Publications

Mural in the Department of Genetics at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Overview

For over thirty years, Dr. Schurr and his colleagues have published a variety of books, book chapters, research papers, encyclopedia entries, and general science articles, most of which are listed below.

For the research papers indicated as coming from The Genographic Consortium, Dr. Schurr was part of this consortium and credited with co-authorship on papers produced by this team.

By clicking on the associated links, you will be directed to the journals in which they were published. Reprints for publications without such links can be requested via email (tgschurr@sas.upenn.edu).

For most papers, the original data used for these publications are available in the supplemental materials provided with each of them. In certain cases, the data were uploaded to a data repository identified in a particular manuscript.

COMPENDIUM OF RESEARCH ARTICLES

RECENT ARTICLES

BOOK CHAPTERS

Gómez R, Schurr TG, Meraz-Ríos MA. 2021. Diversity of Mexican paternal lineages reflects evidence of 500 years of admixture. In: Muñoz Moreno ML, Crawford MH, eds. Human Migration: Biocultural Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 139-152.  Link

Schurr TG. 2019. Where tides of genes perpetual ebb and flow: What DNA evidence tells us about the peopling of the Americas. In: Suarez R, Ardelean C, eds. People and Culture in Ice Age Americas: New Dimensions in Paleoamerican Archeology. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, pp. 220-243.  Link

Schurr TG, Benn Torres J, Vilar MG, Gaieski JB, Melendez C. 2016. An emerging history of indigenous Caribbean and circum-Caribbean populations: Insights from archeological, ethnographic, genetic, and historical studies. In: Zuckerman M, Martin DL, eds. New Directions in Biological Anthropology: Papers Honoring the Legacy of George Armelagos. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, pp. 385-402.  Link

Schurr TG. 2015. Tracing human movements from Siberia to the Americas: New insights from genetic studies. In: Frachetti MB, Spengler RN, III, eds. Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas. Basel: Springer, pp. 23-47.  Link

Schurr TG. 2014. Human genetic diversity in a global context. In: Spooner BL, ed. Globalization: The Crucial Phase. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 71-114.

Schurr TG. 2014. The genetic legacy of Genghis Khan. In: Fitzhugh W, Rossabi M, Honeychurch W, eds. Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, Washington DC: Arctic Studies Center and Odyssey Books, pp. 275-277.

Schurr TG. 2013. When did we become human? Evolutionary perspectives on the emergence of the modern human brain and culture. In: Hatfield G, Pittman H, eds. The Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, pp. 45-90.

Dulik MC, Lorenz JG, Schurr TG. 2011. Hasanlu IVB: An ancient DNA pilot project. In: Dyson R, M de Schaudensee, eds. Aspects of Peoples and Crafts in Period IVB at Hasanlu, Iran: Hasanlu Special Studies, Volume 4, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, pp. 195-199.

Schurr TG, Pipes L. 2011. The prehistory of Mongolian populations: Evidence from cranio-facial, dental trait and genetic studies. In: Sabloff P, ed. Mapping Mongolia: Situating Mongolia in the World from Geologic Time to the Present, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, pp. 134-165.

Kemp BM, Schurr TG. 2010. Ancient and modern genetic variation in the Americas. In: Auerbach B, ed. Human Variation in the Americas: The Integration of Archeology and Biological Anthropology. Carbondale: Center for Archeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 38, Southern Illinois University Press, pp. 12-50.

Schurr TG. 2010. Coastal waves and island hopping: A genetic view of Caribbean prehistory in the context of New World colonization. In: SM Fitzpatrick, A Ross, ed. Island Shores, Distant Pasts: Archaeological and Biological Approaches to the Pre-Columbian Settlement of the Caribbean. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, pp. 177-198.

Schurr TG, Osipova LP, Zhadanov SI, Dulik MC. 2010. Genetic diversity in native Siberian populations: Implications for the prehistoric settlement of the Cis-Baikal. In: Weber A, Katzenberg MA, Schurr TG, eds. Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the Baikal Region, Siberia: Bioarchaeological Studies of Past Lifeways. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 121-134.

Friedlaender J, Friedlaender F, Hodgson J, McGrath S, Stoltz M, Koki G, Schurr TG, Merriwether DA. 2007. Mitochondrial DNA variation in northern Island Melanesia. In: Friedlaender J, ed. Genes, Language, and Culture History in the Southwest Pacific. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 61-80.

Friedlaender J, Gentz F, Friedlaender F, Kaestle F, Schurr T, Koki G, Schanfield M, McDonough J, Smith L, Cerchio S, Mgone C, Merriwether DA. 2006. Mitochondrial genetic diversity and its determinants in island Melanesia. In: Pawley A, Attenborough R, Golson J, Hide R, eds. Papuan Pasts: Cultural, Linguistic and Biological Histories of Papuan-speaking People. Canberra: Australian National University Press, pp. 693-717.

Schurr TG. 2006. Tracking genes through time and space: Changing perspectives on New World origins. In: Bonnichsen R, Lepper B, Steele DG, Stanford D, Harris JA, Warren CN, Gruhn R, eds. Paleoamerican Origins: Beyond Clovis. College Station: Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A & M University, pp. 221-242.

Schurr TG, Donham BP, Morreale SC, Panter-Brick C, Donham DL, Armelagos GJ, Wallace DC. 2005. Genetic diversity in modern African populations: Its use for reconstructing ancient and modern population movements. In: Reed D, ed. Biomolecular Archeology: Genetic Approaches to Reconstructing the Past. Carbondale: Center for Archeological Investigations, Occasional Paper No. 32, Southern Illinois University Press, pp. 169-207.

Schurr TG. 2005. Genetic diversity in Siberians and Native Americans suggests an early migration to the New World. In: Madsen DB, ed. Entering America: Northeast Asia and Beringia Before the Last Glacial Maximum. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, pp. 187-238.

Schurr TG. 2004. An anthropological genetic view of the peopling of the Americas. In: Clark GA, Barton CM, Yesner D, Pearson G, eds. The Settlement of the American Continents: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Human Biogeography. Tuscon: Arizona State University Press, pp. 11-27.

Mooder KA, Schurr TG, Bamforth F, Bazaliiskii V. 2003. Mitochondrial DNA and archeology: The genetic characterization of prehistoric Siberian hunter-gatherers. In: Weber A, McKenzie H, eds. Prehistoric Foragers of the Cis-Baikal, Siberia: Proceedings from the First Conference of the Baikal Archaeology Project. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press, pp. 187-196.

Schurr TG. 2003. Molecular genetic diversity of Siberian populations: Implications for ancient DNA studies of archeological populations from the Cis-Baikal region. In: Weber A, McKenzie H, eds. Prehistoric Foragers of the Cis-Baikal, Siberia: Proceedings from the First Conference of the Baikal Archaeology Project. Edmonton: Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press, pp. 155-186.

Schurr TG. 2003. A molecular anthropological view of the peopling of the Americas. In: Lepper BT, ed. New Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas. College Station: Center for the Study of the First Americans, Texas A&M University, pp. 139-147.

Schurr TG, Wallace DC. 2003. Genetic prehistory of Paleoasiatic-speaking peoples of northeastern Siberia and their links to Native American populations. In: Kendall L, Krupnik I, eds. Constructing Cultures Then and Now: Celebrating Franz Boas and the Jesup North Pacific Expedition. Baltimore: Smithsonian Institution Press, pp. 239-258.

Wallace DC, Brown MD, Schurr TG, Chen E, Chen YS, Starikovskaya YB, Sukernik RI. 2000. Global mitochondrial DNA variation and the origins of Native Americans. In: Aloisi M, Battaglia B, Carafoli E, Danieli GA, eds. The Origin of Humankind. Venice: IOS Press, pp. 9-11.

Schurr TG, Wallace DC. 1999. mtDNA variation in Native Americans and Siberians, and its implications for the peopling of the New World. In: Bonnichsen R, ed. Who Were the First Americans: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Biology Colloquium. Corvallis: Center for the Study of the First Americans, pp. 41-77.

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers

Weber AW, Katzenberg MA, Schurr TG, eds. 2010. Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the Baikal Region, Siberia: Bioarchaeological Studies of Past Lifeways. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum Press.

Book available at the University of Pennsylvania Museum Press (Link)

The Peopling of the Caucasus

Yardumian A, Schurr TG. 2025. The Peopling of the Caucasus: Early Human Settlement at the Crossroads of Continents. Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press

Book available on Amazon (Link) and at Cambridge University Press (Link)

Writing in Progress

Book on Siberia in preparation