Interesting show, though I now remember seeing it previously. I think they could have covered all the material they had in about half the time and I found the build up to the big revelation overdone but explanation of the discovery itself to be too brief. Of course I was chuffed that it involved the oxygen-isotopic composition of tooth carbonate because analysing carbonates for carbon and oxygen isotopic composition is one of the main things I do - though I only rarely do teeth (mostly it's shells) and never for archaeology. [At least I suspect it was the carbonate-oxygen. The phosphate-oxygen is also possible but it is a lot more work for, in this case, little likely gain.] I'm surprised that there has, so far anyway, been no DNA analyses done. I would have thought it would be technically possible, likely to be very informative and that such a proposal would obtain research funding.
"Knaves I cannot command" ?? They've met our students have they??
