Female exogamy and gene pool diversification at the transition from the Final Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age in central Europe

C Knipper, A Mittnik, K Massy… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
… Poly-C regions and mutational hotspots at positions 303–315, 515–522, and 16519 were …
C Knipper, et al., A distinct section of the Early Bronze Age society? Stable isotope …

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

C Knipper, D Peters, C Meyer, AF Maurer… - Archaeological and …, 2013 - Springer
… Furthermore, δ 13 C values of the pigs in this study (average, −21.6 ± 0.3 ‰) show
comparatively little variation and no distinction from the other species except for the horses (δ 13 …

[HTML][HTML] High-resolution isotopic evidence of specialised cattle herding in the European Neolithic

C Gerling, T Doppler, V Heyd, C Knipper, T Kuhn… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
… by the higher δ 13 C of bone collagen (Fig 4). The higher 13 C/ 12 C ratios may be related
to prolonged grazing in open or less humid environments. For comparison, the low δ 13 …

[HTML][HTML] Lombards on the move–an integrative study of the migration period cemetery at Szólád, Hungary

KW Alt, C Knipper, D Peters, W Müller, AF Maurer… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
C = −19.6 to −17.7 ‰) by exhibiting higher δ 13 C values of above −17 ‰, which point to a
significant role played by a C … Excluding individual 44, the average δ 13 C value of the adults …

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

C Knipper, C Meyer, F Jacobi, C Roth, M Fecher… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
… One of the outstandingly rich graves (tumulus 1/grave 1) contained the skeleton of a young
man (the “prince”) who consumed a superior diet based on C 3 plants that also included …

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

C Knipper, C Rihuete-Herrada, J Voltas, P Held… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
… Here we present δ 13 C and δ 15 N data of wheat and barley grains as well as bone collagen
of domestic animal and human remains from the El Argar sites of La Bastida and Gatas in …

Strontium isotopes and prehistoric human migration: the Bell Beaker period in central Europe

TD Price, C Knipper, G Grupe… - European journal of …, 2004 - cambridge.org
Human skeletal remains from Bell Beaker graves in southern Germany, Austria, the Czech
Republic, and Hungary were analyzed for information on human migration. Strontium isotope …

Geographical patterns in biologically available strontium, carbon and oxygen isotope signatures in prehistoric SW Germany

RA Bentley, C Knipper - Archaeometry, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… PDB ) – 1], all δ 13 C figures in this paper reported relative to Pee Dee Belemite [PDB] …
production such that C 3 plants have δ 13 C values between −23 and −34, whereas C 4 plants (…

Kinship-based social inequality in Bronze Age Europe

A Mittnik, K Massy, C Knipper, F Wittenborn, R Friedrich… - Science, 2019 - science.org
… 3 and table S13), pedigree-based Bayesian modeling decreased the calibrated ranges
of the 14 C ages in all individuals from an average 2σ error of 154 years with conventional …

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

AF Maurer, SJG Galer, C Knipper, L Beierlein… - Science of the Total …, 2012 - Elsevier
… 50 C. Approximately 1 g of dried leaves was ground manually and ashed in acid-washed
silica crucibles at 550 C … They were then ashed in a muffle furnace at 250 C for 2 h, followed by …