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Emily Coco
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Postdoc at ICArEHB | PhD from NYU | Computational archaeologist interested in stone tool recycling, hominin mobility, and Paleolithic Central Asia | she/her
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ICArEHB @icarehb.bsky.social · Jul 1
📢 New publication: "Agent-based simulations reveal the possibility of multiple rapid northern routes for the second Neanderthal dispersal from Western to Eastern Eurasia" by Coco, E. & Iovita, R., in PLOS ONE 20(6), e0325693 (2025).
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Agent-based simulations reveal the possibility of multiple rapid northern routes for the second Neanderthal dispersal from Western to Eastern Eurasia
Genetic and archaeological evidence imply a second major movement of Neanderthals from Western to Central and Eastern Eurasia sometime in the Late Pleistocene. The genetic data suggest a date of 120−8...
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Emily Coco @emilycoco.bsky.social · Jun 9
Our results show that Neanderthals likely dispersed via a northern route through the Ural Mountains and southern Siberia during warmer climatic periods (MIS 5e, MIS 3). Neanderthals could have reached the Altai relatively quickly by following river valleys.
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Emily Coco @emilycoco.bsky.social · Jun 9
New paper out with Radu Iovita in PLOS One modeling potential routes of dispersal for Neanderthals moving from the Caucasus Mountains to the Altai Mountains after MIS 6

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Emily Coco @emilycoco.bsky.social · Feb 6
A huge thank you to my coauthors: Patrick Schmidt, Bin Hu, Alice Rodriguez, Talgat Mamirov, Timothy Bromage, and Radu Iovita
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Emily Coco @emilycoco.bsky.social · Feb 6
A very exciting first post here: the final paper from my dissertation as finally be published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences! We characterized the processes of lithic artifact weathering at the Semizbugu site complex in Central Kazakhstan. Check it out here 👉 rdcu.be/d8NvQ
Characteristics of lithic artifact weathering at the Semizbugu surface site complex in semi-arid Central Kazakhstan
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