@article {308549,
	title = {The Neanderthal in the karst: First dating, morphometric, and paleogenetic data on the fossil skeleton from Altamura (Italy).},
	journal = {J Hum Evol},
	volume = {82},
	year = {2015},
	note = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248415000263$\#$},
	month = {2015 May},
	pages = {88-94},
	abstract = {<p>In 1993, a fossil hominin skeleton was discovered in the karst caves of Lamalunga, near Altamura, in southern Italy. Despite the fact that this specimen represents one of the most extraordinary hominin specimens ever found in Europe, for the last two decades our knowledge of it has been based purely on the documented on-site observations. Recently, the retrieval from the cave of a fragment of bone (part of the right scapula) allowed the first dating of the individual, the quantitative analysis of a diagnostic morphological feature, and a preliminary paleogenetic characterization of this hominin skeleton from Altamura. Overall, the results concur in indicating that it belongs to the hypodigm of Homo neanderthalensis, with some phenetic peculiarities that appear consistent with a chronology ranging from 172~{\textpm}~15~ka to 130.1~{\textpm}~1.9~ka. Thus, the skeleton from Altamura represents the most ancient Neanderthal from which endogenous DNA has ever been extracted.</p>},
	keywords = {Animals, Base Sequence, Caves, DNA, Fossils, History, Ancient, Italy, Molecular Sequence Data, Neanderthals, Paleontology, Phylogeny, Scapula, Skeleton},
	issn = {1095-8606},
	doi = {10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.02.007},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25805042},
	author = {Lari, Martina and Di Vincenzo, Fabio and Borsato, Andrea and Ghirotto, Silvia and Micheli, Mario and Balsamo, Carlotta and Collina, Carmine and De Bellis, Gianluca and Frisia, Silvia and Giacobini, Giacomo and Gigli, Elena and Hellstrom, John C and Lannino, Antonella and Modi, Alessandra and Pietrelli, Alessandro and Pilli, Elena and Profico, Antonio and Ramirez, Oscar and Rizzi, Ermanno and Vai, Stefania and Venturo, Donata and Piperno, Marcello and Lalueza-Fox, Carles and Barbujani, Guido and Caramelli, David and Manzi, Giorgio}
}
