Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History: New Approaches Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2012

Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History

New Approaches Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics

Edited by: Elke Kaiser , Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier

Volume 5 in the series Topoi – Berlin Studies of the Ancient World/Topoi – Berliner Studien der Alten Welt

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110266306

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About this book

Migrations and population dynamics are considered very problematic topics in the fields of ancient studies. Recent scholarship in (pre)historical population has generated new impulses by using scientific approaches using radiogenic and stable isotopes, and palaeogenetics, as well as computer simulation. As a result, the state of migration research has undergone rapid change. Several research groups presented papers at a conference held in Berlin in 2010, addressing specific historical aspects of population dynamics and migration, with no chronological or geographical restrictions, in the light of cutting-edge bio-archaeological research. This volume, divided into three larger thematic sections (isotope analysis, population genetics, and modelling and computer simulation), presents experiences and insights about methodological approaches, research results and prospects for future research in this area in a varied collection of papers. Scholars from widely diverse scientific disciplines present their approaches, findings and interpretations to an audience far broader than the circles of the individual disciplines.

Author / Editor information

Joachim Burger, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany; Elke Kaiser and Wolfram Schier, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Genetics
Consequences of population expansions on European genetic diversity Mathias Currat Publicly Available Download PDF	3
Domestication and migrations: Using mitochondrial DNA to infer domestication processes of goats and horses Pascale Gerbault, Michela Leonardi, Adam Powell, Christine Weber, Norbert Benecke, Joachim Burger and Mark G. Thomas Publicly Available Download PDF	17
Using pigs as a proxy to reconstruct patterns of human migration Greger Larson Publicly Available Download PDF	31
Poor DNA preservation in bovine remains excavated at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe (Southeast Turkey): Brief communication Ingrid Wiechmann Publicly Available Download PDF	41
The arrival of domesticated animals in South-Eastern Europe as seen from ancient DNA Amelie Scheu, Christina Geörg, Anna Schulz, Joachim Burger and Norbert Benecke Publicly Available Download PDF	45
Population dynamics, cultural evolution and climate change in pre-Columbian western South America Lars Fehren-Schmitz Publicly Available Download PDF	55
Stable isotopes and genetics
Prehistoric populations of Ukraine: Migration at the later Mesolithic to Neolithic transition Malcolm C. Lillie, Inna Potekhina, Chelsea Budd and Alexey G. Nikitin Publicly Available Download PDF	77
Human migrations in the southern region of the West Siberian Plain during the Bronze Age: Archaeological, palaeogenetic and anthropological data Vyacheslav I. Molodin, Alexander S. Pilipenko, Aida G Romaschenko, Anton A. Zhuravlev, Rostislav O. Trapezov, Tatiana A. Chikisheva and Dmitriy V. Pozdnyakov Publicly Available Download PDF	93
Verifying archaeological hypotheses: Investigations on origin and genealogical lineages of a privileged society in Upper Bavaria from Imperial Roman times (Erding, Kletthamer Feld) Christina Sofeso, Marina Vohberger, Annika Wisnowsky, Bernd Päffgen and Michaela Harbeck Publicly Available Download PDF	113
Stable isotopes
The emergence of the LBK: Migration, memory and meaning at the transition to agriculture Marek Zvelebil, Malcolm C. Lillie, Janet Montgomery, Alena Lukes, Paul Pettitt and Mike P. Richards Publicly Available Download PDF	133
“Widely travelled people” at Herxheim? Sr isotopes as indicators of mobility Rouven Turck, Bernd Kober, Johanna Kontny, Fabian Haack and Andrea Zeeb-Lanz Publicly Available Download PDF	149
Identifying kurgan graves in Eastern Hungary: A burial mound in the light of strontium and oxygen isotope analysis Claudia Gerling, Volker Heyd, Alistair Pike, Eszter Bánffy, János Dani, Kitti Köhler, Gabriella Kulcsár, Elke Kaiser and Wolfram Schier Publicly Available Download PDF	165
Isotope ratio study of Bronze Age samples from the Eurasian Caspian Steppes Natalia Shishlina, Vyacheslav Sevastyanov and Robert E.M. Hedges Publicly Available Download PDF	177
Migration and mobility in the latest Neolithic of the Traisen Valley, Lower Austria: Sr isotope analysis Johanna Irrgeher, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Katrin Leutgeb, Christopher Weiß, Daniela Kern and Thomas Prohaska Publicly Available Download PDF	199
Migration and mobility in the latest Neolithic of the Traisen valley, Lower Austria: Archaeology Daniela Kern Publicly Available Download PDF	213
Life-course reconstruction for mobile individuals in an Early Bronze Age society in Central Europe: Concept of the project and first results for the cemetery of Singen (Germany) Julia K. Koch and Katharina Kupke Publicly Available Download PDF	225
Late Minoan IB destructions and cultural upheaval on Crete: A bioarchaeological perspective Argyro Nafplioti Publicly Available Download PDF	241
Strontium isotopes in faunal remains: Evidence of the strategies for land use at the Iron Age site Eberdingen-Hochdorf (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) Elisabeth Stephan, Corina Knipper, Kristine Schatz, T. Douglas Price and Ernst Hegner Publicly Available Download PDF	265
Mobility in Thuringia or mobile Thuringians: A strontium isotope study from early medieval Central Germany Corina Knipper, Anne-France Maurer, Daniel Peters, Christian Meyer, Michael Brauns, Stephen J.G. Galer, Uta von Freeden, Bernd Schöne, Harald Meller and Kurt W. Alt Publicly Available Download PDF	287
Isotopes and mobility: Case studies with large samples T. Douglas Price, Karin Margarita Frei, Vera Tiesler and Hildur Gestsdóttir Publicly Available Download PDF	311
Missing in action during the Thirty Years’ War: Provenance of soldiers from the Wittstock battlefield, October 4, 1636. An investigation of stable strontium and oxygen isotopes Gisela Grupe, Sabine Eickhoff, Anja Grothe, Bettina Jungklaus and Alexander Lutz Publicly Available Download PDF	323
Migration and mobility in the circum-Caribbean: Integrating archaeology and isotopic analysis Jason E. Laffoon and Menno L. P. Hoogland Publicly Available Download PDF	337

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics, Institutes, Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 353
Illustrations
- Coloured Tables: 70
- Other: Div. Abb./Various ill.
Keywords: Bioarchaeology; Computer Simulation; Population Genetics; Stable Isotope Analysis; Strontium Isotope Analysis

eBook

Published: July 4, 2012
ISBN: 9783110266306

Hardcover

Published: May 29, 2012
ISBN: 9783110266290