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Marin A. Pilloud (born November 1977 in San Luis Obispo ) is an US American anthropologist and archaeologist. As a member of the Çatalhöyük Archaeological Project under the direction of British archaeologist Ian Hodder she discovered that the dead buried under the houses of the 9000 year old neolithic settlement are not or only minimally genetically related (not to a statistically significant degree). She came to this result by carrying out a biological distance analysis studying the size and shape of the teeth of the skeletons. Before trials to determine the kinship relations of the population by DNA analysis had failed due to the age and contamination of the material. This contradicted former assumptions of Çatalhöyük as a kin based society.

Pilloud studied Archaeology from 1998 to 1999 at the University of California, Berkeley and from 2003 to 2005 at the Ohio State University in Columbus.