Critical perspectives on ancient DNA / edited by Daniel Strand, Anna Källén and Charlotte Mulcare.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Strand, Daniel, 1984- editor.

Källén, Anna, editor.

Mulcare, Charlotte, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biomolecular archaeology.

DNA, Fossil--Research.

DNA, Fossil.

Human genetics--Research.

Human genetics.

Anthropology, Prehistoric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2024]

Summary:

"This book offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of the practices and consequences of ancient DNA research"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Critical perspectives on ancient DNA : an introduction / Daniel Strand and Anna Källén

Gained in translation : interdisciplinary challenges in ancient DNA / Charlotte Mulcare and Mélanie Pruvost

Diagrams of human genetic kinship and diversity : from the tree to the mosaic and the network? / Marianne Sommer and Ruth Amstutz

Past pathogens and precarious futures / Venla Oikkonen

Twisting strings : Hopi ancestors and ancient DNA / Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa and Chip Colwell

Whitewashing the Neanderthal : doing time with ancient DNA / Amade M'charek

The Lagertha complex : archaeogenomics and the Viking stage / Andreas Nyblom

Ancient DNA and the politics of ethnicity in neo-nationalist China / Magnus Fiskesjö

Concluding commentary / K. Ann Horsburgh.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-37877-9

0-262-37876-0

OCLC:

1410599778