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Lorena Becerra‐Valdivia

University of BristolORCID 0000-0001-5501-5347Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Organism:human· 2 Assay:imaging· 2 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1 Organism:multiple species· 1 Research Focus:phylogenetics / evolution· 1

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Diverse megamammals exploited by humans, chronology and palaeoecology at Taima-Taima, Late Pleistocene, South America

Jorge D. Carrillo-Briceño, Karina Vanesa Chichkoyan, Arturo Jaimes, Lorena Becerra‐Valdivia, Oscar E. Wilson, Kévin Le Verger, Dimila Mothé, Diego Vargas, Andrés E. Reyes-Cespedes, Lautaro Maximiliam Hilbert, Rodolfo Sánchez, Nohé Gonzalo Gilson, Olivier Tombret, Astrid Bauville, Marine Libot, , Marcelo Ricardo Sánchez-Villagra

Bone modification analyses, tooth enamel radiocarbon dates, and dental calculus microfossils indicate that Late Pleistocene humans exploited at least five megaherbivore species at a savannah watering hole in Venezuela.

Quaternary Science Reviews · Jul 5, 2026Peer-reviewedPaleontology✦ In-depth digest

{micro}CT Scanning Effects on DNA and a Multi-Step Workflow for Archaeological Petrous Bones

Lumila Paula Menéndez, Pierre Luisi, María Clara López‐Sosa, Sergio Monteiro Da Silva, Laura Tabitha Buck, Susan C. Kuzminsky, Mirsha Quinto‐Sánchez, Anne Le Maître, Christine Chappard, Cassandra Rios, Hans Groh, Wara Siles, Gustavo Montiel Hernández, Lorena Becerra‐Valdivia, Juan Manuel Argüelles, , Nicolás Rascovan

Fifty micro-CT-scanned archaeological petrous bones from Argentina did not differ significantly from 43 unscanned ones on six ancient DNA metrics, motivating a multi-step workflow that scans bones before destructive sampling.

PLoS ONE · Apr 13, 2026Peer-reviewedPaleontology✦ In-depth digest

AncientMetagenomeDir dating metadataset highlights need for standardised radiocarbon reporting in ancient DNA

Katherine Hearne, Diāna Spurīte, Alexander Hübner, Biancamaria Bonucci, Yuejiao Huang, Bjørn Peare Bartholdy, Piotr Rozwalak, Lorena Becerra‐Valdivia, Maxime Borry, Davide Bozzi, Anastasia Brativnyk, Jodie Brunt, Nihan Dilşad Dağtaş, Toni de-Dios, Cameron Robert Ferguson, , Aida Andrades Valtueña

The paper adds standardized radiocarbon dating information to the AncientMetagenomeDir dataset, highlighting inconsistencies in radiocarbon reporting across ancient metagenomic studies.

bioRxiv · Feb 6, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics