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Tapia, J., Marchán-Fernández, A., Llorente, L., Aguirre-Uribesalgo, A., Lefebvre, A., Agudo Pérez, L., Douka, K., Garate, D., Zumalabe, F., & Álvarez-Fernández, E. (2025). Coastal Settlement in the Late Pleistocene of the Bay of Biscay (North Iberia): The Cases of Langatxo and Iruroin Caves. Environmental Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2025.2590173

Gilardet, A., Oppenheimer, J., Sinding, M.-H. S., Lord, E., Chacon-Duque, C., García, G. O., Xenikoudakis, G., Kosintsev, P. A., Southon, J. R., Vasiliev, S. K., Shunkov, M. V., Kozlikin, M. B., Douka, K., Shapiro, B., Heintzman, P. D., & Dalén, L. (2025). Palaeogenomics reveals a loss of bovine lineages in mid-latitude Asia over the last 200,000 years. Genome Biology and Evolution, 17(11), Article 11. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf206

Pigott, E. M., Cheshmedzhieva, K., Zeller, E., van der Sluis, L. G., Chowdhury, M. P., Gianni, M., Végh, E., Uthmeier, T., Chabai, V., Patou-Mathis, M., Šimková, P. G., Voglmayr, J. N., Weber, G. W., Pinhasi, R., Timmermann, A., Kuhlwilm, M., Douka, K., & Higham, T. (2025). A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(45), e2518974122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518974122

Strang, S., Köcher, T., Sluis, L. V. D., Chowdhury, M. P., Grabmayer, H., Douka, K., & Binder, M. (2025). The bioarchaeology of tobacco use: An exploratory study of nicotine and cotinine detection in tooth dentine. Journal of Archaeological Science, 180, Article 106301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106301

Oertle, A., Crezzini, J., Moroni, A., Ronchitelli, A., Benazzi, S., Falcucci, A., Marciani, G., Rossini, M., Martini, I., Arrighi, S., Higham, T., Boschin, F., & Douka, K. (2025). New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy. Scientific Reports, 15(1), Article 25906. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-11355-6

Gilardet, A., Lord, E., García, G. O., Xenikoudakis, G., Douka, K., Wooller, M. J., Rowe, T., Martin, M. D., Le Moullec, M., Anisimov, M., Heintzman, P. D., & Dalén, L. (2025). A High-Throughput Ancient DNA Extraction Method for Large-Scale Sample Screening. Molecular Ecology Resources, e14077. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.14077

Weber, G. W., Šimková, P. G., Fernandes, D. M., Cheronet, O., Úry, E., Wilfing, H., Matiasek, K., Llano-Lizcano, A., Gelabert, P., Trinks, I., Douka, K., Ladstätter, S., Higham, T., Steskal, M., & Pinhasi, R. (2025). The cranium from the Octagon in Ephesos. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 943. Article 943. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83870-x

Oertle, A., & Douka, K. (2025). New collagen peptide markers from New Guinea fauna: identifying archaeological bone in the tropics. Royal Society Open Science, 12(251172). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251172

Ghasidian, E., Frouin, M., Grandfield, T., Hariri, N., Ashari, S., Samei, S., Kehl, M., Deckers, K., Azizi, F., Asiabani, S., Fotuhi, E., Ahmadnejad, F., Hariryan, H., Douka, A., Ramzanpour, H., & Guran, S. H. (2024). Initial upper Palaeolithic on the Iranian Plateau: Sorheh Rockshelter, Southern Alborz mountains. Quaternary Science Reviews, 344, Article 108962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108962

Higham, T., Frouin, M., Douka, A., Ronchitelli, A., Boscato, P., Benazzi, S., Crezzini, J., Spagnolo, V., McCarty, M., Marciani, G., Falcucci, A., Rossini, M., Arrighi, S., Dominici, C., Deviese, T., Schwenninger, J.-L., Martini, I., Moroni, A., & Boschin, F. (2024). Chronometric data and stratigraphic evidence support discontinuity between Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens in the Italian Peninsula. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 8016. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51546-9

Vegh, E., & Douka, K. (2024). SpecieScan: Semi-Automated taxonomic identification of bone collagen peptides from MALDI-ToF MS. Bioinformatics, 40(3), 1-12. Article btae054. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae054

Wang, N., Conard, N. J., & Douka, A. (2024). Integrating Morphological and ZooMS-Based Approaches to Zooarchaeology at Vogelherd Cave in Southwestern Germany. Paleoanthropology. https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/1094

Nel, T. H., Peters, C., Richter, K. K., Henshilwood, C., van Niekerk, K., & Douka, K. (2023). Peptide mass fingerprinting as a tool to assess micromammal biodiversity in Pleistocene South Africa: The case of Klipdrift Shelter. Quaternary Science Reviews, 322, Article 108380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108380

Rybin, E. P., Belousova, N. E., Derevianko, A. P., Douka, K., & Higham, T. (2023). The Initial Upper Paleolithic of the Altai: New radiocarbon determinations for the Kara-Bom site. Journal of Human Evolution, 185, Article 103453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103453

Wang, N., Xu, Y., Tang, Z., He, C., Hu, X., Cui, Y., & Douka, K. (2023). Large-scale application of palaeoproteomics (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry; ZooMS) in two Palaeolithic faunal assemblages from China. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(2009), Article 20231129. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1129

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., ... Meyer, M. (2023). Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant. Nature, 618(7964), 328-332. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06035-2

Codlin, M. C., Douka, K., & Richter, K. K. (2022). An application of zooms to identify archaeological avian fauna from Teotihuacan, Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science, 148, Article 105692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105692

Prideaux, G. J., Kerr, I. A. R., van Zoelen, J. D., Grun, R., van der Kaars, S., Oertle, A., Douka, K., Grono, E., Barron, A., Mountain, M.-J., Westaway, M. C., & Denham, T. (2022). Re-evaluating the evidence for late-surviving megafauna at Nombe rockshelter in the New Guinea highlands. Archaeology in Oceania, 57(3), 223-248. https://doi.org/10.1002/arco.5274

Frouin, M., Douka, K., Dave, A. K., Schwenninger, J.-L., Mercier, N., Murray, A. S., Santaniello, F., Boschian, G., Grimaldi, S., & Higham, T. (2022). A refined chronology for the Middle and early Upper Paleolithic sequence of Riparo Mochi (Liguria, Italy). Journal of Human Evolution, 169, Article 103211. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103211

Roberts, P., Douka, K., Tromp, M., Bedford, S., Hawkins, S., Bouffandeau, L., Ilgner, J., Lucas, M., Marzo, S., Hamilton, R., Ambrose, W., Bulbeck, D., Luu, S., Shing, R., Gosden, C., Summerhayes, G., & Spriggs, M. (2022). Fossils, fish and tropical forests: prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers of Oceania. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 377(1849), Article 20200495. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0495