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Research
Latest papers
Ancient host-associated microbes obtained from mammoth remains.
Cell · 2025
The use of dietary isotopes as a preliminary step in the death investigation of unidentified skeletal human remains in British Columbia, Canada.
Journal of forensic sciences · 2025 · senior author
A Neandertal dietary conundrum: Insights provided by tooth enamel Zn isotopes from Gabasa, Spain.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
Latest funding
- $19,500
EDI Stipend
CIHR · 2023 · Nominated PI
- $92,333
Bringing the K'omoks ancestors home: Collaborative bioarchaeology studies of K'omoks ancestral remains
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $11,000
Simon Fraser University Application to EDI Stipend
SSHRC · 2022 · Principal investigator
10 publications.
Ancient host-associated microbes obtained from mammoth remains.
Guinet B, Oskolkov N, Moreland K, Dehasque M, Chacón-Duque JC, Angerbjörn A, Arsuaga JL, Danilov G, Kanellidou F, Kitchener AC, Muller H, Plotnikov V, Protopopov A, Tikhonov A, Termes L, Zazula G, Mortensen P, Grigorieva L, Richards M, Shapiro B, Lister AM, Vartanyan S, Díez-Del-Molino D, Götherström A, Pečnerová P, Nikolskiy P, Dalén L, van der Valk T
The use of dietary isotopes as a preliminary step in the death investigation of unidentified skeletal human remains in British Columbia, Canada.
Tarrant D, Yazedjian L, Hepburn J, Fonseca S, Talamo S, Richards M
A Neandertal dietary conundrum: Insights provided by tooth enamel Zn isotopes from Gabasa, Spain.
Jaouen K, Villalba-Mouco V, Smith GM, Trost M, Leichliter J, Lüdecke T, Méjean P, Mandrou S, Chmeleff J, Guiserix D, Bourgon N, Blasco F, Mendes Cardoso J, Duquenoy C, Moubtahij Z, Salazar Garcia DC, Richards M, Tütken T, Hublin JJ, Utrilla P, Montes L
Finding Mycenaeans in Minoan Crete? Isotope and DNA analysis of human mobility in Bronze Age Crete.
Richards M, Smith C, Nehlich O, Grimes V, Weston D, Mittnik A, Krause J, Dobney K, Tzedakis Y, Martlew H
Author Correction: Zinc isotopes from archaeological bones provide reliable trophic level information for marine mammals.
McCormack J, Szpak P, Bourgon N, Richards M, Hyland C, Méjean P, Hublin JJ, Jaouen K
Zinc isotopes from archaeological bones provide reliable tropic level information for marine mammals.
McCormack J, Szpak P, Bourgon N, Richards M, Hyland C, Méjean P, Hublin JJ, Jaouen K
Chronological reassessment of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition and Early Upper Paleolithic cultures in Cantabrian Spain.
Marín-Arroyo AB, Rios-Garaizar J, Straus LG, Jones JR, de la Rasilla M, González Morales MR, Richards M, Altuna J, Mariezkurrena K, Ocio D
Diversity of management strategies in Mesoamerican turkeys: archaeological, isotopic and genetic evidence.
Manin A, Corona-M E, Alexander M, Craig A, Thornton EK, Yang DY, Richards M, Speller CF
Genetic origins of the Minoans and Mycenaeans.
Lazaridis I, Mittnik A, Patterson N, Mallick S, Rohland N, Pfrengle S, Furtwängler A, Peltzer A, Posth C, Vasilakis A, McGeorge PJP, Konsolaki-Yannopoulou E, Korres G, Martlew H, Michalodimitrakis M, Özsait M, Özsait N, Papathanasiou A, Richards M, Roodenberg SA, Tzedakis Y, Arnott R, Fernandes DM, Hughey JR, Lotakis DM, Navas PA, Maniatis Y, Stamatoyannopoulos JA, Stewardson K, Stockhammer P, Pinhasi R, Reich D, Krause J, Stamatoyannopoulos G
The ex-pat effect: presence of recent Western immigrants is associated with changes in age at first birth and birth rate in a Maya population from rural Guatemala.
McKerracher L, Collard M, Altman R, Richards M, Nepomnaschy P
EDI Stipend
Principal investigators: Richards, Michael
Keywords: Edi
Bringing the K'omoks ancestors home: Collaborative bioarchaeology studies of K'omoks ancestral remains
Principal investigators: Richards, Michael P.
Keywords: repatriation; collaboration; diet; heath; ancestors
Simon Fraser University Application to EDI Stipend
Principal investigators: Richards, Michael
Keywords: CRCES-Unknown
Archaeological Sciences
Principal investigators: Richards, Michael
Keywords: Archaeology; Archaeological Science; Repatriation; Isotopes; Palaeodiet
Simon Fraser University Application to EDI Stipend
Principal investigators: Richards, Michael
Bringing the K'omoks ancestors home: Collaborative bioarchaeology studies of K'omoks ancestral remains
Principal investigators: Richards, Michael P.
Keywords: repatriation; collaboration; diet; heath; ancestors
Bringing the K'omoks ancestors home: Collaborative bioarchaeology studies of K'omoks ancestral remains
Principal investigators: Richards, Michael
Keywords: repatriation; collaboration; diet; heath; ancestors
Reconstructing Late Pleistocene ecology, environment and climate using bulk and compound specific isotope measurements of megafauna
Principal investigators: Richards, Michael
Nature and timing of long-term landscape evolution by optical dating of single grains of sand
Principal investigators: Lian, Olav
Geographic and Topographic Survey System
Principal investigators: Brennand, Tracy
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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