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Fossil Fingerprinting and Identification of New Denisovan remains from Pleistocene Asia

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Project "FINDER" data sheet

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Coordinator
MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN EV 

Organization address
address: HOFGARTENSTRASSE 8
city: Munich
postcode: 80539
website: www.mpg.de

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 Coordinator Country Germany [DE]
 Total cost 1˙999˙292 €
 EC max contribution 1˙999˙292 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2016-STG
 Funding Scheme ERC-STG
 Starting year 2017
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2017-06-01   to  2022-05-31

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 Project objective

Scientific analyses of ancient biomolecules (proteins, DNA, hard tissues) have transformed our knowledge of archaic hominins present in Eurasia prior to the expansion of modern humans from Africa. In 2010, a finger bone discovered in Siberia was assigned using DNA to a new, previously unknown human group, the Denisovans. The Denisovans interbred with both Asian Neanderthals and AMH over the past 100,000 years; their geographic distribution is now thought to have stretched from the Siberian steppes to the tropical forests of SE Asia and Oceania. Despite their broad spatio-temporal range, the Denisovans are only known from 4 tiny bones, all from a single Siberian cave. This patchy knowledge of an entire human population significantly limits our ability to test hypotheses and interpretative models concerning major issues in human evolution, such as the routes and timing of people movements across Asia, the nature and frequency of interaction between archaic indigenous groups and migratory modern humans, the mechanisms leading to the demise of archaic lineages and eventual sole dominance of our species on Earth. This project aims to rectify the dearth of Denisovan fossils by applying a novel combination of cutting-edge scientific methods (collagen fingerprinting, radiocarbon dating and ancient DNA analyses) designed to identify, date and genetically characterize new human fossils, with a particular emphasis on the discovery of Denisovan remains. Instead of only focusing on the few morphologically identifiable human bones, a groundbreaking high-throughput approach will target bulk collections of unidentified bone fragments (n=30,000) from ~20 Asian sites dating to between 100,000-10,000 years. Ultimately, the goal is to expand our understanding of the Denisovans, reveal their geographic range, age, genetic variation and archaeological signature. In addition to solving the puzzles of ancient population history, this research has the potential to decode the patchwork that makes modern humans who we are today, physically, behaviourally and genetically.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
List of publications.
2018 Abigail Desmond, Nick Barton, Abdeljalil Bouzouggar, Katerina Douka, Philippe Fernandez, Louise Humphrey, Jacob Morales, Elaine Turner, Michael Buckley
ZooMS identification of bone tools from the North African Later Stone Age
published pages: 149-157, ISSN: 0305-4403, DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2018.08.012
Journal of Archaeological Science 98 2020-02-04
2018 Tom Higham, Katerina Douka
Needle in Haystack
published pages: 40-47, ISSN: , DOI:
Scientific American 319(6) 2020-02-04
2019 Oshan Wedage, Noel Amano, Michelle C. Langley, Katerina Douka, James Blinkhorn, Alison Crowther, Siran Deraniyagala, Nikos Kourampas, Ian Simpson, Nimal Perera, Andrea Picin, Nicole Boivin, Michael Petraglia, Patrick Roberts
Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago
published pages: , ISSN: 2041-1723, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08623-1
Nature Communications 10/1 2019-09-02
2019 Katerina Douka, Viviane Slon, Zenobia Jacobs, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Michael V. Shunkov, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Maxim B. Kozlikin, Bo Li, Rainer Grün, Daniel Comeskey, Thibaut Devièse, Samantha Brown, Bence Viola, Leslie Kinsley, Michael Buckley, Matthias Meyer, Richard G. Roberts, Svante Pääbo, Janet Kelso, Tom Higham
Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave
published pages: 640-644, ISSN: 0028-0836, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0870-z
Nature 565/7741 2019-09-02
2019 Katerina Douka, Samantha Brown, Tom Higham, Svante Pääbo, Anatoly Derevianko, Michael Shunkov
FINDER project: collagen fingerprinting (ZooMS) for the identification of new human fossils
published pages: , ISSN: 0003-598X, DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2019.3
Antiquity 93/367 2019-09-02
2018 Viviane Slon, Fabrizio Mafessoni, Benjamin Vernot, Cesare de Filippo, Steffi Grote, Bence Viola, Mateja Hajdinjak, Stéphane Peyrégne, Sarah Nagel, Samantha Brown, Katerina Douka, Tom Higham, Maxim B. Kozlikin, Michael V. Shunkov, Anatoly P. Derevianko, Janet Kelso, Matthias Meyer, Kay Prüfer, Svante Pääbo
The genome of the offspring of a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father
published pages: 113-116, ISSN: 0028-0836, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0455-x
Nature 561/7721 2019-04-18
2017 Katerina Douka, Tom Higham
The Chronological Factor in Understanding the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of Eurasia
published pages: S480-S490, ISSN: 0011-3204, DOI: 10.1086/694173
Current Anthropology 58/S17 2019-02-28
2017 Christopher J. Bae, Katerina Douka, Michael D. Petraglia
On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives
published pages: eaai9067, ISSN: 0036-8075, DOI: 10.1126/science.aai9067
Science 358/6368 2019-02-28

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