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bleiglas: An R package for interpolation and visualisation of spatiotemporal data with 3D tessellation. The Journal of Open Source Software 6 (60), 3092 (2021)
Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry. Nature 592, pp. 253 - 257 (2021)
Reply to Shelach-Lavi et al.: Implications of the horse assemblages from Shirenzigou and Xigou, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118, (2021)
A genome sequence from a modern human skull over 45,000 years old from Zlatý kůň in Czechia. Nature Ecology & Evolution 192 (2021)
Working together—and talking about it: discover the cooperative string-pulling task. (2021)
A tale of two hearth sites: Neolithic and intermittent mid to late Holocene occupations in the Jubbah oasis, northern Saudi Arabia. Archaeological Research in Asia 26, 100278 (2021)
Evidence for early dispersal of domestic sheep into Central Asia. Nature Human Behaviour, s41562-021-01083-y (2021)
Temporal and spatial variability of bone collagen stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic ratios of Norwegian reindeer. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 37, 102890 (2021)