Search Results - "Brinker, Ute"
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A 5,000-year-old hunter-gatherer already plagued by Yersinia pestis
Published in Cell reports (Cambridge) (29-06-2021)“…A 5,000-year-old Yersinia pestis genome (RV 2039) is reconstructed from a hunter-fisher-gatherer (5300–5050 cal BP) buried at Riņņukalns, Latvia. RV 2039 is…”
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Two burials in a unique freshwater shell midden: insights into transformations of Stone Age hunter-fisher daily life in Latvia
Published in Archaeological and anthropological sciences (01-05-2020)“…The Stone Age site Riņņukalns, Latvia, is the only well-stratified shell midden in the Eastern Baltic. In this paper, we present new interdisciplinary results…”
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Low Prevalence of Lactase Persistence in Bronze Age Europe Indicates Ongoing Strong Selection over the Last 3,000 Years
Published in Current biology (02-11-2020)“…Lactase persistence (LP), the continued expression of lactase into adulthood, is the most strongly selected single gene trait over the last 10,000 years in…”
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Multi-isotope proveniencing of human remains from a Bronze Age battlefield in the Tollense Valley in northeast Germany
Published in Archaeological and anthropological sciences (2019)“…Although the Bronze Age is best known for its remarkable metal weapons, there is little evidence of conflict. Traumatic wounds in human skeletal remains are…”
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A Bronze Age battlefield? Weapons and trauma in the Tollense Valley, north-eastern Germany
Published in Antiquity (01-06-2011)“…Chance discoveries of weapons, horse bones and human skeletal remains along the banks of the River Tollense led to a campaign of research which has identified…”
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New research at Riņņukalns, a Neolithic freshwater shell midden in northern Latvia
Published in Antiquity (01-09-2014)“…The prehistoric shell middens of Atlantic Europe consist of marine molluscs, but the eastern Baltic did not have exploitable marine species. Here the sole…”
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Dietary freshwater reservoir effects and the radiocarbon ages of prehistoric human bones from Zvejnieki, Latvia
Published in Journal of archaeological science, reports (01-04-2016)“…Aquatic food resources (fish and molluscs) were exploited intensively at Riņņukalns, a Neolithic freshwater shell midden at the outlet of Lake Burtnieks,…”
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Flint arrowhead embedded in a human humerus from the Bronze Age site in the Tollense valley, Germany - A high-resolution micro-CT study to distinguish antemortem from perimortem projectile trauma to bone
Published in International journal of paleopathology (01-06-2015)“…The Bronze Age site in the Tollense valley, Germany, has yielded thousands of human and animal bones and a number of archaeological artifacts. Several of the…”
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