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Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Erica K. Baken
St. John's University
2
Sara Rolfe
Seattle Children's Hospital
3
Laurits Skov
Aarhus University
4
Miki Ben‐Dor
Tel Aviv University
5
Wangjie Hu
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
6
Antoine Muller
University of Bergen
7
Alexander J. Thompson
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
8
Wenchao Zhang
China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
9
Nathan K. Schaefer
University of California, San Francisco
10
Evan C. Fricke
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rising Stars Papers

1
A matter of fat: Hunting preferences affected Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions and human evolution
Quaternary Science Reviews|2024
23 cit.
2
Drivers and impacts of global seed disperser decline
Nature Reviews Biodiversity|2025
23 cit.
3
Automatic analysis of the continuous edges of stone tools reveals fundamental handaxe variability
Scientific Reports|2024
17 cit.
4
Seed dispersal disruption limits tropical forest regrowth
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2025
16 cit.
5
The Skills of Handaxe Making: Quantifying and Explaining Variability in 3D Sinuosity and Bifacial Asymmetry
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory|2025
9 cit.
6
Syntheses of pollen-based temperature reconstructions with respect to seasonal and spatiotemporal change in Europe
Quaternary Science Reviews|2025
6 cit.
7
Streamlining asymmetry quantification in fetal mouse imaging: A semi‐automated pipeline supported by expert guidance
Developmental Dynamics|2025
5 cit.
8
Middle Palaeolithic stone toolmaking skill of experimental and archaeological Levallois flakes
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences|2025
3 cit.
9
A bioenergetic approach favors the preservation and protection of prey, not cooking, as the drivers of early fire
Frontiers in Nutrition|2025
2 cit.
10
The Late Quaternary Megafaunal Extinction and Upper Paleolithic cultural changes: A hypothesis for bioenergetic-driven human adaptations
Quaternary Environments and Humans|2025
2 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Hamdallah Béarat
Arizona State University
2
Steffi Grote
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
3
Fabrizio Mafessoni
University of Trieste
4
Manjinder S. Sandhu
University of Cambridge
5
Fernando Racimo
Integra (United States)
6
Lasse Vinner
University of Copenhagen
7
Michael Buckley
University of Manchester
8
Andaine Seguin‐Orlando
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
9
Frédéric Santos
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
10
Valasia Isaakidou
University of Oxford

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
The biospheric emergency calls for scientists to change tactics
eLife|2022
37 cit.
2
Collagen fingerprinting of Caribbean archaeological fish bones: Methodological implications for historical fisheries baselines and anthropogenic change
Journal of Archaeological Science|2022
23 cit.
3
The effect of age on entheseal changes: A study of modifications at appendicular attachment sites in a large sample of identified human skeletons
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology|2022
19 cit.
4
Changing Land Use and Political Economy at Neolithic and Bronze Age Knossos, Crete: Stable Carbon (δ<sup>13</sup>C) and Nitrogen (δ<sup>15</sup>N) Isotope Analysis of Charred Crop Grains and Faunal Bone Collagen
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society|2022
17 cit.
5
Novel Deep Eutectic Solvent-Based Protein Extraction Method for Pottery Residues and Archeological Implications
Journal of Proteome Research|2022
17 cit.
6
Medieval fish remains on the Newport ship identified by ZooMS collagen peptide mass fingerprinting
Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences|2022
16 cit.
7
Ethical Publishing: How Do We Get There?
Philosophy Theory and Practice in Biology|2022
15 cit.
8
slendr: a framework for spatio-temporal population genomic simulations on geographic landscapes
Peer Community Journal|2023
15 cit.
9
Modeling the spatiotemporal spread of beneficial alleles using ancient genomes
eLife|2022
14 cit.
10
A double-blind comparison of morphological and collagen fingerprinting (ZooMS) methods of skeletal identifications from Paleolithic contexts
Scientific Reports|2023
12 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Svante Pääbo
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2
David Reich
Broad Institute
3
Eudald Carbonell
Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social
4
R. Lawrence Edwards
University of Minnesota
5
Jean‐Jacques Hublin
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
6
Matthias Meyer
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
7
Erik Trinkaus
Washington University in St. Louis
8
Montgomery Slatkin
University of California, Berkeley
9
Janet Kelso
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
10
Johannes Krause
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Principal components analysis corrects for stratification in genome-wide association studies
Nature Genetics|2006
10.7k cit.
2
Population Structure and Eigenanalysis
PLoS Genetics|2006
5.7k cit.
3
A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome
Science|2010
4.6k cit.
4
Gene Flow and the Geographic Structure of Natural Populations
Science|1987
3.9k cit.
5
A measure of population subdivision based on microsatellite allele frequencies.
Genetics|1995
3.7k cit.
6
Ancient Admixture in Human History
Genetics|2012
3.2k cit.
7
ISOLATION BY DISTANCE IN EQUILIBRIUM AND NON-EQUILIBRIUM POPULATIONS
Evolution|1993
2.5k cit.
8
Pairwise comparisons of mitochondrial DNA sequences in stable and exponentially growing populations.
Genetics|1991
2.4k cit.
9
The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains
Nature|2013
2.4k cit.
10
Illumina Sequencing Library Preparation for Highly Multiplexed Target Capture and Sequencing
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols|2010
2.3k cit.

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