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Latest Publications
Bayesian Phylolinguistic. In: The Handbook of Historical Linguistics, Vol. II, 11, pp. 226 - 253 (Eds. Janda, R. D.; Joseph, B. D.; Vance, B. S.). Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, New Jersey (2020)
2000-year-old pathogen genomes reconstructed from metagenomic analysis of Egyptian mummified individuals. BMC Biology 18 (1), 108 (2020)
The Early Upper Palaeolithic bone industry of the Central Altai, Russia: new evidence from the Kara-Bom site. Antiquity, 2020.137, pp. 1 - 9 (2020)
Prehistoric agriculture and social structure in the southwestern Tarim Basin: multiproxy analyses at Wupaer. Scientific Reports 10 (1), 14235, pp. 1 - 11 (2020)
The fortified settlement of Macapainara, Lautem District, Timor‑Leste. In: Forts and fortification in Wallacea: archaeological and ethnohistoric investigations, 53.2020, pp. 13 - 48 (Eds. O'Connor, S.; McWilliam, A.; Brockwell, S.). ANU Press, Acton (2020)
Cultural attraction in film evolution: the case of Anachronies. Journal of Cognition and Culture 20 (3-4), pp. 218 - 237 (2020)
Culture history and convergent evolution: Can we detect populations in prehistory? Springer, Cham (2020), 302 pp.
Excavations at the site of Vasino, Lautem District, Timor-Leste. In: Forts and fortification in Wallacea: archaeological and ethnohistoric investigations, 53.2020, pp. 67 - 100 (Eds. O'Connor, S.; McWilliam, A.; Brockwell, S.). ANU Press, Acton (2020)