Welcome to the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Welcome to the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

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Videos and Audios


Interview: Ostrich Eggshell Beads Reveal 50,000 Year-Old Social Network

Interview: Ostrich Eggshell Beads Reveal 50,000 Year-Old Social Network

Podcast
Dr. Jennifer Miller and Dr. Yiming Wang discuss how their research into ostrich eggshell beads reveals symbolic behavior and social networks in the distant past
Pollen, infectious disease and the Black Death with Adam Izdebski

Pollen, infectious disease and the Black Death with Adam Izdebski

Podcast
Adam Izdebski joins the Infectious Historians to discuss his work at the frontier between pollen and disease, and in particular in light of his recent work analyzing pollen from the time of the Black Death
Barbara Huber studies old plant remains by using biochemical and biomolecular approches

Barbara Huber studies old plant remains by using biochemical and biomolecular approches

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Barbara Huber is a Joachim Herz Foundation Add-On Fellow for Interdisciplinary Life Science. In her PhD research at the Max Planck Institute she studies old plant remains by using biochemical and biomolecular approches to find out how people used plants in the past
A Journey to the West: The Ancient Dispersal of Rice out of East Asia

A Journey to the West: The Ancient Dispersal of Rice out of East Asia

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Rice is one of the most culturally valued and widely grown crops in the world today, and extensive research over the past decade has clarified much of the narrative of its domestication and early spread across East and South Asia. By better understanding the adoption of this water-demanding crop in the arid regions of West Asia, we explore an important chapter in human adaptation and agricultural decision making.
 
glyph - An online game to crowdsource the science of letter shapes

glyph - An online game to crowdsource the science of letter shapes

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Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Harvard, and PSL University, have designed a gaming applet where players compete to classify the letter shapes of the world's writing systems. Researchers will better understand how letter shapes evolve to be distinctive and informative thanks to this crowdsourced typology
International Dog Day: "Having a Dog is Healthy"

International Dog Day: "Having a Dog is Healthy"

Podcast
Biologist Juliane Bräuer researches dogs as head of the DogLab at the Max Planck Institute. Unlike many other animal species, the sympathy between humans and dogs is based on mutuality, the expert explains. (Audio in German)

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Microlithic occurrences in the central Narmada Basin, Madhya Pradesh

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An Early MIS 3 Lithic Assemblage from India

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Vārtā, a dialogue about "Sapiens in South Asia"

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Latest Publications

Shoaee, M. J.; Breeze, P. S.; Drake, N. A.; Hashemi, S. M.; Vahdati Nasab, H.; Breitenbach, S. F. M.; Stevens, T.; Boivin, N.; Petraglia, M.: Defining paleoclimatic routes and opportunities for hominin dispersals across Iran. PLoS One 18 (3), e0281872 (2023)
Vaiglova, P.; Roberts, P.: Multiple scales of stable isotope palaeoecology (Papers in honour of Prof. Julia Lee-Thorp). Quaternary International, 2023.02.010 (2023)

Villalba-Mouco, V.; Loosdrecht, M. S. v. d.; Rohrlach, A. B.; Fewlass, H.; Talamo, S.; Yu, H.; Aron, F.; Lalueza-Fox, C.; Cabello, L.; Cantalejo Duarte, P. et al.; Ramos-Muñoz, J.; Posth, C.; Krause, J.; Weniger, G.-C.; Haak, W.: A 23,000-year-old southern Iberian individual links human groups that lived in Western Europe before and after the Last Glacial Maximum (advance online). Nature Ecology & Evolution (2023)
Bender, Y.; Bräuer, J.; Schweinberger, S. R.: What makes a good dog-owner team?: a systematic review about compatibility in personality and attachment. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 260, 105857 (2023)

Hinojosa, C. A.; Anaya-Ayala, J. E.; Laparra-Escareno, H.; Mena-Hernandez, L.; Barquera, R.; Martínez-Quesada, J. I.; Granados, J.: Takayasu’s arteritis in Mexican monozygotic twins: analysis of Human Leukocyte Antigens (HLA) Haplotypes (Annals of vascular diseases, advpub). (2023), 4 pp.
Bräuer, J.: Hunting together in the animal kingdom: it must be worth it for both partners. (2023)

Willis, A.; Roberts, P.; Kyaw, M. M.; Win, T. T.; Pradier, B.; King, C.; Ilgner, J.; Lucas, M.; Cook, A.; Piper, P. et al.; Pryce, T.O.: Living in the dry zone: stable isotope insights into palaeodiet in ancient Myanmar. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 48, 103900 (2023)
Plummer, T. W.; Oliver, J. S.; Finestone, E.; Ditchfield, P. W.; Bishop, L. C.; Blumenthal, S. A.; Lemorini, C.; Caricola, I.; Bailey, S. E.; Herries, A. I. R. et al.; Parkinson, J. A.; Whitfield, E.; Hertel, F.; Kinyanjui, R.; Vincent, T. H.; Li, Y.; Louys, J.; Frost, S. R.; Braun, D. R.; Reeves, J. S.; Early, E. D. G.; Onyango, B.; Lamela-Lopez, R.; Forrest, F. L.; He, H.; Lane, T. P.; Frouin, M.; Nomade, S.; Wilson, E. P.; Bartilol, S. K.; Rotich, N. K.; Potts, R.: Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus. Science 379 (6632), 7452, pp. 561 - 566 (2023)
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