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Anna Rufà
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Short description of research profile
Eurasia played a critical role in unravelling details of our evolution from the appearance of the earliest Homo species to the transition from Neanderthals to Homo sapiens around 40,000 years ago. The ICArEHB’s group 'Dynamics of Paleolithic People in Eurasia' explores the cultural, social, and environmental interactions that occurred during the Pleistocene across this vast and diverse geographical area. Its goal is to contribute towards a better understanding of the factors that led to our status as the only surviving species on Earth.
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Sinet-Mathiot, V., Rendu, W., Steele, T.E., Spasov, R., Madelaine, S., Renou, S., Soulier, M.C., Martisius, N.L., Aldeias, V., Endarova, E., Goldberg, P., McPherron, S.J.P., Rezek, Z., Sandgathe, D., Sirakov, N., Sirakova, S., Soressi, M., Tsanova, T., Turq, A., Hublin, J.J., Welker, F., Smith, G.M. (2023). Identifying the unidentified fauna enhances insights into hominin subsistence strategies during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition. Archaeol Anthropol Sci 15, 139 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01830-4
Rüther, P.L., Husic, I.M., Bangsgaard, P., Gregersen, K.M., Pantmann, P., Carvalho, M., Godinho, R.M., Friedl, L., Cascalheira, J., Taurozzi, A.J., Schjellerup Jørkov, M.L., Benedetti, M.M., Haws, J., Bicho, N., Welker, F., Cappellini, E., Velgaard Olsen, J. (2022). SPIN enables high throughput species identification of archaeological bone by proteomics. Nat Commun 13, 2458. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30097-x
Massilani, D., Morley, M. W., Mentzer, S. M., Aldeias, V., Vernot, B., Miller, C., Stahlschmidt, M., Kozlikin, M. B., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Conard, N. J., Wurz, S., Henshilwood, C. S., Vasquez, J., Essel, E., Nagel, S., Richter, J., Nickel, B., Roberts, R. G., Pääbo, S., Slon, V., Goldberg, P., Meyer, M. (2021). Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments. Proc Nat Acad Sci 119 (1). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2113666118
Haws, J.A., Benedetti, M.M., Bicho, N.F., Cascalheira, J., Ellis, M.G., Carvalho, M.M., Friedl, L., Pereira, T., Talamo S. (2021). The early Aurignacian at Lapa do Picareiro really is that old: A comment on ‘The late persistence of the Middle Palaeolithic and Neandertals in Iberia: A review of the evidence for and against the “Ebro Frontier” model’. Quaternary Science Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107261
Hublin, J. Sirakov, N., Aldeias, V., Bailey, S., Bard, E., Delvigne, V., Faugault, Y., Fewlass, H., Hajdinjak, M., Kromer, B., Krumov, I., Marreiros, J., Martisius, N., Paskulin, L., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., Popov, V., Rezek, Z., Sirakova, S., Skinner, M., Smith, G., Spasov, R., Talamo, S., Tuna, T., Wacker, L., Welker, F., Wilcke, Q., Zahariev, N., McPherron, S., Tsanova, T., 2020. Initial Upper Paleolithic Homo sapiens remains from Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria). Nature 581, 299-302. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2259-z