Dr. Hannes Rathmann

Function: Curator of the Human Osteological Collection

Current position:

Curator of the Human Osteological Collection

Research Interests:

Bioarchaeology
Human Osteology
Human Dental Morphology
Population and Quantitative Genetics
Bioinformatics and Programming
Project: Ancient Greek Colonization of the Mediterranean
Project: Hunter-Gatherer Mobility in Ice Age Europe

Education:

2014 – 2018
Ph.D. Archaeological Sciences / Paleoanthropology (magna cum laude)
Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen
Supervisors: Professor Katerina Harvati and Professor Richard Posamentir

2011 – 2013
M.Sc. Archaeological Sciences / Paleoanthropology (magna cum laude)
Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen
Supervisors: Professor Joachim Wahl and Professor Heinrich Härke

2008 – 2011
B.A. Pre- and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology (magna cum laude)
Institute for Pre- and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen
Supervisors: Professor Joachim Wahl and Professor Martin Bartelheim

Previous Employments in Academia

2018 – 2019
Research Fellow at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Tracking Linguistic, Cultural and Biological Trajectories of the Human Past”, University of Tübingen

2018
Research Assistant at the DFG Center for Advanced Studies “Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: Tracking Linguistic, Cultural and Biological Trajectories of the Human Past”, University of Tübingen

2015 – 2017
Doctoral Fellowship through the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Düsseldorf.

2014
Research Assistant at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment, University of Tübingen

2014
Research Assistant at the Institute of Classical Archaeology, University of Tübingen

2020
Rathmann H

, Reyes-Centeno H (2020). Testing the utility of dental morphological trait combinations for inferring human neutral genetic variation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 117 (20): 10769-10777. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914330117.

2019
Rathmann H

, Kyle B, Nikita E, Harvati K, Saltini Semerari G (2019). Population history of southern Italy during Greek colonization inferred from dental remains. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 170 (4): 519-534. doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23937.

2017
Rathmann H

, Reyes-Centeno H, Ghirotto S, Creanza N, Hanihara T, Harvati K (2017). Reconstructing human population history from dental phenotypes. Scientific Reports 7: 12495. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12621-y.

2017
Reyes-Centeno H, Rathmann H

, Hanihara T, Harvati K (2017). Testing modern human out-of-Africa dispersal models using dental non-metric data. Current Anthropology 58 (S17): S406-S417. doi.org/10.1086/694423.

2017
Rathmann H, Saltini Semerari G, Harvati K (2017). Evidence for migration influx into the ancient Greek colony of Metaponto: A population genetics approach using dental nonmetric traits. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 27: 453-464. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.2569.

2015 – 2017
Doctoral dissertation grant of the Gerda Henkel Foundation (57,850 Euro).