Fig. 2: Pleistocene stratigraphic sequence of El Salt (Units V-XI), chronometric dates of the sampled units, and evidence of traces of ancient human mitochondrial DNA.
From: Components of a Neanderthal gut microbiome recovered from fecal sediments from El Salt

a The 14 sediment samples included in this study are shown in red. Samples ES1 to ES7 (subunit Xb-H44) are from Sistiaga et al.25. b Red boxes, human mtDNA fragments as recovered from metagenomic sequencing data; red circles, confirmation of the presence of ancient human mtDNA through target capture and sequencing (please, see Methods for further details).