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Dr Eva Fernandez Dominguez's Outputs (66)

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., …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)
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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.

The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect (2021)
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Posth, C., Zaro, V., Spyrou, M. A., Vai, S., Gnecchi-Ruscone, G. A., Modi, A., …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.

Ancient DNA preservation, genetic diversity and biogeography: A study of houseflies from Roman Qasr Ibrim, lower Nubia, Egypt (2020)
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Simpson, A., Fernández-Domínguez, E., Panagiotakopulu, E., & Clapham, A. (2020). Ancient DNA preservation, genetic diversity and biogeography: A study of houseflies from Roman Qasr Ibrim, lower Nubia, Egypt. Journal of Archaeological Science, 120, Article 105180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2020.105180

The optimal preservation of many Egyptian archaeological sites provides unique opportunities in the research into the evolution of synanthropic species, wild animals or plants, which benefit from close association with man-made human habitats. In thi... Read More about Ancient DNA preservation, genetic diversity and biogeography: A study of houseflies from Roman Qasr Ibrim, lower Nubia, Egypt.

Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia (2019)
Journal Article
Feldman, M., Fernández-Domínguez, E., Reynolds, L., Baird, D., Pearson, J., Hershkovitz, I., …Krause, J. (2019). Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia. Nature Communications, 10, Article 1218. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09209-7

Anatolia was home to some of the earliest farming communities. It has been long debated whether a migration of farming groups introduced agriculture to central Anatolia. Here, we report the first genome-wide data from a 15,000-year-old Anatolian hunt... Read More about Late Pleistocene human genome suggests a local origin for the first farmers of central Anatolia.

A Meeting In The Forest: Hunters And Farmers At The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’, Wiltshire (2018)
Journal Article
Gron, K. J., Rowley-Conwy, P., Fernandez-Dominguez, E., Gröcke, D. R., Montgomery, J., Nowell, G. M., & Patterson, W. P. (2018). A Meeting In The Forest: Hunters And Farmers At The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’, Wiltshire. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 84, 111-144. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2018.15

The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’ is an Early Neolithic pit located just south-east of Stonehenge, Wiltshire. Excavations recovered a faunal assemblage unique in its composition, consisting of both wild and domestic species, as well as large quantities of cera... Read More about A Meeting In The Forest: Hunters And Farmers At The Coneybury ‘Anomaly’, Wiltshire.

The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Europe: a perspective from ancient human DNA (2017)
Book Chapter
Fernández-Domínguez, E., & Reynolds, L. (2017). The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Europe: a perspective from ancient human DNA. In O. García-Puchol, & D. C. Salazar-García (Eds.), Times of Neolithic transition along the Western Mediterranean (311-338). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52939-4_12

Recent advances in DNA genotyping techniques have made it possible to recover a substantial body of ancient DNA data from Mesolithic and Neolithic skeletons, improving our understanding of the biological mechanisms involved in the transition to farmi... Read More about The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in Europe: a perspective from ancient human DNA.

Y-chromosomal analysis of Greek Cypriots reveals a primarily common pre-Ottoman paternal ancestry with Turkish Cypriots (2017)
Journal Article
Heraclides, A., Bashiardes, E., Fernández-Domínguez, E., Bertoncini, S., Chimonas, M., Christofi, V., …Cariolou, M. A. (2017). Y-chromosomal analysis of Greek Cypriots reveals a primarily common pre-Ottoman paternal ancestry with Turkish Cypriots. PLoS ONE, 12(6), Article e0179474. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179474

Genetics can provide invaluable information on the ancestry of the current inhabitants of Cyprus. A Y-chromosome analysis was performed to (i) determine paternal ancestry among the Greek Cypriot (GCy) community in the context of the Central and Easte... Read More about Y-chromosomal analysis of Greek Cypriots reveals a primarily common pre-Ottoman paternal ancestry with Turkish Cypriots.

The Bom Santo Cave (Lisbon, Portugal): Catchment, Diet, and Patterns of Mobility of a Middle Neolithic Population (2017)
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Faustino Carvalho, A., Alves Cardoso, F., Gonçalves, D., Granja, R., Cardoso, J., Dean, R., …Regala, F. (2017). The Bom Santo Cave (Lisbon, Portugal): Catchment, Diet, and Patterns of Mobility of a Middle Neolithic Population. European Journal of Archaeology, 19(2), 187-214. https://doi.org/10.1179/1461957115y.0000000014

The study of the Bom Santo Cave (central Portugal), a Neolithic cemetery, indicates a complex social, palaeoeconomic, and population scenario. With isotope, aDNA, and provenance, analyses of raw materials coupled with stylistic variability of materia... Read More about The Bom Santo Cave (Lisbon, Portugal): Catchment, Diet, and Patterns of Mobility of a Middle Neolithic Population.

Aspartic acid racemization as a dating tool for dentine: A reality (2014)
Journal Article
Torres, T., Ortiz, J., Fernandez, E., Arroyo-Pardo, E., Gruen, R., & Perez-Gonzalez, A. (2014). Aspartic acid racemization as a dating tool for dentine: A reality. Quaternary Geochronology, 22, 43-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2014.02.004

Given the interest in dating sediments from numerous caves, lakes and fluvial terraces containing fossils and lithic components in Europe, here we provide a complete revision of the amino acid racemization (AAR) (aspartic acid in dentine) dating meth... Read More about Aspartic acid racemization as a dating tool for dentine: A reality.

Ancient DNA Analysis of 8000 B.C. Near Eastern Farmers Supports an Early Neolithic Pioneer Maritime Colonization of Mainland Europe through Cyprus and the Aegean Islands (2014)
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Fernández, E., Pérez-Pérez, A., Gamba, C., Prats, E., Cuesta, P., Anfruns, J., …Turbón, D. (2014). Ancient DNA Analysis of 8000 B.C. Near Eastern Farmers Supports an Early Neolithic Pioneer Maritime Colonization of Mainland Europe through Cyprus and the Aegean Islands. PLoS Genetics, 10(6), Article e1004401. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004401

The genetic impact associated to the Neolithic spread in Europe has been widely debated over the last 20 years. Within this context, ancient DNA studies have provided a more reliable picture by directly analyzing the protagonist populations at differ... Read More about Ancient DNA Analysis of 8000 B.C. Near Eastern Farmers Supports an Early Neolithic Pioneer Maritime Colonization of Mainland Europe through Cyprus and the Aegean Islands.