Assoz. Prof. Aikaterini Douka, PhD

Massilani, D, Peyrégne, S, Iasi, LNM, de Filippo, C, Mafessoni, F, Bossoms Mesa, A, Sümer, AP, Swiel, Y, Popli, D, Silverman, S, Boyle, MJ, Kozlikin, MB, Shunkov, MV, Derevianko, AP, Higham, T, Douka, K, Meyer, M, Zeberg, H, Kelso, J & Pääbo, S 2026, 'A high-coverage Neandertal genome from the Altai Mountains reveals population structure among Neandertals', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 123, no. 13, e2534576123. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2534576123

Ryder, C, Celis, G, Devièse, T, Talamo, S, Douka, K, Collins, M, Perri, A, Thakar, H, Pestle, W & Sponheimer, M 2026, 'Refining near-infrared spectroscopy for collagen quantification: A new predictive model for archaeological bone', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 185, 106448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106448

Tapia, J, Marchán-Fernández, A, Llorente, L, Aguirre-Uribesalgo, A, Lefebvre, A, Agudo Pérez, L, Douka, K, Garate, D, Zumalabe, F & Álvarez-Fernández, E 2025, 'Coastal Settlement in the Late Pleistocene of the Bay of Biscay (North Iberia): The Cases of Langatxo and Iruroin Caves', Environmental Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2025.2590173

Gilardet, A, Oppenheimer, J, Sinding, M-HS, Lord, E, Chacón-Duque, C, Oteo-García, G, Xenikoudakis, G, Kosintsev, P, Southon, J, Vasiliev, SK, Shunkov, MV, Kozlikin, MB, Douka, K, Shapiro, B, Heintzman, PD & Dalén, L 2025, 'Paleogenomics Reveals a Loss of Bovine Lineages in Mid-latitude Asia over the Last 200,000 Years', Genome Biology and Evolution, vol. 17, no. 11, evaf206. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf206

Pigott, EM, Cheshmedzhieva, K, Zeller, E, van der Sluis, LG, Chowdhury, MP, Gianni, M, Végh, E, Uthmeier, T, Chabai, V, Patou-Mathis, M, Šimková, PG, Voglmayr, JN, Weber, GW, Pinhasi, R, Timmermann, A, Kuhlwilm, M, Douka, K & Higham, T 2025, 'A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia', Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 122, no. 45, e2518974122. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518974122

Strang, S, Köcher, T, Sluis, LVD, Chowdhury, MP, Grabmayer, H, Douka, K & Binder, M 2025, 'The bioarchaeology of tobacco use: An exploratory study of nicotine and cotinine detection in tooth dentine', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 180, 106301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106301

Oertle, A, Crezzini, J, Moroni, A, Ronchitelli, A, Benazzi, S, Falcucci, A, Marciani, G, Rossini, M, Martini, I, Arrighi, S, Higham, T, Boschin, F & Douka, K 2025, 'New insights from the application of ZooMS to Late Pleistocene fauna from Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy', Scientific Reports, vol. 15, no. 1, 25906. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-11355-6

Gilardet, A, Lord, E, García, GO, Xenikoudakis, G, Douka, K, Wooller, MJ, Rowe, T, Martin, MD, Le Moullec, M, Anisimov, M, Heintzman, PD & Dalén, L 2025, 'A High-Throughput Ancient DNA Extraction Method for Large-Scale Sample Screening', Molecular Ecology Resources. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.14077

Weber, GW, Šimková, PG, Fernandes, DM, Cheronet, O, Úry, E, Wilfing, H, Matiasek, K, Llano-Lizcano, A, Gelabert, P, Trinks, I, Douka, K, Ladstätter, S, Higham, T, Steskal, M & Pinhasi, R 2025, 'The cranium from the Octagon in Ephesos', Scientific Reports, vol. 15, no. 1, 943. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-83870-x

Oertle, A & Douka, K 2025, 'New collagen peptide markers from New Guinea fauna: identifying archaeological bone in the tropics', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 12, no. 251172. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251172

Ghasidian, E, Frouin, M, Grandfield, T, Hariri, N, Ashari, S, Samei, S, Kehl, M, Deckers, K, Azizi, F, Asiabani, S, Fotuhi, E, Ahmadnejad, F, Hariryan, H, Douka, A, Ramzanpour, H & Guran, SH 2024, 'Initial upper Palaeolithic on the Iranian Plateau: Sorheh Rockshelter, Southern Alborz mountains', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 344, 108962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108962

Higham, T, Frouin, M, Douka, A, Ronchitelli, A, Boscato, P, Benazzi, S, Crezzini, J, Spagnolo, V, McCarty, M, Marciani, G, Falcucci, A, Rossini, M, Arrighi, S, Dominici, C, Deviese, T, Schwenninger, J-L, Martini, I, Moroni, A & Boschin, F 2024, 'Chronometric data and stratigraphic evidence support discontinuity between Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens in the Italian Peninsula', Nature Communications, vol. 15, no. 1, 8016. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-51546-9

Vegh, E & Douka, K 2024, 'SpecieScan: Semi-Automated taxonomic identification of bone collagen peptides from MALDI-ToF MS', Bioinformatics, vol. 40, no. 3, btae054, pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btae054

Wang, N, Conard, NJ & Douka, A 2024, 'Integrating Morphological and ZooMS-Based Approaches to Zooarchaeology at Vogelherd Cave in Southwestern Germany', Paleoanthropology. <https://paleoanthropology.org/ojs/index.php/paleo/article/view/1094>

Nel, TH, Peters, C, Richter, KK, Henshilwood, C, van Niekerk, K & Douka, K 2023, 'Peptide mass fingerprinting as a tool to assess micromammal biodiversity in Pleistocene South Africa: The case of Klipdrift Shelter', Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 322, 108380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108380

Rybin, EP, Belousova, NE, Derevianko, AP, Douka, K & Higham, T 2023, 'The Initial Upper Paleolithic of the Altai: New radiocarbon determinations for the Kara-Bom site', Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 185, 103453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103453

Wang, N, Xu, Y, Tang, Z, He, C, Hu, X, Cui, Y & Douka, K 2023, 'Large-scale application of palaeoproteomics (Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry; ZooMS) in two Palaeolithic faunal assemblages from China', Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 290, no. 2009, 20231129. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1129

Essel, E, Zavala, EI, Schulz-Kornas, E, Kozlikin, MB, Fewlass, H, Vernot, B, Shunkov, MV, Derevianko, AP, Douka, K, Barnes, I, Soulier, MC, Schmidt, A, Szymanski, M, Tsanova, T, Sirakov, N, Endarova, E, McPherron, SP, Hublin, JJ, Kelso, J, Pääbo, S, Hajdinjak, M, Soressi, M & Meyer, M 2023, 'Ancient human DNA recovered from a Palaeolithic pendant', Nature, vol. 618, no. 7964, pp. 328-332. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06035-2

Codlin, MC, Douka, K & Richter, KK 2022, 'An application of zooms to identify archaeological avian fauna from Teotihuacan, Mexico', Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 148, 105692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2022.105692