Archaeogenetic analysis of Neolithic sheep from Anatolia suggests a complex demographic history since domestication

16/11/2021
Read more by Erinç Yurtman, Onur Özer, Füsun Özer et al Published on communications biology. 12 November 2021

Evolutionary and phylogenetic insights from a nuclear genome sequence of the extinct, giant, “subfossil” koala lemur Megaladapis edwardsi

16/11/2021
Read more by Stephanie Marciniak, Mehreen R. Mughal, Laurie R. Godfrey, Richard J. Bankoff, Heritiana Randrianatoandro, Brooke E. Crowley, Christina M. Bergey,et al Published on PNAS. 29 June 2021

Nuclear preservation in the cartilage of the Jehol dinosaur

30/10/2021
Read more by Xiaoting Zheng, Alida M. Bailleul, Zhiheng Li, Xiaoli Wang, Zhonghe Zhou . Published on Communications Biology. 24 September 2021

Potential applications of biomolecular archaeology to the ecohistory of sea turtles and groupers in Levant coastal antiquity

30/10/2021
Read more by Rachel M.Winter, Willemiende Kock, Per J.Palsbøll, Canan Çakirlar. Published on Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. April 2021

Earliest evidence of herd-living and age segregation amongst dinosaurs

26/10/2021
Read more by Diego Pol, Adriana C. Mancuso, Roger M. H. Smith, Claudia A. Marsicano, Jahandar Ramezani, Ignacio A. Cerda, Alejandro Otero & Vincent Fernandez. Published on Scientific Reports. 21 October 2021

Exceptionally preserved beetles in a Triassic coprolite of putative dinosauriform origin

26/10/2021
Read more by Martin Qvarnström, Martin Fikáček, Joel Vikberg Wernström, Sigrid Huld, Rolf G. Beutel, Emmanuel Arriaga-Varela, Per E. Ahlberg, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki. Published on Current Biology. 30 June 2021

The origins and spread of domestic horses from the Western Eurasian steppes

23/10/2021
Read more by Pablo Librado, Naveed Khan, Ludovic Orlando et al Published on Nature. 20 October 2021

Crab in amber reveals an early colonization of nonmarine environments during the Cretaceous

23/10/2021
Read more by Javier Luque, Lida Xing, Derek E.G.Briggs, Elizabeth G.Clark, Alex Duque, Junbo Hui, Huijuan Mai and Ryan C.Mckellar. Published on Science Advances. 20 October 2021

A Zooarchaeological Study on the Origins of Animal Domestication in Ancient China

16/10/2021
Read more by Yuan Jing. Published on Chinese Annals of History of Science and Technology. 28 September 2021

Local animal economies during the nineteenth-century caravan trade along the Lower Pangani, northeastern Tanzania: a zooarchaeological perspective

16/10/2021
Read more by Thomas J. Biginagwa & Paul J. Lane. Published on Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. 08 July 2021

A tardigrade in Dominican amber

10/10/2021
Read more by Marc A. Mapalo, Ninon Robin, Brendon E. Boudinot, Javier Ortega-Hernández and Phillip Barden. Published on the Royal Society. 06 October 2021

Modern Siberian dog ancestry was shaped by several thousand years of Eurasian-wide trade and human dispersal

10/10/2021
Read more by Tatiana R. Feuerborn, Alberto Carmagnini, Robert J. Losey, Tatiana Nomokonova, Arthur Askeyev, Igor Askeyev, Oleg Askeyev, Ekaterina E. Antipina, et al. Published on PNAS. 28 September 2021

Cattle management in an Iron Age/Roman settlement in the Netherlands: Archaeozoological and stable isotope analysis

06/10/2021
Read more by Maaike Groot, Umberto Albarella, Jana Eger, Jane Evans. Published on Plos One. 01 October 2021

Genomic evidence for the Chinese mountain cat as a wildcat conspecific (Felis silvestris bieti) and its introgression to domestic cats

06/10/2021
Read more by Il Yu, Yue-Ting Xin, Ghao Meng, Bing He, Wen-Jing Li, Xin-Zhang Qi, Jian-you Zhao, Yan Zhuang, Xiao Xu et al Published on Science Advances. 23 June 2021

Modern Siberian dog ancestry was shaped by several thousand years of Eurasian-wide trade and human dispersal

01/10/2021
Read more by Tatiana R. Feuerborn, Alberto Carmagnini, Robert J. Losey, Tatiana Nomokonova, Arthur Askeyev, Igor Askeyev, Oleg Askeyev, et al Published on PNAS. 28 September 2021

Sperm whales in the Neolithic Mediterranean: a tooth from the sanctuary of Monte d’Accoddi (Sardinia, Italy)

01/10/2021
Read more by Maria Grazia Melis and Marco Zedda Published on Antiquity. 19 August 2021

Nuclear preservation in the cartilage of the Jehol dinosaur Caudipteryx

28/09/2021
Read more by Xiaoting Zheng, Alida M. Bailleul, Zhiheng Li, Xiaoli Wang & Zhonghe Zhou. Published on Communications Biology. 24 September 2021

Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene sites in the montane forests of New Guinea yield early record of cassowary hunting and egg harvesting

28/09/2021
Read more by Kristina Douglass, Dylan Gaffney, Teresa J. Feo, Priyangi Bulathsinhala, Andrew L. Mack, Megan Spitzer, and Glenn R. Summerhayes. Published on PNAS. 05 October 2021

Understanding early horse transport in eastern Eurasia through analysis of equine dentition

27/09/2021
Read more by William T.T. Taylor, Jinping Cao, Wenquan Fan, Xiaolin Ma, Yanfeng Hou, Juan Wang, Yue Li, Chengrui Zhang, Helena Miton, Igor Chechushkov et al. Published on Antiquity. 17 September 2021

Evolution and dispersal of snakes across the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction

27/09/2021
Read more by Catherine G. Klein, Davide Pisani, Daniel J. Field, Rebecca Lakin, Matthew A. Wills & Nicholas R. Longrich. Published on Nature Communications. 14 September 2021

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