Dennis H O''Rourke
Biographic Data
| ID | 625949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis H O''Rourke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis H |
| FAMILY NAME | O''Rourke |
| SIGNATURE | ROURKE D H O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5196-3577 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 215 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Birnirk-Thule social relationships reexamined in light of a context-appropriate chronology for the Alaska North Slope
In Memoriam: Michael H. Crawford (1939–2024)
On July 3rd, 2024, the world lost a true pioneer and leader in the fields of human biology and biological anthropology when Dr. Michael H. Crawford passed away at the age of 84. Dr. Crawford is widely regarded as one of the founders of the field of anthropological genetics (Figure 1). His pioneering work over a career of more than 50 years transformed our understanding of the origin and nature of human diversity (Crawford 2024). Michael influence…
Variations on a Theme: Comparison of Precolonial Iñupiaq Cultural Landscapes Through Subsistence Strategies at Cape Espenberg, Alaska
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The Birnirk to Thule Transition as Viewed from Radiocarbon and Tree-Ring Dating within Two Adjacent Houses at Cape Espenberg, Northwest Alaska
The transformation of the Birnirk culture into the Thule culture is essential in reconstructing the emergence of modern Inuit across Alaska and the larger Bering Strait. To this end, two adjacent semi-subterranean houses of late Birnirk and early Thule affiliation, respectively, at the Rising Whale (KTZ-304) site at Cape Espenberg were recently excavated and dated by radiocarbon and tree-ring measurements. We present the Bayesian analysis of the …
World variation in three-rooted lower second molars and implications for the hominin fossil record
Genetic Analysis of Birnirk Inuit from the Alaskan North Slope
Archaeological evidence indicates that Birnirk peoples (AD 650 – 1300) are the proposed genetic ancestors of the Thule Inuit (AD 950 – 1400) and are potentially an intermediary population between the Thule Inuit and earlier Old Bering Sea people (AD 1 – 1000). We sequenced the first hypervariable region of the mitochondrial DNA of 22 clearly associated Birnirk individuals from the Piġniq (Birnirk), Kugok, Kugusugaruk, and Nunavak sites on the Nor…
Multiple occurrences of the rare Uto‐Aztecan premolar variant in Hungary point to ancient ties between populations of western Eurasia and the Americas
The Uto‐Aztecan premolar (UAP) is a rare dental morphological variant long thought to be restricted to non‐Arctic Native Americans. The recent discovery of four individuals with this trait in a Hungarian sample invites reassessment of its geographic distribution. Our goal is to assess the variation of this trait on a global level and provide an explanation for its distribution. Observations on over 300 medieval Hungarian dentitions, along with da…
Towards an interdisciplinary perspective for the study of human expansions and biocultural diversity in the Americas
Peopling the Americas: Not “Out of Japan”
A widely accepted model for the peopling of the Americas postulates a source population in the Northeast Asian maritime region, which includes northern Japan. The model is based on similarities in stone artifacts (stemmed points) found in North American sites dating as early as 15,000 years ago and those of comparable age in Japan and neighboring regions of Northeast Asia. Here we show, on the basis of data and analyses in biological anthropology…
Atlas of a lost world: Travels in ice age America, Edited by CraigChilds. 2018. Pantheon Books: New York. $15.61 (cloth), $13.99 (e‐book)
Molecular analysis of an ancient Thule population at Nuvuk, Point Barrow, Alaska
OBJECTIVES: The North American archaeological record supports a Holocene origin of Arctic Indigenous peoples. Although the Paleo-Inuit were present for millennia, archaeological and genetic studies suggest that modern peoples descend from a second, more recent tradition known as the Neo-Inuit. Origins of the Neo-Inuit and their relations to the earlier and later Indigenous peoples are an area of active study. Here, we genetically analyze the mate…
Beringia and the global dispersal of modern humans
Until recently, the settlement of the Americas seemed largely divorced from the out‐of‐Africa dispersal of anatomically modern humans, which began at least 50,000 years ago. Native Americans were thought to represent a small subset of the Eurasian population that migrated to the Western Hemisphere less than 15,000 years ago. Archeological discoveries since 2000 reveal, however, that Homo sapiens occupied the high‐latitude region between Northeast…
Thule whaling at Point Barrow, Alaska: The Nuvuk cemetery stable isotope and radiocarbon record
The genetic prehistory of the New World Arctic
Arctic genetics comes in from the cold Despite a well-characterized archaeological record, the genetics of the people who inhabit the Arctic have been unexplored. Raghavan et al. sequenced ancient and modern genomes of individuals from the North American Arctic (see the Perspective by Park). Analyses of these genomes indicate that the Arctic was colonized 6000 years ago by a migration separate from the one that gave rise to other Native American …
Genetics, Geography, and Human Variation
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Genes in Populations Mechanisms of Evolution Genetic Variation Population Structure Human Origins Human Migrations and Population History Ancient DNA Analysis Chapter Summary References Cited
Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Evolutionary Perspective Biocultural Perspective Related Disciplines Chapter Summary References Cited
Ancient DNA perspectives on American colonization and population history
Ancient DNA (aDNA) analyses have proven to be important tools in understanding human population dispersals, settlement patterns, interactions between prehistoric populations, and the development of regional population histories. Here, we review the published results of sixty-three human populations from throughout the Americas and compare the levels of diversity and geographic patterns of variation in the ancient samples with contemporary genetic…
Unangan Past and Present: The Contrasts Between Observed and Inferred Histories
Academic research focusing on the population and culture history of the Aleut (Unangan) people began in the late 19th century and continues to the present. The papers in this special issue of Human Biology summarize the latest results from archaeological, linguistic, genetic, and morphometric research approaches that bear on our current understanding of Unangan history and prehistory. Although these new analyses have provided a level of descripti…
South from Alaska: A Pilot aDNA Study of Genetic History on the Alaska Peninsula and the Eastern Aleutians
The Aleutian Islands were colonized, perhaps several times, from the Alaskan mainland. Earlier work documented transitions in the relative frequencies of mtDNA haplogroups over time, but little is known about potential source populations for prehistoric Aleut migrants. As part of a pilot investigation, we sequenced the mtDNA first hypervariable region (HVRI) in samples from two archaeological sites on the Alaska Peninsula (the Hot Springs site ne…
Introduction: Origins and Settlement of the Indigenous Populations of the Aleutian Archipelago
Introduction: Origins and Settlement of the Indigenous Populations of the Aleutian Archipelago Dixie West (bio), Dennis O'Rourke (bio), and Michael H. Crawford (bio) Keywords Aleutian Islands, Indigenous Peoples, Colonization, Contact, Biology [Correction] The series of papers in this special issue of Human Biology use an interdisciplinary approach to address regional questions and to integrate disparate Aleutian data into a broad, synthetic effo…
Inferring Population Continuity Versus Replacement with aDNA: A Cautionary Tale from the Aleutian Islands
In The Aleutian and Commander Islands and Their Inhabitants (Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1945), Hrdlička proposed a population replacement event in the Aleutian Islands approximately 1,000 years ago based on a perceived temporal shift in cranial morphology. However, the archaeological record indicates cultural, and presumed population, continuity for more than 4,000 years. We use mtDNA haplogroup data in the series of p…
The Late Pleistocene Dispersal of Modern Humans in the Americas
When did humans colonize the Americas? From where did they come and what routes did they take? These questions have gripped scientists for decades, but until recently answers have proven difficult to find. Current genetic evidence implies dispersal from a single Siberian population toward the Bering Land Bridge no earlier than about 30,000 years ago (and possibly after 22,000 years ago), then migration from Beringia to the Americas sometime after…
Brief communication: The Thule migration: Rejecting population histories using computer simulation
Locked within our genetic code are the histories of our genes and the genes of our ancestors. Deciphering a population's history from genetic data often involves lengthy investigations of many loci for many individuals. We test hypothetical population histories of the Thule expansion using a new coalescent simulation method that uses little more than mitochondrial haplogroup data. This new methodology rejects a severe bottleneck at expansion and …
Hrdlička's Aleutian Population-Replacement Hypothesis: A Radiometric Evaluation
In a 1945 monograph, Hrdlika argued that, at 1,000 BP, PaleoAleut people on Umnak Island were replaced by NeoAleut groups moving west along the island chain. His argument was based on cranial measurements of skeletal remains from Chaluka Midden and mummified remains from Kagamil and Ship Rock burial caves. By the 1980s, researchers had concluded that the transition demonstrated by Hrdlika, from a high oblong to a lowvaulted wide face, was merely …
Sealing, whaling and caribou: The skeletal isotope chemistry of Eastern Arctic foragers
Ancient DNA Studies in Physical Anthropology
Nucleic acids are preserved in prehistoric samples under a wide range of depositional environments. The development of new molecular methods, especially the polymerase chain reaction, has made possible the recovery and manipulation of these molecules, and the subsequent molecular genetic characterization of the ancient samples. The analysis of ancient (a)DNA is complicated by the degraded nature of ancient nucleic acids, as well as the presence o…
Sealing, whaling and caribou: The skeletal isotope chemistry of Eastern Arctic foragers
Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Evolutionary Perspective Biocultural Perspective Related Disciplines Chapter Summary References Cited
Hrdlička's Aleutian Population-Replacement Hypothesis: A Radiometric Evaluation
In a 1945 monograph, Hrdlika argued that, at 1,000 BP, PaleoAleut people on Umnak Island were replaced by NeoAleut groups moving west along the island chain. His argument was based on cranial measurements of skeletal remains from Chaluka Midden and mummified remains from Kagamil and Ship Rock burial caves. By the 1980s, researchers had concluded that the transition demonstrated by Hrdlika, from a high oblong to a lowvaulted wide face, was merely …
Inferring Population Continuity Versus Replacement with aDNA: A Cautionary Tale from the Aleutian Islands
In The Aleutian and Commander Islands and Their Inhabitants (Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1945), Hrdlička proposed a population replacement event in the Aleutian Islands approximately 1,000 years ago based on a perceived temporal shift in cranial morphology. However, the archaeological record indicates cultural, and presumed population, continuity for more than 4,000 years. We use mtDNA haplogroup data in the series of p…
Ancient DNA perspectives on American colonization and population history
Ancient DNA (aDNA) analyses have proven to be important tools in understanding human population dispersals, settlement patterns, interactions between prehistoric populations, and the development of regional population histories. Here, we review the published results of sixty-three human populations from throughout the Americas and compare the levels of diversity and geographic patterns of variation in the ancient samples with contemporary genetic…
Genetic variation in North Amerindian populations: The geography of gene frequencies
Ten‐level synthetic gene frequency maps derived from a principal component analysis of seven polymorphic loci are displayed for a large sample of North Amerindian populations. These maps are useful for assessing population affinities over broad geographical regions and perhaps, as others have argued, for inferring recent migrations. The influence of European admixture is investigated by deleting highly admixed populations and regenerating the map…
Genetic variation in North Amerindian populations: Covariance with climate
Allelic frequencies at seven polymorphic loci in 74 North Amerindian populations are examined relative to patterns of climatic variation. Canonical correlation analysis reveals strong and significant associations of heterozygosity at the ABO, Ss, Duffy, and P loci with climatic variability. Principal component analysis demonstrates that these loci tend to form correlated ensembles. Moreover, canonical correlation analysis of component scores prov…
Thule whaling at Point Barrow, Alaska: The Nuvuk cemetery stable isotope and radiocarbon record
Anthropological Genetics in the Genomic Era: A Look Back and Ahead
The use of genetic methods and data has a long history in anthropology. Following dramatic growth in anthropological genetic field studies in the 1960s and 1970s, the revolution in molecular genetic methods during the 1980s spurred another period of growth and expansion. The earlier emphasis on examination of the role of alternative evolutionary mechanisms in structuring allele frequency variation within and between populations is reflected today…
Odontometric microdifferentiation of transplanted Mexican Indian populations: Cuanalan and Saltillo
This study documents odontometric variation in four populations of related genetic background. It is found that the transplanted populations of Cuanalan and Saltillo have undergone significant microdifferentiation in tooth size relative to the two home valley populations. The extent and direction of this microdifferentiation is seen as reflecting differential amounts of admixture from African and European sources in demographic subunits of the tw…
Towards an interdisciplinary perspective for the study of human expansions and biocultural diversity in the Americas
Genetic variation in North Amerindian populations: Association with sociocultural complexity
A survey of nine polymorphic loci for 82 North Amerindian populations was undertaken to test the hypothesis that increasing levels of sociocultural complexity are ineluctably accompanied by increased heterozygosity. The data reveal a significant relationship in the predicted direction. Moreover, the significant correlation between average heterozygosity and sociocultural complexity is substantially increased by the removal of 19 highly admixed sa…
Molecular analysis of an ancient Thule population at Nuvuk, Point Barrow, Alaska
OBJECTIVES: The North American archaeological record supports a Holocene origin of Arctic Indigenous peoples. Although the Paleo-Inuit were present for millennia, archaeological and genetic studies suggest that modern peoples descend from a second, more recent tradition known as the Neo-Inuit. Origins of the Neo-Inuit and their relations to the earlier and later Indigenous peoples are an area of active study. Here, we genetically analyze the mate…
Introduction: Origins and Settlement of the Indigenous Populations of the Aleutian Archipelago
Introduction: Origins and Settlement of the Indigenous Populations of the Aleutian Archipelago Dixie West (bio), Dennis O'Rourke (bio), and Michael H. Crawford (bio) Keywords Aleutian Islands, Indigenous Peoples, Colonization, Contact, Biology [Correction] The series of papers in this special issue of Human Biology use an interdisciplinary approach to address regional questions and to integrate disparate Aleutian data into a broad, synthetic effo…
DNA preservation in Precolumbian remains from the American Southwest
Brief communication: The Thule migration: Rejecting population histories using computer simulation
Locked within our genetic code are the histories of our genes and the genes of our ancestors. Deciphering a population's history from genetic data often involves lengthy investigations of many loci for many individuals. We test hypothetical population histories of the Thule expansion using a new coalescent simulation method that uses little more than mitochondrial haplogroup data. This new methodology rejects a severe bottleneck at expansion and …
Biological anthropology and genetic disease research: Introduction
The Birnirk to Thule Transition as Viewed from Radiocarbon and Tree-Ring Dating within Two Adjacent Houses at Cape Espenberg, Northwest Alaska
The transformation of the Birnirk culture into the Thule culture is essential in reconstructing the emergence of modern Inuit across Alaska and the larger Bering Strait. To this end, two adjacent semi-subterranean houses of late Birnirk and early Thule affiliation, respectively, at the Rising Whale (KTZ-304) site at Cape Espenberg were recently excavated and dated by radiocarbon and tree-ring measurements. We present the Bayesian analysis of the …
Multiple occurrences of the rare Uto‐Aztecan premolar variant in Hungary point to ancient ties between populations of western Eurasia and the Americas
The Uto‐Aztecan premolar (UAP) is a rare dental morphological variant long thought to be restricted to non‐Arctic Native Americans. The recent discovery of four individuals with this trait in a Hungarian sample invites reassessment of its geographic distribution. Our goal is to assess the variation of this trait on a global level and provide an explanation for its distribution. Observations on over 300 medieval Hungarian dentitions, along with da…
"Dennis O'Rourke Replies, A Rejoinder to "Conceiving the Postcolonial Everyday: "An Interrogation of The Good Woman of Bangkok" By Martina Rieker, v.a.r. 9(1)
Odontometric microdifferentiation of transplanted Mexican Indian populations: Cuanalan and Saltillo
This study documents odontometric variation in four populations of related genetic background. It is found that the transplanted populations of Cuanalan and Saltillo have undergone significant microdifferentiation in tooth size relative to the two home valley populations. The extent and direction of this microdifferentiation is seen as reflecting differential amounts of admixture from African and European sources in demographic subunits of the tw…
The Genetics of Altruism . Scott A. Boorman and Paul R. Levitt
Biological anthropology and genetic disease research: Introduction
Genetic analysis of manic‐depressive Illness
Two threshold models, a single locus model, and two combined models are fitted to data on familial incidence of bipolar affective disorder in 194 nuclear families ascertained through a bipolar proband. The relative fit of alternative tramsmission models is tested by a likelihood ratio chi‐square with the degrees of freedom defined by the difference in the number of parameters estimated by each model. All parameters are estimated by the method of …
Inbreeding, heterozygosity, and lymphoma risk among the baboons ( Papio hamadryas ) of Sukhumi, USSR
This paper describes the spread of lymphoma through a baboon ( Papio hamadryas ) colony in the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy at Sukhumi, USSR. In the late 1960s, Soviet scientists inoculated 12 baboons with cells from hospitalized human leukemia patients, causing the death of a total of 135 animals between 1967 and 1978. The death rate from lymphoma averages almost 12 baboons per year in the Sukhumi colony. Genetic investigation…
Genetic variation in North Amerindian populations: Covariance with climate
Allelic frequencies at seven polymorphic loci in 74 North Amerindian populations are examined relative to patterns of climatic variation. Canonical correlation analysis reveals strong and significant associations of heterozygosity at the ABO, Ss, Duffy, and P loci with climatic variability. Principal component analysis demonstrates that these loci tend to form correlated ensembles. Moreover, canonical correlation analysis of component scores prov…
Genetic variation in North Amerindian populations: Association with sociocultural complexity
A survey of nine polymorphic loci for 82 North Amerindian populations was undertaken to test the hypothesis that increasing levels of sociocultural complexity are ineluctably accompanied by increased heterozygosity. The data reveal a significant relationship in the predicted direction. Moreover, the significant correlation between average heterozygosity and sociocultural complexity is substantially increased by the removal of 19 highly admixed sa…
Genetic variation in North Amerindian populations: The geography of gene frequencies
Ten‐level synthetic gene frequency maps derived from a principal component analysis of seven polymorphic loci are displayed for a large sample of North Amerindian populations. These maps are useful for assessing population affinities over broad geographical regions and perhaps, as others have argued, for inferring recent migrations. The influence of European admixture is investigated by deleting highly admixed populations and regenerating the map…
Patterns and correlates of genetic variation in South Amerindians
Gene frequency data from six polymorphic blood group systems in 70 South American Indian populations are used to derive synthetic gene frequency maps that document the geographical pattern of genetic variation. Additional analyses are directed toward the elucidation of mechanisms that give rise to or maintain the observed distributions. Variables of local ecology do not appear to explain gene frequency distributions in South America. Instead, loc…
Geographic distribution of consanguinity in Europe
Average consanguinity (alpha) of 20 large regional or national samples derived from Roman Catholic Dispensations or state archives shows a strong negative relationship with latitude (r = -0.738; P less than 0.001) which seems best explained by cultural-historical factors. Isolates show no such pattern and are more variable in their inbreeding levels. Two-way analysis of variance shows the sample division by population size to be significant, the …
Half Life
Half Life. Prod. by Dennis O'Rourke and Associates, 1986. 90 mins. (Direct Cinema Ltd., P.O. Box 69589, Los Angeles, CA 90069) Get access Char Miller Char Miller Trinity University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 1116–1117, https://doi.org/10.2307/1902257 Published: 01 December 1987
DNA preservation in Precolumbian remains from the American Southwest
"Dennis O'Rourke Replies, A Rejoinder to "Conceiving the Postcolonial Everyday: "An Interrogation of The Good Woman of Bangkok" By Martina Rieker, v.a.r. 9(1)
Ancient DNA: Methods, progress, and perspectives
The advent of the polymerase chain reaction as a standard molecular genetic technique and the demonstration that nucleic acids are routinely preserved in prehistoric material have led to a dramatic increase in molecular approaches to archaeological problems. These genetic approaches to long-standing problems in prehistory hold considerable promise to clarify issues of population origins, migrations, and settlement patterns, as well as ancestor/de…
Ancient DNA analysis of Fremont Amerindians of the Great Salt Lake Wetlands
Skeletal remains of 47 individuals from the Great Salt Lake Wetlands, affiliated principally with Bear River (A.D. 400-1000) and Levee Phase (A.D. 1000-1350) Fremont cultural elements, were assessed for four mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) markers that, in particular association, define four haplogroups (A, B, C, and D) widely shared among contemporary Amerindian groups. The most striking result is the absence of haplogroup A in this Fremont series, de…
Ancient DNA analysis of Fremont Amerindians of the Great Salt Lake Wetlands
Skeletal remains of 47 individuals from the Great Salt Lake Wetlands, affiliated principally with Bear River (A.D. 400—1000) and Levee Phase (A.D. 1000—1350) Fremont cultural elements, were assessed for four mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) markers that, in particular association, define four haplogroups (A, B, C, and D) widely shared among contemporary Amerindians groups. The most striking result is the absence of haplogroup A in this Fremont series, d…
Context of maternal lineages in the greater Southwest
We present mitochondrial haplogroup characterizations of the prehistoric Anasazi of the United States (US) Southwest. These data are part of a long-term project to characterize ancient Great Basin and US Southwest samples for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diversity. Three restriction site polymorphisms (RSPs) and one length polymorphism identify four common Native American matrilines (A, B, C, and D). The Anasazi (n = 27) are shown to have a moderate…
Ancient DNA Studies in Physical Anthropology
Nucleic acids are preserved in prehistoric samples under a wide range of depositional environments. The development of new molecular methods, especially the polymerase chain reaction, has made possible the recovery and manipulation of these molecules, and the subsequent molecular genetic characterization of the ancient samples. The analysis of ancient (a)DNA is complicated by the degraded nature of ancient nucleic acids, as well as the presence o…
Sealing, whaling and caribou: The skeletal isotope chemistry of Eastern Arctic foragers
Anthropological Genetics in the Genomic Era: A Look Back and Ahead
The use of genetic methods and data has a long history in anthropology. Following dramatic growth in anthropological genetic field studies in the 1960s and 1970s, the revolution in molecular genetic methods during the 1980s spurred another period of growth and expansion. The earlier emphasis on examination of the role of alternative evolutionary mechanisms in structuring allele frequency variation within and between populations is reflected today…
Hrdlička's Aleutian Population-Replacement Hypothesis: A Radiometric Evaluation
In a 1945 monograph, Hrdlika argued that, at 1,000 BP, PaleoAleut people on Umnak Island were replaced by NeoAleut groups moving west along the island chain. His argument was based on cranial measurements of skeletal remains from Chaluka Midden and mummified remains from Kagamil and Ship Rock burial caves. By the 1980s, researchers had concluded that the transition demonstrated by Hrdlika, from a high oblong to a lowvaulted wide face, was merely …
Brief communication: The Thule migration: Rejecting population histories using computer simulation
Locked within our genetic code are the histories of our genes and the genes of our ancestors. Deciphering a population's history from genetic data often involves lengthy investigations of many loci for many individuals. We test hypothetical population histories of the Thule expansion using a new coalescent simulation method that uses little more than mitochondrial haplogroup data. This new methodology rejects a severe bottleneck at expansion and …
The Late Pleistocene Dispersal of Modern Humans in the Americas
When did humans colonize the Americas? From where did they come and what routes did they take? These questions have gripped scientists for decades, but until recently answers have proven difficult to find. Current genetic evidence implies dispersal from a single Siberian population toward the Bering Land Bridge no earlier than about 30,000 years ago (and possibly after 22,000 years ago), then migration from Beringia to the Americas sometime after…
Inferring Population Continuity Versus Replacement with aDNA: A Cautionary Tale from the Aleutian Islands
In The Aleutian and Commander Islands and Their Inhabitants (Philadelphia: Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology, 1945), Hrdlička proposed a population replacement event in the Aleutian Islands approximately 1,000 years ago based on a perceived temporal shift in cranial morphology. However, the archaeological record indicates cultural, and presumed population, continuity for more than 4,000 years. We use mtDNA haplogroup data in the series of p…
Unangan Past and Present: The Contrasts Between Observed and Inferred Histories
Academic research focusing on the population and culture history of the Aleut (Unangan) people began in the late 19th century and continues to the present. The papers in this special issue of Human Biology summarize the latest results from archaeological, linguistic, genetic, and morphometric research approaches that bear on our current understanding of Unangan history and prehistory. Although these new analyses have provided a level of descripti…
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