Courtney Nimura’s research while affiliated with University of Oxford and other places

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Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia
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December 2022

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Manuel Fernández-Götz

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Courtney Nimura

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Diederick Habermehl

Migrations constitute one of the most defining features of human history from the very beginning to the present. In recent years, the increasing application of ancient DNA and isotope studies has been revolutionising our understanding of past population movements, although the interpretation of the results is often still controversial. This volume provides an insight into cutting-edge research on late prehistoric migrations in Eurasia, integrating different strands of evidence and emphasising the need for combining bioarchaeological analyses with a solid theoretical and methodological background. The 15 chapters within the book range from the 3rd to the 1st millennia BC, with a geographical scope extending from Atlantic Europe to Central Asia. Case studies include a reassessment of large-scale migrations, but also high-resolution studies from micro-regions. From a discussion of phenomena such as the Yamnaya and Bell Beaker complexes or the so-called ‘Celtic’ migrations, to novel approaches to motherhood and fosterage, the volume highlights new avenues for the understanding of human mobility. Overall, the results offered in the book reveal the extraordinary diversity of migrations in ancient Eurasia and the various ways in which archaeology can contribute to wider discussions on past and present mobility.


Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia
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December 2022

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Migrations constitute one of the most defining features of human history from the very beginning to the present. In recent years, the increasing application of ancient DNA and isotope studies has been revolutionising our understanding of past population movements, although the interpretation of the results is often still controversial. This volume provides insights into cutting-edge research on late prehistoric migrations in Eurasia, integrating different strands of evidence and emphasising the need for combining bioarchaeological analyses with a solid theoretical and methodological background. The 15 chapters within the book range from the 3rd to the 1st millennia BC, with a geographical scope extending from Atlantic Europe to Central Asia. Case studies include a reassessment of large-scale migrations, but also high-resolution studies from micro-regions. Overall, the results offered in the volume reveal the extraordinary diversity of migrations in ancient Eurasia and the ways in which archaeology can contribute to wider discussions on past and present mobility. "This book reviews new ways of documenting migrations in the ancient world and puts forward an important agenda for the future", Richard Bradley FBA, University of Reading "With this volume, the editors make a timely, sophisticated, and substantial intervention in archaeological debates of migration. This is a carefully balanced collection of papers that bring a wide range of conceptual and methodological perspectives to the table, covering the length and breadth of prehistoric Europe", Peter van Dommelen, Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

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... Different approaches should be combined: the study of material culture at the scale of both the settlement and the region, more systematic use of radiocarbon everywhere, but especially in those regions insufficiently provided with diagnostic material culture, the systematisation of palynological studies whose capacity to indicate periods of agricultural abandonment has been demonstrated. Progress can also be expected in the study of population mobility and the reconstitution of identity, a subject which the archaeological community is tackling with renewed conceptual and scientific tools (see recently: Fernández-Götz et al. 2023). For this, we will rely principally on artifacts, while developing and expanding the use of biomarkers (aDNA and isotopes), despite the relative paucity of human remains in the period, by building on the few but promising results available for the European Iron Age (e.g. ...

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The migration of the Cimbri. Connecting history with archaeology
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