Archaeogenetics: future potential and challenges
I am delighted to introduce the first entrant to the The 2014 Bob Chapple Archaeological Essay Prize in association with Wordwell Books. Stephen Domican's paper Archaeogenetics: future potential and challenges describes his current research and will shortly be appearing in Trowel magazine (Domican, S. (2014) 'Archaeogenetics: future potential and challenges', Trowel , 15, pp. TBC.). If you would like to enter, please check out the criteria at the end of the post: here . Robert M Chapple * * * Archaeogenetics: future potential and challenges Stephen Domican Recent developments in the field of genetics, especially next generation sequencing technologies, has set the stage for archaeogenetic research - that is the study of the ancient past using genetic data (Renfrew, 2001) - to become as revolutionary a methodology in archaeological research as the development of radiocarbon datin...