Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago
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Nature, 2024
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
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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
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Nature, 2023
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Elena I Zavala, Ayinuer Aximu-Petri, Julia Richter, Birgit Nickel, Benjamin Vernot, Matthias Meyer
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Ancient DNA Methods Improve Forensic DNA Profiling of Korean War and World War II Unknowns
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Genetic insights into the social organization of Neanderthals
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Making the Most of Soils in Archaeology.A Review
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Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments
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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
Elena I. Zavala, Swetha Rajagopal, George H. Perry, Ivana Kruzic, Željana Bašić, Thomas J. Parsons, Mitchell M. Holland
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