List of works - Kurt W. Alt

"Celtic migrations": fact or fiction? Strontium and oxygen isotope analysis of the Czech cemeteries of Radovesice and Kutná Hora in Bohemia

scientific article published on 18 August 2014

4000 years of human dietary evolution in central Germany, from the first farmers to the first elites.

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

A Community in Life and Death: The Late Neolithic Megalithic Tomb at Alto de Reinoso (Burgos, Spain)

scientific article

A comprehensive genomic history of extinct and living elephants

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

A distinct section of the Early Bronze Age society? Stable isotope investigations of burials in settlement pits and multiple inhumations of the Únětice culture in central Germany

scientific article published on 17 November 2015

A massacre of early Neolithic farmers in the high Pyrenees at Els Trocs, Spain

scientific article published on 07 February 2020

Ancient DNA from European early Neolithic farmers reveals their near eastern affinities

scientific article published in 2010

Ancient DNA reveals key stages in the formation of central European mitochondrial genetic diversity

scientific article

Ancient DNA reveals prehistoric gene-flow from siberia in the complex human population history of North East Europe ⬇️

scientific article

Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and osteological analyses shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age

scientific article

Ancient genome-wide DNA from France highlights the complexity of interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers

scientific article published on 29 May 2020

Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the Caucasus corresponds with eco-geographic regions

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Best practice for osteological sexing in forensics and bioarchaeology: The utility of combining metric and morphological traits from different anatomical regions

scientific article published in 2021

Beyond the grave: variability in Neolithic diets in Southern Germany?

article

Bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr in different environmental samples--effects of anthropogenic contamination and implications for isoscapes in past migration studies

scientific article

Climbing into the past—first Himalayan mummies discovered in Nepal

scholarly article by Kurt W Alt et al published November 2003 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Degenerative alterations of the spine in an Early Mediaeval population from Mannheim-Seckenheim, Germany ⬇️

scientific article published on April 23, 2013

Diet and subsistence in Bronze Age pastoral communities from the southern Russian steppes and the North Caucasus

scientific article published on 14 October 2020

Dietary reconstruction in Migration Period Central Germany: a carbon and nitrogen isotope study

scientific article published on 10 October 2012

Earliest evidence for social endogamy in the 9,000-year-old-population of Basta, Jordan

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Early Neolithic diet and animal husbandry: stable isotope evidence from three Linearbandkeramik (LBK) sites in Central Germany

scientific article (publication date: February 2011)

Early Neolithic executions indicated by clustered cranial trauma in the mass grave of Halberstadt.

scientific article

Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe

scientific article (publication date: 14 March 2015)

Erratum: The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

scientific article published in Nature

Evidence for “Celtic migrations”? Strontium isotope analysis at the early La Tène (LT B) cemeteries of Nebringen (Germany) and Monte Bibele (Italy)

scientific article published in October 2013

Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians

scientific article

Genomic transformation and social organization during the Copper Age-Bronze Age transition in southern Iberia

scientific article published on 17 November 2021

Holes in teeth - Dental caries in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age populations in Central Germany

scientific article

Human paleogenetics of Europe--the known knowns and the known unknowns

scientific article

Insights into the Social Structure of the PPNB Site of Kfar HaHoresh, Israel, Based on Dental Remains

scientific article

Investigating Neolithic caprine husbandry in the Central Pyrenees: Insights from a multi-proxy study at Els Trocs cave (Bisaurri, Spain)

scientific article published on 06 January 2021

Lombards on the move--an integrative study of the migration period cemetery at Szólád, Hungary

scientific article

Massive migration from the steppe is a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

scientific article

Mobility or migration: a case study from the Neolithic settlement of Nieder-Mörlen (Hessen, Germany)

article

Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus

scientific article

Neolithic and medieval virus genomes reveal complex evolution of hepatitis B.

scientific article published on 10 May 2018

Neolithic mitochondrial haplogroup H genomes and the genetic origins of Europeans

scientific article

Palaeogenomes of Eurasian straight-tusked elephants challenge the current view of elephant evolution

scientific article

Parallel palaeogenomic transects reveal complex genetic history of early European farmers

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Parallel paleogenomic transects reveal complex genetic history of early European farmers

Reconstructing Bronze Age diets and farming strategies at the early Bronze Age sites of La Bastida and Gatas (southeast Iberia) using stable isotope analysis

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

Rib lesions in skeletons from early neolithic sites in Central Germany: on the trail of tuberculosis at the onset of agriculture

scientific article

Same old in Middle Neolithic diets? A stable isotope study of bone collagen from the burial community of Jechtingen, southwest Germany

article

Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions

scientific article published on 17 February 2013

Social differentiation and land use at an Early Iron Age “princely seat”: bioarchaeological investigations at the Glauberg (Germany)

scientific article

Survival of Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherer Ancestry in the Iberian Peninsula

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

The Beaker Phenomenon And The Genomic Transformation Of Northwest Europe

The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

The Eulau eulogy: Bioarchaeological interpretation of lethal violence in Corded Ware multiple burials from Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

article

The Genomic History Of Southeastern Europe

The Palaeoanthropocene – The beginnings of anthropogenic environmental change

article by Stephen F. Foley et al published November 2013 in Anthropocene

The face of war: Trauma analysis of a mass grave from the Battle of Lützen (1632)

scientific article

The genetic prehistory of the Greater Caucasus

The genomic history of southeastern Europe

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years

scientific article

The massacre mass grave of Schöneck-Kilianstädten reveals new insights into collective violence in Early Neolithic Central Europe

scientific article

The maternal genetic make-up of the Iberian Peninsula between the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age.

scientific article

Tracing mobility patterns through the 6th-5th millennia BC in the Carpathian Basin with strontium and oxygen stable isotope analyses

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Tracing patterns of activity in the human skeleton: An overview of methods, problems, and limits of interpretation ⬇️

scientific article published on 08 May 2011

Tracing the genetic origin of Europe's first farmers reveals insights into their social organization

Tracing the genetic origin of Europe's first farmers reveals insights into their social organization.

scientific article published in April 2015

What is on the menu in a Celtic town? Iron Age diet reconstructed at Basel-Gasfabrik, Switzerland

scientific article published on 6 August 2016

‘Early Neolithic’ graves of the Carpathian Basin are in fact 6000 years younger—Appeal for real interdisciplinarity between archaeology and ancient DNA research ⬇️

scientific article published on June 7, 2012

List of works by Kurt W. Alt

"Celtic migrations": fact or fiction? Strontium and oxygen isotope analysis of the Czech cemeteries of Radovesice and Kutná Hora in Bohemia

4000 years of human dietary evolution in central Germany, from the first farmers to the first elites.

A Community in Life and Death: The Late Neolithic Megalithic Tomb at Alto de Reinoso (Burgos, Spain)

A comprehensive genomic history of extinct and living elephants

A distinct section of the Early Bronze Age society? Stable isotope investigations of burials in settlement pits and multiple inhumations of the Únětice culture in central Germany

A massacre of early Neolithic farmers in the high Pyrenees at Els Trocs, Spain

Ancient DNA from European early Neolithic farmers reveals their near eastern affinities

Ancient DNA reveals key stages in the formation of central European mitochondrial genetic diversity

Ancient DNA reveals prehistoric gene-flow from siberia in the complex human population history of North East Europe ⬇️

Ancient DNA, Strontium isotopes, and osteological analyses shed light on social and kinship organization of the Later Stone Age

Ancient genome-wide DNA from France highlights the complexity of interactions between Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and Neolithic farmers

Ancient human genome-wide data from a 3000-year interval in the Caucasus corresponds with eco-geographic regions

Best practice for osteological sexing in forensics and bioarchaeology: The utility of combining metric and morphological traits from different anatomical regions

Beyond the grave: variability in Neolithic diets in Southern Germany?

Bioavailable 87Sr/86Sr in different environmental samples--effects of anthropogenic contamination and implications for isoscapes in past migration studies

Climbing into the past—first Himalayan mummies discovered in Nepal

Degenerative alterations of the spine in an Early Mediaeval population from Mannheim-Seckenheim, Germany ⬇️

Diet and subsistence in Bronze Age pastoral communities from the southern Russian steppes and the North Caucasus

Dietary reconstruction in Migration Period Central Germany: a carbon and nitrogen isotope study

Earliest evidence for social endogamy in the 9,000-year-old-population of Basta, Jordan

Early Neolithic diet and animal husbandry: stable isotope evidence from three Linearbandkeramik (LBK) sites in Central Germany

Early Neolithic executions indicated by clustered cranial trauma in the mass grave of Halberstadt.

Eight thousand years of natural selection in Europe

Erratum: The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

Evidence for “Celtic migrations”? Strontium isotope analysis at the early La Tène (LT B) cemeteries of Nebringen (Germany) and Monte Bibele (Italy)

Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians

Genomic transformation and social organization during the Copper Age-Bronze Age transition in southern Iberia

Holes in teeth - Dental caries in Neolithic and Early Bronze Age populations in Central Germany

Human paleogenetics of Europe--the known knowns and the known unknowns

Insights into the Social Structure of the PPNB Site of Kfar HaHoresh, Israel, Based on Dental Remains

Investigating Neolithic caprine husbandry in the Central Pyrenees: Insights from a multi-proxy study at Els Trocs cave (Bisaurri, Spain)

Lombards on the move--an integrative study of the migration period cemetery at Szólád, Hungary

Massive migration from the steppe is a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

Massive migration from the steppe was a source for Indo-European languages in Europe

Mobility or migration: a case study from the Neolithic settlement of Nieder-Mörlen (Hessen, Germany)

Neanderthal behaviour, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA in dental calculus

Neolithic and medieval virus genomes reveal complex evolution of hepatitis B.

Neolithic mitochondrial haplogroup H genomes and the genetic origins of Europeans

Palaeogenomes of Eurasian straight-tusked elephants challenge the current view of elephant evolution

Parallel palaeogenomic transects reveal complex genetic history of early European farmers

Parallel paleogenomic transects reveal complex genetic history of early European farmers

Reconstructing Bronze Age diets and farming strategies at the early Bronze Age sites of La Bastida and Gatas (southeast Iberia) using stable isotope analysis

Rib lesions in skeletons from early neolithic sites in Central Germany: on the trail of tuberculosis at the onset of agriculture

Same old in Middle Neolithic diets? A stable isotope study of bone collagen from the burial community of Jechtingen, southwest Germany

Sequencing ancient calcified dental plaque shows changes in oral microbiota with dietary shifts of the Neolithic and Industrial revolutions

Social differentiation and land use at an Early Iron Age “princely seat”: bioarchaeological investigations at the Glauberg (Germany)

Survival of Late Pleistocene Hunter-Gatherer Ancestry in the Iberian Peninsula

The Beaker Phenomenon And The Genomic Transformation Of Northwest Europe

The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe

The Eulau eulogy: Bioarchaeological interpretation of lethal violence in Corded Ware multiple burials from Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

The Genomic History Of Southeastern Europe

The Palaeoanthropocene – The beginnings of anthropogenic environmental change

The face of war: Trauma analysis of a mass grave from the Battle of Lützen (1632)

The genetic prehistory of the Greater Caucasus

The genomic history of southeastern Europe

The genomic history of the Iberian Peninsula over the past 8000 years

The massacre mass grave of Schöneck-Kilianstädten reveals new insights into collective violence in Early Neolithic Central Europe

The maternal genetic make-up of the Iberian Peninsula between the Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age.

Tracing mobility patterns through the 6th-5th millennia BC in the Carpathian Basin with strontium and oxygen stable isotope analyses

Tracing patterns of activity in the human skeleton: An overview of methods, problems, and limits of interpretation ⬇️

Tracing the genetic origin of Europe's first farmers reveals insights into their social organization

Tracing the genetic origin of Europe's first farmers reveals insights into their social organization.

What is on the menu in a Celtic town? Iron Age diet reconstructed at Basel-Gasfabrik, Switzerland

‘Early Neolithic’ graves of the Carpathian Basin are in fact 6000 years younger—Appeal for real interdisciplinarity between archaeology and ancient DNA research ⬇️