Assoz. Prof. Aikaterini Douka, PhD
Summer term 2025
Winter term 2024
060042 VO Archäometrie in der Archäologie
300144 UE Palaeoproteomics - Practical course - Practical course in Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry
Summer term 2024
Weber GW, Šimková PG, Fernandes DM, Cheronet O, Úry E, Wilfing H et al. The cranium from the Octagon in Ephesos. Scientific Reports. 2025 Jan 10;15(1):943. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-83870-x
Ghasidian E, Frouin M, Grandfield T, Hariri N, Ashari S, Samei S et al. Initial upper Palaeolithic on the Iranian Plateau: Sorheh Rockshelter, Southern Alborz mountains. Quaternary Science Reviews. 2024 Nov 15;344:108962. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108962
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(8016 ( 2024 )). doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-51546-9
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
Wang N, Xu Y, Tang Z, He C, Hu X, Cui Y et al. 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. 2023 Oct 25;290(2009):20231129. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2023.1129
Essel E, Zavala EI, Schulz-Kornas E, Kozlikin MB, Fewlass H, Vernot B et al. Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant. Nature. 2023 Jun 8;618(7964):328-332. doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-06035-2
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
Gatti L, Lugli F, Sciutto G, Zangheri M, Prati S, Mirasoli M et al. Combining elemental and immunochemical analyses to characterize diagenetic alteration patterns in ancient skeletal remains. Scientific Reports. 2022 Mar 24;12(1):5112. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-08979-3
Wang FG, Yang SX, Ge JY, Olle A, Zhao KL, Yue JP et al. Innovative ochre processing and tool use in China 40,000 years ago. Nature. 2022 Mar 10;603(7900):284-289. Epub 2022 Mar 2. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04445-2
Slimak L, Zanolli C, Higham T, Frouin M, Schwenninger JL, Arnold LJ et al. Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France. Science Advances. 2022 Feb;8(6). doi: 10.1126/sciadv.abj9496
Skov L, Peyrégne S, Popli D, Iasi LNM, Devièse T, Slon V et al. Genetic insights into the social organization of Neanderthals. Nature. 2022;610(7932):519-525. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-05283-y
Brown S, Massilani D, Kozlikin MB, Shunkov MV, Derevianko AP, Stoessel A et al. The earliest Denisovans and their cultural adaptation. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2021 Nov 25;6(1):28-35. doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01581-2
Brown S, Kozlikin M, Shunkov M, Derevianko A, Higham T, Douka K et al. Examining collagen preservation through glutamine deamidation at Denisova Cave. Journal of Archaeological Science. 2021 Sept;133:105454. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2021.105454
Brown S, Wang N, Oertle A, Kozlikin MB, Shunkov M, Derevianko AP et al. Zooarchaeology through the lens of collagen fingerprinting at Denisova Cave. Scientific Reports. 2021 Jul 29;11(1):15457. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94731-2
Pinhasi R, Douka K. Before and after farming: The genetic structure of South China and Southeast Asia. Cell. 2021 Jul 8;184(14):3597-3598. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2021.06.016
Department of Evolutionary Anthropology
Djerassiplatz 1 (UBB)
1030 Wien
Room: 4.056
T: +43-1-4277-54750