Paläoanthropologie

Dr. Hannes Rathmann

Function: Post-Doctoral Researcher / Curator of the Osteological Collection


Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment
Institut für Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie, Abt. Paläoanthropologie
Rümelinstr. 23
72070 Tübingen
 

: Room 503, Hauptgebäude, 2. OG
.: +49-(0)7071-29-76472
hannes.rathmann@uni-tuebingen.de

Consulting hours:
by arrangement
 

About

Dr. Hannes Rathmann is a postdoctoral researcher and curator of the Osteological Collection at the Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on:

  • Bioarchaeology
  • Skeletal and dental variation
  • Population structure and history
  • Population and quantitative genetics
  • Bioinformatics and programming
  • Osteological collections
  • Provenance research and repatriation

Links

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Academic / Professional Trajectory

2020 - Present
Post-Doctoral Researcher / Curator of the Osteological Collection

Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Palaeoanthropology working group, University of Tübingen

2020 - 2021
Coordinator of studies and teaching

B.Sc. and M.Sc. “Paleoanthropology” and “Archaeological Sciences", University of Tübingen

2018 - 2019
Research fellow

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

2014 - 2018
Ph.D. in Archaeological Sciences / Paleoanthropology (magna cum laude)

Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Katerina Harvati and Prof. Dr. Richard Posamentir

2015 - 2017
Doctoral scholarship

Gerda Henkel Foundation doctoral fellowship, Department of Palaeoanthropology, University of Tübingen

2011 - 2013
M.Sc. in Archaeological Sciences / Paleoanthropology (magna cum laude)

Institute for Archaeological Sciences, University of Tübingen

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Joachim Wahl and Prof. Dr. Heinrich Härke

2008 - 2011
B.A. in Pre- and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology (magna cum laude)

Institute for Pre- and Protohistory and Medieval Archaeology, University of Tübingen

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Joachim Wahl and Prof. Dr. Martin Bartelheim

Selected Publications

Rathmann H, Vizzari MT, Beier J, Bailey SE, Ghirotto S, Harvati K (2024). Human population dynamics in Upper Paleolithic Europe inferred from fossil dental phenotypes. Science Advances 10 (33): eadn8129. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn8129

Rathmann H, Perretti S, Porcu V, Hanihara T, Scott GR, Irish JD, Reyes-Centeno H, Ghirotto S, Harvati K (2023). Inferring human neutral genetic variation from craniodental phenotypes. PNAS Nexus 2 (7): pgad217. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad217

Rathmann H, Lismann S, Francken M, Spatzier A (2023). Estimating inter-individual Mahalanobis distances from mixed incomplete high-dimensional data: Application to human skeletal remains from 3rd to 1st millennia BC Southwest Germany. Journal of Archaeological Science 156: 105802. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105802

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. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914330117

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

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. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-12621-y

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Awards, Grants & Scholarships

09/2024 – 02/2026
Research grant

Project title: “Human population history of Upper Paleolithic Europe inferred from fossil dental remains”. Funded by the Program for the Promotion of Junior Researchers of the University of Tübingen (29,350 Euro)

07/2024
Travel grant

Awarded by the German Academic Exchange Service (1,198 Euro)

03/2024
Innovation in Dental Anthropology Award

Received from the Dental Anthropology Association (DAA)

9/2022 - 08/2024
Research grant

Project title: “Precarious provenance — Human remains from Africa’s colonial past before 1919 in scientific collections of Baden-Württemberg (project phase 2)”. Funded by the German Lost Art Foundation and the Ministry of Science Baden-Württemberg. Granted to the Museum of the University of Tübingen in cooperation with the Osteological Collection Tübingen, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, and Linden Museum Stuttgart (172,396 Euro)

9/2021 - 08/2022
Research grant

Project title: “Precarious provenance — Human remains from Africa’s colonial past before 1919 in scientific collections of Baden-Württemberg (project phase 1)”. Funded by the German Lost Art Foundation and the Ministry of Science Baden-Württemberg. Granted to the Museum of the University of Tübingen in cooperation with the Osteological Collection Tübingen, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe, and Linden Museum Stuttgart (74,568 Euro)

01/2015 - 12/2017
Doctoral scholarship

Project title: “Interactions between Greek Colonists and Indigenous Italic Peoples in Early Iron Age Southern Italy”. Granted by the Gerda Henkel Foundation (57,850 Euro)