Latinka Hristova [publications]

Yaneva, M., Konyovska, R., Garevska, B., Hristova, L., Spassov, N., 2020. Sedimentary study of the Upper Miocene fossiliferous deposits in the Tikvesh Basin, Republic of North Macedonia. — Comptes rendus de l’Académie bulgare des Sciences, 73 (4): 516—520. doi:10.7546/CRABS.2020.04.10

Nikolov, V., Yaneva, M., Dochev, D., Konyovska, R., Sergeeva, I., Hristova, L., 2020. Bone histology reveals the first record of titanosaur (Dinosauria; Sauropoda) from the Late Cretaceous Bulgaria. — Palaeontologia Electronica, 23 (1): a10. doi:10.26879/879

Nikolov, V., Dochev, D., Pavlishina, P., Brusatte, S., Yaneva, M., Konyovska, R., Vergilov, V., Simov, N., Spassov, N., Hristova, L., 2020. Welcome to “Cretaceous Park”: Three years of research at the Late Cretaceous tetrapod fossil site near the town of Tran, Western Srednogorie. — Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society, 81 (3): 141—143.

Hristova, L., 2020. Description of crocodylomorph teeth from the Late Cretaceous locality near Tran, Western Bulgaria. — Comptes rendus de l'Académie bulgare des Sciences, 73 (3): 379—385. doi:10.7546/CRABS.2020.03.11

Frémondeau, D., Ottoni, C., Ivanova, S., Marinova, E., Spassov, N., Hristova, L., Konyovska, R., Van Neer, W., Lupianez, N, Gurova, M., 2020. New mtDNA and Isotopic Evidence on Late Pleistocene Cave Bears in the Balkans: the Case-study of Magura Cave, NW Bulgaria. — Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, 72 (3): 461—478.

Spassov, N., Geraads, D., Hristova, L., Markov, G. N., 2019. The Late Miocene (Turolian) mammal fauna from Gorna Sushitsa, Southwestern Bulgaria. — Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, 291 (3): 317—350.

Spassov, N., Iliev, N., Hristova, L., Ivanov, V., 2018. Typology of Thracian horses according to osteological analysis of skeletal remains and depictions from the antiquity. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 25: 15—24. [PDF] doi:10.5281/zenodo.4043992

Spassov, N., Hristova, L., Iliev, N., 2018. The domesticated horses from the submerged prehistoric village of Urdoviza (Kiten) on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast — among the oldest known. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 25: 11—14. [PDF] doi:10.5281/zenodo.4043978

Spassov, N., Hristova, L., 2018. Early Ursus etruscus Cuvier from the Middle Villafranchian carst cavern locality of Varshets (Bulgaria). — 24th International Cave Bear Symposium 2018, Chepelare, 27—30.09.2018.

Spassov, N., Geraads, D., Hristova, L., Markov, G. N., Garevska, B., Garevski, R., 2018. The late Miocene mammal faunas of the Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). — Palaeontographica A., 311 (1—6): 1—85.

Nikolov, V., Pavlishina, P., Yaneva, M., Dochev, D., Konyovska, R., Hristova, L., 2018. Late Cretaceous dinosaur remains and other tetrapod fauna from the vicinity of Tran town (Western Srednogorie). — National Conference with international participation ‘GEOSCIENCES 2018’. Review of Bulgarian Geological Society, 79 (3): 99—100.

Gurova, M., Ivanova, S., Marinova, E., V., Spassov, N., Hristova, L., Verheyden, S., Burlet, C., 2018. Excavations at Mishin Kamik Cave: fifth season. — Archaeological Discoveries and Excavations in 2017, National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,8—11.

Dzhebir, G., Yordanov, G., Yankova, I., Sirakova, D., Petrova, M., Neov, B., Hristov, P., Radoslavov, G., Hristova, L., Spassov, N., 2018. Comparative genetic analysis of subfossil wild horses (from the Neolithic Age and Early Bronze Age) and present-day domestic horses from Bulgaria. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 25: 3—10. [PDF] doi:10.5281/zenodo.4043974

Dzhebir, G., Yordanov, G., Yankova, I., Sirakova, D., Petrova, M., Neov, B., Hristov, P., Radoslavov, G., Hristova, L., Spassov, N., 2018. Comparative genetic analysis of modern and ancient horses from the Neolithic age in Bulgaria. — Historia naturalis bugarica, 28: 3—10.

Spassov, N., Hristova, L., Ivanova, S., Georgiev, I., 2017. First Record of the ‘Small Cave Bear’ in Bulgaria and taxonomic status of the bears of the Ursus savini Andrews — Ursus rossicus Borissiak group. — Fossil Imprint, 73 (3—4): 275—291.

Roussiakis, S., Lazaridis, G., Hristova, L., 2017. The ecological niche of ‘robust’ hipparions during Late Miocene and Pliocene in Balkans. — Abstract, 15th Regional Committee on Mediterranean Neogene Stratigraphy Conference Athens, Greece, 3—6 September 2017.

Gurova, M., Ivanova, S., Spassov, N., Hristova, L., Popov, V., Marinova, E., Böhme, M., 2017. Excavations at Mishin Kamik Cave: fourth season. 2016 season. — Archaeological Discoveries and Excavations in 2016, National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 48—50.

Böhme, M., Spassov, N., Ebner, M., Geraads, D., Hristova, L., Kirscher, U., Kötter, S., Linnemann, U., Prieto, J., Roussiakis, S., Theodorou, G., Uhlig, G., Winklhofer, M., 2017. Messinian Age and savanna environment of the possible hominin Graecopithecus from SE Europe. — PlosOne, 12 (5): e0177347. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0177347

Böhme, M., Spassov, N., Ebner, M., Geraads, D., Hristova, L., Kirscher, U., Kötter, S., Linnemann, U., Prieto, J., Roussiakis, S., Theodorou, G., Uhlig, G., Winklhofer, M., 2017. Messinian Age and savanna environment of the possible hominin Graecopithecus from SE Europe. — PLoS One, 12 (5): e0177347. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0177347

Böhme, M., Spassov, N., Ebner, M., Geraads, D., Hristova, L., Kirscher, U., Kötter, S., Linnemann, U., Prieto, J., Roussiakis, S., Theodorou, G., Uhlig, G., Winklhofer, M., 2017. Environment and stratigraphy of the classical Pikermi sites and post-Pikermian localities and the first, Late Miocene, Sahara desertification. — 15th Congress of the R.C.M.N.S. ‘Exploring a physical laboratory: the Mediterranean Basin’, 3—6 September 2017, Athens, Abstracs, p. 31.

Ivanova, S., Gurova, M., Spassov, N., Hristova, L., Tzankov, N., Popov, V., Marinova, E., Makedonska, J., Smith, V., Ottoni, C., Lewis, M., 2016. Magura Cave, Bulgaria: a multidisciplinary study of Late Pleistocene human palaeoenvironment in the Balkans. — Quaternary international, 86—108. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.082 [PDF]

Gurova, M., Ivanova, S., Spassov, N., Hristova, L., Krumov, I., Verheyden, S., Marinova, E., Dedov, I., 2016. Excavations at Mishin Kamik Cave: 2015 season. — Archaeological Discoveries and Excavations in 2015, National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 56—58.

Gurova, M., Ivanova, S., Krumov I., Spassov, N., Hristova, L., 2015. Research of Mishin Kamik Cave — second season. — Archaeological Discoveries and Excavations in 2014, National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 32—33.

Ivanova, S., Krumov, I., Spassov, N., Hristova, L., Makedonska, J., Gurova, M., Strait, D., 2014. Excavations at Mishin kamik cave, Chiprovtsi area. — Archaeological Discoveries and Excavations in 2013, National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 31—33.

Ivanova, S., Gurova, M., Spassov, N., Hristova, L., Gyaurova, B., Makedonska, J., Atanasova, E., Marinova, E., Hodgkins, D., Miller, C., Strait, D., 2013. Archaeological excavations at Magura cave. — Archaeological Discoveries and Excavations in 2012. National Archaeological Institute with Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 34—37.

Hristova, L., Geraads, D., Markov, G., Spassov, N., 2013. Late Miocene mammals from Kocherinovo, Southwestern Bulgaria. — Acta zoologica bulgarica, 65 (4): 521—534. [PDF]

Böhme, M., Aiglstorfer, M., Boev, Z., Bullmann, L., Dolezych, M., Havlik, P., Hristova, L., Ilg, A., Markov, G., Ognjanova, N., Prieto, J., Uhl, D., Vasilyan, D., Spassov, N., 2013. Staniantsi — an exceptional vertebrate locality from the Miocene-Pliocene transition of Western Bulgaria. Neogene to Quaternary Geological Evolution of Mediterranean, Paratethys and Black Sea. — RCMNS 14th Congress, 8—12 September 2013 Istambul. Book of Abstracts, p. 135.

Böhme, M., Aiglstorfer, M., Boev, Z., Bullmann, L., Dolezych, M., Havlik, P., Hristova, L., Ilg, A., Markov, G., Ognjanova, N., Prieto, J., Uhl, D., Vasilyan, D., Spassov, N., 2013. Staniantsi — an exceptional vertebrate locality from the Miocene-Pliocene transition of Western Bulgaria. — Abstracts, 5th International Workshop on the Neogene from the Central and South-Eastern Europe Varna, 16th — 20th May 2013, Varna.

Spassov, N., Geraads, D., Hristova, L., Markov, G. N., Merceron, G., Tzankov, Tz., Stoyanov, K., Böhme, M., Dimitrova, A., 2012. A hominid tooth from Bulgaria: the last pre-human hominid of continental Europe. — Journal of Human Evolution, 62 (1): 138—145.

Hristova, L., 2012. About the age of the Late Miocene localities of the Kalimantsi fossiliferous area on the basis of Cremohipparion (Perissodactyla, Equidae) skull morphology polymorphism. — Historia naturalis bugarica, 20: 143—150.

Clavel, J., Merceron, G., Hristova, L., Spassov, N., Kovachev, D., Escarguel, G., 2012. On Mesopithecus habitat: insights from late Miocene fossil vertebrate localities of Bulgaria. — Journal of Human Evolution, 63 (1): 162—179. [PDF]

Geraads, D., Spassov, N., Hristova, L., Markov, G. N., Tzankov, T., 2011. Upper Miocene mammals from Strumyani, South-Western Bulgaria. — Geodiversitas, 33 (3): 451—484. [PDF]

Geraads, D., Spassov, N., Hristova, L., Markov, G. N., Garevski, R., 2011. Large mammal faunas from the late Neogene of the F. Y. Republic of Macedonia. — 9th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate palaeontologists, Heraklion, Crete, 14—19 June.

Hristova, L., 2009. Ontogeny and variability in the cheek region of hipparions from the Late Miocene locality Hadzhidimovo-1, Southwest Bulgaria. — Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigraphia, 115 (1): 123—130.

Hristova, L., Spassov, N., 2005. Taxonomy and Ecology of the late Miocene Hipparions of Bulgaria: contribution to the questions of the Balkans’ Turolian stratigraphy and environment changes. — Abstract on Annual NECLIME Meeting, Sofia, October 1—4, 2005.

Hristova, L., Kovachev, D., 2005. Notes on taxonomy on the Middle Turolian hipparions from localities near Kalimantsi village. — Mathematics and natural sciences. Proceedings of the International scientific conference 8—11.06.2005. South-West University, Blagoevgrad, V. 2., 180—184.

Hristova, L., Kovachev, D., Spassov, N., 2003. Hipparion brachypus Hensel, 1862 from the Late Miocene of Hadzhidimovo, Southwestern Bulgaria. — Comptes rendus de l’Academie bulgare des Sciences, 56 (2): 77—84.

Hristova, L., Kovachev, D., Spassov, N., 2002. The Hipparions (Equidae, Mammalia) from the Upper Miocene locality Hadzhidimovo, SW Bulgaria. — Rev. Bulg. Geol. Society, 63, 1—3, 89—98. (in Bulgarian, English abstract).