Collective burials among agro-pastoral societies in later Neolithic Germany: perspectives from ancient DNA

Lee, Esther J.; Renneberg, Rebecca; Harder, Melanie; Krause‐Kyora, Ben; Rinne, Christoph; Müller, Johannes; Nebel, Almut; Wurmb‐Schwark, Nicole von

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2012.08.037

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“…HV0 is also present in the Near East with an average incidence of 0.35% (Fernández et al, ). An identical ancient HV0 haplotype was detected in present‐day European populations (Slovaks, Czechs, Ukrainians, Austrians, Germans, Romanians) (Brandstätter et al, ; Malyarchuk et al, ; Mielnik‐Sikorska et al, ) as well as in the historical populations of central and eastern Europe (Lee et al, , ; Lorkiewicz et al ; Melchior, Gilbert, Kivisild, Lynnerup, & Dissing, ; Nikitin et al, ), which could indicate its European origin.…”

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Detection of mitochondrial haplogroups in a small avar‐slavic population from the eigth–ninth century AD

Šebest

Baldovič

Frtús

et al. 2018

American J Phys Anthropol

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Detection of mitochondrial haplogroups in a small avar‐slavic population from the eigth–ninth century AD

Šebest

Baldovič

Frtús

et al. 2018

American J Phys Anthropol

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“…A number of papers dealing with individual sites and small-scale studies have emerged in the last ten years (e.g. Haak et al 2008;Keller et al 2015;Knipper et al 2017;Lee et al 2014;Le Roy et al 2016;O'Sullivan et al 2018;Scheib et al 2019). These offer detailed and nuanced engagements with archaeological evidence alongside the aDNA, and in some cases isotopic data as well (e.g.…”

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“…Other studies of aDNA offer far smaller scales of analysis, and more nuanced engagements with archaeological evidence (e.g. Haak et al 2008;Keller et al 2015;Lee et al 2014;Le Roy et al 2016;Knipper et al 2017;O'Sullivan et al 2018;Scheib et al 2019) and have been, as Marc Vander Linden (2016, 718) has noted, much easier for archaeologists to engage with (cf. Thomas 2006, 51).…”

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Beyond binaries. Interrogating ancient DNA

Crellin

Harris

2020

Arch. Dial.

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In this paper we explore ancient DNA (aDNA) as a powerful new technique for archaeologists. We argue that for aDNA to reach its full potential we need to carefully consider its theoretical underpinnings. We suggest that at present much aDNA research rests upon two problematic theoretical assumptions: first, that nature and culture exist in binary opposition and that DNA is a part of nature; second, that cultures form distinct and bounded identities. The nature–culture binary, which underpins much aDNA research, not only is a misunderstanding of our world but also results in placing archaeology and material culture in a secondary and subservient position to science and aDNA. Viewing cultures as distinct and bounded creates exclusionary, simplistic and singular identities for past populations. This stands in contrast to the work of social scientists, which has revealed identity to be complex, multiple, changing and contradictory. We offer a new way forward drawing upon assemblage thinking and post-humanism. This allows us to consider the messy and complex nature of our world and of human identities, and demands that we expect equally messy and complex results to emerge when we bring aDNA into conversation with other forms of archaeological evidence.

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“…Lacan et al 2011, Lee et al 2014, the drive to identify this hypothetical third genetic component largely explains the recent focus on the third millennium BC. Figure 1 shows the distribution of 230 Eurasian samples for which full genomic information is available (Mathieson et al 2015).…”

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Population history in third-millennium-BC Europe: assessing the contribution of genetics

Linden

2016

World Archaeology

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Several recent high-profile aDNA studies have claimed to have identified major migrations during the third millennium BC in Europe. This contribution offers a brief review of these studies, and especially their role in understanding the genetic make up of modern European populations.Although the technical sophistication of aDNA studies is beyond doubt, the underlying archaeological assumptions prove relatively naive and the findings at odd with more 'traditional' archaeological data. Although the existence of past migrations needs to be acknowledged and fully considered by archaeologists, it does not offer neither a robust explanatory factor, nor an enduring platform for interdisciplinary dialogue betweeen archaeology and genetics. Alternative hypotheses are briefly explored.

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Collective burials among agro-pastoral societies in later Neolithic Germany: perspectives from ancient DNA

Cited by 21 publications

References 47 publications

Detection of mitochondrial haplogroups in a small avar‐slavic population from the eigth–ninth century AD

Detection of mitochondrial haplogroups in a small avar‐slavic population from the eigth–ninth century AD

Beyond binaries. Interrogating ancient DNA

Population history in third-millennium-BC Europe: assessing the contribution of genetics

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