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Latest Publications
Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics. Science Advances 6 (24), eaba3831 (2020)
Ecosystem engineering among ancient pastoralists in Northern Central Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science 8, 168 (2020)
A treponemal genome from an historic plague victim supports a recent emergence of yaws and its presence in 15th century Europe. Scientific Reports 10 (1), 9499 (2020)
Ancient genomes from northern China suggest links between subsistence changes and human migration. Nature Communications 11, 2700 (2020)
The Uzbek-American expedition in Bukhara: preliminary report on the third season (2017). Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies 58 (1), 05786967.2020.1769495 (2020)
The seasonality of wetland and riparian taskscapes at Çatalhöyük. Near Eastern Archaeology 83 (2), 708446, pp. 98 - 109 (2020)
Improving data handling and analysis in the study of rhyme patterns. Cahiers de linguistique Asie orientale 49 (1), pp. 43 - 57 (2020)
Extended parenting and the evolution of cognition. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 375 (1803), 20190495 (2020)