L
Linus Girdland Flink
Researcher at Liverpool John Moores University
Publications - 16
Citations - 726
Linus Girdland Flink is an academic researcher from Liverpool John Moores University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ancient DNA & Domestication. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 16 publications receiving 623 citations. Previous affiliations of Linus Girdland Flink include University of Aberdeen & American Museum of Natural History.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Pig Domestication and Human-Mediated Dispersal in Western Eurasia Revealed through Ancient DNA and Geometric Morphometrics
Claudio Ottoni,Linus Girdland Flink,Linus Girdland Flink,Allowen Evin,Allowen Evin,Christina Geörg,Christina Geörg,Bea De Cupere,Wim Van Neer,Wim Van Neer,László Bartosiewicz,Anna Linderholm,Ross Barnett,Joris Peters,Ronny Decorte,Marc Waelkens,Nancy Vanderheyden,François-Xavier Ricaut,Canan Çakirlar,Canan Çakirlar,Özlem Çevik,A. Rus Hoelzel,Marjan Mashkour,Azadeh Fatemeh Mohaseb Karimlu,Shiva Sheikhi Seno,Julie Daujat,Julie Daujat,Fiona Brock,Ron Pinhasi,Hitomi Hongo,Miguel Pérez-Enciso,Morten Arendt Rasmussen,Laurent A. F. Frantz,Hendrik-Jan Megens,Richard P. M. A. Crooijmans,Martien A. M. Groenen,Benjamin S. Arbuckle,Nobert Benecke,Una Strand Vidarsdottir,Joachim Burger,Thomas Cucchi,Thomas Cucchi,Keith Dobney,Greger Larson +43 more
TL;DR: The first genetic signatures of early domestic pigs in the Near Eastern Neolithic core zone are revealed and it is demonstrated that these early pigs differed genetically from those in western Anatolia that were introduced to Europe during the Neolithic expansion.
Journal ArticleDOI
Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific
Vicki A. Thomson,Ophélie Lebrasseur,Jeremy J. Austin,Jeremy J. Austin,Terry L. Hunt,Terry L. Hunt,David A. Burney,Tim Denham,Nicolas J. Rawlence,Nicolas J. Rawlence,Jamie R. Wood,Jaime Gongora,Linus Girdland Flink,Anna Linderholm,Keith Dobney,Greger Larson,Alan Cooper +16 more
TL;DR: It is revealed that previous studies have been impacted by contamination with modern chicken DNA and, as a result, there is no evidence for Polynesian dispersal of chickens to pre-Columbian South America, and a group of unique, closely related haplotypes found only in the Pacific are found.
Journal ArticleDOI
Establishing the validity of domestication genes using DNA from ancient chickens
Linus Girdland Flink,Richard Allen,Ross Barnett,Helena Malmström,Joris Peters,Jonas Eriksson,Leif Andersson,Leif Andersson,Keith Dobney,Greger Larson +9 more
TL;DR: Estimating genetic variability in ancient European chickens over the past 2,000 years shows that a mutation thought to be crucial during chicken domestication was not subjected to strong human-mediated selection until much later in time, demonstrating that the ubiquity of mutations does not necessarily imply ancient origins.
Journal ArticleDOI
Use of domesticated pigs by Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in northwestern Europe
Ben Krause-Kyora,Cheryl A. Makarewicz,Allowen Evin,Allowen Evin,Linus Girdland Flink,Linus Girdland Flink,Keith Dobney,Greger Larson,Soenke Hartz,Stefan Schreiber,Claus von Carnap-Bornheim,Nicole von Wurmb-Schwark,Almut Nebel +12 more
TL;DR: Data from 63 ancient pig specimens show that Ertebølle hunter-gatherers acquired domestic pigs of varying size and coat colour that had both Near Eastern and European mitochondrial DNA ancestry, and reveal that domestic pigs were present in the region ~500 years earlier than previously demonstrated.
Journal ArticleDOI
An absolute chronology for early Egypt using radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical modelling
Michael W. Dee,David Wengrow,Andrew J. Shortland,Alice Stevenson,Fiona Brock,Linus Girdland Flink,Christopher Bronk Ramsey +6 more
TL;DR: An absolute chronology for Early Egypt is produced by combining radiocarbon and archaeological evidence within a Bayesian paradigm and indicates that the process occurred more rapidly than previously thought.