Fin Dwyer
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3,225 appearances
18 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Fin Dwyer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Eileen and her team in Queen's University Belfast analyzed the human remains in incredible detail.
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As we turned to her findings, she began by explaining the people buried at Ranla were not as healthy as you might expect.
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The archaeologists had found evidence of a wide variety of foodstuffs, but this was only part of the picture.
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This left Eileen with an overall picture of a people struggling in a harsh world.
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Some of the clearest indicators of this difficult life was the evidence of scurvy and rickets on the human remains.
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One of the most common perceptions about the medieval world is that people in the Middle Ages lived very short lives.
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I asked Eileen about this and what life expectancy was for someone who did manage to survive those very difficult early years.
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Another common idea many of us have is that medieval people were short.
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So I asked Eileen about average height at the time.
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I think it's fair to say people were actually a bit taller than we might expect.
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Next, we went on to talk about the genome analysis carried out on the human remains.
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Now this is something I have very little understanding of, but what Eileen and her team could glean from about the twenty individuals involved in this part of the study was just incredible.
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Through genome analysis, they were able to reconstruct what the people of Ranla looked like, including their hair and eye colour.
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As you're about to hear, the early medieval population in Ranla were more diverse than I think most of us would expect.
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Genome analysis combined with other tests can also indicate where people buried at Ranala came from.
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It determined whether they were local to the area or not.
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This led to one intriguing finding.
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One person buried there had come a long way, or certainly had travelled further than I think we would imagine people were travelling at this point in history.
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Eileen and her team were even able to reconstruct the allergies people at Ranla had.
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These must have had a huge bearing on life, particularly as Eileen now explains, because people wouldn't have understood what was wrong with them.
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