Press

The Roman DNA Project has started to attract international attention.  We’ve been covered by the following:

National News Outlets

• 11/11/11 – Ed Yong at CNN’s Light Years blog, “Who were the 99% of ancient Rome?“
• 11/11/11 – Alex Knapp at Forbes, “An archaeologist wants the story of Rome’s 99%.”
• 11/16/11 – TJ McCue at Forbes, “Crowdfunding for science and STEM education.”
• 11/18/11 – Jennifer Welsh at LiveScience, “Explosive duck penis vs. zombie fish: scientists compete for your money.”

International News Outlets

• 11/17/11 – Past Horizons, “Roman DNA Project gives voice to the silent majority.”
• 11/11/11 – Archaeology News Network, “DNA study to investigate the other 99% of Romans.”
• 11/8/11 – Lars Fischer at Spektrum der Wissenschaft (Germany’s edition of Scientific American), “Milde Gaben für die Forschung.”
• 11/7/11 – Lucas Brouwers at NRC Handelsblad (Dutch daily newspaper), “Onderzoekers gaan op de bedeltoer.”
• 11/7/11 – Lisa Vozza at Zanichelli (Italian publishing house), “Serve aiuto per studiare il DNA dei migranti nell’antica Roma.”

Blogs

• 11/21/11 – ISU Headlines, “Idaho State University researcher Dudgeon unravels archaeological mysteries examining skeletal fragments using high-tech tools.”
• 11/15/11 – Sevaan Franks at A Blog About History, “Who made up 99% of Rome?“
• 11/15/11 – Jai Ranganathan at #SciFund Challenge, “Lessons from ancient Rome: how to make crowdfunding work.”
• 11/14/11 – EduCurrent, “Occupy SPQR.”
• 11/14/11 – The Daily Scan at GenomeWeb, “How do you say ‘the 99 percent  in Latin?“
• 11/14/11 – Simon St. Laurent at Living in Dryden, “Former Dryden resident analyzing ancient Roman bones.”
• 11/14/11 – Andre at Ceticismo.net, “A silenciosa história dos romanos esquecidos.”
• 11/13/11 – Doug Rocks-Macqueen at Doug’s Archaeology, “Crowd sourcing archaeology funds: tip of the iceberg or passing fad?“
• 11/13/11 – Razib Khan at Gene Expression, “Roman DNA Project funded.”
• 11/12/11 – Rosemary Joyce at Ancient Bodies Ancient Lives, “Where the girls are: Roman edition.”
• 11/11/11 – Kevin Zelnio at EvoEcoLab, “#SciFund puts YOU in charge of science funding.”
• 11/10/11 – Rainer Schred at Archaeologik, “Betteln im Netz – neue Weg der Finanzierung von Forschungsprojekten.”
• 11/2/11 – David Meadows at Rogue Classicism, “Ancient Roman DNA Project.”
• 11/2/11 – Shawn Graham at Electric Archaeology, “Crowdfunding archaeology: ancient Roman DNA Project.”
• 11/1/11, 11/13/11 – Dienekes Pontikos at Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog, “Roman DNA Project” and “Doing science right.”