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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

A new late Neanderthal from Crimea reveals long-distance connections across Eurasia.

Emily M Pigott, Konstantina Cheshmedzhieva, Elke Zeller, Laura G van der Sluis, Manasij Pal Chowdhury, Maddalena Gianni, Emese Végh, Thorsten Uthmeier, Victor Chabai, Marylène Patou-Mathis and 8 more

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Emily M Pigott *Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.ORCID 0009-0008-6363-7531
Konstantina Cheshmedzhieva *Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.ORCID 0009-0002-7735-5021
Elke ZellerDepartment of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ 85721.ORCID 0000-0003-0244-5882
Laura G van der SluisDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.
Manasij Pal ChowdhuryDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.
Maddalena GianniDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.
Emese VéghDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.
Thorsten UthmeierDepartment of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ 85721.ORCID 0000-0003-1265-061X
Victor ChabaiInstitut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen D-91054, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1066-3137
Marylène Patou-MathisInstitute of Archaeology, National Ukrainian Academy of Science, Kyiv 04210, Ukraine.
Petra G ŠimkováDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.
Jana N VoglmayrDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.
Gerhard W WeberDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-8542-6259
Ron PinhasiDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-1629-8131
Axel TimmermannInstitute for Basic Science (IBS) Center for Climate Physics, Busan 46241, South Korea.
Martin KuhlwilmDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.
Katerina DoukaDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-0558-0011
Thomas HighamDepartment of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Vienna, Vienna 1030, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-5949-598X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Crimean Peninsula contains several important Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites, including Starosele, Kabazi II, and Siuren I. The region has been considered a potential refugium for Neanderthals before their replacement by

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FossilsNeanderthalsAnimalsArchaeologyBone and BonesCollagenDNA, MitochondrialEuropeGenome, MitochondrialHumansRadiometric DatingCollagenDNA, Mitochondrialancient DNANeanderthalsPaleolithic archaeologypaleoproteomicsradiocarbon dating

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PMID41144685
PMCPMC12625898

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