Publications

2025

Sümer A. P., Rougier H., Villalba-Mouco V., Huang Y., Iasi L. N. M., Essel E., Bossoms Mesa A., Furtwaengler A., Peyrégne S., de Filippo C., Rohrlach A. B., Pierini F., Mafessoni F., Fewlass H., Zavala E. I., Mylopotamitaki D., Bianco R., Schmidt A., Zorn J., Nickel B., Patova A., Posth C., Smith G. M., Ruebens K., Sinet-Mathiot V., Stoessel A., Dietl H., Orschiedt J., Kelso J., Zeberg H., Bos K., Welker F., Weiss M., McPherron S., Schüler T., Hublin J.-J., Velemínský P., Brůžek J., Peter B. M., Meyer M., Meller H., Ringbauer H., Hajdinjak M., Prüfer K. & Krause J., 2025. Earliest modern human genomes constrain timing of Neandertal admixture. Nature 638: 711-717.

--> This study of the oldest modern human genomes to date (from Ranis, Germany, and Zlatý kůň, Czechia) provides a date around 45-49,000 years ago for the admixture between early Homo sapiens and Neandertals that has resulted in ~2-3% of Neandertal DNA being present in all people outside Africa today. The article also shows that the early modern Europeans from Ranis and Zlatý kůň belonged to a small, closely related group that did not leave any present-day descendants. [Read Sümer et al., 2025 Links to an external site.]

2024

Mylopotamitaki D., Weiss M., Fewlass H., Zavala E. I., Rougier H., Sümer A. P., Hajdinjak M., Smith G. M., Ruebens K., Sinet-Mathiot V., Pederzani S., Essel E., Harking F. S., Xia H., Hansen J., Kirchner A., Lauer T., Stahlschmidt M., Hein M., Talamo S., Wacker L., Meller H., Dietl H., Orschiedt J., Olsen J. V., Zeberg H., Prüfer K., Krause J., Meyer M., Welker F., McPherron S. P., Schüler T. & Hublin J.-J., 2024. Homo sapiens reached the higher latitudes of Europe by 45,000 years ago. Nature 626: 341-346.

--> This interdisciplinary study shows the presence of Homo sapiens at the site Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany, more than 45,000 years ago and in association with the LRJ, a transitional lithic techno-complex. [Read Mylopotamitaki et al., 2024 Links to an external site.]

Pederzani S., Britton K., Trost M., Fewlass H., Bourgon N., McCormack J., Jaouen K., Dietl H., Döhle H.-J., Kirchner A., Lauer T., Le Corre M., McPherron S. P., Meller H., Mylopotamitaki D., Orschiedt J., Rougier H., Ruebens K., Schüler T., Sinet-Mathiot V., Smith G. M., Talamo S., Tütken T., Welker F., Zavala E. I., Weiss M. & Hublin J.-J., 2024. Stable isotopes show Homo sapiens dispersed into cold steppes ~45,000 years ago at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8: 578-588.

--> This paleoclimatic study shows that the early Homo sapiens who occupied the Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany, more than 45,000 years ago were living in much colder conditions than the present day. [Read Pederzani et al., 2024 Links to an external site.]

Smith G. M., Ruebens K., Zavala E. I., Sinet-Mathiot V., Fewlass H., Pederzani S., Jaouen K., Mylopotamitaki D., Britton K., Rougier H., Stahlschmidt M., Meyer M., Meller H., Dietl H., Orschiedt J., Krause J., Schüler T., McPherron S. P., Weiss M., Hublin J.-J. & Welker F., 2024. The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany. Nature Ecology & Evolution 8: 564-577.

--> This paleoecological study of the Ilsenhöhle at Ranis, Germany, focuses on the site use and diet of the Homo sapiens who occupied the site more than 45,000 years ago. They appear to have come for short-term visits and were living in small groups eating reindeer and horse. [Read Smith et al., 2024 Links to an external site.]

2023

Morin E., Oldfield E.-M., Baković M., Bordes J.-G., Castel J.-C., Crevecoeur I., Rougier H., Monnier G., Tostevin G. & Buckley M., 2023. A double-blind comparison of morphological and collagen fingerprinting (ZooMS) methods of skeletal identifications in Paleolithic contexts. Scientific Reports 13: 18825.

--> This article compares morphological and ZooMS methods for faunal identifications and explores the impact of their outcome on subsistence strategies models of prehistoric groups. [Read Morin et al., 2023 Links to an external site.]

Posth C., Yu H., Ghalichi A., Rougier H., Crevecoeur I., Huang Y., Ringbauer H., Rohrlach A. B., Nägele K., Villalba-Mouco V., Radzeviciute R., Ferraz T., Stoessel A., Tukhbatova R., Drucker D. G., Lari M., Modi A., Vai S., Saupe T., Scheib C. L., Catalano G., Pagani L., Talamo S., Fewlass H., Klaric L., Morala A., Rué M., Madelaine S., Crépin L., Caverne J.-B., Bocaege E., Ricci S., Boschin F., Bayle P., Maureille B., Le Brun-Ricalens F., Bordes J.-G., Oxilia G., Bortolini E., Bignon-Lau O., Debout G., Orliac M., Zazzo A., Sparacello V., Starnini E., Sineo L., van der Plicht J., Pecqueur L., Merceron G., Garcia G., Leuvrey J.-M., Bay Garcia C., Gómez-Olivencia A., Połtowicz-Bobak M., Bobak D., Le Luyer M., Storm P., Hoffmann C., Kabaciński J., Filimonova T., Shnaider S., Berezina N., González-Rabanal B., González Morales M. R., Marín-Arroyo A. B., López B., Alonso-Llamazares C., Ronchitelli A., Polet C., Jadin I., Cauwe N., Soler J., Coromina N., Rufí I., Cottiaux R., Clark G., Straus L. G., Julien M.-A., Renhart S., Talaa D., Benazzi S., Romandini M., Amkreutz L., Bocherens H., Wissing C., Villotte S., Fernández-López de Pablo J., Gómez-Puche M., Esquembre-Bebia M. A., Bodu P., Smits L., Souffi B., Jankauskas R., Kozakaitė J., Cupillard C., Benthien H., Wehrberger K., Schmitz R. W., Feine S. C., Schüler T., Thevenet C., Grigorescu D., Lüth F., Kotula A., Piezonka H., Schopper F., Svoboda J., Sázelová S., Chizhevsky A., Khokhlov A., Conard N. J., Valentin F., Harvati K., Semal P., Jungklaus B., Suvorov A., Schulting R., Moiseyev V., Mannermaa K., Buzhilova A., Terberger T., Caramelli D., Altena E., Haak W. & Krause J., 2023. Paleogenomics of Upper Paleolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers. Nature 615: 117-126.

--> An archaeogenetic study of population processes in Europe between 35,000 and 5,000 years ago, this article highlights the impact of climatic shifts on the relationships between different cultures of hunter-gatherers. [Read Posth et al., 2023 Links to an external site.]

Rougier H., Crevecoeur I., Decerf M., Jungels C. & Semal P., 2023. Mise au jour d’une nouvelle partie de la collection de François Beaufays (dit « l’Horloger ») contenant des vestiges humains de Spy (prov. de Namur). Notae Praehistoricae 43: 43-51.

--> This article presents a legacy collection gathered by an amateur archaeologist at the Belgian site of Spy. The possible times of collection and chrono-stratigraphic origins of the human remains that are part of the collection are discussed. [Read Rougier et al., 2023 Download Rougier et al., 2023]

Todisco D., Mallol C., Lahaye C., Guérin G., Bachellerie F., Morin E., Gravina B., Challier A., Beauval C., Bordes J.-G., Colange C., Dayet L., Flas D., Lacrampe-Cuyaubère F., Lebreton L., Marot J., Maureille B., Michel A., Muth X., Nehme C., Rigaud S., Tartar E., Teyssandier N., Thomas M., Rougier H. & Crevecoeur I., 2023. A multiscalar and multiproxy geoarchaeological approach to site formation processes at the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic site of La Roche-à-Pierrot, Saint-Césaire, France. Quaternary Science Reviews 315: 108218.

--> This article presents an updated understanding of the site formation processes of La Roche-à-Pierrot in Saint-Césaire, a well-known site for the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition. [Read Todisco et al., 2023 Links to an external site.]

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