Taylor R. Hermes
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Archaeology
Also affiliated: University of Arizona (2014); Max Planck Society (2021); Vilnius University (2019–2022); Washington University in St. Louis (2007–2018); Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (2018–2021); Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (2021–2026); Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (2021–2022); Nazarbayev University (2025)
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Taylor R. Hermes is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Archaeology at the University of Arkansas. Their research focuses on the ancient human-animal relationships and the spread of domestic animals across Eurasia. Hermes's work utilizes archaeological evidence, ancient DNA analysis, and stable isotope analysis to investigate past agricultural and pastoralist practices.
Hermes has published on the early dispersal of domestic sheep into Central Asia, the emergence of dairying in the Caucasus and Eurasian steppes, and diverse sheep and goat husbandry strategies in the Kyrgyz Tian Shan. Their research also extends to the history of human diseases, with recent work examining ancient Plasmodium genomes and the evolution of plague lineages in prehistoric sheep. Hermes also investigates the presence of ancient chickens in Central Asia and the interactions between hunter-gatherer and Afanasievo communities in the Altai Mountains during the Bronze Age.
With an h-index of 13 and over 700 citations from 53 publications, Hermes has secured significant federal funding. This includes a $700,000 NSF grant as Co-PI for dynamic modeling of river ecosystem stability and a $139,516 NSF grant as PI for tracing the rise of equine dairying. Hermes also leads a research group and collaborates with researchers such as Charlotte Y. Jeong.
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- h-index: 13
- Publications: 53
- Citations: 791
Positions
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Assistant Professor of Environmental Archaeology 2023–presentUniversity of Arkansas at Fayetteville Anthropology ORCID
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Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology 2021–2023Department of Archaeogenetics ORCID
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Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History 2020–2021Department of Archaeogenetics ORCID
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Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel 2018–2020Institute of Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology ORCID
Selected Publications
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Ancient DNA reveals elite dynastic rule among Iron Age Eurasian Steppe nomads (2026)
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Reconstruction of the lifeways of Central European Late Bronze Age communities using ancient DNA, isotope and osteoarchaeological analyses (2026)
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Ancient genomes from eastern Kazakhstan reveal dynamic genetic legacy of Inner Eurasian hunter-gatherers (2025)
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Evolutionary history and recurrent host adaptation in ancient Salmonella enterica (2025)
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Rocks and clay: Potters’ technological choices within the cultural dynamics of Bronze Age Kazakhstan (2025)
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Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage (2025)
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Genome‐wide population affinities and signatures of adaptation in hydruntines, sussemiones and Asian wild asses (2024)
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Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria (2024)
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Archaeological and molecular evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia (2024)
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Biomolecular evidence for changing millet reliance in Late Bronze Age central Germany (2024)
Federal Grants 3 $914,516 total
SCC-CIVIC-FA Track A: Dynamic Modeling of River Ecosystem Stability
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- Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria
- Biomolecular evidence for changing millet reliance in Late Bronze Age central Germany
- Ancient DNA reveals elite dynastic rule among Iron Age Eurasian Steppe nomads
- Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria
- Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage
- Ancient genomes from eastern Kazakhstan reveal dynamic genetic legacy of Inner Eurasian hunter-gatherers
- Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria
- Reconstruction of the lifeways of Central European Late Bronze Age communities using ancient DNA, isotope and osteoarchaeological analyses
- Evolutionary history and recurrent host adaptation in ancient Salmonella enterica
- Genome‐wide population affinities and signatures of adaptation in hydruntines, sussemiones and Asian wild asses
- Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage
- Ancient genomes from eastern Kazakhstan reveal dynamic genetic legacy of Inner Eurasian hunter-gatherers
- Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage
- Ancient genomes from eastern Kazakhstan reveal dynamic genetic legacy of Inner Eurasian hunter-gatherers
- Ancient DNA reveals elite dynastic rule among Iron Age Eurasian Steppe nomads
- Ancient genomes from eastern Kazakhstan reveal dynamic genetic legacy of Inner Eurasian hunter-gatherers
- Rocks and clay: Potters’ technological choices within the cultural dynamics of Bronze Age Kazakhstan
- Evolutionary history and recurrent host adaptation in ancient Salmonella enterica
- Biomolecular evidence for changing millet reliance in Late Bronze Age central Germany
- Reconstruction of the lifeways of Central European Late Bronze Age communities using ancient DNA, isotope and osteoarchaeological analyses
- Biomolecular evidence for changing millet reliance in Late Bronze Age central Germany
- Ancient DNA reveals elite dynastic rule among Iron Age Eurasian Steppe nomads
- Archaeological and molecular evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia
- Biomolecular evidence for changing millet reliance in Late Bronze Age central Germany
- Archaeological and molecular evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia
- Genome‐wide population affinities and signatures of adaptation in hydruntines, sussemiones and Asian wild asses
- Archaeological and molecular evidence for ancient chickens in Central Asia
- Rocks and clay: Potters’ technological choices within the cultural dynamics of Bronze Age Kazakhstan
- Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria
- Evolutionary history and recurrent host adaptation in ancient Salmonella enterica
- Ancient Plasmodium genomes shed light on the history of human malaria
- Reconstruction of the lifeways of Central European Late Bronze Age communities using ancient DNA, isotope and osteoarchaeological analyses
- Reconstruction of the lifeways of Central European Late Bronze Age communities using ancient DNA, isotope and osteoarchaeological analyses
- Evolutionary history and recurrent host adaptation in ancient Salmonella enterica
- Evolutionary history and recurrent host adaptation in ancient Salmonella enterica
- Ancient DNA reveals elite dynastic rule among Iron Age Eurasian Steppe nomads
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