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Aivar Kriiska
Researcher at University of Tartu
Publications - 68
Citations - 2445
Aivar Kriiska is an academic researcher from University of Tartu. The author has contributed to research in topics: Stone Age & Mesolithic. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 59 publications receiving 1908 citations.
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Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia
Morten E. Allentoft,Martin Sikora,Karl-Göran Sjögren,Simon Rasmussen,Morten Rasmussen,Jesper Stenderup,Peter de Barros Damgaard,Hannes Schroeder,Hannes Schroeder,Torbjörn Ahlström,Lasse Vinner,Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas,Ashot Margaryan,Thomas Higham,David Chivall,Niels Lynnerup,Lise Harvig,Justyna Baron,Philippe Della Casa,Paweł Dąbrowski,Paul R. Duffy,Alexander V. Ebel,Andrey Epimakhov,Karin Margarita Frei,Mirosław Furmanek,Tomasz Gralak,Andrey Gromov,Stanisław Gronkiewicz,Gisela Grupe,Tamás Hajdu,Tamás Hajdu,Radosław Jarysz,Valeri Khartanovich,Alexandr Khokhlov,Viktória Kiss,Jan Kolář,Jan Kolář,Aivar Kriiska,Irena Lasak,Cristina Longhi,George McGlynn,Algimantas Merkevicius,Inga Merkyte,Mait Metspalu,Ruzan Mkrtchyan,Vyacheslav Moiseyev,László Paja,László Paja,György Pálfi,Dalia Pokutta,Łukasz Pospieszny,T. Douglas Price,Lehti Saag,Mikhail V. Sablin,N. I. Shishlina,Václav Smrčka,Vasilii I. Soenov,Vajk Szeverényi,Gusztáv Tóth,Synaru V. Trifanova,Liivi Varul,Magdolna Vicze,Levon Yepiskoposyan,Vladislav S. Zhitenev,Ludovic Orlando,Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén,Søren Brunak,Søren Brunak,Rasmus Nielsen,Kristian Kristiansen,Eske Willerslev +70 more
TL;DR: It is shown that the Bronze Age was a highly dynamic period involving large-scale population migrations and replacements, responsible for shaping major parts of present-day demographic structure in both Europe and Asia.
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Early divergent strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 years ago.
Simon Rasmussen,Morten E. Allentoft,Kasper Nielsen,Ludovic Orlando,Martin Sikora,Karl-Göran Sjögren,Anders Gorm Pedersen,Mikkel Schubert,Alex R. Van Dam,Christian M. O. Kapel,Henrik Nielsen,Søren Brunak,Søren Brunak,Pavel Avetisyan,Andrey Epimakhov,Mikhail Viktorovich Khalyapin,Artak Gnuni,Aivar Kriiska,Irena Lasak,Mait Metspalu,Vyacheslav Moiseyev,Andrei V. Gromov,Dalia Pokutta,Lehti Saag,Liivi Varul,Levon Yepiskoposyan,Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén,Robert Foley,Marta Mirazón Lahr,Rasmus Nielsen,Kristian Kristiansen,Eske Willerslev,Eske Willerslev +32 more
TL;DR: The oldest direct evidence of Yersinia pestis identified by ancient DNA in human teeth from Asia and Europe dating from 2,800 to 5,000 years ago is reported and is found to be at least two times older than previous estimates.
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Extensive Farming in Estonia Started through a Sex-Biased Migration from the Steppe
Lehti Saag,Lehti Saag,Liivi Varul,Christiana L. Scheib,Jesper Stenderup,Morten E. Allentoft,Lauri Saag,Luca Pagani,Maere Reidla,Maere Reidla,Kristiina Tambets,Ene Metspalu,Ene Metspalu,Aivar Kriiska,Eske Willerslev,Toomas Kivisild,Toomas Kivisild,Toomas Kivisild,Mait Metspalu +18 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest that the shift to intensive cultivation and animal husbandry in Estonia was triggered by the arrival of new people with predominantly Steppe ancestry but whose ancestors had undergone sex-specific admixture with early farmers with Anatolian ancestry.
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Stone Age settlement and Holocene shore displacement in the Narva-Luga Klint Bay area, eastern Gulf of Finland
Alar Rosentau,Merle Muru,Aivar Kriiska,Dmitry Subetto,Jüri Vassiljev,Tiit Hang,Dmitry Gerasimov,Kerkko Nordqvist,Anna Ludikova,Lembi Lõugas,Hanna Raig,Kersti Kihno,Raivo Aunap,Nikolay Letyka +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reconstructed the shore displacement curve of the Narva-Luga Klint Bay area in the eastern Gulf of Finland during the Stone Age, showing that the highest shoreline of Ancylus Lake at an altitude of 8-17 m a.s.
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The Arrival of Siberian Ancestry Connecting the Eastern Baltic to Uralic Speakers Further East
Lehti Saag,Margot Laneman,Liivi Varul,Martin Malve,Heiki Valk,Maria A. Razzak,Ivan G. Shirobokov,Valeri Khartanovich,Elena Robertovna Mikhaylova,Alena Kushniarevich,Christiana L. Scheib,Anu Solnik,Tuuli Reisberg,Jüri Parik,Lauri Saag,Ene Metspalu,Siiri Rootsi,Francesco Montinaro,Maido Remm,Reedik Mägi,Eugenia D’Atanasio,Enrico R. Crema,David Díez-del-Molino,David Díez-del-Molino,Mark G. Thomas,Aivar Kriiska,Toomas Kivisild,Toomas Kivisild,Richard Villems,Valter Lang,Mait Metspalu,Kristiina Tambets +31 more
TL;DR: This study compares the genetic ancestry of individuals from two as yet genetically unstudied cultural traditions in Estonia in the context of available modern and ancient datasets to build a dataset for studying the demographic history of the northern parts of the Eastern Baltic from the earliest layer of Mesolithic to modern times.