Joachim Bürger

This study evaluates epigenetic clocks for age estimation in ancient human DNA, finding they are unreliable for continuous age-at-death but accurate for sex determination.

This study models the Neolithic expansion of farmers in Europe, showing increasing admixture with hunter-gatherers over time and estimating farmer population size relative to hunter-gatherers.

The paper analyzes 248 historic genomes from Late Roman and Early Medieval sites in southern Germany, revealing demographic shifts, kinship structures, and genetic continuity with modern populations.

The paper reinterprets the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition at Lepenski Vir, suggesting it was driven by European farmers rather than local foragers.

The paper reports admixture between Neolithic farmers and Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in the Danube Gorges, supported by palaeogenomic analysis and archaeological findings.

The paper analyzes ancient genomes from the Mokrin necropolis to study kinship, population structure, and status inheritance in an Early Bronze Age community.

The paper analyzes ancient DNA data from Neolithic and Chalcolithic Europe to study population dynamics and admixture patterns across different regions and time periods.

The paper analyzes ancient genomic data from Portugal to study genetic changes during the Neolithic to Bronze Age transition, finding limited genetic influx and correlations between ancestry and stature.

This study sequenced ancient dog genomes from the Neolithic period in Europe, finding continuity with modern dogs and rejecting a population replacement model and dual origins hypothesis for dog domestication.