Publications of Patrick Roberts

Roberts, P.; Stewart, M.; Alagaili, A. N.; Breeze, P.; Candy, I.; Drake, N.; Groucutt, H. S.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Lee-Thorp, J.; Louys, J. et al.; Zalmout, I. S.; Al-Mufarreh, Y. S. A.; Zech, J.; Alsharekh, A. M.; al Omari, A.; Boivin, N.; Petraglia, M.: Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in ‘Green Arabia’. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, pp. 1871 - 1878 (2018)

Roberts, P.; Blinkhorn, J.; Petraglia, M. D.: A transect of environmental variability across South Asia and its influence on Late Pleistocene human innovation and occupation. Journal of Quaternary Science 33 (3), pp. 285 - 299 (2017)

Roberts, P.; Hunt, C.; Arroyo-Kalin, M.; Evans, D.; Boivin, N. L.: The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation. Nature Plants 3, 17093 (2017)

Roberts, P.; Perera, N.; Wedage, O.; Deraniyagala, S.; Perera, J.; Eregama, S.; Petraglia, M. D.; Lee-Thorp, J. A.: Fruits of the forest: Human stable isotope ecology and rainforest adaptations in Late Pleistocene and Holocene (∼36 to 3 ka) Sri Lanka. Journal of Human Evolution 106, pp. 102 - 118 (2017)

Roberts, P.: Forests of plenty: ethnographic and archaeological rainforests as hotspots of human activity. Quaternary International 448, pp. 1 - 4 (2017)

Roberts, P.; Gaffney, D.; Lee-Thorp, J.; Summerhayes, G.: Persistent tropical foraging in the highlands of terminal Pleistocene/Holocene New Guinea. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1, 0044 (2017)

Roberts, P.; Blumenthal, S. A.; Dittus, W.; Wedage, O.; Lee-Thorp, J. A.: Stable carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, isotope analysis of plants from a South Asian tropical forest: Implications for primatology. American Journal of Primatology 79 (6), e22656 (2017)

Roberts, P.; Boivin, N. L.; Lee-Thorp, J.; Petraglia, M. D.; Stock, J.: Tropical forests and the genus Homo. Evolutionary Anthropology 25 (6), pp. 306 - 317 (2016)

Roberts, P.; Henshilwood, C. S.; van Niekerk, K. L.; Keene, P.; Gledhill, A.; Reynard, J.; Badenhorst, S.; Lee-Thorp, J.: Climate, environment and early human innovation: stable isotope and faunal proxy evidence from archaeological sites (98-59ka) in the Southern Cape, South Africa. PLoS One 11 (7), e0157408 (2016)

Roberts, P.: 'We have never been behaviourally modern': the implications of material engagement theory and metaplasticity for understanding the Late Pleistocene record of human behaviour Pleistocene record of human behaviour. Quaternary International 405, pp. 8 - 20 (2016)

Roberts, P.; Petraglia, M.: Pleistocene rainforests: barriers or attractive environments for early human foragers? World Archaeology 47 (5), pp. 718 - 739 (2015)

Roberts, P.; Boivin, N.; Petraglia, M. D.; Masser, P.; Meece, S.; Weisskopf, A.; Silva, F.; Korisettar, R.; Fuller, D.Q.: Local diversity in settlement, demography and subsistence across the southern Indian Neolithic-Iron Age transition: site growth and abandonment at Sanganakallu-Kupgal from a regional environmental perspective. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 8 (3), pp. 575 - 599 (2015)

Roberts, P.; Boivin, N.; Petraglia, M.: The Sri Lankan 'microlithic' tradition c. 38,000 to 3,000 years ago: Tropical technologies and adaptations of Homo sapiens at the southern edge of Asia. Journal of World Prehistory 28 (2), pp. 69 - 112 (2015)

Roberts, P.; Perera, N.; Wedage, O.; Deraniyagala, S.; Perera, J.; Eregama, S.; Gledhill, A.; Petraglia, M. D.; Lee-Thorp, J. A.: Direct evidence for human reliance on rainforest resources in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka. Science 347 (6227), pp. 1246 - 1249 (2015)

Roberts, P.; Delson, E.; Miracle, P.; Ditchfield, P.; Roberts, R. G.; Jacobs, Z.; Blinkhorn, J.; Ciochon, R. L.; Fleagle, J. G.; Frost, S. R. et al.; Gilbert, C. C.; Gunnell, G. F.; Harrison, T.; Korisettar, R.; Petraglia, M. D.: Continuity of mammalian fauna over the last 200,000 y in the Indian subcontinent. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111 (16), pp. 5848 - 5853 (2014)

Roberts, P.; Lee-Thorp, J. A.; Mitchell, P. J.; Arthur, C.: Stable carbon isotopic evidence for climate change across the late Pleistocene to early Holocene from Lesotho, southern Africa. Journal of Quaternary Science 28 (4), pp. 360 - 369 (2013)

Roberts, P.; Weston, S.; Wild, B.; Boston, C.; Ditchfield, P.; Shortland, A. J.; Pollard, A. M.: The men of Nelson's navy: a comparative stable isotope dietary study of late 18th century and early 19th century servicemen from Royal Naval Hospital burial grounds at Plymouth and Gosport, England. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 148 (1), pp. 1 - 10 (2012)

Roberts, P.: Die Wurzeln des Menschen: wie der Dschungel die Erde formte, das menschliche Leben hervorbrachte und unsere Zukunft bestimmt. dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, München (2021), 495 pp.

Roberts, P.: Jungle: how tropical forests shaped the world - and us. Basic Books, New York (2021), 432 pp.

Roberts, P.: Tropical forests in prehistory, history, and modernity. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2019), XVI, 350 pp.