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 2004-2008. He moved to Durham (UK) to start a Leverhulme funded PhD to study the process of pig domestication throguh ancient DNA analysis in 2008. Linus then spent a year as a PDRA at the Natural History Museum in London (2012-2013) before starting a PDRF at the University of Aberdeen in 2013 and a PDRF at the Archaeological Research Laboratory at Stockholm University in 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.

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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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Genetic insight into an extinct population of asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in the near east
2018
Girdland-Flink, L., Albayrak, E., Lister, A. M.

Open Quaternary, vol. 4, pp. 1-9

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.5334/oq.36

Open Access

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13525/1/Flink_etal_OQ_Genetic_insight_VOR.pdf

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Genomic Analyses of Pre-European Conquest Human Remains from the Canary Islands Reveal Close Affinity to Modern North Africans
2017
Rodríguez-Varela, R., Günther, T., Krzewińska, M., Storå, J., Gillingwater, T. H., MacCallum, M., Arsuaga, J. L., Dobney, K., Valdiosera, C., Jakobsson, M., Götherström, A., Girdland-Flink, L.

Current Biology, vol. 27, no. 21, pp. 3396-3402

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.059

Open Access

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/13526/1/Varela_etal_Genomic_Analyses_VOR.pdf

Additional Links

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New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created 'Piltdown Man'
2016
De Groote, I., Flink, L. G., Abbas, R., Bello, S. M., Burgio, L., Buck, L. T., Dean, C., Freyne, A., Higham, T., Jones, C. G., Kruszynski, R., Lister, A., Parfitt, S. A., Skinner, M. M., Shindler, K., Stringer, C. B.

Royal Society Open Science, vol. 3, no. 10, 160328

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.160679

Open Access

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14079/2/Groote_et_al_RSOS_NewGeneticAndMorphological_VoR.pdf

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/14079/1/Groote_et_al_Correction_to_NewGeneticAndMorphological_VoR.pdf
Unravelling the complexity of domestication: a case study using morphometrics and ancient DNA analyses of archaeological pigs from Romania
2015
Evin, A., Girdland Flink, L., Bălăşescu, A., Popovici, D., Andreescu, R., Bailey, D., Mirea, P., Lazăr, C., Boroneanţ, A., Bonsall, C., Vidarsdottir, U. S., Brehard, S., Tresset, A., Cucchi, T., Larson, G., Dobney, K.

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 370, no. 1660, 20130616

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0616

Open Access

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4228/1/20130616.full.pdf
Reply to Beavan, Bryant, and Storey and Matisoo-Smith: Ancestral Polynesian “D” haplotypes reflect authentic Pacific chicken lineages
2014
Thomson, V. A., Lebrasseur, O., Austin, J. J., Hunt, T. L., Burney, D. A., Denham, T., Rawlence, N., Wood, J. R., Gongora, J., Girdland Flink, L., Linderholm, A., Dobney, K., Larson, G., Cooper, A.

PNAS, vol. 111, no. 35, pp. E3585-E3586

Contributions to Journals: Letters

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1411566111
Establishing the validity of domestication genes using DNA from ancient chickens
2014
Girdland Flink, L., Allen, R., Barnett, R., Malmstrom, H., Peters, J., Eriksson, J., Andersson, L., Dobney, K., Larson, G.

PNAS, vol. 111, no. 17, pp. 6184-6189

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1308939110

Open Access

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/4853/1/Flink_et_al_PURE.pdf
Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific
2014
Thomson, V. A., Lebrasseur, O., Austin, J. J., Hunt, T. L., Burney, D. A., Denham, T., Rawlence, N. J., Wood, J. R., Gongora, J., Girdland Flink, L., Linderholm, A., Dobney, K., Larson, G., Cooper, A.

PNAS, vol. 111, no. 13, pp. 4826-4831

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1320412111
Exploring the complexity of domestication: a response to Rowley-Conwy and Zeder
2014
Evin, A., Girdland Flink, L., Krause-Kyora, B., Makarewicz, C., Hartz, S., Schreiber, S., von Wurmb-Schwark, N., Nebel, A., von Carnap-Bornheim, C., Larson, G., Dobney, K.

World Archaeology, vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 825-834

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2014.953711

Open Access

http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/5934/1/Response_to_M_P_PURE.pdf
The domestic pig (Sus scrofa f. domestica Linnaeus, 1758 or Sus domesticus, Erxleben 1777)
2014
Girdland Flink, L.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
An absolute chronology for early Egypt using radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical modelling
2013
Dee, M., Wengrow, D., Shortland, A., Stevenson, A., Brock, F., Girdland Flink, L., Bronk Ramsey, C.

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences, vol. 469, no. 2159, 20130395

Contributions to Journals: Articles

Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2013.0395

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Biography

Memberships and Affiliations

Research Overview

Collaborations

Teaching Responsibilities

PGR Supervision

Publications

Genetic insight into an extinct population of asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in the near east

Genomic Analyses of Pre-European Conquest Human Remains from the Canary Islands Reveal Close Affinity to Modern North Africans

New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created 'Piltdown Man'

Unravelling the complexity of domestication: a case study using morphometrics and ancient DNA analyses of archaeological pigs from Romania

Reply to Beavan, Bryant, and Storey and Matisoo-Smith: Ancestral Polynesian “D” haplotypes reflect authentic Pacific chicken lineages

Establishing the validity of domestication genes using DNA from ancient chickens

Using ancient DNA to study the origins and dispersal of ancestral Polynesian chickens across the Pacific

Exploring the complexity of domestication: a response to Rowley-Conwy and Zeder

The domestic pig (Sus scrofa f. domestica Linnaeus, 1758 or Sus domesticus, Erxleben 1777)

An absolute chronology for early Egypt using radiocarbon dating and Bayesian statistical modelling