% pubman genre = article @article{item_3311313, title = {{Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments}}, author = {Vernot, Benjamin and Zavala, Elena I. and G{\'o}mez-Olivencia, Asier and Jacobs, Zenobia and Slon, Viviane and Mafessoni, Fabrizio and Romagn{\'e}, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Pearson, Alice and Petr, Martin and Sala, Nohemi and Pablos, Adri{\'a}n and Aranburu, Arantza and de Castro, Jos{\'e} Mar{\'\i}a Berm{\'u}dez and Carbonell, Eudald and Li, Bo and Krajcarz, Maciej T. and Krivoshapkin, Andrey I. and Kolobova, Kseniya A. and Kozlikin, Maxim B. and Shunkov, Michael V. and Derevianko, Anatoly P. and Viola, Bence and Grote, Steffi and Essel, Elena and L{\'o}pez Herr{\'a}ez, David and Nagel, Sarah and Nickel, Birgit and Richter, Julia and Schmidt, Anna and Peter, Benjamin and Kelso, Janet and Roberts, Richard G. and Arsuaga, Juan-Luis and Meyer, Matthias}, language = {eng}, issn = {0036-8075}, doi = {10.1126/science.abf1667}, publisher = {American Association for the Advancement of Science}, year = {2021}, date = {2021-04-15}, abstract = {{Bones and teeth are important sources of Pleistocene hominin DNA, but are rarely recovered at archaeological sites. Mitochondrial DNA has been retrieved from cave sediments, but provides limited value for studying population relationships. We therefore developed methods for the enrichment and analysis of nuclear DNA from sediments, and applied them to cave deposits in western Europe and southern Siberia dated to between approximately 200,000 and 50,000 years ago. We detect a population replacement in northern Spain approximately 100,000 years ago, accompanied by a turnover of mitochondrial DNA. We also identify two radiation events in Neanderthal history during the early part of the Late Pleistocene. Our work lays the ground for studying the population history of ancient hominins from trace amounts of nuclear DNA in sediments.}}, journal = {{Science}}, eid = {eabf1667}, }