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The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (MPI-SHH) in Jena was founded in 2014 to target fundamental questions of human history and evolution since the Paleolithic.
Department of Archaeogenetics
Director Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause
Department of Archaeology
Director Prof. Nicole Boivin
Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution
Director Russell Gray, Prof., Ph.D. (Univ. of Auckland) FRSNZ
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DAFSA: a Python library for Deterministic Acyclic Finite State Automata [Software]. The Journal of Open Source Software 5 (46), 1986 (2020), 4 pp.
5,200-year-old cereal grains from the eastern Altai Mountains redate the trans-Eurasian crop exchange. Nature Plants 6, pp. 78 - 87 (2020)
M. C. Gatto, D. J. Mattingly, N. Ray, and M. M. Sterry (Eds.): Burials, Migration, and Identity in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond. African Archaeological Review (2020)
A massacre of early Neolithic farmers in the high Pyrenees at Els Trocs, Spain. Scientific Reports 10 (2020)
Argonite fraction dating of vermetids in the context of paleo sea-level curves reconstruction. Radiocarbon (2020)
Late pleistocene to early-Holocene rainforest foraging in Sri Lanka: multidisciplinary analysis at Kitulgala Beli-lena. Quaternary Science Reviews 231 (n/a), 106200 (2020)
Tracing population movements in ancient East Asia through the linguistics and archaeology of textile production [Review]. Evolutionary Human Sciences 2 (2020)
The neural basis of religious cognition. Current Directions in Psychological Science n/a (n/a) (2020)