Erik Girdland Flink

Research output

Research output per year 2013 2013 2014 2019 2020 2023 2023

• 22 Article
• 2 Published conference contribution
• 2 Letter
• 1 Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
• 2 More
  • 1 Chapter (peer-reviewed)
  • 1 Newspaper

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2023

  New zooarchaeological evidence from Pictish sites in Scotland: implications for early medieval economies and animal-human relationships

  Masson-MacLean, E., Niehaus, S., Fraser, E., Lee, V., Prado, S., Czére, O., Fawcett, J., O'Driscoll, J., Girdland-Flink, L., Noble, G. & Britton, K., 14 Aug 2023, In: Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology. 2, 10 p., 1208908.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • animal 100%
  • economy 76%
  • evidence 51%
  • Territories 32%
  • resources 17%

• DNA study sheds light on Scotland’s Picts, and resolves some myths about them

  Girdland Flink, E. & Morez, A., 2 May 2023, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Newspaper

  Open Access

  • Picts 100%
  • Scotland 67%
  • DNA 58%
  • Early Medieval Period 29%
  • Way of Life 28%

• Imputed genomes and haplotype-based analyses of the Picts of early medieval Scotland reveal fine-scale relatedness between Iron Age, early medieval and the modern people of the UK

  Morez, A., Britton, K., Noble, G., Günther, T., Götherström, A., Rodríguez Varela, R., Kashuba, N., Martiniano, R., Talamo, S., Evans, N., Irish, J., Donald, C. & Girdland Flink, E., 27 Apr 2023, In: PLoS Genetics. 19, 4, e1010360.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • relatedness 100%
  • Iron Age 96%
  • Scotland 93%
  • Medieval 90%
  • Haplotypes 76%
  1 Citation (Scopus)

  8 Downloads (Pure)

• The genetic history of Scandinavia from the Roman Iron Age to the present

  Rodríguez-Varela, R., Moore, K. H. S., Ebenesersdóttir, S. S., Kilinc, G. M., Kjellström, A., Papmehl-Dufay, L., Alfsdotter, C., Berglund, B., Alrawi, L., Kashuba, N., Sobrado, V., Lagerholm, V. K., Gilbert, E., Cavalleri, G. L., Hovig, E., Kockum, I., Olsson, T., Alfredsson, L., Hansen, T. F., Werge, T., & 24 othersMunters, A. R., Bernhardsson, C., Skar, B., Christophersen, A., Turner-Walker, G., Gopalakrishnan, S., Daskalaki, E., Omrak, A., Pérez-Ramallo, P., Skoglund, P., Girdland-Flink, L., Gunnarsson, F., Hedenstierna-Jonson, C., Gilbert, M. T. P., Lidén, K., Jakobsson, M., Einarsson, L., Victor, H., Krzewińska, M., Zachrisson, T., Storå, J., Stefánsson, K., Helgason, A. & Götherström, A., 5 Jan 2023, In: Cell. 186, 1, p. 32-46.e1 35 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Scandinavian and Nordic Countries 100%
  • Drop 63%
  • Iron 61%
  • History 55%
  • Gene Pool 55%
  4 Citations (Scopus)

  4 Downloads (Pure)
• 2022

  Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs

  Bergström, A., Stanton, D. W. G., Taron, U. H., Frantz, L., Sinding, M-H. S., Ersmark, E., Pfrengle, S., Cassatt-Johnstone, M., Lebrasseur, O., Girdland-Flink, L., Fernandes, D. M., Ollivier, M., Speidel, L., Gopalakrishnan, S., Westbury, M. V., Ramos-Madrigal, J., Feuerborn, T. R., Reiter, E., Gretzinger, J., Münzel, S. C., & 61 othersSwali, P., Conard, N. J., Carøe, C., Haile, J., Linderholm, A., Androsov, S., Barnes, I., Baumann, C., Benecke, N., Bocherens, H., Brace, S., Carden, R. F., Drucker, D. G., Fedorov, S., Gasparik, M., Germonpré, M., Grigoriev, S., Groves, P., Hertwig, S. T., Ivanova, V. V., Janssens, L., Jennings, R. P., Kasparov, A. K., Kirillova, I. V., Kurmaniyazov, I., Kuzmin, Y. V., Kosintsev, P. A., Lázničková-Galetová, M., Leduc, C., Nikolskiy, P., Nussbaumer, M., O’Drisceoil, C., Orlando, L., Outram, A., Pavlova, E. Y., Perri, A. R., Pilot, M., Pitulko, V. V., Plotnikov, V. V., Protopopov, A. V., Rehazek, A., Sablin, M., Seguin-Orlando, A., Storå, J., Verjux, C., Zaibert, V. F., Zazula, G., Crombé, P., Hansen, A. J., Willerslev, E., Leonard, J. A., Götherström, A., Pinhasi, R., Schuenemann, V. J., Hofreiter, M., Gilbert, M. T. P., Shapiro, B., Larson, G., Krause, J., Dalén, L. & Skoglund, P., 14 Jul 2022, In: Nature. 607, p. 313–320 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • History 100%
  • Dogs 96%
  • Domestication 42%
  • Population 31%
  • Siberia 20%
  39 Citations (Scopus)

  2 Downloads (Pure)
• 2020

  Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs

  Bergström, A., Frantz, L., Schmidt, R., Ersmark, E., Lebrasseur, O., Girdland-Flink, L., Lin, A. T., Storå, J., Sjögren, K-G., Anthony, D., Antipina, E., Amiri, S., Bar-Oz, G., Bazaliiskii, V. I., Bulatović, J., Brown, D., Carmagnini, A., Davy, T., Fedorov, S., Fiore, I., & 36 othersFulton, D., Germonpré, M., Haile, J., Irving-Pease, E. K., Jamieson, A., Janssens, L., Kirillova, I., Horwitz, L. K., Kuzmanovic-Cvetković, J., Kuzmin, Y., Losey, R. J., Dizdar, D. L., Mashkour, M., Novak, M., Onar, V., Orton, D., Pasarić, M., Radivojević, M., Rajković, D., Roberts, B., Ryan, H., Sablin, M., Shidlovskiy, F., Stojanović, I., Tagliacozzo, A., Trantalidou, K., Ullén, I., Villaluenga, A., Wapnish, P., Dobney, K., Götherström, A., Linderholm, A., Dalén, L., Pinhasi, R., Larson, G. & Skoglund, P., 30 Oct 2020, In: Science. 370, 6516, p. 557-564 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • dogs 100%
  • wolves 66%
  • ancestry 37%
  • genome 30%
  • history 25%
  124 Citations (Scopus)

  17 Downloads (Pure)

• Assessing the performance of quantity and quality metrics using the QIAGEN Investigator® Quantiplex® Pro RGQ kit

  Morrison, J., McColl, S., Loughelainen, J., Sheppard, K., May, A., Girdland-Flink, L., Watts, G. & Dawnay, N., Jul 2020, In: Science & Justice. 60, 4, p. 388-397 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Research Personnel 100%
  • DNA 80%
  • Promega 29%
  • Ancient DNA 28%
  • Software 27%
  9 Citations (Scopus)

  7 Downloads (Pure)

• Do dental nonmetric traits actually work as proxies for neutral genomic data? Some answers from continental- and global-level analyses

  Irish, J. D., Morez, A., Girdland Flink, L., Phillips, E. L. W. & Scott, G. R., Jul 2020, In: American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 172, 3, p. 347-375 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Proxy 100%
  • divergence 91%
  • Anthropology 82%
  • Tooth 68%
  • anthropology 55%
  31 Citations (Scopus)

  5 Downloads (Pure)

• CoproID predicts the source of coprolites and paleofeces using microbiome composition and host DNA content

  Borry, M., Cordova, B., Perri, A., Wibowo, M. C., Honap, T. P., Ko, J., Yu, J., Britton, K., Girdland Flink, L., Power, R. C., Stuijts, I., Garcia, D. S., Hofman, C. A., Hagan, R. W., Kagone, T. S., Meda, N., Carabin, H., Jacobson, D., Reinhard, K., Lewis, Jr., C. M., & 5 othersKostic, A., Jeong, C., Herbig, A., Hubner, A. & Warinner, C., 17 Apr 2020, In: PeerJ. 8, 23 p., e9001.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Pipeline 100%
  • Microbiota 85%
  • microbiome 83%
  • sediments 79%
  • Metagenomics 53%
  29 Citations (Scopus)

  10 Downloads (Pure)

• First farming in the north-western Mediterranean: evidence from Castellar-Pendimoun during the sixth millennium BCE

  Binder, D., Battentier, J., Bouby, L., Brochier, J. E., Carré, A., Cucchi, T., Delhon, C., De Stefanis, C., Drieu, L., Girdland-Flink, L., Evin, A., Goude, G., Gourichon, L., Guillon, S., Hamon, C. & Thiébault, S., 6 Apr 2020, Farmers at the Frontier: A Pan European Perspective on Neolithisation. Gron, K. J., Sørensen, L. & Rowley-Conwy, P. (eds.). Oxford, UK: Oxbow Books, p. 145-159 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

  • farmer 100%
  • evidence 94%
  • interaction 53%
  • Group 34%
• 2019

  Reply to dee and kuitems: Our model is an expression of the uncertainties inherent in the radiocarbon data

  Ledger, P. M., Girdland-Flink, L. & Forbes, V., 12 Nov 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 46, 22908.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe

  Frantz, L. A. F., Haile, J., Lin, A. T., Scheu, A., Geörg, C., Benecke, N., Alexander, M., Linderholm, A., Mullin, V. E., Daly, K. G., Battista, V. M., Price, M., Gron, K. J., Alexandri, P., Arbogast, R. M., Arbuckle, B., Bǎlǎşescu, A., Barnett, R., Bartosiewicz, L., Baryshnikov, G., & 80 othersBonsall, C., Borić, D., Boroneanţ, A., Bulatović, J., Çakirlar, C., Carretero, J. M., Chapman, J., Church, M., Crooijmans, R., De Cupere, B., Detry, C., Dimitrijevic, V., Dumitraşcu, V., Du Plessis, L., Edwards, C. J., Erek, C. M., Erim-Özdoǧan, A., Ervynck, A., Fulgione, D., Gligor, M., Götherström, A., Gourichon, L., Groenen, M. A. M., Helmer, D., Hongo, H., Horwitz, L. K., Irving-Pease, E. K., Lebrasseur, O., Lesur, J., Malone, C., Manaseryan, N., Marciniak, A., Martlew, H., Mashkour, M., Matthews, R., Matuzeviciute, G. M., Maziar, S., Meijaard, E., McGovern, T., Megens, H. J., Miller, R., Mohaseb, A. F., Orschiedt, J., Orton, D., Papathanasiou, A., Pearson, M. P., Pinhasi, R., Radmanović, D., Ricaut, F. X., Richards, M., Sabin, R., Sarti, L., Schier, W., Sheikhi, S., Stephan, E., Stewart, J. R., Stoddart, S., Tagliacozzo, A., Tasić, N., Trantalidou, K., Tresset, A., Valdiosera, C., Van Den Hurk, Y., Van Poucke, S., Vigne, J. D., Yanevich, A., Zeeb-Lanz, A., Triantafyllidis, A., Gilbert, M. T. P., Schibler, J., Rowley-Conwy, P., Zeder, M., Peters, J., Cucchi, T., Bradley, D. G., Dobney, K., Burger, J., Evin, A., Girdland-Flink, L. & Larson, G., 27 Aug 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 35, p. 17231-17238 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Sus scrofa 100%
  • Swine 78%
  • Middle East 60%
  • Domestication 39%
  • Mitochondrial DNA 39%
  90 Citations (Scopus)

  4 Downloads (Pure)

• New horizons at L'Anse aux Meadows

  Ledger, P. M., Girdland-Flink, L. & Forbes, V., 30 Jul 2019, In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 116, 31, p. 15341-15343 3 p.

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  • Grassland 100%
  • UNESCO 64%
  • Wetlands 48%
  • Newfoundland and Labrador 47%
  • Bayes Theorem 42%
  19 Citations (Scopus)

  4 Downloads (Pure)

• Megalithic tombs in western and northern Neolithic Europe were linked to a kindred society

  Sanchez-Quinto, F., Malmström, H., Fraser, M., Girdland Flink, E., Svensson, E. M., Simoes, L., George, R., Hollfelder, N., Burenhult, G., Noble, G., Britton, K., Talamo, S., Curtis, N., Brzobohata, H., Sumberova, R., Götherström, A., Storå, J. & Jakobsson, M., 7 May 2019, In: PNAS. 116, 19, p. 9469-9474 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Agriculture 100%
  • Burial 64%
  • Body Remains 55%
  • Y Chromosome 52%
  • Haplotypes 40%
  69 Citations (Scopus)

  34 Downloads (Pure)
• 2018

  Elucidating recent history by tracing genetic affinity of three 16th century miners from Sweden

  Krzewińska, M., Kjellström, A., Bäckström, Y., Ingvarsson, A., Kashuba, N., Rodríguez Varela, R., Girdland-Flink, L. & Götherström, A., Jun 2018, In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 19, p. 651-657 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • cemetery 100%
  • miner 92%
  • Cemetery 74%
  • Sweden 70%
  • Affinity 66%
  2 Citations (Scopus)

• Genetic insight into an extinct population of asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in the near east

  Girdland-Flink, L., Albayrak, E. & Lister, A. M., 21 Mar 2018, In: Open Quaternary. 4, p. 1-9 9 p., 2.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Elephas maximus 100%
  • elephant 84%
  • Middle East 80%
  • Near East 79%
  • Asia 52%
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  5 Downloads (Pure)
• 2017

  Genomic Analyses of Pre-European Conquest Human Remains from the Canary Islands Reveal Close Affinity to Modern North Africans

  Rodríguez-Varela, R., Günther, T., Krzewińska, M., Storå, J., Gillingwater, T. H., MacCallum, M., Arsuaga, J. L., Dobney, K., Valdiosera, C., Jakobsson, M., Götherström, A. & Girdland-Flink, L., 6 Nov 2017, In: Current Biology. 27, 21, p. 3396-3402 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Body Remains 100%
  • Canary Islands 94%
  • Spain 76%
  • carbon radioisotopes 56%
  • Genome 53%
  43 Citations (Scopus)

  8 Downloads (Pure)
• 2016

  New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created 'Piltdown Man'

  De Groote, I., Flink, L. G., Abbas, R., Bello, S. M., Burgio, L., Buck, L. T., Dean, C., Freyne, A., Higham, T., Jones, C. G., Kruszynski, R., Lister, A., Parfitt, S. A., Skinner, M. M., Shindler, K. & Stringer, C. B., Oct 2016, In: Royal Society Open Science. 3, 10, 14 p., 160328.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • anthropology 100%
  • fossil 84%
  • hunger 51%
  • filling material 51%
  • gravel 34%
  3 Citations (Scopus)

  11 Downloads (Pure)
• 2015

  Unravelling the complexity of domestication: a case study using morphometrics and ancient DNA analyses of archaeological pigs from Romania

  Evin, A., Girdland Flink, L., Bălăşescu, A., Popovici, D., Andreescu, R., Bailey, D., Mirea, P., Lazăr, C., Boroneanţ, A., Bonsall, C., Vidarsdottir, U. S., Brehard, S., Tresset, A., Cucchi, T., Larson, G. & Dobney, K., 19 Jan 2015, In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 370, 1660, 7 p., 20130616.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Ancient DNA 100%
  • Domestication 98%
  • Sus scrofa 83%
  • Romania 82%
  • domestication 80%
  39 Citations (Scopus)

  19 Downloads (Pure)
• 2014

  Reply to Beavan, Bryant, and Storey and Matisoo-Smith: Ancestral Polynesian “D” haplotypes reflect authentic Pacific chicken lineages

  Thomson, V. A., Lebrasseur, O., Austin, J. J., Hunt, T. L., Burney, D. A., Denham, T., Rawlence, N., Wood, J. R., Gongora, J., Girdland Flink, L., Linderholm, A., Dobney, K., Larson, G. & Cooper, A., 2 Sept 2014, In: PNAS. 111, 35, p. E3585-E3586 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

  Open Access
  7 Citations (Scopus)

• Establishing the validity of domestication genes using DNA from ancient chickens

  Girdland Flink, L., Allen, R., Barnett, R., Malmstrom, H., Peters, J., Eriksson, J., Andersson, L., Dobney, K. & Larson, G., 29 Apr 2014, In: PNAS. 111, 17, p. 6184-6189 6 p.

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  • domestication 100%
  • chickens 67%
  • thyrotropin receptors 57%
  • DNA 49%
  • genes 33%
  84 Citations (Scopus)

  90 Downloads (Pure)

• Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific

  Thomson, V. A., Lebrasseur, O., Austin, J. J., Hunt, T. L., Burney, D. A., Denham, T., Rawlence, N. J., Wood, J. R., Gongora, J., Girdland Flink, L., Linderholm, A., Dobney, K., Larson, G. & Cooper, A., 1 Apr 2014, In: PNAS. 111, 13, p. 4826-4831 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • chickens 100%
  • DNA 72%
  • haplotypes 44%
  • Polynesia 39%
  • Pacific Ocean Islands 31%
  101 Citations (Scopus)

• Exploring the complexity of domestication: a response to Rowley-Conwy and Zeder

  Evin, A., Girdland Flink, L., Krause-Kyora, B., Makarewicz, C., Hartz, S., Schreiber, S., von Wurmb-Schwark, N., Nebel, A., von Carnap-Bornheim, C., Larson, G. & Dobney, K., 2014, In: World Archaeology. 46, 5, p. 825-834 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Domestication 100%
  • domestication 80%
  • terminology 67%
  • technical language 56%
  • Geometric Morphometrics 55%
  15 Citations (Scopus)

  107 Downloads (Pure)

• The domestic pig (Sus scrofa f. domestica Linnaeus, 1758 or Sus domesticus, Erxleben 1777)

  Girdland Flink, L., 2014, Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Smith, C. (ed.). Springer , p. 5938-5941 4 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
• 2013

  An absolute chronology for early Egypt using radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical modelling

  Dee, M., Wengrow, D., Shortland, A., Stevenson, A., Brock, F., Girdland Flink, L. & Bronk Ramsey, C., 4 Sept 2013, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences. 469, 2159, 20130395.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  Open Access

  • Egypt 100%
  • Archaeology 93%
  • chronology 92%
  • Bayesian Modeling 85%
  • dating 83%
  74 Citations (Scopus)

• Use of domesticated pigs by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe

  Kraus-Kyora, B., Makarewicz, C., Evin, A. M. J., Girdland Flink, L., Dobney, K., Larson, G., Hartze, S., Schreiber, S., von Carnap-Bornheim, C., von Wurmb-Schwark, N. & Nebel, A., 27 Aug 2013, In: Nature Communications. 4, 2348.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • Sus scrofa 100%
  • swine 93%
  • Swine 59%
  • Prey Cleavage 56%
  • Mitochondrial DNA 52%
  82 Citations (Scopus)

  9 Downloads (Pure)

• Archaeological, Morphological and Genetic Approaches to Pig Domestication

  Girdland Flink, L. & Larson, G., 15 Jul 2013, Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia and Europe. Colledge, S., Conolly, J., Dobney, K., Manning, K. & Shennan, S. (eds.). Left Coast Press, Vol. 59. p. 27-35 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Published conference contribution

• Pig domestication and human-mediated dispersal in western Eurasia revealed through ancient DNA and geometric morphometrics

  Ottoni, C., Girdland Flink, L., Evin, A., Geörg, C., De Cupere, B., Van Neer, W., Bartosiewicz, L., Linderholm, A., Barnett, R., Peters, J., Decorte, R., Waelkens, M., Vanderheyden, N., Ricaut, F-X., Çakırlar, C., Çevic, Ö., Hoelzel, A. R., Mashkour, M., Mohaseb Karimlu, A. F., Skeikhi Seno, S., & 17 othersDaujat, J., Brock, F., Pinhasi, R., Hongo, H., Perez-Enisco, M., Rasmussen, M., Frantz, L., Megens, H-J., Crooijmans, R., Groenen, M., Arbuckle, B., Benecke, N., Strand-Vidarsdottir, U., Burger, J., Cucchi, T., Dobney, K. & Larson, G., Apr 2013, In: Molecular Biology and Evolution. 30, 4, p. 824-832 8 p.

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  • Ancient DNA 100%
  • Domestication 98%
  • domestication 80%
  • Eurasia 76%
  • pig 62%
  166 Citations (Scopus)

  11 Downloads (Pure)

• Chalcolithic pig remains from Çamlibel Tarlasi, Central Anatolia.

  Bartosiewicz, L., Gillis, R., Girdland Flink, L., Evin, A., Cucchi, T., Hoelzel, R., Vidarsdottir, U., Dobney, K., Larson, G. & Schoop, U-D., 2013, Archaeozoology of the Near East X: Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on the Archaeozoology of South-Western Asia and Adjacent Areas. De Cupere, B., Linseele, V. & Hamilton-Dyer, S. (eds.). Editions Peeters, p. 101–120 20 p. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies Supplement Series; vol. 44).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Published conference contribution

  • swine 100%
  • animal husbandry 59%
  • bones 44%
  • wild boars 30%
  • morphometry 29%