Archaeology

Andrea took part in a paper just published in Scientific Reports in which they use paleoclimate to find out which habitats were inhabited during the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa. Lucy Timbrell, Matt Grove, Andrea Manica, Stephen Rucina, James Blinkhorn (2022) A spatiotemporally explicit paleoenvironmental framework...

Is now out in Nature Communications our new paper that estimates when, and along which geographic paths, expansions out of Africa would have been climatically feasible. Robert M. Beyer, Mario Krapp, Anders Eriksson, Andrea Manica (2021) Climatic windows for human migration out of Africa in the past 300,000 years Nat Commun...

Our group just published a new paper in Nature Human Behaviour . It analyses radiocarbon dates, palaeoclimatic reconstructions and ancient DNA to show how climate shaped the expansion of Neolithic farmers in Europe and their interaction with local hunter-gatherers. Lia Betti, Robert M. Beyer, Eppie R. Jones, Anders...

Andrea took part in a response to the very debated article recently published in Nature by Chan and colleagues claiming a Southern African origin of Homo sapiens based on present-day mitochondrial DNA data. Carina M. Schlebusch, Liisa Loog, Huw S. Groucutt, Turi King, Adam Rutherford, Chiara Barbieri, Guido Barbujani...

Andrea published a paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B that analyses ancient genomes finding evidence of migration from Africa into the Iberian Peninsula during the Bronze Age. G. González-Fortes, F. Tassi, E. Trucchi, K. Henneberger, J. L. A. Paijmans, D. Díez-del-Molino, H. Schroeder, R. R. Susca, C. Barroso-Ruíz...

Andrea contributed to an opinion piece discussing the importance of population structure in Africa for human evolution, published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution . Eleanor M.L. Scerri, Mark G. Thomas, Andrea Manica, Philipp Gunz, Jay T. Stock, Chris Stringer, Matt Grove, Huw S. Groucutt, Axel Timmermann, G. Philip...

The new paper on the origin of goat domestication by Pier and Andrea is now out in Science . Kevin G. Daly, Pierpaolo Maisano Delser, Victoria E. Mullin, Amelie Scheu, Valeria Mattiangeli, Matthew D. Teasdale, Andrew J. Hare, Joachim Burger, Marta Pereira Verdugo, Matthew J. Collins, Ron Kehati, Cevdet Merih Erek, Guy Bar-...