Publications

2025

Cosnefroy, Q., Crevecoeur, I., Semal, P., Hajdinjak, M., Bossoms Mesa, A., Krause, J., Gnecchi-Ruscone, G. A., Posth, C., Bocherens, H., Devièse, T., & Rougier, H.(2025). Highly selective cannibalism in the Late Pleistocene of Northern Europe reveals Neandertals were targeted prey. Scientific Reports,15: 40741.
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Sümer, A. P. *., Rougier, H., Villalba-Mouco, V., Huang, Y., Iasi, L. N., Essel, E., Bossoms Mesa, A., Furtwaengler, A., Peyrégne, S., de Filippo, C., Rohrlach, A. B., Pierini, F., Mafessoni, F., Fewlass, H., Zavala, E. I., Mylopotamitaki, D., Bianco, R. A., Schmidt, A., Zorn, J., Nickel, B., Patova, A., Posth, C., Smith, G. M., Ruebens, K., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Stoessel, A., Dietl, H., Orschiedt, J., Kelso, J., Zeberg, H., Bos, K. I., Welker, F., Weiss, M., McPherron, S., Schüler, T., Hublin, J.-J., Velemínský, P., Brůžek, J., Peter, B. M., Meyer, M., Meller, H., Ringbauer, H., Hajdinjak, M., Prüfer, K. *., & Krause, J. *.(2025). Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neanderthal admixture. Nature,638(8051), 711-717.
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Talamo, S., Casaccia, N., Richards, M. P., Wacker, L., Tassoni, L., Nadachowski, A., Kraszewska, A., Kowal, M., Skłucki, J., Barrington, C., Kelly, M., Tait, F., Williams, M., Figus, C., Vazzana, A., Di Bernardo, G., Romandini, M., Di Domenico, G., Benazzi, S., Malegori, C., Sciutto, G., Oliveri, P., Hublin, J.-J., Hajdinjak, M., Skoglund, P., Picin, A., & Valde‑Nowak, P.(2025). Boomerang and bones: Refining the chronology of the Early Upper Paleolithic at Obłazowa Cave, Poland. PLoS One,20(6): e0324911.
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2024

Iasi, L. N., Chintalapati, M., Skov, L., Bossoms Mesa, A., Hajdinjak, M., Peter, B. M., & Moorjani, P.(2024). Neanderthal ancestry through time: Insights from genomes of ancient and present-day humans. Science,386(6727).
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Mylopotamitaki, D., Weiss, M., Fewlass, H., Zavala, E. I., Rougier, H., Sümer, A., Hajdinjak, M., Smith, G. M., Ruebens, K., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Pederzani, S., Essel, E., Harking, F. S., Xia, H., Hansen, J., Kirchner, A., Lauer, T., Stahlschmidt, M., Hein, M., Talamo, S., Wacker, L., Meller, H., Dietl, H., Orschiedt, J., Olsen, J. V., Zeberg, H., Prüfer, K., Krause, J., Meyer, M., Welker, F., McPherron, S. P., Schüler, T., & Hublin, J.-J.(2024). Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago. Nature,626, 341-346.
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2023

Essel, E., Zavala, E. I., Schulz-Kornas, E., Kozlikin, M. B., Fewlass, H., Vernot, B., Shunkov, M. V., Derevianko, A. P., Douka, K., Barnes, I., Soulier, M.-C., Schmidt, A., Szymanski, M., Tsanova, T., Sirakov, N., Endarova, E., McPherron, S. P., Hublin, J.-J., Kelso, J., Pääbo, S., Hajdinjak, M., Soressi, M., & Meyer, M.(2023). Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant. Nature,618, 328-332.
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Fewlass, H., Zavala, E. I., Fagault, Y., Tuna, T., Bard, E., Hublin, J.-J., Hajdinjak, M., & Wilczyński, J.(2023). Chronological and genetic analysis of an Upper Palaeolithic female infant burial from Borsuka Cave, Poland. iScience,26(12): 108283.
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Soressi, M., & Hajdinjak, M.(2023). Ancient woman’s DNA recovered from a 20,000-year-old pendant [A summary of: Essel, E. et al. Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06035-2 (2023)]. Nature.
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Swali, P., Schulting, R., Gilardet, A., Kelly, M., Anastasiadou, K., Glocke, I., McCabe, J., Williams, M., Audsley, T., Loe, L., Fernández-Crespo, T., Ordoño, J., Walker, D., Clare, T., Cook, G., Hodkinson, I., Simpson, M., Read, S., Davy, T., Silva, M., Hajdinjak, M., Bergström, A., Booth, T., & Skoglund, P.(2023). Yersinia pestis genomes reveal plague in Britain 4000 years ago. Nature Communications,14: 2930.
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