About

The Vase Institute is an independent research body specializing in archaeogenomics, genealogy, and demographic history. It produces work for publication and for private clients seeking research at a depth few operations are structured to provide.

The Institute's research focuses on European, Eurasian, and colonial American populations across roughly two thousand years of documented history. Active areas include archaeogenomic analysis of living individuals against published ancient genome datasets, dynastic and royal lineage research from Rome through medieval Europe, the formation and movement of steppe and corridor populations into the European record, Viking Age origins across the North Sea and Atlantic, and colonial American settlement and frontier family history.

A defining feature of the work is the integration of disciplines that academic specialization tends to separate. Genetic data, archival documentation, and historical scholarship are studied together because the questions the Institute pursues — the deep structure of population continuity and the documented descent of named individuals across centuries — cannot be answered within a single field.

The Institute accepts a small number of private commissions each year alongside its independent research output. Commissions are tailored individually based upon the question or lineage involved.