Human migrations in the southern region of the West Siberian Plain during the Bronze Age: Archaeological, palaeogenetic and anthropological data

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Genetics
5. Consequences of population expansions on European genetic diversity 3
6. Domestication and migrations: Using mitochondrial DNA to infer domestication processes of goats and horses 17
7. Using pigs as a proxy to reconstruct patterns of human migration 31
8. Poor DNA preservation in bovine remains excavated at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe (Southeast Turkey): Brief communication 41
9. The arrival of domesticated animals in South-Eastern Europe as seen from ancient DNA 45
10. Population dynamics, cultural evolution and climate change in pre-Columbian western South America 55
11. Stable isotopes and genetics
12. Prehistoric populations of Ukraine: Migration at the later Mesolithic to Neolithic transition 77
13. Human migrations in the southern region of the West Siberian Plain during the Bronze Age: Archaeological, palaeogenetic and anthropological data 93
14. Verifying archaeological hypotheses: Investigations on origin and genealogical lineages of a privileged society in Upper Bavaria from Imperial Roman times (Erding, Kletthamer Feld) 113
15. Stable isotopes
16. The emergence of the LBK: Migration, memory and meaning at the transition to agriculture 133
17. “Widely travelled people” at Herxheim? Sr isotopes as indicators of mobility 149
18. Identifying kurgan graves in Eastern Hungary: A burial mound in the light of strontium and oxygen isotope analysis 165
19. Isotope ratio study of Bronze Age samples from the Eurasian Caspian Steppes 177
20. Migration and mobility in the latest Neolithic of the Traisen Valley, Lower Austria: Sr isotope analysis 199
21. Migration and mobility in the latest Neolithic of the Traisen valley, Lower Austria: Archaeology 213
22. Life-course reconstruction for mobile individuals in an Early Bronze Age society in Central Europe: Concept of the project and first results for the cemetery of Singen (Germany) 225
23. Late Minoan IB destructions and cultural upheaval on Crete: A bioarchaeological perspective 241
24. Strontium isotopes in faunal remains: Evidence of the strategies for land use at the Iron Age site Eberdingen-Hochdorf (Baden-Württemberg, Germany) 265
25. Mobility in Thuringia or mobile Thuringians: A strontium isotope study from early medieval Central Germany 287
26. Isotopes and mobility: Case studies with large samples 311
27. Missing in action during the Thirty Years’ War: Provenance of soldiers from the Wittstock battlefield, October 4, 1636. An investigation of stable strontium and oxygen isotopes 323
28. Migration and mobility in the circum-Caribbean: Integrating archaeology and isotopic analysis 337