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Oertle A, Crezzini J, Moroni A, Ronchitelli A, Benazzi S, Falcucci A et al. New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy. Scientific Reports. 2025 Jul 17;15(1):25906. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-11355-6

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Higham T, Frouin M, Douka A, Ronchitelli A, Boscato P, Benazzi S et al. Chronometric data and stratigraphic evidence support discontinuity between Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens in the Italian Peninsula. Nature Communications. 2024 Sept 13;15(1):8016. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-51546-9

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

Wang N, Conard NJ, Douka A. Integrating Morphological and ZooMS-Based Approaches to Zooarchaeology at Vogelherd Cave in Southwestern Germany. Paleoanthropology. 2024.

Nel TH, Peters C, Richter KK, Henshilwood C, van Niekerk K, Douka K. Peptide mass fingerprinting as a tool to assess micromammal biodiversity in Pleistocene South Africa: The case of Klipdrift Shelter. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2023 Dec 15;322:108380. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108380

Rybin EP, Belousova NE, Derevianko AP, Douka K, Higham T. The Initial Upper Paleolithic of the Altai: New radiocarbon determinations for the Kara-Bom site. Journal of Human Evolution. 2023 Dec;185:103453. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103453

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Codlin MC, Douka K, Richter KK. An application of zooms to identify archaeological avian fauna from Teotihuacan, Mexico. Journal of Archaeological Science. 2022 Dec;148:105692. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2022.105692

Prideaux GJ, Kerr IAR, van Zoelen JD, Grun R, van der Kaars S, Oertle A et al. Re-evaluating the evidence for late-surviving megafauna at Nombe rockshelter in the New Guinea highlands. Archaeology in Oceania. 2022 Oct;57(3):223-248. doi: 10.1002/arco.5274

Frouin M, Douka K, Dave AK, Schwenninger JL, Mercier N, Murray AS et al. A refined chronology for the Middle and early Upper Paleolithic sequence of Riparo Mochi (Liguria, Italy). Journal of Human Evolution. 2022 Aug;169:103211. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103211

Roberts P, Douka K, Tromp M, Bedford S, Hawkins S, Bouffandeau L et al. Fossils, fish and tropical forests: prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers of Oceania. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences. 2022 Apr 25;377(1849):20200495. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0495

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