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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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Latest Publications
A taxonomic and taphonomic study of Pleistocene fossil deposits from the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Research, 2020.6 (2020)
The origins of violence and warfare in the japanese islands. In: The prehistoric and ancient worlds, I.7, pp. 160 - 178 (Eds. Fagan, G. G.; Fibiger, L.; Hudson, M.; Trundle, M.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2020)
Length and weight reconstruction of Chlorurus microrhinos (Scaridae) from isolated cranial bones and vertebrae. Cybium: International Journal of Ichthyology 44 (1), pp. 61 - 68 (2020)
Tropical trees as time capsules of anthropogenic activity. Cell 25 (4), 2019.12.010, pp. P369 - P380 (2020)
An isotopic test of the seasonal migration hypothesis for large grazing ungulates inhabiting the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain. Quaternary Science Reviews, 106221 (2020)
Hunter-Gatherer anthropology and language. In: The language of Hunter-Gatherers, I.1, pp. 3 - 48 (Eds. Güldemann, T.; McConvell, P.; Rhodes, R. A.E.). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2020)
The prehistoric and ancient worlds. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2020), 756 pp.
Genomic and dietary transitions during the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic in Sicily, bioRxiv, (2020)