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Alissa Mittnik

Group leader

Department of Archaeogenetics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 541
e-mail: alissa_mittnik@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de

Research focus

  • Integrative archaeoscientific approaches to the reconstruction of social systems such as hierarchy, kinship, gender, rules of residence and inheritance 
  • Modes and dynamics of cultural and linguistic transitions and their genetic correlates
  • Mobility and connectivity in the ancient Mediterranean

 

Curriculum Vitae

since 2022

 

Group Leader “MySocialBeIng“, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

2018 - 2021

 

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA and Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

2016 - 2018

 

WIN-Kolleg Fellow and Co-Lead of the project "Times of Upheaval: Changes of Society and Landscape at the Beginning of the Bronze Age" of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany

2016 - 2018

 

Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

2012 - 2016

 

Ph.D. thesis “Investigating Social and Population Dynamics in Prehistoric Europe through the Study of Ancient DNA“, University of Tübingen, Germany

2004 - 2011

 

Studies in biology with focus on human genetics and palaeoanthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA, University of Rostock, Germany, and University of Tübingen, Germany

Publications

Articles

Pilli, E., Vai, S., Moses, V. C., Morelli, S., Lari, M., Modi, A., Diroma, M. A., Amoretti, V., Zuchtriegel, G., Osanna, M., Kennett, D. J., George, R. J., Krigbaum, J., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Caramelli, D., Reich, D., & Mittnik, A. (2024). Ancient DNA challenges prevailing interpretations of the Pompeii plaster casts (advance online). Current Biology.
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Lazaridis, I., Alpaslan-Roodenberg, S., Acar, A., Açıkkol, A., Agelarakis, A., Aghikyan, L., Akyüz, U., Andreeva, D., Andrijašević, G., Antonović, D., Armit, I., Atmaca, A., Avetisyan, P., Aytek, A. İ., Bacvarov, K., Badalyan, R., Bakardzhiev, S., Balen, J., Bejko, L., Bernardos, R., Bertsatos, A., Biber, H., Bilir, A., Bodružić, M., Bonogofsky, M., Bonsall, C., Borić, D., Borovinić, N., Bravo Morante, G., Buttinger, K., Callan, K., Candilio, F., Carić, M., Cheronet, O., Chohadzhiev, S., Chovalopoulou, M.-E., Chryssoulaki, S., Ciobanu, I., Čondić, N., Constantinescu, M., Cristiani, E., Culleton, B. J., Curtis, E., Davis, J., Davtyan, R., Demcenco, T. I., Dergachev, V., Derin, Z., Deskaj, S., Devejyan, S., Djordjević, V., Carlson, D., Sara, K., Eccles, L. R., Elenski, N., Engin, A., Erdoğan, N., Erir-Pazarcı, S., Fernandes, D. M., Ferry, M., Freilich, S., Frînculeasa, A., Galaty, M. L., Gamarra, B., Gasparyan, B., Gaydarska, B., Genç, E., Gültekin, T., Gündüz, S., Hajdu, T., Heyd, V., Hobosyan, S., Hovhannisyan, N., Iliev, I., Iliev, L., Iliev, S., İvgin, İ., Janković, I., Jovanova, L., Karkanas, P., Kavaz-Kındığılı, B., Kaya, E. H., Keating, D., Kennett, D. J., Deniz Kesici, S., Khudaverdyan, A., Kiss, K., Kılıç, S., Klostermann, P., Kostak Boca Negra Valdes, S., Kovačević, S., Krenz-Niedbała, M., Krznarić Škrivanko, M., Kurti, R., Kuzman, P., Lawson, A. M., Lazar, C., Leshtakov, K., Levy, T. E., Liritzis, I., Lorentz, K. O., Łukasik, S., Mah, M., Mallick, S., Mandl, K., Martirosyan-Olshansky, K., Matthews, R., Matthews, W., McSweeney, K., Melikyan, V., Micco, A., Michel, M., Milašinović, L., Mittnik, A., Monge, J. M., Nekhrizov, G., Nicholls, R., Nikitin, A. G., Nikolov, V., Novak, M., Olalde, I., Oppenheimer, J., Osterholtz, A., Özdemir, C., Özdoğan, K. T., Öztürk, N., Papadimitriou, N., Papakonstantinou, N., Papathanasiou, A., Paraman, L., Paskary, E. G., Patterson, N., Petrakiev, I., Petrosyan, L., Petrova, V., Philippa-Touchais, A., Piliposyan, A., Pocuca Kuzman, N., Potrebica, H., Preda-Bălănică, B., Premužić, Z., Price, T. D., Qiu, L., Radović, S., Raeuf Aziz, K., Rajić Šikanjić, P., Rasheed Raheem, K., Razumov, S., Richardson, A., Roodenberg, J., Ruka, R., Russeva, V., Şahin, M., Şarbak, A., Savaş, E., Schattke, C., Schepartz, L., Selçuk, T., Sevim-Erol, A., Shamoon-Pour, M., Shephard, H. M., Sideris, A., Simalcsik, A., Simonyan, H., Sinika, V., Sirak, K., Sirbu, G., Šlaus, M., Soficaru, A., Söğüt, B., Sołtysiak, A., Sönmez-Sözer, Ç., Stathi, M., Steskal, M., Stewardson, K., Stocker, S., Suata-Alpaslan, F., Suvorov, A., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Szeniczey, T., Telnov, N., Temov, S., Todorova, N., Tota, U., Touchais, G., Triantaphyllou, S., Türker, A., Ugarković, M., Valchev, T., Veljanovska, F., Videvski, Z., Virag, C., Wagner, A., Walsh, S., Włodarczak, P., Workman, J. N., Yardumian, A., Yarovoy, E., Yavuz, A. Y., Yılmaz, H., Zalzala, F., Zettl, A., Zhang, Z., Çavuşoğlu, R., Rohland, N., Pinhasi, R., & Reich, D. (2022). The genetic history of the Southern Arc: a bridge between West Asia and Europe. Science, 377(6609): eabm4247.
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Richards, M., Smith, C., Nehlich, O., Grimes, V., Weston, D., Mittnik, A., Krause, J., Dobney, K., Tzedakis, Y., & Martlew, H. (2022). Finding Mycenaeans in Minoan Crete? Isotope and DNA analysis of human mobility in Bronze Age Crete. PLOS ONE, 17(8): e0272144.
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Lazaridis, I., Alpaslan-Roodenberg, S., Acar, A., Açıkkol, A., Agelarakis, A., Aghikyan, L., Akyüz, U., Andreeva, D., Andrijašević, G., Antonović, D., Armit, I., Atmaca, A., Avetisyan, P., Aytek, A. İ., Bacvarov, K., Badalyan, R., Bakardzhiev, S., Balen, J., Bejko, L., Bernardos, R., Bertsatos, A., Biber, H., Bilir, A., Bodružić, M., Bonogofsky, M., Bonsall, C., Borić, D., Borovinić, N., Bravo Morante, G., Buttinger, K., Callan, K., Candilio, F., Carić, M., Cheronet, O., Chohadzhiev, S., Chovalopoulou, M.-E., Chryssoulaki, S., Ciobanu, I., Čondić, N., Constantinescu, M., Cristiani, E., Culleton, B. J., Curtis, E., Davis, J., Demcenco, T. I., Dergachev, V., Derin, Z., Deskaj, S., Devejyan, S., Djordjević, V., Duffett Carlson, K. S., Eccles, L. R., Elenski, N., Engin, A., Erdoğan, N., Erir-Pazarcı, S., Fernandes, D. M., Ferry, M., Freilich, S., Frînculeasa, A., Galaty, M. L., Gamarra, B., Gasparyan, B., Gaydarska, B., Genç, E., Gültekin, T., Gündüz, S., Hajdu, T., Heyd, V., Hobosyan, S., Hovhannisyan, N., Iliev, I., Iliev, L., Iliev, S., İvgin, İ., Janković, I., Jovanova, L., Karkanas, P., Kavaz-Kındığılı, B., Kaya, E. H., Keating, D., Kennett, D. J., Deniz Kesici, S., Khudaverdyan, A., Kiss, K., Kılıç, S., Klostermann, P., Kostak Boca Negra Valdes, S., Kovačević, S., Krenz-Niedbała, M., Krznarić Škrivanko, M., Kurti, R., Kuzman, P., Lawson, A. M., Lazar, C., Leshtakov, K., Levy, T. E., Liritzis, I., Lorentz, K. O., Łukasik, S., Mah, M., Mallick, S., Mandl, K., Martirosyan-Olshansky, K., Matthews, R., Matthews, W., McSweeney, K., Melikyan, V., Micco, A., Michel, M., Milašinović, L., Mittnik, A., Monge, J. M., Nekhrizov, G., Nicholls, R., Nikitin, A. G., Nikolov, V., Novak, M., Olalde, I., Oppenheimer, J., Osterholtz, A., Özdemir, C., Özdoğan, K. T., Öztürk, N., Papadimitriou, N., Papakonstantinou, N., Papathanasiou, A., Paraman, L., Paskary, E. G., Patterson, N., Petrakiev, I., Petrosyan, L., Petrova, V., Philippa-Touchais, A., Piliposyan, A., Pocuca Kuzman, N., Potrebica, H., Preda-Bălănică, B., Premužić, Z., Price, T. D., Qiu, L., Radović, S., Raeuf Aziz, K., Rajić Šikanjić, P., Rasheed Raheem, K., Razumov, S., Richardson, A., Roodenberg, J., Ruka, R., Russeva, V., Şahin, M., Şarbak, A., Savaş, E., Schattke, C., Schepartz, L., Selçuk, T., Sevim-Erol, A., Shamoon-Pour, M., Shephard, H. M., Sideris, A., Simalcsik, A., Simonyan, H., Sinika, V., Sirak, K., Sirbu, G., Šlaus, M., Soficaru, A., Söğüt, B., Sołtysiak, A., Sönmez-Sözer, Ç., Stathi, M., Steskal, M., Stewardson, K., Stocker, S., Suata-Alpaslan, F., Suvorov, A., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Szeniczey, T., Telnov, N., Temov, S., Todorova, N., Tota, U., Touchais, G., Triantaphyllou, S., Türker, A., Ugarković, M., Valchev, T., Veljanovska, F., Videvski, Z., Virag, C., Wagner, A., Walsh, S., Włodarczak, P., Workman, J. N., Yardumian, A., Yarovoy, E., Yavuz, A. Y., Yılmaz, H., Zalzala, F., Zettl, A., Zhang, Z., Çavuşoğlu, R., Rohland, N., Pinhasi, R., & Reich, D. (2022). A genetic probe into the ancient and medieval history of Southern Europe and West Asia. Science, 377(6609), 940-951.
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Lazaridis, I., Alpaslan-Roodenberg, S., Acar, A., Açıkkol, A., Agelarakis, A., Aghikyan, L., Akyüz, U., Andreeva, D., Andrijašević, G., Antonović, D., Armit, I., Atmaca, A., Avetisyan, P., Aytek, A. İ., Bacvarov, K., Badalyan, R., Bakardzhiev, S., Balen, J., Bejko, L., Bernardos, R., Bertsatos, A., Biber, H., Bilir, A., Bodružić, M., Bonogofsky, M., Bonsall, C., Borić, D., Borovinić, N., Bravo Morante, G., Buttinger, K., Callan, K., Candilio, F., Carić, M., Cheronet, O., Chohadzhiev, S., Chovalopoulou, M.-E., Chryssoulaki, S., Ciobanu, I., Čondić, N., Constantinescu, M., Cristiani, E., Culleton, B. J., Curtis, E., Davis, J., Demcenco, T. I., Dergachev, V., Derin, Z., Deskaj, S., Devejyan, S., Djordjević, V., Duffett Carlson, K. S., Eccles, L. R., Elenski, N., Engin, A., Erdoğan, N., Erir-Pazarcı, S., Fernandes, D. M., Ferry, M., Freilich, S., Frînculeasa, A., Galaty, M. L., Gamarra, B., Gasparyan, B., Gaydarska, B., Genç, E., Gültekin, T., Gündüz, S., Hajdu, T., Heyd, V., Hobosyan, S., Hovhannisyan, N., Iliev, I., Iliev, L., Iliev, S., İvgin, İ., Janković, I., Jovanova, L., Karkanas, P., Kavaz-Kındığılı, B., Kaya, E. H., Keating, D., Kennett, D. J., Deniz Kesici, S., Khudaverdyan, A., Kiss, K., Kılıç, S., Klostermann, P., Kostak Boca Negra Valdes, S., Kovačević, S., Krenz-Niedbała, M., Krznarić Škrivanko, M., Kurti, R., Kuzman, P., Lawson, A. M., Lazar, C., Leshtakov, K., Levy, T. E., Liritzis, I., Lorentz, K. O., Łukasik, S., Mah, M., Mallick, S., Mandl, K., Martirosyan-Olshansky, K., Matthews, R., Matthews, W., McSweeney, K., Melikyan, V., Micco, A., Michel, M., Milašinović, L., Mittnik, A., Monge, J. M., Nekhrizov, G., Nicholls, R., Nikitin, A. G., Nikolov, V., Novak, M., Olalde, I., Oppenheimer, J., Osterholtz, A., Özdemir, C., Özdoğan, K. T., Öztürk, N., Papadimitriou, N., Papakonstantinou, N., Papathanasiou, A., Paraman, L., Paskary, E. G., Patterson, N., Petrakiev, I., Petrosyan, L., Petrova, V., Philippa-Touchais, A., Piliposyan, A., Pocuca Kuzman, N., Potrebica, H., Preda-Bălănică, B., Premužić, Z., Price, T. D., Qiu, L., Radović, S., Raeuf Aziz, K., Rajić Šikanjić, P., Rasheed Raheem, K., Razumov, S., Richardson, A., Roodenberg, J., Ruka, R., Russeva, V., Şahin, M., Şarbak, A., Savaş, E., Schattke, C., Schepartz, L., Selçuk, T., Sevim-Erol, A., Shamoon-Pour, M., Shephard, H. M., Sideris, A., Simalcsik, A., Simonyan, H., Sinika, V., Sirak, K., Sirbu, G., Šlaus, M., Soficaru, A., Söğüt, B., Sołtysiak, A., Sönmez-Sözer, Ç., Stathi, M., Steskal, M., Stewardson, K., Stocker, S., Suata-Alpaslan, F., Suvorov, A., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Szeniczey, T., Telnov, N., Temov, S., Todorova, N., Tota, U., Touchais, G., Triantaphyllou, S., Türker, A., Ugarković, M., Valchev, T., Veljanovska, F., Videvski, Z., Virag, C., Wagner, A., Walsh, S., Włodarczak, P., Workman, J. N., Yardumian, A., Yarovoy, E., Yavuz, A. Y., Yılmaz, H., Zalzala, F., Zettl, A., Zhang, Z., Çavuşoğlu, R., Rohland, N., Pinhasi, R., & Reich, D. (2022). Ancient DNA from Mesopotamia suggests distinct Pre-Pottery and Pottery Neolithic migrations into Anatolia. Science, 377(6609), 982-987.
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Reitsema, L. J., Mittnik, A., Kyle, B., Catalano, G., Fabbri, P. F., Kazmi, A. C. S., Reinberger, K. L., Sineo, L., Vassallo, S., Bernardos, R., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Callan, K., Candilio, F., Cheronet, O., Curtis, E., Fernandes, D., Lari, M., Lawson, A. M., Mah, M., Mallick, S., Mandl, K., Micco, A., Modi, A., Oppenheimer, J., Özdogan, K. T., Rohland, N., Stewardson, K., Vai, S., Vergata, C., Workman, J. N., Zalzala, F., Zaro, V., Achilli, A., Anagnostopoulos, A., Capelli, C., Constantinou, V., Lancioni, H., Olivieri, A., Papadopoulou, A., Psatha, N., Semino, O., Stamatoyannopoulos, J., Valliannou, I., Yannaki, E., Lazaridis, I., Patterson, N., Ringbauer, H., Caramelli, D., Pinhasi, R., & Reich, D. (2022). The diverse genetic origins of a Classical period Greek army. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 119(41): e2205272119.
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Kocher, A., Papac, L., Barquera, R., Key, F. M., Spyrou, M. A., Hübler, R., Rohrlach, A. B., Aron, F., Stahl, R., Wissgott, A., van Bömmel, F., Pfefferkorn, M., Mittnik, A., Villalba-Mouco, V., Neumann, G. U., Rivollat, M., Loosdrecht, M. S. v. d., Majander, K., Tukhbatova, R. I., Musralina, L., Ghalichi, A., Penske, S., Sabin, S., Michel, M., Gretzinger, J., Nelson, E. A., Ferraz, T., Nägele, K., Parker, C. E., Keller, M., Guevara, E., Feldman, M., Eisenmann, S., Skourtanioti, E., Giffin, K., Gnecchi-Ruscone, G. A., Friederich, S., Schimmenti, V., Khartanovich, V., Karapetian, M. K., Chaplygin, M. S., Kufterin, V. V., Khokhlov, A. A., Chizhevsky, A. A., Stashenkov, D. A., Kochkina, A. F., Tejedor-Rodríguez, C., de Lagrán, Í.-G.-M., Arcusa-Magallón, H., Garrido-Pena, R., Royo-Guillén, J. I., Novácek, J., Rottier, S., Kacki, S., Saintot, S., Kaverzneva, E., Belinskiy, A. B., Velemínský, P., Limburský, P., Kostka, M., Loe, L., Popescu, E., Clarke, R., Lyons, A., Mortimer, R., Sajantila, A., de Armas, Y. C., Godoy, S. T. H., Hernández-Zaragoza, D. I., Pearson, J., Binder, D., Lefranc, P., Kantorovich, A. R., Maslov, V. E., Lai, L., Zoledziewska, M., Beckett, J. F., Langová, M., Danielisová, A., Ingman, T., Atiénzar, G. G., de Ibáñez, M. P. M., Romero, A., Sperduti, A., Beckett, S., Salter, S. J., Zilivinskaya, E. D., Vasilev, D. V., von Heyking, K., Burger, R. L., Salazar, L. C., Amkreutz, L., Navruzbekov, M., Rosenstock, E., Alonso-Fernández, C., Slavchev, V., Kalmykov, A. A., Atabiev, B. C., Batieva, E., Calmet, M. A., Llamas, B., Schultz, M., Krauß, R., Jiménez-Echevarría, J., Francken, M., Shnaider, S., de Knijff, P., Altena, E., de Vijver, K. V., Fehren-Schmitz, L., Tung, T. A., Lösch, S., Dobrovolskaya, M., Makarov, N., Read, C., Twest, M. V., Sagona, C., Ramsl, P. C., Akar, M., Yener, K. A., Ballestero, E. C., Cucca, F., Mazzarello, V., Utrilla, P., Rademaker, K., Fernández-Domínguez, E., Baird, D., Semal, P., Márquez-Morfín, L., Roksandic, M., Steiner, H., Salazar-García, D. C., Shishlina, N., Erdal, Y. S., Hallgren, F., Boyadzhiev, Y., Boyadzhiev, K., Küßner, M., Sayer, D., Onkamo, P., Skeates, R., Rojo-Guerra, M., Buzhilova, A., Khussainova, E., Djansugurova, L. B., Beisenov, A. Z., Samashev, Z., Massy, K., Mannino, M., Moiseyev, V., Mannermaa, K., Balanovsky, O., Deguilloux, M.-F., Reinhold, S., Hansen, S., Kitov, E. P., Dobeš, M., Ernée, M., Meller, H., Alt, K. W., Prüfer, K., Warinner, C., Schiffels, S., Stockhammer, P. W., Bos, K., Posth, C., Herbig, A., Haak, W., Krause, J., & Kühnert, D. (2021). Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution. Science, 374(6564), 182-188.
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Fernandes, D. M., Mittnik, A., Olalde, I., Lazaridis, I., Cheronet, O., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Bernardos, R., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Carlsson, J., Culleton, B. J., Ferry, M., Gamarra, B., Lari, M., Mah, M., Michel, M., Modi, A., Novak, M., Oppenheimer, J., Sirak, K. A., Stewardson, K., Mandl, K., Schattke, C., Özdoğan, K. T., Lucci, M., Gasperetti, G., Candilio, F., Salis, G., Vai, S., Camarós, E., Calò, C., Catalano, G., Cueto, M., Forgia, V., Lozano, M., Marini, E., Micheletti, M., Miccichè, R. M., Palombo, M. R., Ramis, D., Schimmenti, V., Sureda, P., Teira, L., Teschler-Nicola, M., Kennett, D. J., Lalueza-Fox, C., Patterson, N., Sineo, L., Coppa, A., Caramelli, D., Pinhasi, R., & Reich, D. (2020). The spread of steppe and Iranian-related ancestry in the islands of the western Mediterranean. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4, 334-345.
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Mittnik, A., Massy, K., Knipper, C., Wittenborn, F., Pfrengle, S., Carlichi-Witjes, N., Deeg, H., Furtwängler, A., Harbeck, M., von Heyking, K., Kociumaka, C., Kucukkalipci, I., Lindauer, S., Metz, S., Staskiewicz, A., Thiel, A., Wahl, J., Haak, W., Pernicka, E., Schiffels, S., Stockhammer, P. W., & Krause, J. (2019). Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe. Science, 366(6466): aax6219, pp. 731-734.
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Feldman, M., Master, D. M., Bianco, R. A., Burri Promerová, M., Stockhammer, P. W., Mittnik, A., Aja, A. J., Jeong, C., & Krause, J. (2019). Ancient DNA sheds light on the genetic origins of early Iron Age Philistines. Science Advances, 5(7): eaax0061, pp. 1-10.
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Stockhammer, P. W., Mittnik, A., Massy, K., & Knipper, C. (2018). Die wissenden Frauen vom Lechtal. Spektrum der Wissenschaft: Spezial Archäologie, Geschichte, Kultur, (4), 38-41.
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Eisenmann, S., Bánffy, E., van Dommelen, P., Hofmann, K. P., Maran, J., Lazaridis, I., Mittnik, A., McCormick, M., Krause, J., Reich, D., & Stockhammer, P. W. (2018). Reconciling material cultures in archaeology with genetic data: The nomenclature of clusters emerging from archaeogenomic analysis. Scientific Reports, 8: 13003.
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Olalde, I., Brace, S., Allentoft, M. E., Armit, I., Kristiansen, K., Booth, T., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Mittnik, A., Altena, E., Lipson, M., Lazaridis, I., Harper, T. K., Patterson, N., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Diekmann, Y., Faltyskova, Z., Fernandes, D., Ferry, M., Harney, E., de Knijff, P., Michel, M., Oppenheimer, J., Stewardson, K., Barclay, A., Alt, K. W., Liesau, C., Ríos, P., Blasco, C., Miguel, J. V., García, R. M., Fernández, A. A., Bánffy, E., Bernabò-Brea, M., Billoin, D., Bonsall, C., Bonsall, L., Allen, T., Büster, L., Carver, S., Navarro, L. C., Craig, O. E., Cook, G. T., Cunliffe, B., Denaire, A., Dinwiddy, K. E., Dodwell, N., Ernée, M., Evans, C., Kuchařík, M., Farré, J. F., Fowler, C., Gazenbeek, M., Pena, R. G., Haber-Uriarte, M., Haduch, E., Hey, G., Jowett, N., Knowles, T., Massy, K., Pfrengle, S., Lefranc, P., Lemercier, O., Lefebvre, A., Martínez, C. H., Olmo, V. G., Ramírez, A. B., Maurandi, J. L., Majó, T., McKinley, J. I., McSweeney, K., Mende, B. G., Mod, A., Kulcsár, G., Kiss, V., Czene, A., Patay, R., Endrődi, A., Köhler, K., Hajdu, T., Szeniczey, T., Dani, J., Bernert, Z., Hoole, M., Cheronet, O., Keating, D., Velemínský, P., Dobeš, M., Candilio, F., Brown, F., Fernández, R. F., Herrero-Corral, A.-M., Tusa, S., Carnieri, E., Lentini, L., Valenti, A., Zanini, A., Waddington, C., Delibes, G., Guerra-Doce, E., Neil, B., Brittain, M., Luke, M., Mortimer, R., Desideri, J., Besse, M., Brücken, G., Furmanek, M., Hałuszko, A., Mackiewicz, M., Rapiński, A., Leach, S., Soriano, I., Lillios, K. T., Cardoso, J. L., Pearson, M. P., Włodarczak, P., Price, T. D., Prieto, P., Rey, P.-J., Risch, R., Guerra, R., A., M., Schmitt, A., Serralongue, J., Silva, A. M., Smrčka, V., Vergnaud, L., Zilhão, J., Caramelli, D., Higham, T., Thomas, M. G., Kennett, D. J., Fokkens, H., Heyd, V., Sheridan, A., Sjögren, K.-G., Stockhammer, P. W., Krause, J., Pinhasi, R., Haak, W., Barnes, I., Lalueza-Fox, C., & Reich, D. (2018). The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe. Nature, 555, 190-196.
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Mathieson, I., Alpaslan-Roodenberg, S., Posth, C., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Rohland, N., Mallick, S., Olalde, I., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Candilio, F., Cheronet, O., Fernandes, D., Ferry, M., Gamarra, B., Fortes, G. G., Haak, W., Harney, E., Jones, E., Keating, D., Krause-Kyora, B., Kucukkalipci, I., Michel, M., Mittnik, A., Nägele, K., Novak, M., Oppenheimer, J., Patterson, N., Pfrengle, S., Sirak, K., Stewardson, K., Vai, S., Alexandrov, S., Alt, K. W., Andreescu, R., Antonović, D., Ash, A., Atanassova, N., Bacvarov, K., Gusztáv, M. B., Bocherens, H., Bolus, M., Boroneanţ, A., Boyadzhiev, Y., Budnik, A., Burmaz, J., Chohadzhiev, S., Conard, N. J., Cottiaux, R., Čuka, M., Cupillard, C., Drucker, D. G., Elenski, N., Francken, M., Galabova, B., Ganetsovski, G., Gély, B., Hajdu, T., Handzhyiska, V., Harvati, K., Higham, T., Iliev, S., Janković, I., Karavanić, I., Kennett, D. J., Komšo, D., Kozak, A., Labuda, D., Lari, M., Lazar, C., Leppek, M., Leshtakov, K., Vetro, D. L., Los, D., Lozanov, I., Malina, M., Martini, F., McSweeney, K., Meller, H., Menđušić, M., Mirea, P., Moiseyev, V., Petrova, V., Price, T. D., Simalcsik, A., Sineo, L., Šlaus, M., Slavchev, V., Stanev, P., Starović, A., Szeniczey, T., Talamo, S., Teschler-Nicola, M., Thevenet, C., Valchev, I., Valentin, F., Vasilyev, S., Veljanovska, F., Venelinova, S., Veselovskaya, E., Viola, T., Virag, C., Zaninović, J., Zäuner, S., Stockhammer, P. W., Catalano, G., Krauß, R., Caramelli, D., Zariņa, G., Gaydarska, B., Lillie, M., Nikitin, A. G., Potekhina, I., Papathanasiou, A., Borić, D., Bonsall, C., Krause, J., Pinhasi, R., & Reich, D. (2018). The genomic history of southeastern Europe. Nature, 555(7695), 197-203.
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Peltzer, A., Mittnik, A., Wang, C.-C., Begg, T., Posth, C., Nieselt, K., & Krause, J. (2018). Inferring genetic origins and phenotypic traits of George Bähr, the architect of the Dresden Frauenkirche. Scientific Reports, 8: 2115.
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Mittnik, A., Wang, C.-C., Pfrengle, S., Daubaras, M., Zariņa, G., Hallgren, F., Allmäe, R., Khartanovich, V., Moiseyev, V., Tõrv, M., Furtwängler, A., Andrades Valtueña, A., Feldman, M., Economou, C., Oinonen, M., Vasks, A., Balanovska, E., Reich, D., Jankauskas, R., Haak, W., Schiffels, S., & Krause, J. (2018). The genetic prehistory of the Baltic Sea region. Nature Communications, 9: 442.
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Gaunitz, C., Fages, A., Hanghøj, K., Albrechtsen, A., Khan, N., Schubert, M., Seguin-Orlando, A., Owens, I. J., Felkel, S., Bignon-Lau, O., Barros Damgaard de, P., Mittnik, A., Mohaseb, A. F., Davoudi, H., Alquraishi, S., Alfarhan, A. H., Al-Rasheid, K. A. S., Crubézy, E., Benecke, N., Olsen, S., Brown, D., Anthony, D., Massy, K., Pitulko, V., Kasparov, A., Brem, G., Hofreiter, M., Mukhtarova, G., Baimukhanov, N., Lõugas, L., Onar, V., Stockhammer, P. W., Krause, J., Boldgiv, B., Undrakhbold, S., Erdenebaatar, D., Lepetz, S., Mashkour, M., Ludwig, A., Wallner, B., Merz, V., Merz, I., Zaibert, V., Willerslev, E., Librado, P., Outram, A. K., & Orlando, L. (2018). Ancient genomes revisit the ancestry of domestic and Przewalski’s horses. Science, 360(6384), 111-114.
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Knipper, C., Mittnik, A., Massy, K., Kociumaka, C., Kucukkalipci, I., Maus, M., Wittenborn, F., Metz, S. E., Staskiewicz, A., Krause, J., & Stockhammer, P. W. (2017). Female exogamy and gene pool diversification at the transition from the final neolithic to the early Bronze Age in central Europe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(38), 10083-10088.
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Andrades Valtueña, A., Mittnik, A., Key, F. M., Haak, W., Allmäe, R., Belinskij, A., Daubaras, M., Feldman, M., Jankauskas, R., Janković, I., Massy, K., Novak, M., Pfrengle, S., Reinhold, S., Šlaus, M., Spyrou, M. A., Szécsényi-Nagy, A., Tõrv, M., Hansen, S., Bos, K. I., Stockhammer, P. W., Herbig, A., & Krause, J. (2017). The Stone Age plague and its persistence in Eurasia. Current Biology, 27(23), 3683-3691.
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Mittnik, A., Wang, C.-C., Svoboda, J., & Krause, J. (2016). A molecular approach to the sexing of the triple burial at the upper paleolithic site of Dolní Věstonice. PLoS One, 11(10): e0163019.
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Book Chapters

Mittnik, A., Massy, K., Knipper, C., Friedrich, R., Krause, J., & Stockhammer, P. W. (2023). Kinship, status and mobility in the Bronze Age Lech Valley. In H. Meller, J. Krause, W. Haak, & R. Risch (Eds.), Kinship, sex, and biological relatedness: the contribution of archaeogenetics to the understanding of social and biological relations: 15. Mitteldeutscher Archäologentag vom 6. bis 8. Oktober 2022 in Halle (Saale) (pp. 195-217). Halle (Saale): Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie Sachsen-Anhalt - Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte.
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Massy, K., Knipper, C., Mittnik, A., Kraus, S., Pernicka, E., Wittenborn, F., Krause, J., & Stockhammer, P. W. (2017). Patterns of transformation from the Final Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age: A case study from the Lech Valley South of Augsburg. In J. Maran (Ed.), Appropriating innovations: Entangled knowledge in Eurasia, 5000‒1500 BCE (pp. 241-261). Oxford: Oxbow Books.
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Mittnik, A., & Krause, J. (2016). Genetic analysis of the Dolní Věstonice human remains. In J. Svoboda (Ed.), Dolní Věstonice II: Chronostratigraphy, Paleoethnology, Paleoanthropology (pp. 377-384). Brno: Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Archeology.
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Mittnik, A., & Krause, J. (2015). The Oberkassel double burial from a genetic perspective. In L. Giemsch, & R. Schmitz (Eds.), The late glacial burial from Oberkassel revisited (pp. 223-229). Darmstadt: Verl. Phillip von Zabern.
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Bollongino, R., Mittnik, A., & Krause, J. (2014). Ein kleines Molekül erschließt ein großes Archiv. In L. Giemsch, & M. Hegewisch (Eds.), Eiszeitjäger: Leben im Paradies; Europa vor 15000 Jahren; Begleitbuch zur Ausstellung Eiszeitjäger - Leben im Paradies. Europa vor 15000 Jahren, LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn: 23. Oktober 2014 bis 28. Juni 2015 (pp. 204-213). Mainz: Nünnerich-Asmus.
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