Paläoanthropologie

Dr. Hannes Rathmann

Function: 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

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Academic / Professional Trajectory

2020 - Present
Curator of the Osteological Collection

Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment, Department of Palaeoanthropology, 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, Stoyanov R, Posamentir R (2022). Comparing individuals buried in flexed and extended positions at the Greek colony of Chersonesos (Crimea) using cranial metric, dental metric, and dental nonmetric traits. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 32 (1): 49-63. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3043

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

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. https://doi.org/10.1086/694423

Full Publication List

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Scolarships and Awards

2017
Award for the research article “Reconstructing human population history from dental phenotypes”

Listed among the top 100 most highly read articles across Scientific Reports in 2017

2015 - 2017
Doctoral scholarship

Gerda Henkel Foundation (57,850 Euro).