Monozygotic newborn twins from the Upper Palaeolithic of Austria

[Oxytropidoceras]

Babies buried under a mammoth-bone lid are the 

oldest known identical twins, Nature, November 11, 2020

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03184-6

 

Krems-Wachtberg–A Gravettian Settlement Site

https://www.orea.oeaw.ac.at/en/research/quartaerarchaeologie/krems-wachtberg/

 

The Krems-Wachtberg Pavlovian site

https://www.donsmaps.com/mammothsite.html

 

Papers are:

 

Teschler-Nicola, M., Fernandes, D., Händel, M., Einwögerer, 

T., Simon, U., Neugebauer-Maresch, C., Tangl, S., Heimel, 

P., Dobsak, T., Retzmann, A. and Prohaska, T., 2020. Ancient 

DNA reveals monozygotic newborn twins from the Upper 

Palaeolithic. Communications Biology, 3(1), pp.1-11.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-020-01372-8   (open access)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273059083_The_Gravettian_Infant_Burials_from_Krems-Wachtberg_Austria

 

Händel, M., Einwögerer, T. and Simon, U., 2008. Krems-

Wachtberg–a gravettian settlement site in the Middle Danube 

region. Wissenschaftliche Mitteilungen aus dem 

Niederösterreichischen Landesmuseum, 19, pp.91-108.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228503741_Krems-Wachtberg-A_Gravettian_Settlement_Site_in_the_Middle_Danube_Region

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.