Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012

Abstract

Migrations and population dynamics are considered very problematic topics in the fields of ancient studies. Recent scholarship in (pre)historical population has generated new impulses by using scientific approaches using radiogenic and stable isotopes, and palaeogenetics, as well as computer simulation. As a result, the state of migration research has undergone rapid change. Several research groups presented papers at a conference held in Berlin in 2010, addressing specific historical aspects of population dynamics and migration, with no chronological or geographical restrictions, in the light of cutting-edge bio-archaeological research. This volume, divided into three larger thematic sections (isotope analysis, population genetics, and modelling and computer simulation), presents experiences and insights about methodological approaches, research results and prospects for future research in this area in a varied collection of papers. Scholars from widely diverse scientific disciplines present their approaches, findings and interpretations to an audience far broader than the circles of the individual disciplines.

Content

3–16 Mathias Currat, "Consequences of population expansions on European genetic diversity", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 3–16
17–30 Pascale Gerbault, Michela Leonardi, Adam Powell, Christine Weber, Norbert Benecke, Joachim Burger and Mark G. Thomas, "Domestication and migrations: Using mitochondrial DNA to infer domestication processes of goats and horses", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 17–30
31–40 Greger Larson, "Using pigs as a proxy to reconstruct patterns of human migration", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 31–40
41–44 Ingrid Wiechmann, "Poor DNA preservation in bovine remains excavated at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Göbekli Tepe (Southeast Turkey): Brief communication", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 41–44
45–54 Amelie Scheu, Christina Geörg, Anna Schulz, Joachim Burger and Norbert Benecke, "The arrival of domesticated animals in South-Eastern Europe as seen from ancient DNA", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 45–54
55–73 Lars Fehren-Schmitz, "Population dynamics, cultural evolution and climate change in pre-Columbian western South America", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 55–73
77–92 Malcom C. Lillie, Inna Potekhina, Chelsea Budd and Alexey G. Nikitin, "Prehistoric populations of Ukraine: Migration at the later Mesolithic to Neolithic transition", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 77–92
93–112 Vjačeslav Ivanovič Molodin, Alexander S. Pilipenko, Aida G. Romaschenko, Anton A. Zhuravlev, Rostislav O. Trapezov, Tatiana A. Chikisheva and Dmitriy V. Pozdnyakov, "Human migrations in the southern region of the West Siberian Plain during the Bronze Age: Archaeological, palaeogenetic and anthropological data", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 93–112
113–130 Cristina Sofeso, Marina Vohberger, Annika Wisnowsky, Bernd Päffgen and Michaela Harbeck, "Verifying archaeological hypotheses: Investigations on origin and genealogical lineages of a privileged society in Upper Bavaria from Imperial Roman times (Erding, Kletthamer Feld)", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 113–130
133–148 Marek Zvelebil, Malcom C. Lillie, Janet Montgomery, Alena Lukes, Paul Pettitt and Mike P. Richards, "The emergence of the LBK: Migration, memory and meaning at the transition to agriculture", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 133–148
149–163 Rouven Turck, B. Kober, J. Kontny, F. Haack and Andrea Zeeb-Lanz, ""Widely travelled people" at Herxheim? Sr isotopes as indicators of mobility", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 149–163
165–176 Claudia Gerling, Volker Heyd, Alistair Pike, Eszter Bánffy, János Dani, Kitti Köhler, Gabriella Kulcsár, Elke Kaiser and Wolfram Schier, "Identifying kurgan graves in Eastern Hungary: A burial mound in the light of strontium and oxygen isotope analysis", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 165–176
177–197 Natalia Shishlina, Vyacheslav Sevastyanov and Robert E. M. Hedges, "Isotope ratio study of Bronze Age samples from the Eurasian Caspian Steppes", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 177–197
199–211 Johanna Irrgeher, Maria Teschler-Nicola, Katrin Leutgeb, Christopher Weiß, Daniela Kern and Thomas Prohaska, "Migration and mobility in the latest Neolithic of the Traisen Valley, Lower Austria: Sr isotope analysis", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 199–211
213–224 Daniela Kern, "Migration and mobility in the latest Neolithic of the Traisen Valley, Lower Austria: Archaeology", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 213–224
225–240 Julia K. Koch and Katharina Kupke, "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)", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 225–240
241–263 Argyro Nafplioti, "Late Minoan IB destructions and cultural upheaval on Crete: A bioarchaeological perspective", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 241–263
265–286 Elisabeth Stephan, Corina Knipper, Kristine Schatz, T. Douglas Price and Ernst Hegner, "Strontium isotopes in faunal remains: Evidence of the strategies for land use at the Iron Age site Eberdingen-Hochdorf (Baden-Württemberg, Germany)", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 265–286
287–310 Harald Meller, Corina Knipper, Anne France Maurer, Daniel Peters, Christian Meyer, Michael Brauns, Stephen G. Galer, Uta Von Freeden, Bernd Schöne and Kurt W. Alt, "Mobility in Thuringia or mobile Thuringians: a strontium isotope study from early medieval Central Germany", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 287–310
311–322 T. Douglas Price, Karin Margarita Frei, Vera Tiesler and Hildur Gestsdóttir, "Isotopes and mobility: Case studies with large samples", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 311–322
323–336 Gisela Grupe, Sabine Eickhoff, Anja Grothe, Bettina Jungklaus and Alexander Lutz, "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", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 323–336
337–353 Jason E. Laffoon and Menno L. P. Hoogland, "Migration and mobility in the circum-Caribbean: Integrating Archaeology and isotopic analysis", in: Elke Kaiser, Joachim Burger and Wolfram Schier (Eds.), Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History. New Approaches by Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, 337–353