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T. Douglas Price

Other affiliations: University of Gothenburg
Bio: T. Douglas Price is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Mesolithic. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 160 publications receiving 10252 citations. Previous affiliations of T. Douglas Price include University of Gothenburg.


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11 Jun 2015-Nature
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.
Abstract: The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000-1000 BC) was a period of major cultural changes. However, there is debate about whether these changes resulted from the circulation of ideas or from human migrations, potentially also facilitating the spread of languages and certain phenotypic traits. We investigated this by using new, improved methods to sequence low-coverage genomes from 101 ancient humans from across Eurasia. We show 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. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesized spread of Indo-European languages during the Early Bronze Age. We also demonstrate that light skin pigmentation in Europeans was already present at high frequency in the Bronze Age, but not lactose tolerance, indicating a more recent onset of positive selection on lactose tolerance than previously thought.

1,088 citations

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Iñigo Olalde1, Selina Brace2, Morten E. Allentoft3, Ian Armit4  +166 moreInstitutions (69)
08 Mar 2018-Nature
TL;DR: Genome-wide data from 400 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans is presented, finding limited genetic affinity between Beaker-complex-associated individuals from Iberia and central Europe, and excludes migration as an important mechanism of spread between these two regions.
Abstract: From around 2750 to 2500 bc, Bell Beaker pottery became widespread across western and central Europe, before it disappeared between 2200 and 1800 bc. The forces that propelled its expansion are a matter of long-standing debate, and there is support for both cultural diffusion and migration having a role in this process. Here we present genome-wide data from 400 Neolithic, Copper Age and Bronze Age Europeans, including 226 individuals associated with Beaker-complex artefacts. We detected limited genetic affinity between Beaker-complex-associated individuals from Iberia and central Europe, and thus exclude migration as an important mechanism of spread between these two regions. However, migration had a key role in the further dissemination of the Beaker complex. We document this phenomenon most clearly in Britain, where the spread of the Beaker complex introduced high levels of steppe-related ancestry and was associated with the replacement of approximately 90% of Britain's gene pool within a few hundred years, continuing the east-to-west expansion that had brought steppe-related ancestry into central and northern Europe over the previous centuries.

479 citations

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Iain Mathieson1, Songül Alpaslan-Roodenberg1, Cosimo Posth2, Cosimo Posth3, Anna Szécsényi-Nagy4, Nadin Rohland1, Swapan Mallick5, Swapan Mallick1, Iñigo Olalde1, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht1, Nasreen Broomandkhoshbacht5, Francesca Candilio6, Olivia Cheronet7, Olivia Cheronet6, Daniel Fernandes8, Daniel Fernandes6, Matthew Ferry5, Matthew Ferry1, Beatriz Gamarra6, Gloria G. Fortes9, Wolfgang Haak10, Wolfgang Haak2, Eadaoin Harney5, Eadaoin Harney1, Eppie R. Jones11, Eppie R. Jones12, Denise Keating6, Ben Krause-Kyora2, Isil Kucukkalipci3, Megan Michel1, Megan Michel5, Alissa Mittnik2, Alissa Mittnik3, Kathrin Nägele2, Mario Novak6, Jonas Oppenheimer1, Jonas Oppenheimer5, Nick Patterson13, Saskia Pfrengle3, Kendra Sirak14, Kendra Sirak6, Kristin Stewardson1, Kristin Stewardson5, Stefania Vai15, Stefan Alexandrov16, Kurt W. Alt17, Radian Andreescu, Dragana Antonović, Abigail Ash6, Nadezhda Atanassova16, Krum Bacvarov16, Mende Balázs Gusztáv4, Hervé Bocherens3, Michael Bolus3, Adina Boroneanţ18, Yavor Boyadzhiev16, Alicja Budnik, Josip Burmaz, Stefan Chohadzhiev, Nicholas J. Conard3, Richard Cottiaux, Maja Čuka, Christophe Cupillard19, Dorothée G. Drucker3, Nedko Elenski, Michael Francken3, Borislava Galabova, Georgi Ganetsovski, Bernard Gély, Tamás Hajdu20, Veneta Handzhyiska21, Katerina Harvati3, Thomas Higham22, Stanislav Iliev, Ivor Janković23, Ivor Karavanić24, Ivor Karavanić23, Douglas J. Kennett25, Darko Komšo, Alexandra Kozak26, Damian Labuda27, Martina Lari15, Cătălin Lazăr28, Maleen Leppek29, Krassimir Leshtakov21, Domenico Lo Vetro15, Dženi Los, Ivaylo Lozanov21, Maria Malina3, Fabio Martini15, Kath McSweeney30, Harald Meller, Marko Menđušić, Pavel Mirea, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Vanya Petrova21, T. Douglas Price31, Angela Simalcsik18, Luca Sineo32, Mario Šlaus33, Vladimir Slavchev, Petar Stanev, Andrej Starović, Tamás Szeniczey20, Sahra Talamo2, Maria Teschler-Nicola34, Maria Teschler-Nicola7, Corinne Thevenet, Ivan Valchev21, Frédérique Valentin19, Sergey Vasilyev35, Fanica Veljanovska, Svetlana Venelinova, Elizaveta Veselovskaya35, Bence Viola36, Bence Viola35, Cristian Virag, Joško Zaninović, Steve Zäuner, Philipp W. Stockhammer29, Philipp W. Stockhammer2, Giulio Catalano32, Raiko Krauß3, David Caramelli15, Gunita Zariņa37, Bisserka Gaydarska38, Malcolm Lillie39, Alexey G. Nikitin40, Inna Potekhina26, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Dusan Boric41, Clive Bonsall30, Johannes Krause3, Johannes Krause2, Ron Pinhasi7, Ron Pinhasi6, David Reich5, David Reich13, David Reich1 
08 Mar 2018-Nature
TL;DR: It is shown that southeastern Europe continued to be a nexus between east and west after the arrival of farmers, with intermittent genetic contact with steppe populations occurring up to 2,000 years earlier than the migrations from the steppe that ultimately replaced much of the population of northern Europe.
Abstract: Farming was first introduced to Europe in the mid-seventh millennium bc, and was associated with migrants from Anatolia who settled in the southeast before spreading throughout Europe. Here, to und ...

447 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, carbon, oxygen and strontium isotope ratios in domestic bovid tooth enamel were analyzed for evidence of seasonal mobility between the coast and the hinterland by Khoekhoe pastoralists in the southwestern Cape of South Africa.

368 citations


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01 Jan 1980
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of diet on the distribution of nitrogen isotopes in animals was investigated by analyzing animals grown in the laboratory on diets of constant nitrogen isotopic composition and found that the variability of the relationship between the δ^(15)N values of animals and their diets is greater for different individuals raised on the same diet than for the same species raised on different diets.
Abstract: The influence of diet on the distribution of nitrogen isotopes in animals was investigated by analyzing animals grown in the laboratory on diets of constant nitrogen isotopic composition. The isotopic composition of the nitrogen in an animal reflects the nitrogen isotopic composition of its diet. The δ^(15)N values of the whole bodies of animals are usually more positive than those of their diets. Different individuals of a species raised on the same diet can have significantly different δ^(15)N values. The variability of the relationship between the δ^(15)N values of animals and their diets is greater for different species raised on the same diet than for the same species raised on different diets. Different tissues of mice are also enriched in ^(15)N relative to the diet, with the difference between the δ^(15)N values of a tissue and the diet depending on both the kind of tissue and the diet involved. The δ^(15)N values of collagen and chitin, biochemical components that are often preserved in fossil animal remains, are also related to the δ^(15)N value of the diet. The dependence of the δ^(15)N values of whole animals and their tissues and biochemical components on the δ^(15)N value of diet indicates that the isotopic composition of animal nitrogen can be used to obtain information about an animal's diet if its potential food sources had different δ^(15)N values. The nitrogen isotopic method of dietary analysis probably can be used to estimate the relative use of legumes vs non-legumes or of aquatic vs terrestrial organisms as food sources for extant and fossil animals. However, the method probably will not be applicable in those modern ecosystems in which the use of chemical fertilizers has influenced the distribution of nitrogen isotopes in food sources. The isotopic method of dietary analysis was used to reconstruct changes in the diet of the human population that occupied the Tehuacan Valley of Mexico over a 7000 yr span. Variations in the δ^(15)C and δ^(15)N values of bone collagen suggest that C_4 and/or CAM plants (presumably mostly corn) and legumes (presumably mostly beans) were introduced into the diet much earlier than suggested by conventional archaeological analysis.

5,548 citations

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Judith Lorber1
01 Jan 1994
TL;DR: Lorber as discussed by the authors argues that gender is a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences.
Abstract: In this innovative book, a well-known feminist and sociologist-who is also the founding editor of Gender & Society-challenges our most basic assumptions about gender. Judith Lorber argues that gender is wholly a product of socialization, subject to human agency, organization, and interpretation, and that it is a social institution comparable to the economy, the family, and religion in its significance and consequences. Calling into question the inevitability and necessity of gender, she envisions a society structured for equality, where no gender, racial ethnic, or social class group is allowed to monopolize positions of power.

1,642 citations

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TL;DR: Some of the key events in the peopling of the world in the light of the findings of work on ancient DNA are reviewed.
Abstract: Ancient DNA research is revealing a human history far more complex than that inferred from parsimonious models based on modern DNA. Here, we review some of the key events in the peopling of the world in the light of the findings of work on ancient DNA.

1,365 citations

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11 Jun 2015-Nature
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000-3,000 years ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost 400,000 polymorphisms.
Abstract: We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000-3,000 years ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost 400,000 polymorphisms. Enrichment of these positions decreases the sequencing required for genome-wide ancient DNA analysis by a median of around 250-fold, allowing us to study an order of magnitude more individuals than previous studies and to obtain new insights about the past. We show that the populations of Western and Far Eastern Europe followed opposite trajectories between 8,000-5,000 years ago. At the beginning of the Neolithic period in Europe, ∼8,000-7,000 years ago, closely related groups of early farmers appeared in Germany, Hungary and Spain, different from indigenous hunter-gatherers, whereas Russia was inhabited by a distinctive population of hunter-gatherers with high affinity to a ∼24,000-year-old Siberian. By ∼6,000-5,000 years ago, farmers throughout much of Europe had more hunter-gatherer ancestry than their predecessors, but in Russia, the Yamnaya steppe herders of this time were descended not only from the preceding eastern European hunter-gatherers, but also from a population of Near Eastern ancestry. Western and Eastern Europe came into contact ∼4,500 years ago, as the Late Neolithic Corded Ware people from Germany traced ∼75% of their ancestry to the Yamnaya, documenting a massive migration into the heartland of Europe from its eastern periphery. This steppe ancestry persisted in all sampled central Europeans until at least ∼3,000 years ago, and is ubiquitous in present-day Europeans. These results provide support for a steppe origin of at least some of the Indo-European languages of Europe.

1,332 citations