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Latest Publications
Standards and quantification of coin iconography: possibilities and challenges. Digital scholarship in the humanities, fqab030 (2021)
Hunting, herding, and people in the rock art of Mongolia: new discoveries in the Gobi-Altai Mountains. Archaeological Research in Asia, 100267 (2021)
Fluctuating asymmetry, a marker of poor growth quality, is associated with adult male metabolic rate. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 24276 (2021)
The Paleolithic of the Iranian Plateau: hominin occupation history and implications for human dispersals across southern Asia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 62, 101292 (2021)
Ancient genomic time transect from the Central Asian Steppe unravels the history of the Scythians. Science Advances 7 (13), eabe4414 (2021)
Beyond one-way determinism: San Frediano’s miracle and climate change in Central and Northern Italy in late antiquity, Climatic Change 165, (2021)
Metaphors: the evolutionary journey from bidirectionality to unidirectionality. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 376 (1824), 20200193 (2021)
Transition from wild to domesticated Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) Revealed in Ceramic Temper at three middle Holocene sites in Northern Mali. African Archaeological Review, s10437-021-09428-8 (2021)