Publications

Kunze, J., Harvati, K.¹, Hotz, G., & Karakostis, F. A.³ (2024). Humanlike manual activities in Australopithecus. Journal of Human Evolution, 196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103591 

Eteson, B.³, Affinito, S.³, Moos, E. T., & Karakostis, F. A.³ (2024). “How handy was early hominin ‘know‐how’?” An experimental approach exploring efficient early stone tool use. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 185(3). https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.25019 

Caro, D. D., Saunders, M. A., Eteson, B.³, Mentzer, S. M., & Beier, J.⁴ (2024). Thirteenth annual meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 33(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.22029 

Beier, J.⁴, Santon, M., Rathmann, H.⁶. (2024). Estimating trauma prevalence from incomplete human skeletal remains. Scientific Reports 2024 14:1, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-76231-1 

Rathmann, H.⁶, Vizzari, M. T., Beier, J.⁴, Bailey, S. E., Ghirotto, S.⁵, & Harvati, K.¹. (2024). Human population dynamics in Upper Paleolithic Europe inferred from fossil dental phenotypes. Science Advances, 10(33). https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adn8129 

Cathcart, C. A.⁵ (2024). Multiple evolutionary pressures shape identical consonant avoidance in the world’s languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(27), e2316677121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2316677121

Cathcart, C. A.⁵, & Jäger, G.¹ (2024). Exploring the evolutionary dynamics of sound symbolism. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46.

Politis, G. G.⁵, & Borrero, L. A. (2024). The archaeology of the pampas and patagonia. Cambridge University Press.

Duveau, J.⁹ (2024). From footprints to the features of hominins: biology, locomotion, behaviours. Annales de la fondation Fyssen,

Planer, R. J.⁵ (2024). Memetics and the Parallel Architecture. Topics in Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12735

Planer, R. J.⁵, & Sterelny, K. (2024). The Agential View of Misfortune. Human Nature, 35(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12110-024-09470-w

Sedrati, M., Morales, J. A., Duveau, J.⁹, M’rini, A. E., Mayoral, E., Díaz‐Martínez, I., Anthony, E. J., Bulot, G., Sedrati, A., & Le Gall, R. (2024). A Late Pleistocene hominin footprint site on the North African coast of Morocco. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 1962. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-52344-5

Politis, G.⁵ and Borrero, L. (2024). The Archeology of the Pampas and Patagonia. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511993251

Roksandic, I.⁵ and Naegele, K. (2024). "Peopling of the Caribbean."  Encyclopedia of Archaeology, 2^nd ed., Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-90799-6.00024-0

Hartmann, F., & Jäger, G.¹ (2023). Gaussian process models for geographic controls in phylogenetic trees. Open Research Europe, 3, 57. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15490.1

Planer, R. J.⁵ (2023). The evolution of hierarchically structured communication. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1224324. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1224324

Planer, R. J.⁵ (2023). Conversation and the evolution of metacognition. Evolutionary Linguistic Theory, 5(1), 53-78.

Planer, R. J.⁵ (2023). Cooperative Breeding and the Evolutionary Origins of Shared Intentionality. Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology, 15.

Planer, R. J.⁵ (2023). Using the sender–receiver framework to understand the evolution of languages-of-thought. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 46.

Planer, R. J.⁵, Bandini, E., & Tennie, C. (2023). Hominin Tool Evolution and Its (Surprising) Relation to Language Origins.

Beck, C⁵., & Köllner, M.² (2023). GHisBERT – Training BERT from scratch for lexical semantic investigations across historical German language stages. Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Historical Language Change. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2023.lchange-1.4 

Röding C.^6,7, Stringer, C., Lacruz, R. S., & Harvati K.¹ (2023). Mugharet el'Aliya: Affinities of an enigmatic north African Aterian maxillary fragment. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 180(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24642 

Rathmann, H.⁶, Perretti, S., Porcu, V., Hanihara, T., Scott, G.R., Irish, J.D.,  Reyes-Centeno, H.⁶,  Ghirotto, S.,  Harvati, K.¹. (2023). Inferring human neutral genetic variation from craniodental phenotypes. PNAS Nexus, 2(7). https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad217

Buzi, C.⁴, Proficio, A.⁵, Liang, C., Khonsari, R.H., O’Higgins, P., Moazen, M., Harvati K.¹. (2023). Icex: Advances in the automatic extraction and volume calculation of cranial cavities. Journal of Anatomy, 242(6). https://doi.org/10.1111/joa.13843 
 

Cathcart, C.⁵ (2022). The evolution of similarity avoidance: a phylogenetic approach to phonotactic change. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings on Phonology. doi.org/10.3765/amp.v10i0.5434

Konidaris, G. E., Aytek, A.⁵ I., Yavuz, A. Y., Tarhan, E., & Alçiçek, M. C. (2022). First report of “Mammut”(Mammalia, Proboscidea) from the Upper Miocene of Turkey. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 42(6), e2222784.

Harvati, K.¹, Reyes, Centeno H.⁶ (2022). Evolution of Homo in the Middle and Late Pleistocene. Journal of Human Evolution 173, 103279 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103279

Urban, M.³ (2022). What color are your hearts? ‘Liver’ and ‘lungs’ in typological and areal perspective. Linguistic Typology 26 (2): 349-374.

Harvati K.¹, Ackermann R.R.⁶ (2022). Merging Morphological and Genetic Evidence to assess hybridization in Western Eurasian Late Pleistocene hominins. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6, 1573-1585. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01875-z+

Uhl, A., Karakostis, F.A.³, Harvati, K.¹ (2022). The application of bony labyrinth methods for forensic affinity estimation. Biology 11, 1088. https://doi.org/10.3390/biology11071088

Balzeau, A.⁸, Albessard-Ball, L., Kubicka, A.M., Filippo, A., Beaudet, A., Santos, E., Bienvenu, T., Arsuaga, J.-L., Bartsiokas, A., Berger, L., Bermúdez, de Castro, J.M., Brunet, M., Carlson, K. J., Daura, J., Gorgoulis, V.G., Grine, F.E., Harvati, K.¹, Hawks, J., Herries, A., Hublin, J.-J., Hui, J., Ives, R., Joordens, J.A., Kaifu, Y., Kouloukoussa, M., Léger, B., Lordkipanidze, D., Margvelashvili, A., Martin, J., Martinón-Torres, M., May, H., Mounier, A., du Plessis, A., Rae, T., Röding C.^6,7, Sanz, M., Semal, P., Stratford, D., Stringer, C., Tawane, M., Temming, H., Tsoukala, E., Zilhão, J., Zipfel, B., Buck, L.T. (2022). Frontal sinuses and human evolution. Science Advances 8, eabp9767.

Kunze, J.⁶, Karakostis, F.A.³, Merker, S., Peresani, M., Hotz, G., Tourloukis, V.⁶, Harvati, K.¹ (2022). Entheseal patterns suggest habitual tool use in early hominins. PaleoAnthropology 2022:2, 195-210.

Hochuli, K.⁵ and Streeck, J. (2022). Building, dwelling, and interacting: Steps in the evolution of public space from Paleolithic to present. In: Andreas H. Jucker und Heiko Hausendorf (Hg.): Pragmatics of space. Berlin, Boston, Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton; Walter de Gruyter GmbH (Handbooks of pragmatics / editors Wolfram Bublitz, Andreas H. Jucker, Klaus P. Schneider, volume 14), S. 473-522.

Mayoral, E., Duveau, J.⁴, Santos, A. Rodríguez Ramírez, A., Morales, J. A., Morales, L. A., Díaz-Delgado, R., Rivera-Silva, J., Gómez-Olivencia, A., Díaz-Martínez, I., (2022). New dating of the Matalascañas footprints provides new evidence of the Middle Pleistocene (MIS 9-8) hominin paleoecology in southern Europe. Scientific Reports, 12, 17505. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22524-2

Duveau, J.⁴, (2022). From footprint morphometrics to the stature of fossil hominins: A common but uncertain estimate. L’Anthropologie, 103067. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2022.103067

Duveau, J.⁴, (2022). Sur les traces de nos ancêtres : que nous apprennent les empreintes de pieds fossiles ? Bulletin de la société d’études et de recherches préhistoriques des Eyzies, 71, 59-76. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03753761/document

Bentz, C.⁶, Gutierrez-Vasques, X., Sozinova, O., and Samardžić, T. (2022). Complexity trade-offs and equi-complexity in natural languages: A meta-analysis. Linguistics Vanguard.

Ferrer-i-Cancho, R., Bentz, C.⁶, and Seguin, C. (2022). Optimal coding and the origins of Zipfian laws. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 29(2), p. 165-194.

Soh-Eun Shim, R. & Nerbonne, J.⁵ (2022). dialectR: Doing Dialectometry in R. In: Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on NLP for Similar Languages, Varieties and Dialects Association for Computational Linguistics: Shroudsburg, PA. pp. 20-27.

Nerbonne, J.⁵ (2022). Lofzang op de dataverzamelingen van het Meertens Instituut. In: Marc van Oostendorp & Simone Wolff (eds.) Het Dialectendoeboek. De schatkamer van negentig jaar Meertens Instituut Amsterdam: Sterck & De Vreese. pp.104-108.

Matthias Urban³ (2021). Language classification, language contact and Andean prehistory: The North. Language and Linguistics Compass  15 (9): e12414. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12414

Matthias Urban³ and Steven Moran (2021). Altitude and the distributional typology of language structure: ejectives and beyond. PLoS ONE 16(2): e0245522. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245522

Matthias Urban³ (2021). Mochica pronouns: their internal reconstruction and their significance for worldwide patterns of paradigmatic resemblances in pronominal shapes. International Journal of American Linguistics 87 (2): 279-296.

Matthias Urban³ (2021). The foreign contribution to the lexicon of Northern Peruvian Quechua varieties: an exploratory study. Language Dynamics and Change 11 (1): 77–129.

Matthias Urban³ (2021). Linguistic and cultural divisions in pre-Hispanic Northern Peru. Language Sciences 85: 101354. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2020.101354

Matthias Urban³ (2021). The geography and development of language isolates. Royal Society Open Science 8 (4): 202232. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.20223

Matthias Urban³ (2021). Cholón and the linguistic prehistory of northern Peru: triangulating toponymy, substrate lexis, and areal typology. Linguistic Discovery 17 (1). https://doi.org/10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.513

Fellows, Yates J., Velsko, I.M., Aron, F., Posth, C.⁶, Hofman, C.A., Austin, R.M., Parker, C.E., Mann, A.E., Nägele, K., Weedman, Arthur K., Arthur, J.W., Bauer, C.C., Crevecoeur, I., Cupillard, C., Curtis, C.M., Dalen, L., Dias-Zorita Bonilla, M., Carols Dies Fernandez-Lomana, J.,Drucker, D.G., Escribano Escriva, E., Francken, M., Gibbon, V.E., Gonzalez Morales, M., Grande Mateu, A., Harvati, K.¹, Henry, A.G., Humphrey, L., Menendez, M., Mihailovic, D., Peresani, M., Rodrigues Moroder, S., Roksandic, M.⁵, Rougier, H., Sazelova, S., Stock, J.T., Guy Straus, L., Svoboda, J., Teßmann, B., Walker, M.J., Power, R.C., Lewis, C.M., Sankaranarayanan, K., Guschanski, K., Wrangham, R., Dewhirst, F.E., Salazar-Garcia, D.C., Krause, J.⁶, Herbig, A., Warinner, C. (2021). The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021655118

Buzi, C.⁴, Profico, A.⁵, Di Vincenzo, F., Harvati, K.¹, Melchiona M., Raia P., Manzi G. (2021). Retrodeformation of the Steinheim cranium: Insights into the evolution of Neanderthals. Symmetry 13(9), 1611. DOI: 10.3390/sym13091611

Buckley, S., Power, R.C., Andreadaki-Vlazaki, M., Akar, M., Becher, J., Belser, M., Cafisso, S., Eisenmann, S., Fletcher, J., Francken, M., Hallager, B., Harvati, K.¹, Ingman, T., Kataki, E., Maran, J., Martin, M.A.S., McGeorge, P.JP., Milevski, I., Papadimitriou, A., Protopapadaki, E., Salazar-García, D.C., Schmidt-Schultz, T., Schuenemann, V.J., Shafiq, R., Stuijts, I., Yegorov, D., Yener, K.A., Schultz, M., Spiteri, C., Stockhammer, P.W. (2021). Archaeometric evidence for the earliest exploitation of lignite from the Bronze age Eastern Mediterranean. Scientific Reports 11, 24185

Anastopoulou, I., Karakostis, F.A.³, Harvati, K.¹ et al. (2021) Accurate and semi-automated reassociation of intermixed human skeletal remains recovered from bioarchaeological and forensic contexts. Sci Rep 11(20273). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-99962-x

Rathmann, H.⁶, Stoyanov, R., & Posamentir, R. (2021). Comparing individuals buried in flexed and extended positions at the Greek colony of Chersonesos (Crimea) using cranial metric, dental metric, and dental nonmetric traits. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3043

Arner, A.M.⁷, Grogan, KE, Grabowski, M.⁹, Reyes-Centeno, H.⁶, Perry, G.H.⁴. (2021). Patterns of recent natural selection on genetic loci associated with sexually differentiated human body size and shape phenotypes. PLOS Genetics 17(6): e1009562. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009562

Dediu, Dan, Moisik, Scott R., Baetsen, W. A., Bosman, Abel Marinus³, and Waters-Rist, Andrea L. (2021).The vocal tract as a time machine: inferences about past speech and language from the anatomy of the speech organs. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B. http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0192

Yanovich, I.⁶ (2021). JOINT MODELLING OF RADIOCARBON DATES FROM ULUCAK V (ANATOLIAN LATE NEOLITHIC). Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry, 21(1), 273-280. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4606805

Karakostis, F. A.³ and Harvati, K.¹. (2021). New horizons in reconstructing past human behavior: Introducing the “Tübingen University Validated Entheses‐based Reconstruction of Activity” method. Evolutionary Anthropology DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21892

Buzi, C.⁴, Di Vincenzo, F., Profico, A., Manzi, G.. (2021). The Pre-Modern Human Fossil Record in Italy from the Middle to the Late Pleistocene: An Updated Reappraisal. Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary. https://doi.org/10.26382/AMQ.2021.03

Karakostis, F.A.³, Haeufle, D., Ansatopoulou, I., Moraitis, K., Hotz, G, Tourloukis, V., Harvati K.¹. (2021). Biomechanics of the human thumb and the evolution of dexterity. Current Biology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.12.041 

Manni, F. and Nerbonne, J.⁵ (2021). Linguistic Diversity and Human Migrations in Gabon. In: Maria de Lourdes Muñoz-Moreno and Michael Crawford (eds.) Human migration: Bio-cultural perspectives New York: Oxford University Press. 2021. pp.99-114.

Santos, P.⁵, Gonzàlez-Fortes, G., Trucchi, E., Ceolin, A., Cordoni, G., Guardiano, C., ... & Barbujani, G. (2020).  More rule than exception: Parallel evidence of ancient migrations in grammars and genomes of Finno-Ugric speakers. In GENES, 11(12), 1491.

Mori, T., Profico, A., Reyes-Centeno, H.², and Harvati, K.¹. (2020). Virtual reconstruction and geometric morphometric analysis of the mid-Pleistocene hominin KNM-OG 45500 (Olorgesailie, Kenya). Journal of Anthropological Sciences. doi:10.4436/jass.98022

Rathmann, H.⁴ and Reyes-Centeno, H.². (2020). Das menschliche Gebiss als Spiegel unserer Evolution. Blickpunkt Archäologie 2:146-149

Rathmann, H.⁴ and Reyes-Centeno, H.². (2020). The utility of different dental traits and trait combinations for inferring human population history. 10th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Human Evolution (ESHE). Podium presentation, Worldwide Online, 24.-25. September 2020. [https://www.eshe.eu/static/eshe/peshe/ESHE_2020_abstracts.pdf]

Karakostis, F.A.³, Reyes-Centeno, H.², Franken, M., Hotz, G., Rademaker, K., Harvati, K.¹. (2020). 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

Beier, J., Anthes N., Wahl J., Harvati K.¹. (2020). Prevalence of cranial trauma in Eurasian Upper Paleolithic humans. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 174, 268-174 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24163

Uhl, A., Karakostis, F.A., Wahl, J., Harvati, K.¹. (2020), A cross-population study of sexual dimorphism in the bony labyrinth. Archaeol Anthropol Sci 12, 132

Arner, A., Reyes-Centeno, H.², Perry, G.⁴, & Grabowski, M.⁷. (2020). Pleiotropic effects on the recent evolution of human hip circumference and infant body size. In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (Vol. 171, pp. 10-10). 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA: WILEY.

Evteev, A., Santos, P., Grosheva, A., Ghirotto, S.⁵, & Reyes-Centeno, H.². (2020). Associations between genetic differentiation and craniometric interpopulation distances across North Eurasia. In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY (Vol. 171, pp. 82-82). 111 RIVER ST, HOBOKEN 07030-5774, NJ USA: WILEY.

Arner, A. M., Grogan, K. E., Grabowski, M.⁷, Reyes-Centeno, H.², & Perry, G. H.⁴. (2020). Evolutionary genomic patterns of recent natural selection on loci associated with sexually differentiated human body size and shape phenotypes. bioRxiv.

Sahle, Y.³. (2020). Eastern African Stone Age. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford University Press, Oxford. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.53

Bosman, A. M.³, Reyes-Centeno, H. ², & Harvati, K.¹. (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.

Urban, M.³, & Barbieri, C.⁵. (2020). North and South in the ancient Central Andes: Contextualizing the archaeological record with evidence from linguistics and molecular anthropology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 60, 101233.

Ghirotto, S.⁵, Vizzari, M. T., Tassi, F., Barbujani, G., & Benazzo, A.⁵. (2020). Distinguishing among complex evolutionary models using unphased whole‐genome data through Random‐Forest Approximate Bayesian Computation. Molecular Ecology Resources.

Rathmann, H.⁴, & Reyes-Centeno, H.². (2020). Testing the utility of dental morphological trait combinations for inferring human neutral genetic variation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(20), 10769 -10777.

Dutkiewicz, E. ⁶ ,  Russo, G. ⁷ ,  Lee, S. ⁷ , &  Bentz, C. ⁶. (2020). SignBase, a collection of geometric signs on mobile objects in the Paleolithic. Scientific data, 7 (1), 1-14.

Mori T., Harvati K.¹. (2019). 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

Kranioti E., Grigorescu D.,  Harvati K.¹. (2019). State of the art forensic techniques reveal evidence for interpersonal violence ca. 30.000 years ago. PLoSONE 14(7): e0216718.

Rathmann H.⁴, Kyle B., Nikita E., Harvati K.¹, Semerari G.S. (2019). 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

Karakostis F.A., Wallace I., Konow N., Harvati K.¹. (2019). 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.¹. (2019). 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

Sahle, Y.³, Giusti, D., & Tourloukis, V.⁵. (2019). Newly discovered Middle Pleistocene hominid-bearing deposits from the Lower Awash basin, Ethiopia. Anthropological Science, 190603.

Menéndez, L. P.⁴, Rademaker, K., & Harvati, K.¹. (2019). Revisiting East–West Skull Patterns and the Role of Random Factors in South America: Cranial Reconstruction and Morphometric Analysis of the Facial Skeleton from Cuncaicha Rockshelter (Southern Peru). PaleoAmerica, 5(4), 315-334.

Harvati, K.¹, Röding, C., Bosman, A. M.³, Karakostis, F. A., Grün, R., Stringer, C.⁸, … & Gorgoulis, V. G.. (2019). Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia. Nature, 571(7766), 500-504.

Sahle, Y.³, Giusti, D., Gossa, T., & Ashkenazy, H.³. (2019). Exploring karst landscapes: new prehistoric sites in south-central Ethiopia. Antiquity, 93(370).

Sahle, Y.³, & Gossa, T.. (2019). More data needed for claims about the earliest Oldowan artifacts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(41), 20259 -20260.

Urban, M.³, Reyes-Centeno, H.², Bellamy, K.R., Pache, M.J.. (2019). The areal typology of western Middle and South America: Towards a comprehensive view. Linguistics

Bosman, A.M.³, Harvati, K.¹. (2019). A virtual assessment of the proposed suprainiac fossa on the early modern European calvaria from Cioclovina, Romania. American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Sahle, Y.³, Brooks, A.S.⁸. (2019). Assessment of complex projectiles in the early Late Pleistocene at Aduma, Ethiopia. PLOS ONE 14(5): e0216716. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0216716

Lacruz, R.S., Stringer, C.B.⁸, Kimbel, W.H., Wood, B., Harvati, K.¹, O’Higgins, P., Bromage, T.G., Arsuaga, J.-L.. (2019). The evolutionary history of the human face. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 726–736. doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0865-7

Politis, G.G.⁵, Messineo, P.G., Stafford, T.W., Lindsey, E.L.. (2019). Campo Laborde: A Late Pleistocene giant ground sloth kill and butchering site in the Pampas. Science Advances 5(3): eaau4546. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau4546

Sahle, Y.³. (2019). Ethnoarchaeology of compound adhesive production and scraper hafting: Implications from Hadiya (Ethiopia). Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 53: 43-50. doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2018.11.001

Sahle, Y.³, Reyes-Centeno, H.², Bentz, C.⁴. (2019). Modern Human Origins and Dispersal. DFG Center for Advanced Studies Series, vol. 2 (ed. Harvati, K.¹ and Jäger, G.¹). Kerns Verlag, Tübingen.

• Chapter 1: Pagani, L.⁸, Crevecoeur, I.⁸, What is Africa? A Human Perspective, pp. 15-24.
• Chapter 2: Will, M.⁸, Conard, N.J.⁶, Tryon, C.A.⁸. (2019). Timing and trajectory of cultural evolution on the African continent 200,000-30,000 years ago, pp. 25-72.
• Chapter 3: Sahle, Y.³, Beyene, Y., Defleur, A., Asfaw, B., WoldeGabriel, G., Hart, W.K., Morgan, L.E., Renne, P.R., Carlson, J.P., White, T.D.. (2019). Revisiting Herto: New evidence of Homo sapiens from Ethiopia, pp. 73-104.
• Chapter 4: Sahle, Y.³, Beyene, Y., Defleur, A., Asfaw, B., WoldeGabriel, G., Hart, W.K., Renne, P.R., Carlson, J.P., White, T.D.. (2019). Human emergence: Perspectives from Herto, Afar Rift, Ethiopia, pp. 105-136.
• Chapter 5: Bosman, A.M.³, Buck, L.T.⁵, Reyes-Centeno, H.², Mirazón Lahr, M.⁸, Stringer, C.⁸, Harvati, K.¹. (2019). The Kabua 1 cranium: Virtual anatomical reconstructions, pp. 137-170.
• Chapter 6: Ambrose, S.H.⁸. (2019). Chronological calibrations of Late Pleistocene modern human dispersals, climate change, and archaeology with geochemical isochrons, pp. 171-214.
• Chapter 7: Tryon, C.A.⁸, Lewis, J.E., Ranhorn, K.. (2019). Excavating the archives: The 1956 excavation of the Late Pleistocene-Holocene sequence at Kisese II (Tanzania), pp. 215-238.
• Chapter 8: Schmidt, V.T., Ley, R.E.. (2019). The African microbiome: Clues of human adaptation and population history, pp. 239-260.
• Chapter 9: Schlebusch, C.M.⁸. (2019). Population migration and adaptation during the African Holocene: A genetic perspective, pp. 261-284.
• Chapter 10: Güldemann, T.⁸. (2019). The linguistics of Holocene High Africa, pp. 285-314.
• Chapter 11: Daneyko, T.⁸, Bentz, C.⁴. (2019). Click languages tend to have large consonant inventories: Implications for language evolution and change, pp. 315-330.
• Chapter 12: Duda, P.⁸, Zrzavý, J.. (2019). Towards a global phylogeny of human populations based on genetic and linguistic data, pp. 331-359.

Hublin, J. J., Ben-Ncer, A., Bailey, S. E., Freidline, S. E., Neubauer, S., Skinner, M. M., Harvati K.¹, … & Gunz, P. (2018). Author Correction: New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens. Nature, 558(7711), E6-E6.

Urban, M.³. (2018). Quechuan terms for internal organs of the torso: Synchronic, diachronic, and typological perspectives. Studies in Language. International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language”, 42(3), 505-528.

Bentz, C.⁴, Dediu, D., Verkerk, A., & Jäger, G.¹. (2018). The evolution of language families is shaped by the environment beyond neutral drift. Nature Human Behaviour, 2(11), 816-821.

Jäger, G.¹. (2018). Global-scale phylogenetic linguistic inference from lexical resources. Scientific data, 5(1), 1-16.

Karakostis, F. A., Vlachodimitropoulos, D., Piagkou, M., Scherf, H., Harvati, K.¹, Moraitis, K.. (2018). Is bone elevation in hand muscle attachments associated with biomechanical stress? A histological approach to an anthropological question. The Anatomical Record, 302(7), 1093-1103.

Roksandic, M.⁵, Buhay, B., Byers, D., Ríos, L.L., Duncan, H.J.C., Roksandic, I.⁵. (2018). The earliest burial from the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua: the Angi shell-matrix site. Antiquity 92(366): 1478-1491. doi:10.15184/aqy.2018.142

Bentz, C.⁴. (2018). Adaptive Languages, An Information-Theoretic Account of Linguistic Diversity. De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin.

Beier, J., Anthes, N., Wahl, J., Harvati, K.¹. (2018). Similar cranial trauma prevalence among Neanderthals and Upper Palaeolithic modern humans. Nature 563(7733): 686-690. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0696-8

Durán, V., Novellino, P., Menéndez, L.⁴, Gasco, A., Marsh, E., Barberena, R., Frigolé, C.. (2018). Barrio Ramos I: prácticas funerarias en el inicio del período de dominación inca del valle de Uspallata (Mendoza, Argentina). Relaciones de la Sociedad Argentina de Antropología 43, 55-86.

Harvati, K.¹, Jäger, G.¹, Reyes-Centeno, H.². (2018). New Perspectives on the Peopling of the Americas. DFG Center for Advanced Studies Series, vol. 1 (ed. Harvati, K.¹ and Jäger, G.¹). Kerns Verlag, Tübingen.

• Chapter 1: Nichols, J.⁵, Bentz, C.⁴, Morphological complexity of languages reflects the settlement history of the Americas, pp. 13-26.
• Chapter 2: Urban, M.³, Maritime loanwords in languages of Pacific Meso- and South America? An exploratory study, pp. 27-60.
• Chapter 3: Muysken, P.⁸, Grammatical archaeology: History and contact in the indigenous languages of South America, pp. 61-78.
• Chapter 4: Politis, G.⁵, Prates, L., Clocking the arrival of Homo sapiens in the Southern Cone of South America, pp. 79-106.
• Chapter 5: Rademaker, K.⁵, Hodgins, G., Exploring the chronology of occupations and burials at Cuncaicha Rockshelter, Peru, pp. 107-124.
• Chapter 6: Francken, M., Baier, J., Reyes-Centeno, H.², Harvati, K.¹, Rademaker, K. ⁵, The Human Skeletal Remains from Cuncaicha Rock Shelter, Peru, pp. 125-152.
• Chapter 7: Strauss, A.⁵, Oliveira, R.E., Gratão, M., da Costa, A., Fogaça, E., Boëda, E., Human skeletal remains from Serra da Capivara, Brazil: Review of the available evidence and report on new findings, pp. 153-172.
• Chapter 8: Menéndez, L.P.⁴, Giusti, D., Global and local trends of morphological variation: Application of spatial statistics to the basicranial shape pattern of southern South American populations, pp. 173-198.
• Chapter 9: Roksandic, I.⁵, Roksandic, M.⁵, Peopling of the Caribbean, pp. 199-223.
   

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Bosman, A.M.³, Moisik, S.R., Dediu, D.⁸, Waters-Rist, A.. (2017). Talking heads: Morphological variation in the human mandible over the last 500 years in the Netherlands. HOMO – Journal of Comparative Human Biology 68, 329-342. doi:10.1016/j.jchb.2017.08.002

Gil, A.F., Menéndez, L.P.⁴, Atencio, J.P., Peralta, E.A., Neme, G.A., Ugan, A.. (2017). Estrategias humanas, estabilidad y cambio en la frontera agrícola sur americana. Latin American Antiquity, 1-21. doi:10.1017/laq.2017.59

Holman, E.W., Wichmann, S.⁵. (2017). New evidence from linguistic phylogenetics identifies limits to punctuational change. Systematic Biology 66, 604-610. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syw106

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Rathmann, H.⁴, Reyes-Centeno, H.², Ghirotto, S.⁵, Creanza, N.⁸, Hanihara, T., Harvati, K.¹. (2017). Reconstructing human population history from dental phenotypes. Scientific Reports 7, 12495. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-12621-y

Rathmann, H.⁴, Saltini Semerari, G., Harvati, K.¹. (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. doi:10.1002/oa.2569

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Reyes-Centeno, H.², Rathmann, H.⁴, Hanihara, T., Harvati, K.¹. (2017). Testing modern human out-of-Africa dispersal models using dental nonmetric data. Current Anthropology 58, S406-S417. doi:10.1086/694423

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Sahle, Y.³, El Zaatari, S.⁹, White, T.D.. (2017). Hominid butchers and biting crocodiles in the African Plio–Pleistocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, 13164 -13169. doi:10.1073/pnas.1716317114

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