"Genetic Perspectives on Human Evolution and Prehistory"
2006 American Association of Anthropological Genetics Symposium (co-sponsored by the American Association of Physical Anthropologists)
March 10, 2006
Anchorage, Alaska
Organizer and Chair: DENNIS H. O'ROURKE, University of Utah
Summary: Increasingly, genetic methods and approaches are used to address questions that in the past have been the province of skeletal biology and paleoanthropology, including studies of population history, paleopathology, and human origins. The contributions in this symposium are meant to highlight the diverse genetic approaches to such problems. The papers exemplify a variety of genetic models, analytical methods, and presentations of empirical data. Blending statistical rigor with aspects of phylogeography, the contributions are examples of a variety of genetic approaches to the study of modern human origins, prehistoric population structure, the origin and dispersal of the original colonists to the Western Hemisphere, as well as the use of molecular methods to study the evolution and distribution of disease in antiquity.
| Time |
Topic
and
Speaker(s) |
| 2:00 pm | Population structure analysis from prehistoric skeletal material. LYLE W. KONIGSBERG, JANE E. BUIKSTRA. |
| 2:15 pm | Quantitative and developmental genetic approaches to morphological evolution. LESLEA J. HLUSKO. |
| 2:30 pm |
Serial coalescent simulations suggest weak genealogical relationships between Etruscans and modern Tuscans. ELISE M. S. BELLE, UMA RAMAKRISHNAN, JOANNA MOUNTAIN, GUIDO BARBUJANI. |
| 2:45 pm | Migrations across the Red Sea: Mitochondrial DNA analysis of populations from the Horn of Africa and Arabia. CONNIE J. MULLIGAN, AMY NON, ANDREW KITCHEN. |
| 3:00 pm | Out of Africa with Admixture. ALAN R. ROGERS. |
| 3:15 pm | Revisiting Neanderthal mitochondrial DNA sequence variation. DAVID ILTIS. |
| 3:30 pm | mtDNA analysis of human remains from the Danish Iron and Viking ages. LINEA C. MELCHIOR, JØRGEN DISSING, NIELS LYNNERUP. |
| 3:45 pm |
Prehistoric peoples and ancient migrations: Exploring population affinities in East Eurasia. KAREN P. MOODER, TIA THOMSON, FIONA J. BAMFORTH. |
| 4:00 pm | Break |
| 4:15 pm | The Genetic Structure of the Aleuts and Circumarctic Populations and its Implications for the Peopling of North American. MARK ZLOJUTRO, ROHINA RUBICZ, MICHAEL H. CRAWFORD. |
| 4:30 pm | A Method for Rejecting Population Histories Using Coalescent Simulation. ELIZABETH E. MARCHANI. |
| 4:45 pm | Historical peopling of the New World: Y chromosome roots. TATIANA M. KARAFET, STEPHEN L. ZEGURA, MICHAEL F. HAMMER. |
| 5:00 pm | Linguistic and genetic correspondence in native Central and South America. KEITH HUNLEY, D.A. MERRIWETHER, G.C. CABANA, J.C. LONG. |
| 5:15 pm | Inferring population continuity versus replacement with aDNA: a cautionary tale in the Aleutians. SILVIA E. SMITH, M.GEOFFREY HAYES, JOAN BRENNER COLTRAIN, DENNIS H. O'ROURKE. |
| 5:30 pm | TB in pre-contact North America: Who had it and what was it. FREDERIKA A. KAESTLE, JENNIFER A. RAFF, KATE GIESTING, DELLA C. COOK. |
| 5:45 pm | Discussion: CLARK SPENCER LARSEN. |