Welcome to the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

Welcome to the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology

We work in the field

We work in the field

We work in the lab

We work in the lab

We work all over the world

We work all over the world

We work in teams

We work in teams

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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Latest Publications

Esquivel Gomez, L. R.; Savin, C.; Andrianaivoarimanana, V.; Rahajandraibe, S.; Randriantseheno, L. N.; Zhou, Z.; Kocher, A.; Didelot, X.; Rajerison, M.; Kühnert, D.: Phylogenetic analysis of the origin and spread of plague in Madagascar. (2023)
Lee, J.; Miller, B. K.; Bayarsaikhan, J.; Johannesson, E.; Ventresca Miller, A.; Warinner, C.; Jeong, C.: Genetic population structure of the Xiongnu Empire at imperial and local scales. Science Advances 9 (15), eadf3904 (2023)

Anil, D.; Devi, M.; Blinkhorn, J.; Smith, V.; Sanghode, S.; Mahesh, V.; Khan, Z.; Ajithprasad, P.; Chauhan, N.: Youngest Toba Tuff deposits in the Gundlakamma River basin, Andhra Pradesh, India and their role in evaluating Late Pleistocene behavioral change in South Asia. Quaternary Research, 13 (2023)
Youngblood, M.; Miton, H.; Morin, O.: Statistical signals of copying are robust to time- and space-averaging. Evolutionary Human Sciences 5, e10 (2023)

Patalano, R.; Arthur, C.; Carleton, W. C.; Challis, S.; Dewar, G.; Gayantha, K.; Gleixner, G.; Ilgner, J.; Lucas, M.; Marzo, S. et al.; Mokhachane, R.; Pazan, K.; Spurite, D.; Morley, M. W.; Parker, A.; Mitchell, P.; Stewart, B. A.; Roberts, P.: Ecological stability of Late Pleistocene-to-Holocene Lesotho, southern Africa, facilitated human upland habitation. Communications Earth & Environment 4, 129 (2023)
Tang, L.; Wilkin, S.; Richter, K. K.; Bleasdale, M.; Fernandes, R.; He, Y.; Li, S.; Petraglia, M.; Scott, A.; Teoh, F. K. Y. et al.; Tong, Y.; Tsering, T.; Tsho, Y.; Xi, L.; Yang, F.; Yuan, H.; Chen, Z.; Roberts, P.; He, W.; Spengler III, R. N.; Lu, H.; Wangdue, S.; Boivin, N.: Paleoproteomic evidence reveals dairying supported prehistoric occupation of the highland Tibetan Plateau. Science Advances 9 (15), eadf0345 (2023)

MacLatchy, L. M.; Cote, S. M.; Deino, A. L.; Kityo, R. M.; Mugume, A. A. T.; Rossie, J. B.; Sanders, W. J.; Cosman, M. N.; Driese, S. G.; Fox, D. L. et al.; Freeman, A. J.; Jansma, R. J. W.; Jenkins, K. E. H.; Kinyanjui, R.; Lukens, W. E.; McNulty, K. P.; Novello, A.; Peppe, D. J.; Strömberg, C. A. E.; Uno, K. T.; Winkler, A. J.; Kingston, J. D.: The evolution of hominoid locomotor versatility: Evidence from Moroto, a 21 Ma site in Uganda. Science 380 (6641), eabq2835, pp. 1 - 12 (2023)
Pargeter, J.; Brooks, A.; Douze, K.; Eren, M.; Groucutt, H. S.; McNeil, J.; Mackay, A.; Ranhorn, K.; Scerri, E.; Shaw, M. et al.; Tryon, C.; Will, M.; Leplongeon, A.: Replicability in Lithic Analysis. American antiquity, 2023.4 (2023)
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