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The earliest basketry in southern Europe: Hunter-gatherer and farmer plant-based technology in Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol) (2023)
Journal Article
Martínez-Sevilla, F., Herrero-Otal, M., Martín-Seijo, M., Santana, J., Lozano Rodríguez, J. A., Maicas Ramos, R., …Piqué Huerta, R. (2023). The earliest basketry in southern Europe: Hunter-gatherer and farmer plant-based technology in Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol). Science Advances, 9(39), Article eadi3055. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adi3055

Plant material culture can offer unique insights into the ways of life of prehistoric societies; however, its perishable nature has prevented a thorough understanding of its diverse and complex uses. Sites with exceptional preservation of organic mat... Read More about The earliest basketry in southern Europe: Hunter-gatherer and farmer plant-based technology in Cueva de los Murciélagos (Albuñol).

Hunter-gatherer genetic persistence at the onset of megalithism in western Iberia: New mitochondrial evidence from Mesolithic and Neolithic necropolises in central-southern Portugal (2023)
Journal Article
Carvalho, A. F., Fernández-Domínguez, E., Arroyo-Pardo, E., Robinson, C., Cardoso, J. L., Zilhão, J., & Gomes, M. V. (2023). Hunter-gatherer genetic persistence at the onset of megalithism in western Iberia: New mitochondrial evidence from Mesolithic and Neolithic necropolises in central-southern Portugal. Quaternary International, 677–678, 111-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2023.03.015

Despite its strategic importance at the furthermost edge of the Neolithic expansion in Europe, archaeogenetic data from Mesolithic and Neolithic human remains from Portugal are still very limited. Here we present ancient mtDNA evidence (mostly unpubl... Read More about Hunter-gatherer genetic persistence at the onset of megalithism in western Iberia: New mitochondrial evidence from Mesolithic and Neolithic necropolises in central-southern Portugal.

Human Populations – Origins and Movement (2023)
Book Chapter
Fernández‐Domínguez, E. (2023). Human Populations – Origins and Movement. In M. Pollard, R. A. Armitage, & C. A. Makarewicz (Eds.), Handbook of Archaeological Sciences (629-645). (2nd ed.). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119592112.ch31

Rather than presenting a detailed account on the origins and main migrations of humankind, this chapter provides a critical overview of the role of ancient DNA (aDNA) in deciphering such human population movements, paying special attention to how the... Read More about Human Populations – Origins and Movement.

Mobility and kinship in the world’s first village societies (2023)
Journal Article
Pearson, J., Evans, J., Lamb, A., Baird, D., Hodder, I., Marciniak, A., Larsen, C. S., Knüsel, C. J., Haddow, S. D., Pilloud, M. A., Bogaard, A., Fairbairn, A., Plug, J.-H., Mazzucato, C., Mustafaoğlu, G., Feldman, M., Somel, M., & Fernández-Domínguez, E. (2023). Mobility and kinship in the world’s first village societies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(4), Article e2209480119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209480119

Around 10,000 y ago in southwest Asia, the cessation of a mobile lifestyle and the emergence of the first village communities during the Neolithic marked a fundamental change in human history. The first communities were small (tens to hundreds of ind... Read More about Mobility and kinship in the world’s first village societies.

Mitochondrial DNA Consensus Calling and Quality Filtering for Constructing Ancient Human Mitogenomes: Comparison of Two Widely Applied Methods (2022)
Journal Article
Heraclides, A., & Fernández-Domínguez, E. (2022). Mitochondrial DNA Consensus Calling and Quality Filtering for Constructing Ancient Human Mitogenomes: Comparison of Two Widely Applied Methods. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(9), Article 4651. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23094651

Retrieving high-quality endogenous ancient DNA (aDNA) poses several challenges, including low molecular copy number, high rates of fragmentation, damage at read termini, and potential presence of exogenous contaminant DNA. All these factors complicat... Read More about Mitochondrial DNA Consensus Calling and Quality Filtering for Constructing Ancient Human Mitogenomes: Comparison of Two Widely Applied Methods.

Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution (2021)
Journal Article
Kocher, A., Papac, L., Barquera, R., Key, F. M., Spyrou, M. A., Hübler, R., Rohrlach, A. B., Aron, F., Stahl, R., Wissgott, A., van Bömmel, F., Pfefferkorn, M., Mittnik, A., Villalba-Mouco, V., Neumann, G. U., Rivollat, M., van de Loosdrecht, M. S., Majander, K., Tukhbatova, R. I., Musralina, L., …Kühnert, D. (2021). Ten millennia of hepatitis B virus evolution. Science, 374(6564), 182-188. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abi5658

The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect (2021)
Journal Article
Posth, C., Zaro, V., Spyrou, M. A., Vai, S., Gnecchi-Ruscone, G. A., Modi, A., Peltzer, A., Mötsch, A., Nägele, K., Vågene, Å. J., Nelson, E. A., Radzevičiūtė, R., Freund, C., Bondioli, L. M., Cappuccini, L., Frenzel, H., Pacciani, E., Boschin, F., Capecchi, G., Martini, I., …Krause, J. (2021). The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect. Science Advances, 7(39), https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abi7673

The origin, development, and legacy of the enigmatic Etruscan civilization from the central region of the Italian peninsula known as Etruria have been debated for centuries. Here we report a genomic time transect of 82 individuals spanning almost two... Read More about The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect.