Paläoanthropologie

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Edited Volumes

Harvati K., Konidaris G., Tourloukis V. (Eds.) 2018. Special Issue Human Evolution at the Gates of EuropeQuaternary International Special Issue Volume 497 Part A, pp. 1-240.

Harvati K., Jäger G., Reyes-Centeno H. (Eds.) 2018. New Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas. Words, Bones, Genes, Tools: DFG Centre for Advanced Studies Series. Kerns Verlag, Tübingen.

El Zaatari S., Harvati K., Bae C. (Eds.) 2018. Special Issue Filling the Gaps in the Human Evolutionary Story. Quaternary International, Volume 466 Part A, pp. 1-106.

Harvati K, Roksandic, M. (Eds.) 2016. Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia: Human Evolution and its Context. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series, Springer: Dordrecht.

Harvati, K and Harrison, T. 2006. Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives. Springer: Dordrecht. ISBN: 978-1-4020-5120-3

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Publications in international refereed journals and edited volumes

2021 Karakostis F.A., Reyes-Centeno H., Franken M., Hotz G., Rademaker K., Harvati K. 2021. Bio-cultural evidence of precise manual activities in an Early Holocene individual of the high-altitude Peruvian Andes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 174, 35-48 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24160
  Konidaris G.E., Kostopoulos D.S., Maron M., Schaller M., Ehlers T.A., Aidona E., Marini M., Tourloukis V., Muttoni G., Koufos G.D., Harvati K. 2021. Dating of the Lower Pleistocene vertebrate site of Tsiotra Vryssi (Mygdonia Basin, Greece): biochronology, magnetostratigraphy and cosmogenic radionuclides. Quaternary 4, 1. 
  Beier J., Anthes N., Wahl J., Harvati K. 2021. Prevalence of cranial trauma in Eurasian Upper Paleolithic humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 174, 268-174 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24163 
2020 Mori T., Profico A., Reyes-Centeno H., Harvati K. 2020. Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the mid-Pleistocene hominin KNM-OG 45500 (Olorgesailie, Kenya). Journal of Anthropological Sciences 98, 49-72. DOI: 10.4436/jass.98022
  Bosman A., Reyes-Centeno H., Harvati K. 2020. A virtual assessment of the suprainiac depressions on the Eyasi I (Tanzania) and Aduma ADU-VP-1/3 (Ethiopia) Pleistocene hominin crania. Journal of Human Evolution 145, 102815 
  Neukamm J., Pfrengle S., Molak M., Seitz A., Francken M., Eppenberger P., Avanzi C., Reiter E., Urban C., Welte B., Stockhammer P.W., Teßmann B., Herbig A., Harvati K., Nieselt K., Krause J., Schuenemann V.J. 2020. 2000-year-old pathogen genomes reconstructed from metagenomic analysis of Egyptian mummified individuals. BMB Biology 18, 108 doi.org/10.1186/s12915-020-00839-8
   Evans S.A., Frost S.R., Harvati K., McNulty K., Singleton M. Comparing rates of lineage diversification with rates of size and shape evolution in catarrhine crania. Evolutionary Biology 47, 152–163
  Uhl, A., Karakostis, F.A., Wahl, J., Harvati K.  A cross-population study of sexual dimorphism in the bony labyrinth. Archaeol Anthropol Sci 12, 132
2019  
  Harvati K., Röding C., Bosman A., Karakostis F.A., Grün R., Stringer C., Karkanas P., Thompson N.C., Koutoulidis V., Moulopoulos L.A., Gorgoulis V.G., Kouloukoussa M. 2019. Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Nature 571, 500-504 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1376-z
  Karakostis F.A., Wallace I., Konow N., Harvati K.  Experimental evidence that physical activity affects the multivariate associations among muscle attachments. Journal of Experimental Biology 22(23) http://jeb.biologists.org/lookup/doi/10.1242/jeb.213058
  Karakostis F.A., Jeffery N., Harvati K.  Experimental proof that multivariate patterns among muscle attachments (entheses) can reflect repetitive muscle use. Scientific Reports 9:16577 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53021-8
  Ioannidou M., Koufos G.D., de Bonis L., Harvati K. A new three-dimensional geometric morphometrics analysis of the Ouranopithecus macedoniensis cranium (Late Miocene, Central Macedonia, Greece). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 170, 295-307.
  Kranioti E., Grigorescu D., Harvati K. State of the art forensic techniques reveal evidence for interpersonal violence ca. 30.000 years ago. PLoSONE 14(7): e0216718.
  Rathmann H., Kyle B., Nikita E., Harvati K., Semerari G.S. Population history of southern Italy during Greek colonization inferred from dental remains. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 170, 519-534.  DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23937
  Mori T., Harvati K. Basicranial ontogeny comparison in Pan and Homo and its use for developmental stage definition of KNM-ER42700. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 170, 579-594. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23926
  Bosman A., Harvati K. A virtual assessment of the propose suprainiac fossa on the Early Modern European Calvaria from Cioclovina, Romania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 169, 567-574
  Lacruz R.S., Stringer C.B., Kimbel W.H., Wood B., Harvati K., O’Higgins P., Bromage T.G., Arsuaga J.-L. The evolutionary history of the human face. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3, 726-736
  Will M., El Zaatari S., Harvati K., Conard N.J. Human teeth from securely stratified Middle Stone Age contexts at Sibudu, South Africa. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, 3441-3501
  Giusti D., Konidaris G.E., Tourloukis V., Marini M., Maron M., Zerboni A., Thompson N., Koufos G.F., Kostopoulos D.S., Harvati K. Recursive anisotropy: a spatial taphonomic study of the Early Pleistocene vertebrate assemblage of Tsiotra Vryssi, Mygdonia Basin, Greece. Boreas https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.12368
  Karakostis F.A., Vlachodimitropoulos D., Piagkou M., Scherf H., Harvati K., Moraitis K. Is bone elevation in hand muscle attachments associated with biomechanical stress? A histological approach to an anthropological question. Anatomical Record 302, 1093-1103
2018  
  Beier J., Anthes N., Wahl J., Harvati K. Similar cranial trauma prevalence among Neanderthals and Upper Paleolithic humans. Nature 563, 686-690
  Francken M., Beier J., Reyes-Centeno H., Harvati K., Rademaker K. The human skeletal remains from the Cuncaicha rockshelter, Peru. In (K. Harvati, G. Jäger, H. Reyes-Centeno, eds.): New Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas, pp. 125-152
  Athanassiou A., Michailidis D., Vlachos E., Tourloukis V., Thompson N., Harvati K. Pleistocene vertebrates from the Kyparissia lignite mine, Megalopolis Basin, S. Greece: Testudines, Aves, Suiformes. Quaternary International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497, 178-197.
  Jacobs Y., Li B. Karkanas P., Tourloukis V., Thompson N., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. Optical dating of K-feldspar grains from Middle Pleistocene lacustrine sediment at Marathousa 1 (Greece). Quaternary International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497, 170-177.
  Michailidis D., Konidaris G.E., Athanassiou A., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. The ornithological remains from Marathousa 1 (Middle Pleistocene; Megalopolis Basin, Greece). Quaternary International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497, 85-94. 
  Field M.H., Ntinou M., Tsartsidou G., van Berge Henegouwen D., Risberg J., Tourloukis V., Thompson N., Karkanas P., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. A palaeoenvironmental reconstruction (based on palaeobotanical data and diatoms) of the Middle Pleistocene elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) butchery site at Marathousa, Megalopolis, Greece. Quaternary International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497,108-122.
  Doukas C., van Kolfschoten T., Papayianni K., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. The small mammal fauna from the Paleolithic site Marathousa 1 (Greece). Quaternary International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497, 95-107. 
  Panagopoulou E., Tourloukis V., Thompson N., Konidaris G., Athanassiou A., Giusti D., Tsartsidou G., Karkanas P., Harvati K. The Lower Palaeolithic site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: overview of the evidence. Quaternary International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497, 33-46.
  Tourloukis V., Thompson N., Panagopoulou E., Giusti D., Konidaris G.E., Karkanas P., Harvati K. Lithic artifacts and bone tools from the Lower Paleolithic site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis, Greece: Preliminary results.  Quaternary International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497, 47-64.
  Tourloukis V., Muttoni G., Karkanas P., Monesi E., Scardia G., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. Magnetostratigraphic and chronostratigraphic constraints on the Marathousa 1 Lower Palaeolithic site and the Middle Pleistocene deposits of the Megalopolis basin, Greece. Quaternary International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497, 154-169.
  Thompson N., Tourloukis V., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. In search of Pleistocene remains at the Gates of Europe: Directed surface survey of the Megalopolis Basin (Greece).  Quaternary International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497, 22-32
  Karkanas P., Tourloukis V., Thompson N., Giusti D., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. Sedimentology and micromorphology of the Lower Palaeolithic lakeshore site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis basin, Greece. Quaternary International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497, 123-136
  Giusti D., Tourloukis V., Konidaris G.E., Thompson N., Karkanas P., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. Beyond maps: patterns of formation processes at the Middle Pleistocene open-air site of Marathousa 1, Megalopolis Basin, Greece. Quaternary International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497, 137-153.
  Bauer C.C., Benazzi S., Darlas A., Harvati K. Geometric morphometric analysis and internal structure measurements of the Neanderthal lower fourth premolars from Kalamakia, Greece. Quaternary International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497, 14-21.
  Konidaris G.E., Athanassiou A., Tourloukis V., Thompson N., Giusti D., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. The skeleton of a straight-tusked elephant (Paleoxodon antiquus) and other large mammals from the Middle Pleistocene butchering locality Marathousa 1 (Megalopolis Basin, Greece): preliminary results. Quaternary International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497, 65-84.
  Garefalakis C., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. Late Pleistocene Neanderthal occupation of Western Mani: The evidence from the Middle Palaeolithic assemblages of Mavri Spilia. Quaternary International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497, 4-13.
  Koufos G.D., Konidaris G., Harvati K. Revisiting Ursus etruscus (Carnivora, Mammalia) from the Early Pleistocene of Greece with description of new material. Quaternarny International, SI Human Evolution at the Gates of Europe 497, 222-239.
  Blackwell B.A.B., Sakhrani N., Singh I., Gopalkrishna K.K., Tourloukis V., Panagopoulou E., Karkanas P., Blickstein J.I.B., Skinner A.R., Florentin J.A., Harvati K.  ESR Dating Ungulate Teeth and Molluscs from the Paleolithic Site Marathousa 1, Megalopolis Basin, Greece. Quaternary 2, 22
  Karakostis F. A., Hotz G., Tourloukis V. , Harvati K. Evidence for precision grasping in Neandertal daily activities. Science Advances.
 

Karakostis FA, Hotz G, Scherf H, Wahl J, Harvati K. A repeatable geometric morphometric approach to the analysis of hand entheseal three-dimensional form. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2018;166:246–260.

  Posth C., Nakatsuka N., Lazaridis I., Skoglund P., Mallick S., Lamnidis T.C., Rohland N., Nägele K., Adamski N., Bertolini E., Broomandkhoshbacht N., Cooper A., Culleton B.J., Ferraz da Silva T., Ferry M., Furtwängler A., Haak W., Harkins K., Harper T.K., Hünemeier T., Lawson A.M., Llamas B., Michel M., Nelson E., Oppenheimer J., Patterson N., Schiffels S., Sedig J., Stewardson K., Talamo S., Wang C.-C., Hublin J.-J., Hubbe M., Harvati K., Beier J., Francken M., Kaulicke P., Reyes-Centeno H., Rademaker K., Trask W.R., Robinson M., Gutierrez S.M., Prufer K.M., Salazar-Garcia D.C., Chim E.N., Müller Plumm Gomes L., Lopes Alves M., Liryo A., Inglez M., Oliveira R.E., Bernardo D., Barioni A., Wesolowski V., Scheifler N.A., Rivera M.A., Plens C.R., Messineo P., Figuti L., Corach D., Scabuzzo C., Eggers S., Dantas de Blasis P.R., Reindel M., Méndez C., Politis G., Tomasto-Cagigao E., Kennett D.J., Strauss A., Fehren-Schmitz L., Krause J., Reich D. Reconstructing the deep population history of Central and South America. Cell 175, 1185-1197.
 

El Zaatari S., Harvati K., Bae C. Filling the gaps in the human evolutionary story. Quaternary International SI Filling the Geographic Gaps in the Human Evolutionary Story 466, 1-2

 

Power R.C., Salazar-Garcia D.C., Rubini M., Darlas A., Harvati K., Walker M., Hublin J-J., Hendy A.G. 2018. Dental calculus indica K., widespread plant use within the stable Neanderthal dietary niche. Journal of Human Evolution 119, 27-41.

  Tourloukis V., Harvati K. The Palaeolithic record of Greece: a synthesis of the evidence and a research agenda for the future. Quaternary International.
 

Mathieson I., Alpaslan-Roodenberg S., Posth C., Szécsényi-Nagy A., Rohland N., Mallick S., Olalde I., Broomandkhoshbacht N., Candilio F., Cheronet O., Fernandes D., Ferry M., Gamarra B., González Fortes G., Haak W., Harney E., Jones E., Keating D., Krause-Kyora B., Kucukkalipci I., Michel M., Mittnik A., Nägele K., ć I., Oppevanimer J., Patterson N., Pfrenmle S., SirD., Kozak A., Labuda D.,Lazar C., Leppek M., Leshtakov K., Lo Vetro D., Los D., Lozanov I., Atanassova N., Bacvarov K., Balázs Gusztáv M., Bocherens H., Bolus M., Boroneanţ A., Boyadzhiev Y., Budnik A., Burmaz J., Chohadzhiev S., Conard N.J., Cottiaux R., Čuka M., Cupillard C., Drucker D.G., Elenski N., Francken M., Galabova B., Ganetsovski G., Gély B., Hajdu T., Handzhyiska V., Harvati K., Higham T., Iliev S., Janković I., Karavanić I., Kennett D.J., Komšo D., Kozak A., Labuda D., Lari M., Lazar C., Leppek M., Leshtakov K., Lo Vetro D., Los D., Lozanov I., Malina M., Martini F., McSweeney K. et al. The Genomic History of Southestern Europe. Nature. 2018;555(7695):197-203.

2017  
 

Reyes-Centeno H., Rathmann H., Hanihara T., Harvati K. 2017. Testing modern human Out-of-Africa dispersal models using dental non-metric data. Current Anthropology 58(S17), S406-S417

 

Rathmann H., Reyes-Centeno H., Ghirotto S., Creanza N., Hanihara T., Harvati K. 2017. Reconstructing human population history from dental phenotypes. Scientific Reports 7, 12495

  Rathmann H., Semerari G. Saltini, Harvati K. 2017. Evidence for Migration Influx into the Ancient Greek Colony of Metaponto: A Population Genetics Approach Using Dental Nonmetric Traits. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 27, 453-464
 

Karakostis A.F., Hotz G., Scherf H., Wahl J., Harvati K. 2017. Occupational manual activity is reflected on the patterns among hand entheses. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

 

Camarós E., Cueto M., Rosell J., Díez J.C., Blasco R., Duhig C., Darlas A., Harvati K., Jordá J., Montes L., Villaverde V., Rivals F. 2017. Hunted or Scavenged Neanderthals? Taphonomic Approach to Hominin Fossils with Carnivore Damage. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.

 

Frost S.R., Saanane C., Starkovich B.M., Schwartz H., Schrenk F., Harvati K. 2017. New cranium of the large cercopithecid primate Theropithecus oswaldi leakeyi (Hopwood, 1934) from the paleoanthropological site of Makuyuni, Tanzania. Journal of Human Evolution.

 

Hublin J.J., Ben-Ncer A., Bailey S., Freideline S., Neubauer S., Skinner M.M., Bergmann I., Le Cabec A., Benazzi S., Harvati K., Gunz P. 2017 New fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco) and the Pan-African origin of Homo sapiens. Nature 546, 289-292

 

Schuenemann V.J., Peltzer A., Welte B., van Pelt P.W., Molak M., Wang C.C., Furtwängler A., Urban C., Reiter E., Nieselt K., Teßmann B., Francken M., Harvati K., Haak W., Schiffels S., Krause J. 2017. Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods. Nature Communications 8,15694.

 

Weyrich L.S., Duchene S., Soubrier J., Arriola L., Llamas B., Breen J., Morris A.G., Alt K.W., Caramelli D., Dresely V., Farrell M., Farrer A.G., Francken M., Gully N., Haak W., Hardy K., Harvati K., Held P., Holmes E.C., Kaidonis J., Lalueza-Fox C., de la Rasilla M., Rosas A., Semal P., Soltysiak A., Townsend G., Usai D., Wahl J., Huson D.H., Dobney K., Cooper A. 2017. Reconstructing Neandertal behavior, diet, and disease inferred from ancient DNA from dental calculus. Nature 544, 357-361.

 

Singh N., Albert F.W., Plyusnina I., Trut L., Pӓӓbo S., Harvati K. 2017. Facial shape differences between rats selected for tame and aggressive behaviors. PLOS ONE 12(4): e0175043.

 

Rein T.R., Harrison T., Carlson K.J., Harvati K. 2017. Adaptation to suspensory locomotion in Australopithecus sediba. Journal of Human Evolution 104, 1-12

 

Reyes-Centeno H., Ghirotto S., Harvati K. 2017. Genomic validation of the differential preservation of population history in the human cranium. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 162, 170-179

2016  
 

Harvati K., Lopez E. 2016. A 3-D look at the Tabun C2 mandible. In: E. Hovers and A. Maron, eds. Festschrift for Yoel Rak. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series, Springer: New York, pp. 203-213.

 

Reyes-Centeno H., Harvati K., Jäger G. 2016. Tracking modern human population history from linguistic and cranial phenotype. Scientific Reports. DOI: 10.1038/srep36645

  Reyes-Centeno H., Ghirotto S., Harvati K. 2016. Genomic validation of the differential preservation of population history in the human cranium. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23060
  Harvati K. 2016. Paleoanthropology in Greece: recent findings and interpretations. In: K. Harvati and M. Roksandic, eds. Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia: Human Evolution and its Context. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series, pp. 3-14. Springer: Dordrecht.
 

Harvati K. and Roksandic M. 2016. The Human Fossil Record from Romania: Early Upper Paleolithic Mandibles and Neanderthal Admixture. In: K. Harvati and M. Roksandic, eds. Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia: Human Evolution and its Context. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series, pp.51-68. Springer: Dordrecht

 

Aytek A.I. and Harvati K. 2016. The human fossil record from Turkey. In: K. Harvati and M. Roksandic, eds. Paleoanthropology of the Balkans and Anatolia: Human Evolution and its Context. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series, pp. 79-91. Springer: Dordrecht.

  Rathmann H., Semerari G.S., Harvati K. 2016. Evidence for migration influx into the ancient Greek colony of Metaponto: A population genetics approach using dental nonmetric traits. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. DOI: 10.1002/oa.2569
  Noback M.L., Samo E., van Leeuwen C.H.A., Lynnerup N., Harvati K. 2016. Paranasal sinuses: a problematic proxy for climate adaptation in Neanderthals. Journal of Human Evolution 97, 176-179.
  Fu Q., Posth C., Hajdinjak M., Petr M., Mallick S., Fernandes D., Furtwängler A., Haak W., Meyer M., Mittnik A., Nickel B., Peltzer A., Rohland N., Slon V., Lazaridis I., Lipson M., Schiffels S., Skoglund P., Gély B., Benazzi S., Gonzales Morales M.R., Peresani M., Straus L.G., Caramelli D., Lari M., Ronchitelli A., Valentin F., Constantin S., Coppola D., Grigorescu D., Neugebauer-Maresch C., Thevenet C., Wehrberger K., Crevecoeur I., Rougier H., Semal P., Cupillard C., Bocherens H., Mannino M., Conard N.J., Harvati K., Moiseyev V., Drucker D.G., Svoboda J., Pinhasi R., Kelso J., Patterson N., Krause J., Pääbo S., Reich D. 2016. The genetic history of Ice Age Europe. Nature 524, 200-2005 doi:10.1038/nature17993
  Posth C., Renaud G., Mittnik A., Drucker D.G., Rougier H., Cupillard C., Valentin F., Thevenet C., Furtwängler A., Wißing C., Franken M., Malina M., Bolus M., Lari M., Gigli E., Capecchi G., Crevecoeur I., Beauval C., Flas D., Germonpré M., van der Plicht J., Cottiaux R., Gély B., Ronchitelli A., Wehrberger K., Grigourescu D., Svoboda J., Semal P., Caramelli D., Bocherens H., Harvati K., Conard N.J., Haak W., Powell A., Krause J. 2016. Pleistocene human mitochondrial genomes suggest late dispersal of non-Africans and a Late Glacial population turnover in Europe. Current Biology 26, 827-833.
  Tourloukis V., Thompson N., Garefalakis C., Konidaris G., Karkanas P., Panagopoulou E., Harvati K. 2016. New Middle Paleolithic sites from the Mani peninsula, Southern Greece. Journal of Field Archaeology 41, 68-83.
  Uhl A., Reyes-Centeno H., Grigorescu D., Kranioti E.F., Harvati K. 2016. Inner ear morphology of the Cioclovina early modern European calvaria from Romania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 160, 62-70.
  Bauer C.C., Bons P.D., Benazzi S., Harvati K. 2016. Technical note: Using elliptical best fits to characterize dental variation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159, 342-347
  Scherf H., Wahl J., Hublin J.-J., Harvati K. 2016. Patterns of activity adaptation in humeral trabecular bone in Neolithic people and present day humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159, 106-115.
2015  
  Konidaris G.E., Tourloukis V., Kostopoulos D.S., Thompson N., Giusti D., Mihailidis D., Koufos G.D., Harvati K. 2015. Two new vertebrate localities from the Early Pleistocene of Mygdonia Basin (Macedonia, Greece): Preliminary results. Comptes Rendus Palevol 14, 353-362
  Reyes-Centeno H., Hubbe M., Hanihara T., Stringer C., Harvati K. 2015. Testing Modern Human Out-of-Africa Dispersal Models and Implications for Modern Human Origins. Journal of Human Evolution 87, 95-106
  Panagopoulou E., Tourloukis V., Thompson N., Athanassiou A., Tsartsidou G., Konidaris G.E., Giusti D., Karkanas P., Harvati K. 2015. Marathousa 1 – A new Middle Pleistocene archaeological site from Greece. Antiquity Project Gallery 89 (343).
  Noback M., Harvati K. 2015. The contribution of diet to global human cranial variation. Journal of Human Evolution 80, 34-50.
  Harvati, K., Bauer, C.C., Grine, F.E., Benazzi, S., Ackerman, R.R., van Niekerk, K.L., Henshilwood, C.S. 2015. A human deciduous molar from the Middle Stone Age (Howiesons Poort) of Klipdrift Shelter, South Africa, Journal of Human Evolution, 82, 190-196
  Bauer, C.C., Harvati, K. 2015. A virtual reconstruction and comparative analysis of the KNM-ER 42700 cranium. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 72(2), 129-140.
  Harvati K. 2015. Neanderthals and their contemporaries. In: W. Henke and I. Tattersall (eds.) Handbook of Paleoanthropology, 2nd Edition. Springer.
  Noback M., Harvati K. 2015. Covariation in the human masticatory apparatus. Anatomical Record, 291, 68-84.
  Rein T.R., Harvati K., Harrison T. 2015. Inferring the use of forelimb suspensory locomotion by extinct primate species via shape exploration. Journal of Human Evolution 78, 70-79.
  Hubbe, M., Neves, W.A., Harvati, K. 2015. Cranial morphology of early South Americans: Implications for understanding human dispersion into the New World. In: Frachetti, Michael David; Spengler III, Robert N. (Eds). Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas. Springer, NY: pp. 103-116
2014  
  Harvati K., Toussaint M. 2014. 3-D geometric morphometric analysis of the Scladina Neandertal child’s mandible in a developmental context. In M. Toussaint & D. Bonjean (eds.) The Scladina I-4A Juvenile Neanderthal (Andenne, Belgium) Paleoanthropology and Context. Études et Recherches Archéologiques de l’Université de Liège, 134, pp. 215-222.
  Fornai, C., Benazzi, S., Svoboda, J., Pap, I., Harvati, K., Weber, G. W. 2014. Enamel thickness variation of deciduous first and second upper molars in modern humans and Neandertals. Journal of Human Evolution 76, 83-91.
  Slizewski A., Burger-Heinrich E., Francken M., Wahl J., Harvati K. 2014. Pilot study for reconstruction of soft tissues in Archaeology: Muscle cross-sectional area of the forearm estimated from cortical bone for a Neolithic sample. Anatomical Record 297,1103-1114.
  Rein T.R., Harvati K. 2014. Geometric Morphometrics and Virtual Anthropology: Advances in human evolutionary studies. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 71(1-2), 41-55
  Reyes-Centeno H., Ghirotto S., Détroit F., Grimaud-Hervé D., Barbujani G, Harvati K. 2014. Genomic and Cranial Phenotype Data Support Multiple Modern Human Dispersals from Africa and a Southern Route into Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 111, 7248-7253
2013  
  Slizewski, A., Shönau, E., Shaw, C., Harvati, K. 2013. Muscle Area Estimation from Cortical Bone. Anatomical Record 296, 1695-1707.
  Freidline S.E., Gunz P., Harvati K., Hublin J.-J. 2013. Evaluating developmental shape changes in Homo antecessor subadult facial morphology. Journal of Human Evolution 65, 404-423.
  Baab K., McNulty K., Harvati K. 2013. Homo floresiensis Contextualized: A Geometric Morphometric Comparative Analysis of Fossil and Pathological Human Samples. PLoS1 8(7): e69119.
  Scherf H., Harvati K., Hublin J.-J. 2013. A comparison of proximal humeral cancellous bone of great apes and humans. Journal of Human Evolution 65, 29-38.
  Osipov B., Harvati K., Nathena D., Spanakis K, Karantanas A., Kranioti E.F. 2013. Sexual Dimorphism of the Bony Labyrinth: A New Age Independent Method. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 151, 290-301.
  Harvati‐Papatheodorou, K. 2013. Neanderthals. A Companion to Paleoanthropology (ed. D. Begun), Wiley Blackwell, pp. 538-556.
  Zaatari S., Harvati, K., Panagopoulou E. 2013. Occlusal molar microwear texture analysis and the diet of the Neanderthal from Lakonis. In S. Voutsaki and S. M. Valamoti (eds.): Diet, Economy and Society in the Ancient Greek World: Towards a Better Integration of Archaeology and Science. Pharos Supplement 1, Peters: Leuven, pp. 55-63.
  Harvati K., Tourloukis V. 2013. Human Evolution in the Southern Balkans. Evolutionary Anthropology 22, 43-45.

  Harvati K., Darlas A., Bailey S. E., Rein T. R.,El Zaatari S., Fiorenza L, Kullmer O., Psathi E. 2013. New Neanderthal remains from Mani peninsula, S. Greece: The Kalamakia Middle Palaeolithic cave site. Journal of Human Evolution
64, 486-499
  Stoneking M., Harvati K. 2013. Early Old World migrations of Homo sapiens: human biology. Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, Wiley Blackwell.
  Rein T.R., Harvati K. 2013. Exploring third metacarpal capitate facet shape: implications for early hominin hand morphology. Anatomical Record 296, 240-249.
2012  
  Harvati K. 2012. What happened to the Neanderthals? Nature Education Knowledge 3(10),13.
  Freidline S.E., Gunz P., Harvati K., Hublin J.-J. 2012. Middle Pleistocene human facial morphology in an evolutionary and developmental context. Journal of Human Evolution 63, 723-740.
  Harvati K. and Hublin J.-J. 2012. Morphological continuity of the face in the late Middle and Upper Pleistocene Hominins from North Western Africa – A 3-D geometric morphometric analysis. In: Hublin J.-J. and McPherron S. Modern Origins: A North African Perspective. Springer Verlag, pp. 179-188.
  Frost, S.R., Schwartz, H.L., Giemsch, L., Morgan, L.E., Renne, P.R., Wildgoose M., Saanane C., Schrenk, F., Harvati K. 2012. Refined age estimates and paleoanthropological investigation oft he Manyara Beds, Tanzania. Journal of Anthropological Sciences 90,1-12.
  Freidline S., Gunz P., Janković I., Harvati K., Hublin J.J. 2012. A comprehensive morphometric analysis of the frontal and zygomatic bone of the Zuttiyeh fossil from Israel. Journal of Human Evolution 62, 225–241
  Singh N., Harvati K., Hublin J.-J., Klingenberg C. 2012. Morphological evolution through integration: A quantitative study of cranial integration in Homo, Pan, Gorilla and Pongo. Journal of Human Evolution 62:155-164.
  Schwartz H., Renne P., Morgan L.E., Wildgoose M.M., Lippert P.C., Frost S.R., Harvati K., Schrenk F., Saanane C. 2012. Geochronology of the Manyara Beds, northern Tanzania: New tephrostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy and 40Ar/39Ar ages. Quaternary Geochronology 7, 48-66.
2011  
  Bastir M. , Rosas A., Gunz P., Pena-Melian A., Manzi G. , Harvati K., Kruszynski R., Stringer C., Hublin J.-J. 2011. Evolution of the base of the brain in highly encephalized human species. Nature Communications 2, 588
  S. Benazzi, K. Douka, C. Fornai, C. C. Bauer, O. Kullmer, J. Svoboda, I. Pap, F.Mallegni, P. Bayle, M. Coquerelle, S. Condemi, A. Ronchitelli, K. Harvati & G. W.Weber. 2011. Early dispersal of modern humans in Europe and implications for Neanderthal behavior. Nature 479, 525-528
  K. Harvati, C. Stringer, R. Grün, M. Aubert, P. Allsworth-Jones, C. Adebayo Folorunso. 2011. "Morphologie und Chronologie der Schädelkalotte aus Iwo Eleru (Nigeria, Later Stone Age)". PLoS ONE
  Kranioti E., Holloway R., Ciprut T., Grigorescu D., Harvati K. 2011. A virtual assessment of the endocranial morphiology of the early modern European fossil calvaria from Cioclovina, Romania. Anatomical Record 294, 1083-1092 (Cover article)
  Benazzi S., Viola B., Kullmer O., Fiorenza L., Harvati K., Metscher B, Paul T., Gruppioni G., Weber G., Mallegni F. 2011. A reassessment of the Neandertal teeth from Taddeo cave (southern Italy). Journal of Human Evolution 61, 377-387
  Noback M., Harvati K., Spoor F. 2011. Climate related variation of the human nasal cavity. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 145, 599-614.
  Gunz P. and Harvati K. 2011. Integration and homology of “chignon” and “hemibun” morphology. In: (Condemi S., ed.) 150 Years of Neanderthal Discoveries. Springer, p. 193-202.
  Harvati K., Singh N. and Nicholson E. 2011. A 3-D view of the Neanderthal mandible. In: (Condemi S., ed.) 150 Years of Neanderthal Discoveries. Springer, p. 179-192.
  Hubbe M., Harvati K., Neves W. 2011. Paleoamerican Morphology in the Context of European and East Asian Late Pleistocene Variation: Implications for Human Dispersion Into the New World. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 144, 442-453
  Harvati K., Stringer C., Karkanas P. 2011. Multivariate analysis and classification of the Apidima 2 cranium from Mani, Southern Greece. Journal of Human Evolution 60, 246-250.
  Harvati K. 2011. Homo heidelbergensis. McGraw-Hill 2011 Yearbook of Science & Technology. New York: McGraw-Hill, pp. 141-144.
2010  
  Kaiser T., Seiffert C., Hertler C., Fiedler L., Schwartz H.L., Frost S.R., Giemsch L., Bernor R. L., Wolf D., Semprebon G., Nelson S.V., Schrenk F., Harvati K., Bromage T.G., Saanane C. 2010. Makuyuni, a new Lower Palaeolithic Hominid Site in Tanzania. Mitt. Hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst. 106, 69-110.
  Allsworth-Jones P., Harvati K., Stringer C. 2010. The archaeological context of the Iwo Eleru cranium from Nigeria and preliminary results of new morphometric studies. BAR International Series 2164, 29-42.
  Harvati K., Hublin J.-J. and Gunz P. 2010. Evolution of Middle-Late Pleistocene human cranio-facial form: A 3-D approach. Journal of Human Evolution 59, 445-464
  Harvati, K. 2010 Neanderthals. Evo Edu Outreach 3, 367-376.
  Hubbe M, Neves WA, Harvati K, 2010 Testing Evolutionary and Dispersion Scenarios for the Settlement of the New World. PLoS ONE 5(6): e11105.
2009  
  Harvati K. 2009. Into Eurasia: Geometric morphometric analysis of the Upper Cave (Zhoukoudian) specimens. Journal of Human Evolution 57, 751-762.
  Harvati K., Panagopoulou E., Runnels C. 2009. The Paleoanthropology of Greece. Evolutionary Anthropology 18, 131-143 (Cover article)
  Hubbe M., Hanihara T., Harvati K. 2009. Climate signatures in the morphological differentiation of worldwide human populations. Anatomical Record 292, 1720-1733 .
  Harvati K. 2009. Petralona: Link between Africa and Europe? In: L. Schepartz, C. Bourbou, and S. Fox (Eds.). new Directions in the Skeletal Biology of Greece. Wiener Laboratory Series, ASCSA, Athens.
  Nielsen-Marsh C., Hoffmann R., Toussaint M., Harvati K., Panagopoulou E., Hublin J-J., Richards M.P. 2009. Journal of Archaeological Science 36, 1758-1763.
  Richards M., Grimes V., Smith C., Smith T., Harvati K., Hublin J.-J., Karkanas P., Panagopoulou E. 2009. Response to Nowell and Horstwood (2009) Journal of Archaeological Science 36, 1657-1658.
  Smith T.M., Harvati K., Olejniczak A.J., Reid D.J., Hublin J.-J., Panagopoulou E. 2009. Dental development and enamel thickenss in the Lakonis Neanderthal molar. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 138, 112-118.
2008  
  Richards M., Harvati K., Grimes V., Smith C., Smith T., Hublin J.-J., Karkanas P. and Panagopoulou E. 2008. Isotope evidence of Neanderthal mobility. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35, 1251-1256.
  Harvati K., Panagopoulou E., Karkanas P., Athanassiou A. and Frost S. R. 2008. Preliminary results of the Aliakmon Paleolithic / Paleoanthropological Survey, Greece, 2004-2005. In Darlas A. and Mihailovic D., eds. The Paleolithic of the Balkans. BAR-IS (Oxford)
2007  
  Harvati K., Gunz P. and Grigorescu D. 2007. Cioclovina (Romania): morphological affinities of an early modern European. Journal of Human Evolution.53, 732-746.
  Tzedakis C., Hughen K, Cacho I. and Harvati K. 2007. Placing late Neanderthals in a climatic context. Nature, 449:206-208.
  Harvati K. and Frost S.R. 2007. Dental eruption sequences in fossil colobines and the evolution of primate life histories. International Journal of Primatology, 28, 705-728.
  Harvati K. 2007. Neanderthals and their contemporaries. In: Henke W. and Tattersall I. (eds.) Handbook of Paleoanthropology Vol. 3: Phylogeny of Hominines. Springer, pp. 1717-1748.
  Grine F. E., Bailey R.M., Harvati K., Nathan R.P, Morris, A.G., Henderson G.M., Ribot I. and Pike A.W.G. 2007. Late Pleistocene Human Skull from Hofmeyr, South Africa and Modern Human Origins. Science 315, 226-229.
  Gunz P. and Harvati K. 2007. The Neanderthal “chignon”: Variation, integration and homology. Journal of Human Evolution 52, 262-274.
  Harvati K. 2007. 100 years of H. heidelbergensis - life and times of a controversial taxon. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte 16, 85-94
  Harvati K. 2007. The Krapina Neandertals: A Comprehensive, Centennial, Illustrated Bibliography. Journal of Human Evolution 52, 467.
2006  
  Harvati K. and Weaver T. 2006. Reliability of cranial morphology in reconstructing Neanderthal phylogeny. In: K. Harvati and T. Harrison (eds.) Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 239-254.
  Harvati K. and Harrison T. 2006. Neanderthals Revisited. In: K. Harvati and T. Harrison (eds.) Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 1-7.
  Harvati K. and Weaver T. 2006. Human cranial anatomy and the differential preservation of population history and climate signatures. Anatomical Record 288A, 1225-1233.
  Nicholson E. and Harvati K. 2006. Quantitative Analysis of Human Mandibular Shape Using 3-D Geometric Morphometrics. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 131, 368-383.
  Panagopoulou E., Harvati K., Karkanas P., Athanassiou A., Elefanti P., Frost S.R. 2006. The West Macedonia Palaeolithic survey. The Archaeological Research in Macedonia and Thrace, 18, 631-640.
  Delson E. and Harvati K. 2006. Return of the last Neanderthal. Nature. 443:762-763.
  Panagopoulou, E., Karkanas, P., Kotjabopoulou, E., Harvati, K. and G. Tsartsidou. 2006 The Lakonis palaeolithic project. Archaeologicon Deltion, Chronika B'2(1999), 1003-1005.
2005  
  Harvati K. , Frost S.R. and McNulty K.P. 2005. Neanderthal Variation and taxonomy – A reply to Ackermann (2005) and Ahern et al. (2005). Journal of Human Evolution 48: 653-660.
  Harvati K. and Frost S. R. 2005. Dental eruption sequence in Mesopithecus pentelicus. Acta Palaeontologica Rom., vol. 5.
  Reddy D. P., Harvati K. and Kim J. 2005. Alternative approaches to ridge-curve analysis using the example of the Neanderthal occipital ‘bun’. In: D. Slice (ed.) Modern Morphometrics in Physical Anthropology. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  Harvati K. 2005. Review of “Neanderthals and Modern Humans: An Ecological and Evolutionary Perspective” by Clive Finlayson. Human Biology.
2004  
  Harvati K. , Frost S.R. and McNulty K.P. 2004. Neanderthal taxonomy reconsidered: Implications of 3D primate models of intra- and inter-specific differences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101, 1147-1152.
  Panagopoulou, E., Karkanas, P., Kotjabopoulou, E., Tsartsidou, Harvati, K., G. and Ntinou, M. 2004. Late pleistocene Archaeological and Fossil Human Evidence from Lakonis cave, Southern Greece. Journal of Field Archeology 29, 323-349.
  Harvati K. 2004. 3-D geometric morphometric analysis of temporal bone landmarks in Neanderthals and modern humans. In: Elewa A. M. T. (ed.) Morphometrics, Applications in Biology and Paleontology. Springer-Verlag, p. 245-258.
2003  
  Harvati K. , Panagopoulou E., Karkanas P. 2003. First Neanderthal remains from Greece: The evidence from Lakonis. Journal of Human Evolution 45, 465-473. DOI:10.1016/j.jhevol.2003.09.005
  Harvati K. 2003 . Quantitative analysis of Neanderthal temporal bone morphology using 3-D geometric morphometrics. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 120, 323-338. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.10122
  Harvati K. 2003. The Neanderthal taxonomic position: models of intra- and inter-specific morphological variation. Journal of Human Evolution 44, 107-132. DOI:10.1016/S0047-2484(02)00208-7
  Panagopoulou, E., Karkanas, P., Kotjabopoulou, E., Harvati, K. and G. Tsartsidou. 2003. The Lakonis palaeolithic project. Archaeologicon Deltion, Chronika (1997).
2002  
  Harvati K. 2002. Models of shape variation between and within species and the Neanderthal taxonomic position: a 3D geometric morphometrics approach based on temporal bone morphology. British Archaeological Reviews International Series 1049, 25-30.
2001  
  Delson E., Harvati K., Reddy D., Marcus L. F., Mowbray K., Sawyer G. J., Teuku Jacob and Márquez S. 2001. The Sambungmacan 3 Homo erectus calvaria: a comparative morphometric and morphological analysis. Anatomical Record 262, 380-397. DOI: 10.1002/ar.1048
2000  
  Harvati K. 2000. Dental eruption sequence among colobine primates. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 112, 69-85.
  Harvati K. 2000. Apidima. In: E. Delson, I. Tattersall, J. Van Couvering and A. S. Brooks (eds.) Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, 2nd edition, p.66-67. Garland Publishing, New York
1999  
  Harvati K. and Delson E. 1999. Conference report: Paleoanthropology of the Mani peninsula. Journal of Human Evolution 36, 343-348.

Popular Science articles

Harvati K. In press. Human Evolution in Greece. Proceedings of the conference: Myrtis: Face to Face with the Past, Akropolis Museum, Athens, May 2015 (in Greek).
Harvati K. In press. Neanderthals in the mirror: Contact, Extinction and Survival. Proceedings of the STARMUS conference, Tenerife, September 2014.
Harvati K. 2012. Der Geruchssinn. In: Von Sinnen: Wahrnehmung in der zeitgenössischen Kunst.Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kerber Art, pp. 72-73.
Harvati K. 2009. Extinction and the Evolution of Humankind. In: What's Next: Dispatches on the Future of Science. Brockman, M. (ed.) Vintage Press.
Harvati K., Frost S.R. and McNulty K.P. 2006. Neandertaler: Vorfahren oder entfernte Verwandte? In: (Uelsberg, G., ed) Roots / Wurzeln der Menschheit, Reinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, pp. 133-139.