Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago

Dorothea Mylopotamitaki*, Marcel Weiss*, Helen Fewlass*, Elena Irene Zavala*, Hélène Rougier, Arev Pelin Sümer, Mateja Hajdinjak, Geoff M. Smith, Karen Ruebens, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Sarah Pederzani, Elena Essel, Florian S. Harking, Huan Xia, Jakob Hansen, André Kirchner, Tobias Lauer, Mareike Stahlschmidt, Michael Hein, Sahra Talamo, Lukas Wacker, Harald Meller, Holger Dietl, Jörg Orschiedt, Jesper V. Olsen, Hugo Zeberg, Kay Prüfer, Johannes Krause, Matthias Meyer, Frido Welker, Shannon P. McPherron, Tim Schüler, Jean-Jacques Hublin

Nature, 2024

Benchmarking for genotyping and imputation using degraded DNA for forensic applications across diverse populations

Elena I. Zavala, Rori V. Rohlfs, Priya Moorjani

Forensic Science International: Genetics, in press, 2024

The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

Geoff M. Smith, Karen Ruebens, Elena Irene Zavala, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Helen Fewlass, Sarah Pederzani, Klervia Jaouen, Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Kate Britton, Hélène Rougier, Mareike Stahlschmidt, Matthias Meyer, Harald Meller, Holger Dietl, Jörg Orschiedt, Johannes Krause, Tim Schüler, Shannon P. McPherron, Marcel Weiss, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Frido Welker

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024

Stable isotopes show Homo sapiens dispersed into cold steppes ~45,000 years ago at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

Sarah Pederzani, Kate Britton, Manuel Trost, Helen Fewlass, Nicolas Bourgon, Jeremy McCormack, Klervia Jaouen, Holger Dietl, Hans-Jürgen Döhle, André Kirchner, Tobias Lauer, Mael Le Corre, Shannon P. McPherron, Harald Meller, Dorothea Mylopotamitaki, Jörg Orschiedt, Hélène Rougier, Karen Ruebens, Tim Schüler, Virginie Sinet-Mathiot, Geoff M. Smith, Sahra Talamo, Thomas Tütken, Frido Welker, Elena I. Zavala, Marcel Weiss, Jean-Jacques Hublin

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024

Review: Computational analysis of human skeletal remains in ancient DNA and forensic genetics

Ainash Childebayeva, Elena I. Zavala

iScience, vol. 26(11), 2023

Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant

Elena Essel*, Elena I. Zavala*, Ellen Schulz-Kornas*, Maxim B. Kozlikin, Helen Fewlass, Benjamin Vernot, Michael V. Shunkov, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Katerina Douka, Ian Barnes, Marie-Cécile Soulier, Anna Schmidt, Merlin Szymanski, Tsenka Tsanova, Nikolay Sirakov, Elena Endarova, Shannon P. McPherron, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo, Mateja Hajdinjak, Marie Soressi, Matthias Meyer

Nature, 2023

Chronological and genetic analysis of an Upper Palaeolithic female infant burial from Borsuka Cave, Poland

Helen Fewlass*, Elena I Zavala*, Yoann Fagault, Thibaut Tuna, Edouard Bard, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Mateja Hajdinjak, Jarosław Wilczyński

iScience, vol. 26(12), 2023

Quantifying and reducing cross-contamination in single- and multiplex hybridization capture of ancient DNA

Elena I Zavala, Ayinuer Aximu-Petri, Julia Richter, Birgit Nickel, Benjamin Vernot, Matthias Meyer

Molecular Ecology Resources, vol. 22(6), 2022, pp. 2196-2207

Ancient DNA Methods Improve Forensic DNA Profiling of Korean War and World War II Unknowns

Elena I. Zavala*, Jacqueline Tyler Thomas*, Kimberly Sturk-Andreaggi, Jennifer Daniels-Higginbotham, Kerriann K. Meyers, Suzanne Barrit-Ross, Ayinuer Aximu-Petri, Julia Richter, Birgit Nickel, Gregory E. Berg, Timothy P. McMahon, Matthias Meyer, Charla Marshall

Special Issue: Advances in Forensic Genetics, Genes, vol. 13(1), 2022

Genetic insights into the social organization of Neanderthals

Laurits Skov, Stéphane Peyrégne, Divyaratan Popli, Leonardo N. M. Iasi, Thibaut Devièse, Viviane Slon, Elena I. Zavala, Mateja Hajdinjak, Arev P. Sümer, Steffi Grote, Alba Bossoms Mesa, David López Herráez, Birgit Nickel, Sarah Nagel, Julia Richter, Elena Essel, Marie Gansauge, Anna Schmidt, Petra Korlević, Daniel Comeskey, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Aliona Kharevich, Sergey V. Markin, Sahra Talamo, Katerina Douka, Maciej T. Krajcarz, Richard G. Roberts, Thomas Higham, Bence Viola, Andrey I. Krivoshapkin, Kseniya A. Kolobova, Janet Kelso, Matthias Meyer, Svante Pääbo, Benjamin M. Peter

Nature, vol. 610, 2022, pp. 519-525

Making the Most of Soils in Archaeology.A Review

Roderick B. Salisbury, Ian D. Bull, Susanna Cereda, Erich Draganits, Katharina Dulias, Kerstin Kowarik, Matthias Meyer, Elena I. Zavala, Katharina Rebay-Salisbury

Archaeologia Austriaca, vol. 106, 2022, pp. 319-334

Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments

Benjamin Vernot, Elena I Zavala, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Zenobia Jacobs, Viviane Slon, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Frédéric Romagné, Alice Pearson, Martin Petr, Nohemi Sala, Adrián Pablos, Arantza Aranburu, José María Bermúdez de Castro, Eudald Carbonell, Bo Li, Maciej T Krajcarz, Andrey I Krivoshapkin, Kseniya A Kolobova, Maxim B Kozlikin, Michael V Shunkov, Anatoly P Derevianko, Bence Viola, Steffi Grote, Elena Essel, David López Herráez, Sarah Nagel, Birgit Nickel, Julia Richter, Anna Schmidt, Benjamin Peter, Janet Kelso, Richard G Roberts, Juan-Luis Arsuaga, Matthias Meyer

Science, vol. 372(6542), 2021

Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave

Elena I. Zavala, Zenobia Jacobs, Benjamin Vernot, Michael V. Shunkov, Maxim B. Kozlikin, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Elena Essel, Cesare de Fillipo, Sarah Nagel, Julia Richter, Frédéric Romagné, Anna Schmidt, Bo Li, Kieran O’Gorman, Viviane Slon, Janet Kelso, Svante Pääbo, Richard G. Roberts, Matthias Meyer

Nature, vol. 595, 2021, pp. 399-403

Impact of DNA degradation on massively parallel sequencing-based autosomal STR, iiSNP, and mitochondrial DNA typing systems

Elena I. Zavala, Swetha Rajagopal, George H. Perry, Ivana Kruzic, Željana Bašić, Thomas J. Parsons, Mitchell M. Holland

International Journal of Legal Medicine, vol. 133(5), 2019, pp. 1369-1380