Recent Publications
Ringbauer, H., Shaus, A., et al. (2025) Punic people were genetically diverse with almost no Levantine ancestors. Nature, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08913-3.
Shaus, A., Reich, D. (2025) The Iron II burial cave: Ancient DNA sampling and analysis of uniparental markers. In: I. Finkelstein & T. R枚mer (Eds.), Kiriath-jearim: The Shmunis Family Excavations (pp. 311-318). Eisenbrauns. https://doi.org/10.5325/jj.28174276.30
Recent Honors
Two projects from the Fall 2024 DATA-390 Data Science Capstone, taught by Professor Arie Shaus, were showcased at the Digital Humanities Boston 2025 conference. Eonbi Choi 鈥25 presented her work, 鈥淓nhancing Museum Collection Tagging with Convolutional Neural Networks,鈥 a collaboration with the Museum, while Dening Li 鈥25 presented her research, 鈥淔raming Marriage and Fertility in China: A Data Science Analysis of Government Discourse in the People鈥檚 Daily Newspaper.鈥
Shaus, A., Shamoon-Pour, M., Moses, V. C., Reich, D., & McCormick, M. (2025, Nov 19-22), DNA Evidence from the Fall of Nineveh (Halzi Gate) [Conference presentation]. ASOR American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) Annual Meeting 2025, Boston, MA, United States.