Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA
edited by Daniel Strand, Anna Källén, and Charlotte Mulcare
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Strand, Daniel, 1984– editor. | Källén, Anna, editor. | Mulcare, Charlotte, editor.
Title: Critical perspectives on ancient DNA / edited by Daniel Strand, Anna Källén and Charlotte Mulcare.
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024] | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023037457 (print) | LCCN 2023037458 (ebook) | ISBN 9780262548090 (paperback) | ISBN 9780262378772 (epub) | ISBN 9780262378765 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Biomolecular archaeology. | DNA, Fossil—Research. | Human genetics—Research. | Anthropology, Prehistoric.
Classification: LCC CC79.B56 C75 2024 (print) | LCC CC79.B56 (ebook) | DDC 599.93/509009—dc23/eng/20231124
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023037457
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Contents
Critical Perspectives on Ancient DNA: An Introduction
Daniel Strand and Anna Källén
1 Gained in Translation: Interdisciplinary Challenges in Ancient DNA
Charlotte Mulcare and Mélanie Pruvost
2 Diagrams of Human Genetic Kinship and Diversity: From the Tree to the Mosaic and the Network?
Marianne Sommer and Ruth Amstutz
3 Past Pathogens and Precarious Futures
Venla Oikkonen
4 Twisting Strings: Hopi Ancestors and Ancient DNA
Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa and Chip Colwell
5 Whitewashing the Neanderthal: Doing Time with Ancient DNA
Amade M’charek
6 The Lagertha Complex: Archaeogenomics and the Viking Stage
Andreas Nyblom
7 Ancient DNA and the Politics of Ethnicity in Neo-Nationalist China
Magnus Fiskesjö
8 Concluding Commentary
K. Ann Horsburgh
Bibliography
Contributors
List of Figures
Figure 2.1
“Average linkage tree for 42 populations.” Used with permission of Princeton University Press, from Luigi L. Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto Piazza, The History and Geography of Human Genes (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994), 78. Permission conveyed through Copyright Clearance Center Inc.
Figure 2.2
ADMIXTURE bar plot. David H. Alexander et al., Admixture 1.3. Software Manual (2020), https://dalexander.github.io/admixture/admixture-manual.pdf.
Figure 2.3
Representation of the first genome-wide analysis of global human genetic diversity with STRUCTURE. From Noah A. Rosenberg et al., “Genetic Structure of Human Population,” Science 298, no. 5602 (2002): 2382. Reprinted with permission from AAAS.
Figure 2.4
“Three scenarios that give indistinguishable ADMIXTURE results.” Daniel J. Lawson, Lucy van Dorp, and Daniel Falush, “A Tutorial on How Not to Over-Interpret STRUCTURE and ADMIXTURE Bar Plots,” Nature Communications 9, no. 3258 (2018): 3.
