Stories by Katerina Douka

Katerina Douka is an archaeological scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. She is leading a team to discover fossils of Neandertals and Denisovans among collections of unidentified bone fragments from sites in Asia.

EvolutionDecember 1, 2018

Ingenious Method Reveals Precious Human Remains Hidden in Fossil “Junk”

A new technique for identifying tiny fragments of fossilized bone is helping to answer key questions about when, where and how human species interacted with one another

Thomas Higham, Katerina Douka