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A Late Bronze Age foreign elite? Investigating mobility patterns at Seddin, Germany Open

Anja B. Frank, Jens May, Serena Sabatini, Franz Schopper, Robert Frei , et al. · 2025

During the Late Bronze Age (ca. 11 th -8 th century BCE), far-reaching and extensive trade and exchange networks linked communities across Europe. The area around Seddin in north-western Brandenburg, Germany, has long been considered as at…

Gaps in archaeological metadata reporting: a meta-analysis of human paleogenomic studies in Western Eurasia Open

Robert Staniuk, Victor Yan Kin Lee, Adrian Timpson, Kristian Kristiansen, Stephen Shennan , et al. · 2025

Paleogenomic research has dramatically increased our understanding of past demographic and adaptive processes, but has also been criticized for a perceived disconnect between geneticists and other parties involved in the study of the past.…

The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia Open

Martin Sikora, Elisabetta Canteri, Antonio Fernàndez-Guerra, Nikolay Oskolkov, Rasmus Ågren , et al. · 2025

Tracing the spread of Celtic languages using ancient genomics Open

Hugh McColl, Guus Kroonen, Thomaz Pinotti, William Barrie, John T. Koch , et al. · 2025

Summary Celtic languages, including Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Breton, are today restricted to the Northern European Atlantic seaboard. However, between three and two thousand years before present (BP), Celtic was widely spoken acro…

A Framework for Archaeological Involvement with Human Genetic Data for European Prehistory Open

Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Daniela Hofmann, Kristian Kristiansen, Fabrice Demeter, Rasmus Nielsen , et al. · 2025

A concern with ethics and commitments to ethical conduct and standards has increasingly been raised within archaeology, recently also concerning aDNA data. We suggest that codes, whether for working with ancient DNA or other archaeological…

Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages Open

Fulya Eylem Yediay, Guus Kroonen, Serena Sabatini, Karin Margarita Frei, Anja B. Frank , et al. · 2024

Summary The Indo-European languages are among the most widely spoken in the world, yet their early diversification remains contentious 1–5 . It is widely accepted that the spread of this language family across Europe from the 5th millenniu…

Repeated plague infections across six generations of Neolithic Farmers Open

Frederik Valeur Seersholm, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Julia Koelman, Malou Blank, Emma Svensson , et al. · 2024

In the period between 5,300 and 4,900 calibrated years before present (cal. bp ), populations across large parts of Europe underwent a period of demographic decline 1,2 . However, the cause of this so-called Neolithic decline is still deba…

Vittrup Man–The life-history of a genetic foreigner in Neolithic Denmark Open

Anders Fischer, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Theis Zetner Trolle Jensen, Marie Louise Schjellerup Jørkov, Per Lysdahl , et al. · 2024

The lethally maltreated body of Vittrup Man was deposited in a Danish bog, probably as part of a ritualised sacrifice. It happened between c. 3300 and 3100 cal years BC, i.e., during the period of the local farming-based Funnel Beaker Cult…

Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis emerged in steppe pastoralist populations Open

William Barrie, Yaoling Yang, Evan K. Irving-Pease, Kathrine E. Attfield, Gabriele Scorrano , et al. · 2024

The selection landscape and genetic legacy of ancient Eurasians Open

Evan K. Irving-Pease, Alba Refoyo-Martínez, William Barrie, Andrés Ingason, Alice Pearson , et al. · 2024

100 ancient genomes show repeated population turnovers in Neolithic Denmark Open

Morten E. Allentoft, Martin Sikora, Anders Fischer, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Andrés Ingason , et al. · 2024

The BIAD Standards: Recommendations for Archaeological Data Publication and Insights From the Big Interdisciplinary Archaeological Database Open

Samantha Reiter, Robert Staniuk, Jan Kolář, Jelena Bulatović, Helene Agerskov Rose , et al. · 2024

This article presents a series of recommendations for the publication of archaeological data, to improve their usability. These 12 recommendations were formulated by archaeological data experts who mined thousands of publications for diffe…

The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia and the emergence of zoonotic diseases Open

Martin Sikora, Elisabetta Canteri, Antonio Fernàndez-Guerra, Nikolay Oskolkov, Rasmus Ågren , et al. · 2023

Summary Infectious diseases have had devastating impacts on human populations throughout history, but important questions about their origins and past dynamics remain 1 . To create the first archaeogenetic-based spatiotemporal map of human…

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Franziska Engelbogen, Nicole L. Taylor, Andrea Ricci, Carsten Reckweg, Leonardo García Sanjuán , et al. · 2023

The interplay of environment, social relations, material culture, population dynamics, and human perception are the key factors of socio-environmental changes. The exploration of processes and parameters of societal change enable further e…

Elevated genetic risk for multiple sclerosis originated in Steppe Pastoralist populations Open

William Barrie, Yaoling Yang, Evan K. Irving-Pease, Kathrine E. Attfield, Gabriele Scorrano , et al. · 2022

SUMMARY Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a modern neuro-inflammatory and -degenerative disease, which is most prevalent in Northern Europe. Whilst it is known that inherited risk to MS is located within or within close proximity to immune genes,…

The Selection Landscape and Genetic Legacy of Ancient Eurasians Open

Evan K. Irving-Pease, Alba Refoyo-Martínez, Andrés Ingason, Alice Pearson, Anders Fischer , et al. · 2022

Summary The Eurasian Holocene (beginning c. 12 thousand years ago) encompassed some of the most significant changes in human evolution, with far-reaching consequences for the dietary, physical and mental health of present-day populations. …

"Do you want to know who you are?" The rise of genetic ancestry testing and the search for genealogies: an anonymized survey from Sweden Open

Victor Wåhlstrand Skärström, Daniel Brodén, Mats Åhlgren, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Michael Rowlands , et al. · 2022

Full, anonymized survey data on genetic genealogy, ancestry and identity conducted by the Swedish Genealogical Society as part of a research project funded by the HERA joint research program "Uses of the Past"

"Do you want to know who you are?" The rise of genetic ancestry testing and the search for genealogies: an anonymized survey from Sweden Open

Victor Wåhlstrand Skärström, Daniel Brodén, Mats Åhlgren, Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, Michael Rowlands , et al. · 2022

Full, anonymized survey data on genetic genealogy, ancestry and identity conducted by the Swedish Genealogical Society as part of a research project funded by the HERA joint research program "Uses of the Past"

Between Rationalism and Romanticism - Archaeological Heritage Management in the 1990s Open

Kristian Kristiansen · 2021

In this article it is argued that "heritage" both as a theoretical concept and a practice, is central to defining archaeology's role in society. Greater critical attention should therefore be given to this arena of archaeological practice …

Old Boundaries and New Frontiers - Reflections on the Identity of Archaeology Open

Kristian Kristiansen · 2021

In this paper I demonstrate some major changes within the traditional disciplinary boundaries of archaeology during the last 25-30 years, and the subsequent formation of new frontiers of theory and practice. They are the result of the expa…

Towards a New Paradigm? The Third Science Revolution and its Possible Consequences in Archaeology Open

Kristian Kristiansen · 2021

What is in a Paradigm? Reply to comments Open

Kristian Kristiansen · 2021

The geographic distribution of bioavailable strontium isotopes in Greece – A base for provenance studies in archaeology Open

Anja B. Frank, Robert Frei, Ioanna Moutafi, Sofia Voutsaki, Raphaël Orgeolet , et al. · 2021

Testing Late Bronze Age mobility in southern Sweden in the light of a new multi-proxy strontium isotope baseline of Scania Open

Pernille Ladegaard-Pedersen, Serena Sabatini, Robert Frei, Kristian Kristiansen, Karin Margarita Frei · 2021

The Bronze Age of Sweden’s southernmost region, Scania, is complex and intriguing. One could say that Scania represented in many ways a gateway for people, ideas and material culture connecting continental Europe with Sweden. Shedding ligh…

Author Correction: Population genomics of the Viking world Open

Ashot Margaryan, Daniel J. Lawson, Martin Sikora, Fernando Racimo, Simon Rasmussen , et al. · 2021

Genomic Steppe ancestry in skeletons from the Neolithic Single Grave Culture in Denmark Open

Anne Friis-Holm Egfjord, Ashot Margaryan, Anders Fischer, Karl-Göran Sjögren, T. Douglas Price , et al. · 2021

The Gjerrild burial provides the largest and best-preserved assemblage of human skeletal material presently known from the Single Grave Culture (SGC) in Denmark. For generations it has been debated among archaeologists if the appearance of…

Why we need extensive, regional, bioavailable Sr isotope baselines for human mobility studies in archaeology: A case from the Peloponnese Open

Anja B. Frank, Robert Frei, Maria Triantaphyllou, Emmanuel Vassilakis, Kristian Kristiansen , et al. · 2021

The genetic and cultural impact of the Steppe migration into Europe Open

Gabriele Scorrano, Fulya Eylem Yediay, Thomaz Pinotti, Motahareh Feizabadifarahani, Kristian Kristiansen · 2021

During the early 3rd millennium BCE migration from Pontic Steppe, mainly related to Yamnaya culture, has affected European populations both culturally and genetically, however, it has long been debated to what extent this migration was mal…

Kinship and social organization in Copper Age Europe. A cross-disciplinary analysis of archaeology, DNA, isotopes, and anthropology from two Bell Beaker cemeteries Open

Karl-Göran Sjögren, Íñigo Olalde, Sophie Carver, Morten E. Allentoft, Timothy Knowles , et al. · 2020

We present a high-resolution cross-disciplinary analysis of kinship structure and social institutions in two Late Copper Age Bell Beaker culture cemeteries of South Germany containing 24 and 18 burials, of which 34 provided genetic informa…

Population genomics of the Viking world Open

Ashot Margaryan, Daniel J. Lawson, Martin Sikora, Fernando Racimo, Simon Rasmussen , et al. · 2020

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