publications

Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient hominin and faunal DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments

PNAS 119 (1) e2113666118; 2022

Massilani D., Morley M., Mentzer S., 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. and Meyer M.

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Earliest evidence for Denisovans identified using peptide mass fingerprinting and mitochondrial DNA analysis

Nat Ecol Evol 6, pp. 28-35; 2021

Brown S*., Massilani D*., Kozlikin M.B., Shunkov M.V., Derevianko A.P., Stoessel A., Jope-Street B., Meyer M., Kelso J., Pääbo S., Higham T. and Douka K.
*co-first author

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Earliest known human burial in Africa

Nature 593, pp. 95-100; 2021

Martinón-Torres M., d’Errico F., Santos E., Álvaro Gallo A., Amano N., Archer W., Armitage S.J., Arsuaga J.L., Bermúdez de Castro J.M., Blinkhorn J., Crowther A., Douka K., Dubernet S., Faulkner P., Fernández-Colón P., Kourampas N., González García J., Larreina D., Le Bourdonnec F.X., MacLeod G., Martín-Francés L., Massilani D., Mercader J., Miller J.M., Ndiema E., Notario B., Pitarch Martí A., Prendergast M.E., Queffelec A., Rigaud S., Roberts P., Javad Shoaee M., Shipton C., Simpson C., Boivin N. and Petraglia M.D.

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Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians

Science 370, Issue 6516, pp.579-583; 2020

Massilani D., Skov L., Hajdinjak M., Gunchinsuren B., Tseveendorj D., Yi S., Lee J., Nagel S., Nickel B., Devièse T., Higham T., Meyer M., Kelso J., Peter B.M. and Pääbo S.

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Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau

Science 370, Issue 6516, pp.584-587 ; 2020

Zhang D., Xia H., Chen F., Li B., Slon V., Cheng T., Yang R., Jacobs Z., Dai Q., Massilani D., Shen X., Wang J., Feng X., Cao P., Yang M.A., Yao J., Yang J., Madsen D.B., Han Y., Ping W., Liu F., Perreault C., Chen X., Meyer M., Kelso J., Pääbo S. and Fu Q.;

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Compound-specific radiocarbon dating and mitochondrial DNA analysis of the Pleistocene hominin from Salkhit Mongolia

Nature Communication 10, 274 ; 2019

Deviese T*., Massilani D*., Yi S., Comeskey D., Nagel S., Nickel B., Ribechini E., Lee J., Tseveendorj D., Guncchinsuren B., Meyer M., Pääbo S. and Higham T.
*co-first author

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Past climate changes, population dynamics and the origin of Bison in Europe

BMC Biology 14, 93 ; 2016

Massilani D*., Guimaraes S*., Brugal J.-P., Bennett E.A., Tokarska M., Arbogast R.M., Baryshnikov G., Boeskorov G., Castel J.C., Davydov S., Madelaine S., Putelat O., Spasskaya N.N., Uerpmann H.P., Grange T. and Geigl E.M.
*co-first author

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