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Submissions from 2020
Mapping gene flow between ancient hominins through demography-aware inference of the ancestral recombination graph, Melissa J. Hubisz, Amy L. Williams, and Adam Siepel
Micromorphological and FTIR analysis of the Upper Paleolithic early pottery site of Yuchanyan cave, Hunan, South China, Ilaria Patania, Paul Goldberg, David J. Cohen, Jiarong Yuan, Xiaohong Wu, and Ofer Bar‐Yosef
Micromorphology, mineralogy, and geo-chemistry of sediments at the Tham Lod rock shelter archaeological site in Mae Hong Son, Thailand: suggestions of a late Pleistocene climate, Seriwat Saminpanya and Nopporn Denkitkul
Mobile bat acoustic routes indicate cavity-roosting species undergo compensatory changes in community composition following white-nose syndrome, Molly C. Simonis, Bridget K. G. Brown, and Volker Bahn
Modeling cave cross‐section evolution including sediment transport and paragenesis, Max P. Cooper and Matthew D. Covington
Modeling interbasin groundwater flow in karst areas: Model development, application, and calibration strategy, Van Tam Nguyen, Jörg Dietrich, and Bhumika Uniyal
Modeling of groundwater flow and transport in coastal karst aquifers, Neven Kresic and Sorab Panday
Modelling groundwater flooding in a lowland karst catchment, Patrick Jerome Morrissey, Ted McCormack, Owen Naughton, Paul Meredith Johnston, and Laurence William Gill
Modelling the potential efficacy of treatments for white-nose syndrome in bats, Quinn E. Fletcher, Quinn M. R. Webber, and Craig K. R. Willis
Morphometry of lower cheek teeth of cave bears (Carnivora, Ursidae) and general remarks on the dentition variability, Gennady F. Baryshnikov and Andrey Y. Puzachenko
Mothers Frequent Caves: Lactation Affects Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) Cave Use in Southeastern Senegal, Kelly Boyer Ontl and Jill D. Pruetz
Mothers Frequent Caves: Lactation Affects Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus) Cave Use in Southeastern Senegal, Kelly Boyer Ontl and Jill D. Pruetz
Moth wings are acoustic metamaterials, Thomas R. Neil, Zhiyuan Shen, Daniel Robert, and Marc W. Holderied
Movement responses of common noctule bats to the illuminated urban landscape, Christian C. Voigt, Julia M. Scholl, Juliane Bauer, Tobias Teige, Yossi Yovel, Stephanie Kramer-Schadt, and P. Gras
Multi-analytical characterizations of prehistoric rock art pigments from Karim Cave, Sangkulirang–Mangkalihat site, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Moh. Mualliful Ilmi, Nadya Nurdini, Evi Maryanti, Chatree Saiyasombat, Pindi Setiawan, Grandprix Thomryes Marth Kadja, and Ismunandar
Multi-proxy speleothem record of climate instability during the early last interglacial in southern Turkey, P. J. Rowe, L.B. Wickens, D. Sahy, A.D. Marca, E. Peckover, S. Noble, M. Özkul, M.O. Baykara, I.L. Millar, and J.E. Andrews
NALPS19: sub-orbital-scale climate variability recorded in northern Alpine speleothems during the last glacial period, Gina E. Moseley, Christoph Spötl, Susanne Brandstätter, and Tobias Erhardt
Neanderthal-Denisovan ancestors interbred with a distantly related hominin, Alan R. Rogers, Nathan S. Harris, and Alan A. Achenbach
Neanderthal mobile toolkit in short-term occupations at Teixoneres Cave (Moia, Spain), Andrea Picin, M. Gema Chacón, Bruno Gómez de Soler, and Ruth Blasco
New evidence for an early settlement of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico: The Chan Hol 3 woman and her meaning for the Peopling of the Americas, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Samuel R. Rennie, and Jerónimo Avilés Olguín
New insights for understanding spatial patterning and formation processes of the Neanderthal occupation in theAmalda I cave (Gipuzkoa, Spain), Laura Sánchez-Romero, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, and Ana B. Marín-Arroyo
New Neanderthal remains associated with the ‘flower burial’ at Shanidar Cave, Emma Pomeroy, Paul Bennet, and Chris O. Hunt
New perspectives on Neanderthal dispersal and turnover from Stajnia Cave (Poland), Andrea Picin, Mateja Hajdinjak, Wioletta Nowaczewska, and Stefano Benazzi
Notes on the predation of an assassin bug by a spider in a Neotropical cave, Leopoldo Ferreira de Oliveira Bernardi, Vinicius da Fontoura Sperandei, and Livio Dorneles Audino
Novel de Novo Genome of Cynopterus brachyotis Reveals Evolutionarily Abrupt Shifts in Gene Family Composition across Fruit Bats, Balaji Chattopadhyay, Kritika M. Garg, Rajasri Ray, Ian H. Mendenhall, and Frank E. Rheindt
Novel Insights Into Immune Systems of Bats, Arinjay Banerjee, Michelle L. Baker, Kirsten Kulcsar, Vikram Misra, Raina Plowright, and Karen Mossman
Numerical model of the behavior of chlorinated ethenes in a fractured, karstic limestone aquifer, Nicola Pastore, Claudia Cherubini, Concetta I. Giasi, and Dimitra Rapti
Occurrence and environmental impact of coal mine goaf water in karst areas in China, Chunfang Jiang, Xubo Gao, Baojun Hou, Songtao Zhang, Jianyou Zhang, Chengcheng Li, and Wanzhou Wang
Occurrence of antibiotic resistance genes and microbial source tracking markers in the water of a karst spring in Germany, C. Stange and A. Tiehm
On holes and strings: Earliest displays of human adornment in the Middle Palaeolithic, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer, Iris Groman-Yaroslavski, Ofer Bar-Yosef, and Israel Hershkovitz
Palaeoenvironmental conditions during MIS 6/MIS 5 transition recorded in speleothems from the Tatra Mountains, Jacek Pawlak, Marcin Błaszczyk, and Helena Hercman
Palaeolithic creation and later visits of symbolic spaces: radiocarbon AMS dating and cave art in the Sala de las Pinturas in Ojo Guareña (Burgos, Spain), Ana Isabel Ortega-Martínez, Miguel Ángel Martín-Merino, and Marcos García-Diez
Paleoindian ochre mines in the submerged caves of the Yucatán Peninsula, Quintana Roo, Mexico, Brandi L. MacDonald, James C. Chatters, Eduard G. Reinhardt, and Fred Devos
Performance comparison of physical process-based and data-driven models: a case study on the Edwards Aquifer, USA, Andi Zhang, James Winterle, and Changbing Yang
Persistent influence of obliquity on ice age terminations since the Middle Pleistocene transition, Petra Bajo, Russell N. Drysdale, and Jon D. Woodhead
Personality affects dynamics of an experimental pathogen in little brown bats, Quinn M.R. Webber and Craig K.R. Willis
Physicochemical investigation of prehistoric rock art pigments in Tewet Cave, Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat Site, East Kalimantan-Indonesia, Nadya Nurdini, Evi Maryanti, Moh. Mualliful Ilmi, Pindi Setiawan, Chatree Saiyasombat, Grandprix T.M. Kadja, and Ismunandar
Planetary Cave Exploration Progresses, Timothy Titus, C. M. Phillips-Lander, P. J. Boston, and J. J. Wynne
Plants and Caves in Ancient Maya Society, Brett A. Houk, Barbara Arroyo, and Terry G. Powis
Pleistocene vertebrates of southwestern USA and northwestern Mexico, Arthur H. Harris
Plio-Quaternary landscape evolution in the uplifted Ardennes: New insights from 26Al/10Be data from cave-deposited alluvium (Meuse catchment, E. Belgium), Gilles Rixhon, Régis Braucher, Didier L. Bourlès, Alexandre Peeters, Alain Demoulin, and Laetitia Leanni
Pluridisciplinary evidence for burial for the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child, Antoine Balzeau, Alain Turq, Sahra Talamo, Camille Daujeard, Guillaume Guérin, Frido Welker, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Helen Fewlass, Jean-Jacques Hublin, Christelle Lahaye, Bruno Maureille, Matthias Meyer, Catherine Schwab, and Asier Gómez-Olivencia
Pollen assemblage and environmental DNA changes: A 4300-year-old bat guano deposit from Jamaica, W. Bogdanowicz, Elżbieta Worobiec, C. Grooms, and L. E. Kimpe
Population Connectivity Predicts Vulnerability to White-Nose Syndrome in the Chilean Myotis (Myotis chiloensis) - A Genomics Approach, Thomas M. Lilley, Tiina Sävilammi, Gonzalo Ossa, Anna S. Blomberg, Anti Vasemägi, Veronica Yung, David L.J. Vendrami, and Joseph S. Johnson
Positive Selection of a Serine Residue in Bat IRF3 Confers Enhanced Antiviral Protection, Arinjay Banerjee, Xi Zhang, Alyssa Yip, Katharina S. Schulz, Aaron T. Irving, Dawn Bowdish, Brian Golding, Lin-Fa Wang, and Karen Mossman
Possibility for reverse zoonotic transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to free-ranging wildlife: A case study of bats, Kevin J. Olival, Paul M. Cryan, Brian R. Amman, Ralph S. Baric, David S. Blehert, Cara E. Brook, Charles H. Calisher, Kevin T. Castle, Jeremy T. H. Coleman, Peter Daszak, Jonathan H. Epstein, Hume Field, Winifred F. Frick, Amy T. Gilbert, David T. S. Hayman, Hon S. Ip, William B. Karesh, Christine K. Johnson, Rebekah C. Kading, Tigga Kingston, Jeffrey M. Lorch, Ian H. Mendenhall, Alison J. Peel, Kendra L. Phelps, Raina K. Plowright, DeeAnn M. Reeder, Jonathan D. Reichard, Jonathan M. Sleeman, Daniel G. Streicker, Jonathan S. Towner, and Lin-Fa Wang
Potential Detection of Martian Lava Tubes from Mars Global Cave Candidate Catalog Skylight Locations Using Sharad, N. M. Bardabelias, J. W. Holt, and M. S. Christoffersen
Pre-Clovis occupation of the Americas identified by human fecal biomarkers in coprolites from Paisley Caves, Oregon, Lisa-Marie Shillito, Helen L. Whelton, John C. Blong, and Dennis L. Jenkins
Preliminary hydrogeological observations in Phong Nha–Ke Bang National Park and Tu Lan Karst Area, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam, Howard Limbert, Deborah Limbert, and Gheorghe M. L. Ponta
Preliminary investigation of the critically imperiled Caney Mountain cave crayfishOrconectes stygocaneyi(Hobbs III, 2001) (Decapoda: Cambaridae) in Missouri, USA, Robert J. DiStefano, David Ashley, Shannon K. Brewer, Joshua B. Mouser, and Matthew Niemiller
Proceedings of the 16th Multidisciplinary Conference on Sinkholes and the Engineering and Environmental Impacts of Karst: National Cave and Karst Research Institute (NCKRI) Symposium 8, Lijun Tian, Brian A. Smith, and Brian B. Hunt
Pup Directed Vocalizations of Adult Females and Males in a Vocal Learning Bat, Ahana Aurora Fernandez and Mirjam Knörnschild
Pup Directed Vocalizations of Adult Females and Males in a Vocal Learning Bat, Ahana Aurora Fernandez and Mirjam Knörnschild
Quantifying the base flow of the Colorado River: its importance in sustaining perennial flow in northern Arizona and southern Utah (USA), Riley K. Swanson, Abraham E. Springer, David K. Kreamer, Benjamin W. Tobin, and Denielle M. Perry
Rapid range shifts and megafaunal extinctions associated with late Pleistocene climate change, Frederik V. Seersholm, Daniel J. Werndly, and Alicia Grealy
Recharge, delayed groundwater-level rise and specific yield in the Triassic karst aquifer of the Kopa Mountain, in the Western Carpathians, Slovakia, Peter Malík; Marián Coplák,; and Švasta Jaromír
Reconstructing fluvial incision rates based on palaeo-water tables in chalk karst networks along the Seine valley (Normandy, France), Carole Nehme, Andrew Farrant, Daniel Ballesteros, Dominique Todisco, Joel Rodet, Diana Sahy, J. Michael Grappone, Jean‐Claude Staigre, and Damase Mouralis
Redefining shared symbolic networks during the Gravettian in Western Europe: New data from the rock art findings in Aitzbitarte caves (Northern Spain), Diego Garate Maidagán, Olivia Rivero, Joseba Rios-Garaizar, and Martín Arriolabengoa
Response to White et al.’s reply: ‘Still no archaeological evidence that Neanderthals created Iberian cave art’, Dirk L. Hoffmann, Christopher D. Standish, Marcos García-Diez, Paul B. Pettitt, James A. Milton, João Zilhão, Javier J. Alcolea-González, Pedro Cantalejo-Duarte, Hipolito Collado, Rodrigo de Balbín, Michel Lorblanchet, Jose Ramos-Muñoz, Gerd-Christian Weniger, and Alistair W.G. Pike
Ritual and Politics: Exploring Human Sacrifice at Midnight Terror Cave, Belize, Cristina Verdugo
Ritual Plant Use in Pacbitun’s Caves: A Social Paleoethnobotanical Approach, Megan D. Parker and Jon Spenard
Safe and effective disinfection of show cave infrastructure in a time of COVID-19, Hazel A. Barton
SARS-CoV-2 in fruit bats, ferrets, pigs, and chickens: an experimental transmission study, Kore Schlottau, Melanie Rissmann, Annika Graaf, Jacob Schön, Julia Sehl, Claudia Wylezich, Dirk Höper, Thomas C. Mettenleiter, Anne Balkema-Buschmann, Timm Harder, Christian Grund, Donata Hoffmann, Angele Breithaupt, and Martin Beer
Sensitivity assessment and simulation of water resource security in karst areas within the context of hydroclimate change, Boling Yin, Dongjie Guan, Lilei Zhou, Jian Zhou, and Xiujuan He
Setting fire in a Paleolithic Cave: The influence of cave dimensions on smoke dispersal, Yafit Kedar, Gil Kedar, and Ran Barkai
Setting fire in a Paleolithic Cave: The influence of cave dimensions on smoke dispersal, Yafit Kedar, Gil Kedar, and Ran Barkai
Shaped stone balls were used for bone marrow extraction at Lower Paleolithic Qesem Cave, Israel, Ella Assaf, Isabella Caricola, Avi Gopher, Jordi Rosell, Ruth Blasco, Oded Bar, Ezra Zilberman, Cristina Lemorini, Javier Baena, Ran Barkai, and Emanuela Cristiani
Short and long period growth markers of enamel formation distinguish European Pleistocene hominins, Mario Modesto-Mata, M. Christopher Dean, and Rodrigo S. Lacruz
Significance of validation for karst aquifers’ vulnerability assessments: Antalya Travertine Plateau (Turkey) application, Ayşenur Amil, Pınar Avcı, Ahmet Çil, Ayşe Muhammetoğlu, and Naciye Nur Özyurt
SISALv2: a comprehensive speleothem isotope database with multiple age–depth models, Laia Comas-Bru, Kira Rehfeld, Carla Roesch, Sahar Amirnezhad-Mozhdehi, Sandy P. Harrison, Kamolphat Atsawawaranunt, Syed Masood Ahmad, Yassine Ait Brahim, Andy Baker, Matthew Bosomworth, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Yuval Burstyn, Andrea Columbu, Michael Deininger, Attila Demény, Bronwyn Dixon, Jens Fohlmeister, István Gábor Hatvani, Jun Hu, Nikita Kaushal, Zoltán Kern, Inga Labuhn, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Andrew Lorrey, Belen Martrat, Valdir Felipe Novello, Jessica Oster, Carlos Pérez-Mejías, Denis Scholz, Nick Scroxton, and Nitesh Sinha
SISALv2: a comprehensive speleothem isotope database with multiple age–depth models, Laia Comas-Bru, Kira Rehfeld, Carla Roesch, Sahar Amirnezhad-Mozhdehi, Sandy P. Harrison, Kamolphat Atsawawaranunt, Syed Masood Ahmad, Yassine Ait Brahim, Andy Baker, Matthew Bosomworth, Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Yuval Burstyn, Andrea Columbu, Michael Deininger, Attila Demény, Bronwyn Dixon, Jens Fohlmeister, István Gábor Hatvani, Jun Hu, Nikita Kaushal, Zoltán Kern, Inga Labuhn, Franziska A. Lechleitner, Andrew Lorrey, Belen Martrat, Valdir Felipe Novello, Jessica Oster, Carlos Pérez-Mejías, Denis Scholz, Nick Scroxton, Nitesh Sinha, and Brittany Marie Ward
Site occupation dynamics of early modern humans at Misliya Cave (Mount Carmel, Israel): Evidence from the spatial taphonomy of faunal remains, Reuven Yeshurun, Dan Malkinson, Kathryn M. Crater Gershtein, Yossi Zaidner, and Mina Weinstein-Evron
Six reference-quality genomes reveal evolution of bat adaptations, David Jebb, Zixia Huang, and Martin Pippel
Six reference-quality genomes reveal evolution of bat adaptations, David Jebb, Zixia Huang, and Martin Pippel
Six reference-quality genomes reveal evolution of bat adaptations, David Jebb, Zixia Huang, and Martin Pippel
Snowmelt as a determinant factor in the hydrogeological behaviour of high mountain karst aquifers: The Garcés karst system, Central Pyrenees (Spain), J. Jódar, A. González-Ramón, S. Martos-Rosillo, J. Heredia, C. Herrera, J. Urrutia, Y. Caballero, A. Zabaleta, I. Antigüedad, E. Custodio, and L.J. Lambán
Speleological objects becoming show caves: evidence from the Valjevo karst area in Western Serbia, Aleksandar Antić, Nemanja Tomić, Tijana Đorđević, Mirjana Radulović, and Ivana Đević
Speleothem record attests to stable environmental conditions during Neanderthal–modern human turnover in southern Italy, Andrea Columbo, Veronica Chaiarini, and Christoph Spotl
Speleothems in quartz-sandstone caves of Ponta Grossa municipality, Campos Gerais region, Paraná state, southern Brazil, Henrique S. Pontes, Luiz A. Fernandes, Mário S. de Melo, Gilson B. Guimarães, and Laís L. Massuqueto
Squamate bone taphonomy: A new experimental framework and its application to the Natufian zooarchaeological record, Máyan Lev, Mina Weinstein-Evron, and Reuven Yeshurun
Squatting (squatter) mantis man: A prehistoric praying mantis petroglyph in Iran, Mahmood Kolnegari, Mohammad Naserifard, and Mandana Hazrati
STONE ‘CANVAS’ AND NATUFIAN ART: AN INCISED HUMAN FIGURE FROM THE NATUFIAN CEMETERY AT RAQEFET CAVE, ISRAEL, Danny Rosenberg, Rivka Chasan, György Lengyel, and Dani Nadel
Stratigraphical influence on chalk cave development in Upper Normandy, France: implications for chalk hydrogeology, Daniel Ballesteros, Andrew Farrant, Carole Nehme, Mark Woods, Dominique Todisco, and Damase Mouralis
Study on geotechnical engineering investigation method of strong karst deep backfill area in mountain area, Liu Hao, Tian Maozhong, and Liu Jinyang
Study on the characteristics of karst development in Beijing, Kai Liu, Wenjie Sun, and Shanshan Wang
Stygobitic crustaceans in an anchialine cave with an archeological heritage at Vodeni Rat (Island of Sveti Klement, Hvar, Croatia), Alessandro Montanari, Nicolas Cerveau, Barbara Fiasca, Jean-François Flot, Diana Galassi, Maurizio Mainiero, David McGee, Tadeusz Namiotko, Stefano Recanatini, and Fabio Stoch
Subsidence rings and fracture pattern around dolines in carbonate platforms – Implications for evolution and petrophysical properties of collapse structures, Daniel F. Menezes, Francisco H. Bezerra, and Fabrizio Balsamo
Successful molecular detection studies require clear communication among diverse research partners, Brittany A. Mosher, Riley F. Bernard, and Jeffrey M. Lorch
Surface runoff alters cave microbial community structure and function, Mustafa Saribudak
Survey of Histoplasma capsulatum in bat guano and status of histoplasmosis in Slovenia, Central Europe, Janez Mulec, Saša Simčič, Tadeja Kotar, Romina Kofol, and Sanja Stopinšek
Survival and persistence of tricolored bats hibernating in Arkansas mines, Roger W. Perry and Phillip N. Jordan
Taphonomic Analyses of Cave Breccia in Southeast Asia: A Review and Future Directions, Holly Ellen Smith, Mike W. Morley, and Julien Louys
Taxonomy and paleoenvironmental inferences from fossil vertebrates of Paripiranga Borboletas Cave, Northeastern Bahia, Brazil, Johnson Sarmento de Oliveira Nascimento, Édison Vicente Oliveira, and Jorge Luiz Lopes da Silva
Techno-functional and 3D shape analysis applied for investigating the variability of backed tools in the Late Middle Paleolithic of Central Europe, Davide Delpiano and Thorsten Uthmeier
Temporal and spatial changes in Myotis lucifugus acoustic activity before and after white-nose syndrome on Fort Drum Army Installation, New York, USA, Tomas Nocera, W. Mark Ford, Christopher Dobony, and Alexander Silvis
Temporal Variations of Spring Water in Karst Areas: A Case Study of Jinan Spring Area, Northern China, Zongjun Gao, Jiutan Liu, Xingyong Xu, Qingbing Wang, Min Wang, Jianguo Feng, and Tengfei Fu
The cave of Atxurra: A new major Magdalenian rock art sanctuary in Northern Spain, Diego Garate, Olivia Rivero, Joseba Ríos-Garaizar, Martin Arriolabengoa, Mª Ángeles Medina-Alcaide, Juan Francisco Ruiz-López, Iñaki Intxaurbe, Sergio Salazar, and Iñaki Libano
