@article {313695,
	title = {Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments},
	journal = {Science},
	year = {2017},
	month = {2017/04/27},
	abstract = {<p>Although a rich record of Pleistocene human-associated archaeological assemblages exists, the scarcity of hominin fossils often impedes the understanding of which hominins occupied a site. Using targeted enrichment of mitochondrial DNA we show that cave sediments represent a rich source of ancient mammalian DNA that often includes traces of hominin DNA, even at sites and in layers where no hominin remains have been discovered. By automation-assisted screening of numerous sediment samples we detect Neandertal DNA in eight archaeological layers from four caves in Eurasia. In Denisova Cave we retrieved Denisovan DNA in a Middle Pleistocene layer near the bottom of the stratigraphy. Our work opens the possibility to detect the presence of hominin groups at sites and in areas where no skeletal remains are found.</p>
},
	url = {http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/04/26/science.aam9695},
	author = {Slon, Viviane and Hopfe, Charlotte and Wei{\ss}, Clemens L. and Mafessoni, Fabrizio and de la Rasilla, Marco and Lalueza-Fox, Carles and Rosas, Antonio and Soressi, Marie and Knul, Monika V. and Miller, Rebecca and Stewart, John R. and Derevianko, Anatoly P. and Jacobs, Zenobia and Li, Bo and Roberts, Richard G. and Shunkov, Michael V. and de Lumley, Henry and Perrenoud, Christian and Gusic, Ivan and Kucan, Zeljko and Rudan, Pavao and Aximu-Petri, Ayinuer and Essel, Elena and Nagel, Sarah and Nickel, Birgit and Schmidt, Anna and Pr{\"u}fer, Kay and Kelso, Janet and Burbano, Hern{\'a}n A. and P{\"a}{\"a}bo, Svante and Meyer, Matthias}
}
