, Katharina Dulias et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2025References: 26

    Kinship can be difficult to discern in the archaeological record, but the study of ancient DNA offers a useful window into one form of kinship: biological relatedness. Here, the authors explore possible kin connections at the post-Roman site of Worth Matravers in south-west England. They find that, while clusters of genetically related individuals are apparent, the inclusion of unrelated individuals in double or triple burials demonstrates an ele…

  • Dystopia Revisited: Biopolitics as Remedy and Response to Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

    Open AccessMauro PalaARTICLECaietele Echinox2024

    Philip K. Dick’s science fiction classic Do Androids Dream of Electrics Sheep? and its adaptation movie Blade Runner by Ridley Scott feature a devastated earth where bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalks authentic human replicants, designed for a short term highly flexible labor power. A group of these androids infiltrate to the earth of the productive apparatus which manufactured them, trying to persuade their maker to re-program their genetic makeu…

  • Joseph Buttigieg: A Portrait of the Critic in Different Perspective

    Mauro PalaARTICLEItalian Culture2022References: 2

    Joseph Buttigieg’s A Portrait of the Artist in Different Perspective aims at providing a critical reconsideration of Joyce’s work. Focusing on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, it contributes to a radical revision of the central tenets of modernism as first established by T.S. Eliot’s conservative reading in the 1920s and reiterated by the New Critics in the 1950s. Buttigieg’s critical effort seeks to prevent Joyce’s work from being locked…

  • Migration and community in Bronze Age Orkney: Innovation and continuity at the Links of Noltland

    Open AccessHazel Moore, Graeme Wilson et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2022Cited by: 1References: 23

    The remarkable archaeological record of Neolithic Orkney has ensured that these islands play a prominent role in narratives of European late prehistory, yet knowledge of the subsequent Bronze Age is comparatively poor. The Bronze Age settlement and cemetery at the Links of Noltland, on the island of Westray, offers new evidence, including aDNA, that points to a substantial population replacement between the Late Neolithic and Bronze Age. Focusing…

  • The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years

    Open AccessIñigo Olalde, Swapan Mallick et al.ARTICLEScience2019

    Genomics of the Iberian Peninsula Ancient DNA studies have begun to help us understand the genetic history and movements of people across the globe. Focusing on the Iberian Peninsula, Olalde et al. report genome-wide data from 271 ancient individuals from Iberia (see the Perspective by Vander Linden). The findings provide a comprehensive genetic time transect of the region. Linguistics analysis and genetic analysis of archaeological human remains…

  • Untangling Neolithic and Bronze Age mitochondrial lineages in South Asia

    Open AccessM Silva, Pierre Justeau et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology2019

    Two key moments shaped the extant South Asian gene pool within the last 10 thousand years (ka): the Neolithic period, with the advent of agriculture and the rise of the Harappan/Indus Valley Civilisation; and Late Bronze Age events that witnessed the abrupt fall of the Harappan Civilisation and the arrival of Indo-European speakers. This study focuses on the phylogeographic patterns of mitochondrial haplogroups H2 and H13 in the Indian Subcontine…

  • Maternal relationships within an Iron Age burial at the High Pasture Cave, Isle of Skye, Scotland

    Open AccessKatharina Dulias, Steven Birch et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2019Cited by: 5References: 6

  • Distinctive Paleo-Indian Migration Routes from Beringia Marked by Two Rare mtDNA Haplogroups

    Open AccessUgo A Perego, Alessandro Achilli et al.ARTICLECurrent Biology2009

  • The Origin of Native Americans from a Mitochondrial DNA Viewpoint

    Ugo A Perego, Alessandro Achilli et al.ARTICLECommunication on Contemporary…2008