Human Palaeosystems Publications

Timbrell, L.; Blinkhorn, J.; Grove, M.: Random forest models highlight early Homo sapiens habitats and their relationship to lithic assemblage composition. Quaternary environments and humans 3 (1), 100048 (2024)

Ben Arous, E.; Niang, K.; Blinkhorn, J.; Del Val, M.; Medialdea, A.; Coussot, C.; Alonso Escarza, M.J.; Bateman, M.D.; Churruca Clemente, A.; Blackwood, A. et al.; Iglesias-Cibanal, J.; Saíz, C.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Duval, M.: Constraining the age of the Middle Stone Age locality of Bargny (Senegal) through a combined OSL-ESR dating approach. Quaternary environments and humans 2 (6), 100044, pp. 1 - 8 (2024)

Leonardi, M.; Colucci, M.; Pozzi, A. V.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Manica, A.: tidysdm: leveraging the flexibility of tidymodels for species distribution modelling in R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15 (10), 14406, pp. 1789 - 1795 (2024)

Wilson, C. G.; Caruana, M. V.; Bradley, B.; Muir, R. A.; Blackwood, A.; Herries, A. I. R.: An actualistic experimental study of giant quartzite core reduction strategies: implications for large flake blank production and handaxe manufacture at Amanzi Springs, South Africa. Journal of Field Archaeology, 2401284, pp. 1 - 17 (2024)

Stewart, M.; Andrieux, E.; Blinkhorn, J.; Guagnin, M.; Fernandes, R.; Vanwezer, N.; Hatton, A.; Alqahtani, M.; Zalmout, I.; Clark-Wilson, R. et al.; Al-Mufarreh, Y. S. A.; Al-Shanti, M.; Zahrani, B.; Al Omari, A.; Al-Jibreen, F.; Alsharekh, A. M.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Boivin, N.; Petraglia, M.; Groucutt, H. S.: First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: the archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia. PLOS ONE 19 (4), e0299292 (2024)

Wilson, C. G.; Caruana, M. V.; Blackwood, A.; Arnold, L. J.; Herries, A. I.R.: Why large Flakes?: later Acheulian handaxe manufacture at Amanzi Springs, Area 2 (Eastern Cape, South Africa). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 53, 104393, pp. 1 - 15 (2024)

Timbrell, L.: Ecology and demography of early Homo sapiens: a synthesis of archaeological and climatic data from eastern Africa. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 59 (1), 2307790, pp. 76 - 110 (2024)

Will, M.; Scerri, E. M. L.: The generic Middle Stone Age: fact or fiction? Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 59 (1), 2323374, pp. 4 - 21 (2024)

Timbrell, L.; Clark, J.; Linares-Matás, G.; Boisard, S.; Arous, E. B.; Blinkhorn, J.; Grove, M.; Scerri, E. M. L.: Climate seasonality and predictability during the Middle Stone Age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens. Research Square, 5289878/v1 (2024)

Timbrell, L.; Blinkhorn, J.; Colucci, M.; Leonardi, M.; Chevalier, M.; Grove, M.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Manica, A.: More is not always better: downscaling climate model outputs from 30 to 5-minute resolution has minimal impact on coherence with Late Quaternary proxies. Climate of the Past, cp-2024-53 (2024)