Dr LINUS GIRDLAND FLINK

MA (Gotland), PhD (Durham), PgCert (LJMU)

Lecturer

Contact Details

Telephone: work +44 (0)1224 273693
Email: linus.girdlandflink@abdn.ac.uk
Address: The University of Aberdeen Room 201, Department of Archaeology, School of Geosciences
University of Aberdeen
St. Mary's, Elphinstone Road
AB24 3UF

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Biography

Linus studied archaeology, osteology and 'ancient DNA' at Gotland University, Stockholm University and Uppsala University (Sweden) to obtain an MA in Osteology (2008). Once completed, he moved to Durham (UK) to start a Leverhulme funded PhD to study the process of pig domestication throguh ancient DNA analysis (2008). Linus then spent a year as a PDRA at the Natural History Museum (London, 2012) before starting a PDRF at the University of Aberdeen (2013) and a PDRF at the Archaeological Research Laboratory at Stockholm University (2015). He worked as a Lecturer in Human evolutionary Genetics at Liverpool John Moores University between from February 2016 - December 2019. From January 2020 he works as a Lecturer in Ancient Biomolecules in the Archaeology Department at Aberdeen.

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal: Programme Director:

MSc Bioarchaeological Science

MSc Biomolecular Archaeology
External: 2020 - present: Visiting Research Fellow, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Research

Research Overview

Ancient DNA and palaeogenetics
Animal domestication
Palaeomigrations

Collaborations

Joel Irish (LJMU)

Anders Gotherstrom (Stockholm University)

Pontus Skoglund (CRICK Institute)

Veronique Forbes (MUN)

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

In the 2020-2021 Academic Year I am course coordinator for:

AY4013/4008 - Viking Archaeology

AY5504 - Advanced Archaeological Methods

AY5005 - Viking Archaeology

AY5011 - Ancient Bimolecules

PGR Supervision

I am currently supervisor for:

Adeline Morez (Liverpool John Moores University)

Publications

Publications

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Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs
2020
Bergström, A., Frantz, L., Schmidt, R., Ersmark, E., Lebrasseur, O., Girdland-Flink, L., Lin, A. T., Storå, J., Sjögren, K., Anthony, D., Antipina, E., Amiri, S., Bar-Oz, G., Bazaliiskii, V. I., Bulatović, J., Brown, D., Carmagnini, A., Davy, T., Fedorov, S., Fiore, I., Fulton, D., Germonpré, M., Haile, J., Irving-Pease, E. K., Jamieson, A., Janssens, L., Kirillova, I., Horwitz, L. K., Kuzmanovic-Cvetković, J., Kuzmin, Y., Losey, R. J., Dizdar, D. L., Mashkour, M., Novak, M., Onar, V., Orton, D., Pasarić, M., Radivojević, M., Rajković, D., Roberts, B., Ryan, H., Sablin, M., Shidlovskiy, F., Stojanović, I., Tagliacozzo, A., Trantalidou, K., Ullén, I., Villaluenga, A., Wapnish, P., Dobney, K., Götherström, A., Linderholm, A., Dalén, L., Pinhasi, R., Larson, G., Skoglund, P.

Science, vol. 370, no. 6516, pp. 557-564

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aba9572

Open Access

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/15796/1/Bergstrom_Sci_Origins_genetic_AAM.pdf

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https://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/68428

https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/168236/
Assessing the performance of quantity and quality metrics using the QIAGEN Investigator® Quantiplex® Pro RGQ kit
2020
Morrison, J., McColl, S., Loughelainen, J., Sheppard, K., May, A., Girdland-Flink, L., Watts, G., Dawnay, N.

Science & Justice, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 388-397

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scijus.2020.03.002

Open Access

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14846/1/Morrison_etal_SJ_Assessing_VOR.pdf

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Do dental nonmetric traits actually work as proxies for neutral genomic data?: Some answers from continental- and global-level analyses
2020
Irish, J. D., Morez, A., Girdland Flink, L., Phillips, E. L. W., Scott, G. R.

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, vol. 172, no. 3, pp. 347-375

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24052

Open Access

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14656/1/Irish_etal_ajpa_do_dental_nonmetric_VOR.pdf

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CoproID predicts the source of coprolites and paleofeces using microbiome composition and host DNA content
2020
Borry, M., Cordova, B., Perri, A., Wibowo, M. C., Honap, T. P., Ko, J., Yu, J., Britton, K., Girdland Flink, L., Power, R. C., Stuijts, I., Garcia, D. S., Hofman, C. A., Hagan, R. W., Kagone, T. S., Meda, N., Carabin, H., Jacobson, D., Reinhard, K., Lewis, Jr., C. M., Kostic, A., Jeong, C., Herbig, A., Hubner, A., Warinner, C.

PeerJ, vol. 8, e9001

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9001/supp-1

Open Access

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14124/1/Borry_et_al_PeerJ_CoproIDPredicts_VoR.pdf

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First farming in the north-western Mediterranean: evidence from Castellar-Pendimoun during the sixth millennium BCE
2020
Binder, D., Battentier, J., Bouby, L., Brochier, J. E., Carré, A., Cucchi, T., Delhon, C., De Stefanis, C., Drieu, L., Girdland-Flink, L., Evin, A., Goude, G., Gourichon, L., Guillon, S., Hamon, C., Thiébault, S.

Farmers at the Frontier. Gron, K. J., Sørensen, L., Rowley-Conwy, P. (eds.). Oxbow Books, pp. 145-159

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)

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Reply to dee and kuitems: Our model is an expression of the uncertainties inherent in the radiocarbon data
2019
Ledger, P. M., Girdland-Flink, L., Forbes, V.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 116, no. 46, 22908

Contributions to Journals: Letters

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914993116

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Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe
2019
Frantz, L. A., Haile, J., Lin, A. T., Scheu, A., Geörg, C., Benecke, N., Alexander, M., Linderholm, A., Mullin, V. E., Daly, K. G., Battista, V. M., Price, M., Gron, K. J., Alexandri, P., Arbogast, R. M., Arbuckle, B., Bǎlǎşescu, A., Barnett, R., Bartosiewicz, L., Baryshnikov, G., Bonsall, C., Borić, D., Boroneanţ, A., Bulatović, J., Çakirlar, C., Carretero, J. M., Chapman, J., Church, M., Crooijmans, R., De Cupere, B., Detry, C., Dimitrijevic, V., Dumitraşcu, V., Du Plessis, L., Edwards, C. J., Erek, C. M., Erim-Özdoǧan, A., Ervynck, A., Fulgione, D., Gligor, M., Götherström, A., Gourichon, L., Groenen, M. A., Helmer, D., Hongo, H., Horwitz, L. K., Irving-Pease, E. K., Lebrasseur, O., Lesur, J., Malone, C., Manaseryan, N., Marciniak, A., Martlew, H., Mashkour, M., Matthews, R., Matuzeviciute, G. M., Maziar, S., Meijaard, E., McGovern, T., Megens, H. J., Miller, R., Mohaseb, A. F., Orschiedt, J., Orton, D., Papathanasiou, A., Pearson, M. P., Pinhasi, R., Radmanović, D., Ricaut, F. X., Richards, M., Sabin, R., Sarti, L., Schier, W., Sheikhi, S., Stephan, E., Stewart, J. R., Stoddart, S., Tagliacozzo, A., Tasić, N., Trantalidou, K., Tresset, A., Valdiosera, C., Van Den Hurk, Y., Van Poucke, S., Vigne, J. D., Yanevich, A., Zeeb-Lanz, A., Triantafyllidis, A., Gilbert, M. T. P., Schibler, J., Rowley-Conwy, P., Zeder, M., Peters, J., Cucchi, T., Bradley, D. G., Dobney, K., Burger, J., Evin, A., Girdland-Flink, L., Larson, G.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 116, no. 35, pp. 17231-17238

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1901169116

Open Access

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13523/1/Frantz_etal_PNAS_VOR.pdf

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New horizons at L'Anse aux Meadows
2019
Ledger, P. M., Girdland-Flink, L., Forbes, V.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 116, no. 31, pp. 15341-15343

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1907986116

Open Access

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13524/1/Ledger_etal_PNAS_VOR.pdf

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Megalithic tombs in western and northern Neolithic Europe were linked to a kindred society
2019
Sanchez-Quinto, F., Malmström, H., Fraser, M., Girdland Flink, E., Svensson, E. M., Simoes, L., George, R., Hollfelder, N., Burenhult, G., Noble, G., Britton, K., Talamo, S., Curtis, N., Brzobohata, H., Sumberova, R., Götherström, A., Storå, J., Jakobsson, M.

PNAS, vol. 116, no. 19, pp. 9469-9474

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818037116

Open Access

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/12264/1/Megalithic_tombs_in_western_and_northern_Neolithic_Europe_were_linked_to_a_kindred_society.pdf

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https://abdn.pure.elsevier.com/en/en/researchoutput/megalithic-tombs-in-western-and-northern-neolithic-europe-were-linked-to-a-kindred-society(e2a2bcfc-2da7-41ee-abe9-61e7f2957164).html
Elucidating recent history by tracing genetic affinity of three 16th century miners from Sweden
2018
Krzewińska, M., Kjellström, A., Bäckström, Y., Ingvarsson, A., Kashuba, N., Rodríguez Varela, R., Girdland-Flink, L., Götherström, A.

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 19, pp. 651-657

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.03.035

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Biography

Memberships and Affiliations

Research Overview

Collaborations

Teaching Responsibilities

PGR Supervision

Publications

Origins and genetic legacy of prehistoric dogs

Assessing the performance of quantity and quality metrics using the QIAGEN Investigator® Quantiplex® Pro RGQ kit

Do dental nonmetric traits actually work as proxies for neutral genomic data?: Some answers from continental- and global-level analyses

CoproID predicts the source of coprolites and paleofeces using microbiome composition and host DNA content

First farming in the north-western Mediterranean: evidence from Castellar-Pendimoun during the sixth millennium BCE

Reply to dee and kuitems: Our model is an expression of the uncertainties inherent in the radiocarbon data

Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe

New horizons at L'Anse aux Meadows

Megalithic tombs in western and northern Neolithic Europe were linked to a kindred society

Elucidating recent history by tracing genetic affinity of three 16th century miners from Sweden