{
  "citation": "Specimen Registry v0.0.7 (2026). Maintained by Michael Gonzalez with AI assistance. https://specimenregistry.org. Data licensed under CC BY 4.0.",
  "license": "https://specimenregistry.org/license",
  "version": "0.0.12-neon",
  "specimen": {
    "id": "vindija-87",
    "site_id": "vindija-cave",
    "common_name": "Vindija 87",
    "community_name": null,
    "catalog_number": "Vi 87",
    "catalog_number_source_quote": null,
    "material_type": "undiagnosed bone fragment",
    "taxonomic_assignment": "Neanderthal",
    "taxonomic_assignment_source_quote": null,
    "assignment_method": "aDNA-nuclear",
    "assignment_publication": "10.1038/nature26151",
    "provenance_publication": null,
    "stratigraphic_context": {
      "raw": "`{\"site\": \"Vindija cave\", \"country\": \"Croatia\", \"specimen_type\": \"undiagnosed bone fragment\"}`"
    },
    "stratigraphic_context_source_quote": null,
    "current_custody": null,
    "inferred_fields": null,
    "disputed_assignment": false,
    "verification_state": "draft",
    "verification_notes": null,
    "fts_tsv": "'87':2A 'bone':5C 'fragment':6C 'neanderth':3B 'undiagnos':4C 'vindija':1A",
    "created_at": "2026-07-26T19:35:25.747Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-07-27T02:16:42.538Z"
  },
  "site": {
    "id": "vindija-cave",
    "name": "Vindija Cave",
    "country": "Croatia",
    "region": "Hrvatsko Zagorje, Krapina-Zagorje County (northern Croatia)",
    "latitude": "46.299440",
    "longitude": "16.067220",
    "coordinates_precision": "1km",
    "site_type": "karstic cave",
    "excavating_institution": null,
    "notes": null,
    "verification_state": "pending-verification",
    "created_at": "2026-07-26T18:17:01.609Z",
    "updated_at": "2026-07-26T18:17:01.609Z"
  },
  "analyses": [],
  "comparisons": [
    {
      "id": 31,
      "specimen_a_id": "vindija-87",
      "specimen_b_id": "oase-1",
      "comparison_type": "contemporaneous",
      "claim": "Four of the five late Neanderthals studied post-date AMH arrival in Europe; despite temporal overlap with Oase-1-like AMH, no recent modern-human gene flow was detected in their ancestry.",
      "claim_source_quote": "although four of the Neanderthals studied here post-date the putative arrival of early modern humans into Europe, we do not detect any recent gene flow from early modern humans in their ancestry",
      "method": "aDNA-nuclear",
      "publication_id": "10.1038/nature26151",
      "quantitative_result": null,
      "verification_state": "pending-verification",
      "verification_notes": "Auto-inserted from Hajdinjak 2018 verbatim PubMed abstract; needs full-paper verification of pairwise application of population-level claims. Vindija 87 same-individual claim is community-summary sourced.",
      "created_at": "2026-07-27T01:49:27.386Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-07-27T01:49:27.386Z",
      "other_id": "oase-1",
      "other_name": "Oase 1",
      "other_taxon": "modern human (Homo sapiens) with recent Neanderthal admixture"
    },
    {
      "id": 16,
      "specimen_a_id": "spy-94a",
      "specimen_b_id": "vindija-87",
      "comparison_type": "related-population",
      "claim": "Part of a coherent late-Neanderthal group whose genetic similarity tracks geography.",
      "claim_source_quote": "Genetic similarity among late Neanderthals is well predicted by their geographical location",
      "method": "aDNA-nuclear",
      "publication_id": "10.1038/nature26151",
      "quantitative_result": "1-2.7x genome coverage",
      "verification_state": "pending-verification",
      "verification_notes": "Auto-inserted from Hajdinjak 2018 verbatim PubMed abstract; needs full-paper verification of pairwise application of population-level claims. Vindija 87 same-individual claim is community-summary sourced.",
      "created_at": "2026-07-27T01:49:27.386Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-07-27T01:49:27.386Z",
      "other_id": "spy-94a",
      "other_name": "Spy 94a",
      "other_taxon": "Neanderthal"
    },
    {
      "id": 13,
      "specimen_a_id": "les-cottes-z4-1514",
      "specimen_b_id": "vindija-87",
      "comparison_type": "related-population",
      "claim": "Part of a coherent late-Neanderthal group whose genetic similarity tracks geography.",
      "claim_source_quote": "Genetic similarity among late Neanderthals is well predicted by their geographical location",
      "method": "aDNA-nuclear",
      "publication_id": "10.1038/nature26151",
      "quantitative_result": "1-2.7x genome coverage",
      "verification_state": "pending-verification",
      "verification_notes": "Auto-inserted from Hajdinjak 2018 verbatim PubMed abstract; needs full-paper verification of pairwise application of population-level claims. Vindija 87 same-individual claim is community-summary sourced.",
      "created_at": "2026-07-27T01:49:27.386Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-07-27T01:49:27.386Z",
      "other_id": "les-cottes-z4-1514",
      "other_name": "Les Cottés Z4-1514",
      "other_taxon": "Neanderthal"
    },
    {
      "id": 15,
      "specimen_a_id": "mezmaiskaya-2",
      "specimen_b_id": "vindija-87",
      "comparison_type": "related-population",
      "claim": "Part of a coherent late-Neanderthal group whose genetic similarity tracks geography.",
      "claim_source_quote": "Genetic similarity among late Neanderthals is well predicted by their geographical location",
      "method": "aDNA-nuclear",
      "publication_id": "10.1038/nature26151",
      "quantitative_result": "1-2.7x genome coverage",
      "verification_state": "pending-verification",
      "verification_notes": "Auto-inserted from Hajdinjak 2018 verbatim PubMed abstract; needs full-paper verification of pairwise application of population-level claims. Vindija 87 same-individual claim is community-summary sourced.",
      "created_at": "2026-07-27T01:49:27.386Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-07-27T01:49:27.386Z",
      "other_id": "mezmaiskaya-2",
      "other_name": "Mezmaiskaya 2",
      "other_taxon": "Neanderthal"
    },
    {
      "id": 21,
      "specimen_a_id": "vindija-87",
      "specimen_b_id": "vindija-33-19",
      "comparison_type": "related-population",
      "claim": "Vindija 87 is inferred to belong to the same Vindija population lineage; may represent same individual as previously sequenced Vindija Neanderthals (pending direct-paper confirmation).",
      "claim_source_quote": "Community summary (Wikipedia Vindija Cave entry, sourced to Hajdinjak 2018) — pending direct-paper confirmation",
      "method": "aDNA-nuclear",
      "publication_id": "10.1038/nature26151",
      "quantitative_result": "1.3x coverage",
      "verification_state": "pending-verification",
      "verification_notes": "Auto-inserted from Hajdinjak 2018 verbatim PubMed abstract; needs full-paper verification of pairwise application of population-level claims. Vindija 87 same-individual claim is community-summary sourced.",
      "created_at": "2026-07-27T01:49:27.386Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-07-27T01:49:27.386Z",
      "other_id": "vindija-33-19",
      "other_name": "Vindija 33.19",
      "other_taxon": "Neanderthal"
    },
    {
      "id": 10,
      "specimen_a_id": "goyet-q56-1",
      "specimen_b_id": "vindija-87",
      "comparison_type": "related-population",
      "claim": "Part of a coherent late-Neanderthal group whose genetic similarity tracks geography.",
      "claim_source_quote": "Genetic similarity among late Neanderthals is well predicted by their geographical location",
      "method": "aDNA-nuclear",
      "publication_id": "10.1038/nature26151",
      "quantitative_result": "1-2.7x genome coverage",
      "verification_state": "pending-verification",
      "verification_notes": "Auto-inserted from Hajdinjak 2018 verbatim PubMed abstract; needs full-paper verification of pairwise application of population-level claims. Vindija 87 same-individual claim is community-summary sourced.",
      "created_at": "2026-07-27T01:49:27.386Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-07-27T01:49:27.386Z",
      "other_id": "goyet-q56-1",
      "other_name": "Goyet Q56-1",
      "other_taxon": "Neanderthal"
    },
    {
      "id": 36,
      "specimen_a_id": "vindija-87",
      "specimen_b_id": "mezmaiskaya-1",
      "comparison_type": "related-population",
      "claim": "Late Neanderthals differ from the older Caucasus Neanderthal (Mezmaiskaya 1) in a way that suggests a population turnover in the Caucasus or throughout Europe near the end of Neanderthal history.",
      "claim_source_quote": "comparison to the genome of an older Neanderthal from the Caucasus indicates that a population turnover is likely to have occurred, either in the Caucasus or throughout Europe, towards the end of Neanderthal history",
      "method": "aDNA-nuclear",
      "publication_id": "10.1038/nature26151",
      "quantitative_result": null,
      "verification_state": "pending-verification",
      "verification_notes": "Population-turnover comparator claim from Hajdinjak 2018 verbatim abstract; late Neanderthals vs older Caucasus (Mezmaiskaya 1). Added retroactively 2026-07-27 after mezmaiskaya-1 was ingested.",
      "created_at": "2026-07-27T01:51:58.546Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-07-27T01:51:58.546Z",
      "other_id": "mezmaiskaya-1",
      "other_name": "Mezmaiskaya 1",
      "other_taxon": "Neanderthal"
    },
    {
      "id": 26,
      "specimen_a_id": "vindija-87",
      "specimen_b_id": "denisova-5",
      "comparison_type": "sister-lineage",
      "claim": "Diverged from a common Neanderthal ancestor around 150 ka; the introgression source into modern humans diverged from these European late Neanderthals ≥70 ka.",
      "claim_source_quote": "the bulk of Neanderthal gene flow into early modern humans originated from one or more source populations that diverged from the Neanderthals that were studied here at least 70,000 years ago, but after they split from a previously sequenced Neanderthal from Siberia around 150,000 years ago",
      "method": "aDNA-nuclear",
      "publication_id": "10.1038/nature26151",
      "quantitative_result": "split ~150 ka",
      "verification_state": "pending-verification",
      "verification_notes": "Auto-inserted from Hajdinjak 2018 verbatim PubMed abstract; needs full-paper verification of pairwise application of population-level claims. Vindija 87 same-individual claim is community-summary sourced.",
      "created_at": "2026-07-27T01:49:27.386Z",
      "updated_at": "2026-07-27T01:49:27.386Z",
      "other_id": "denisova-5",
      "other_name": "Altai Neanderthal / Denisova 5",
      "other_taxon": "Neanderthal"
    }
  ]
}