Martin Sikora

Biographic Data

ID3642015
NAMEMartin Sikora
GIVEN NAMESMartin
FAMILY NAMESikora
SIGNATURESIKORA M
AFFILIATIONSLundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS49
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • Chiquihuite Cave and America’s Hidden Limestone Industries

    Ciprian F Ardelean, Mikkel Winther Pedersen et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2021Cited by: 2References: 13

    This paper is a reply to Chatters et al. (2021. “Evaluating Claims of Early Human Occupation at Chiquihuite Cave, Mexico.” PaleoAmerica 8, doi:10.1080/20555563.2021.1940441), in which they raise a large number of doubts about the legitimacy of our claims of earlier-than-expected human presence at Chiquihuite Cave, in northern Zacatecas, Mexico, mainly questioning the artificial nature of the lithic assemblage and the integrity of our geological c…

  • Population genomics of the Viking world

    Open AccessAshot Margaryan, Daniel J Lawson et al.ARTICLENature2020

  • The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene

    Open AccessMateusz Sikora, Martin Sikora et al.ARTICLENature2019

  • Serious chronic disease of the cervical spine and trauma in a young female from the middle ages (Czech Republic)

    Open AccessKateřina Kalová, Kateřina Boberová et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2019

  • Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans

    Open AccessJ Víctor Moreno-Mayar, Ben A Potter et al.ARTICLENature2018

  • Ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes

    Open AccessPeter de Barros Damgaard, Nina Marchi et al.ARTICLENature2018

  • Re-theorising mobility and the formation of culture and language among the Corded Ware Culture in Europe

    Open AccessKristian Kristiansen, Morten E Allentoft et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2017Cited by: 39References: 34

  • A Genomic View of the Pleistocene Population History of Asia

    Mateusz Sikora, Martin SikoraARTICLECurrent Anthropology2017Cited by: 8References: 52

    The advent of next-generation DNA sequencing technologies over the past decade has had a transformative effect on the study of human population history. Advances in the retrieval and analysis of ancient DNA from human remains for the first time offer a direct window into our genetic past. These data sets have revealed an increasingly complex picture of human demographic history in Asia, suggesting multiple waves of migration across the continent …

  • A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia

    Open AccessAnna‐Sapfo Malaspinas, Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas et al.ARTICLENature2016

    The population history of Aboriginal Australians remains largely uncharacterized. Here we generate high-coverage genomes for 83 Aboriginal Australians (speakers of Pama–Nyungan languages) and 25 Papuans from the New Guinea Highlands. We find that Papuan and Aboriginal Australian ancestors diversified 25–40 thousand years ago (kya), suggesting pre-Holocene population structure in the ancient continent of Sahul (Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania).…

  • Population genomics of Bronze Age Eurasia

    Open AccessMorten E Allentoft, Mateusz Sikora et al.ARTICLENature2015

    The Bronze Age of Eurasia (around 3000–1000 BC) was a period of major cultural changes. However, there is debate about whether these changes resulted from the circulation of ideas or from human migrations, potentially also facilitating the spread of languages and certain phenotypic traits. We investigated this by using new, improved methods to sequence low-coverage genomes from 101 ancient humans from across Eurasia. We show that the Bronze Age w…

  • Early Divergent Strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 Years Ago

    Open AccessSimon Rasmussen, Morten E Allentoft et al.ARTICLECell2015

    The bacteria Yersinia pestis is the etiological agent of plague and has caused human pandemics with millions of deaths in historic times. How and when it originated remains contentious. Here, we report the oldest direct evidence of Yersinia pestis identified by ancient DNA in human teeth from Asia and Europe dating from 2,800 to 5,000 years ago. By sequencing the genomes, we find that these ancient plague strains are basal to all known Yersinia p…

  • The ancestry and affiliations of Kennewick Man

    Open AccessMorten Rasmussen, Mateusz Sikora et al.ARTICLENature2015

    Kennewick Man, a 8,500-year-old male human skeleton discovered in Washington state, USA, has been the subject of scientific and legal controversy; here a DNA analysis shows that Kennewick Man is closer to modern Native Americans than to any other extant population worldwide. Kennewick Man is a 9,000-year-old male human skeleton discovered in Washington state, USA in 1996. The population affinities of the remains have been the subject of scientifi…