Publications of Patrick Roberts

Carleton, W. C.; Elton, H.; Miranda, W.; Work, I.; Safarik, D.; Winkelmann, R.; Laubichler, M. D.; Renn, J.; Roberts, P.: Parallel scaling of elite wealth in ancient Roman and modern cities with implications for understanding urban inequality. Nature cities, s44284-025-00213-1 (2025)

Ben Arous, E.; Blinkhorn, J.; Elliott, S.; Kiahtipes, C. A.; N’zi, C. D.; Bateman, M. D.; Duval, M.; Roberts, P.; Patalano, R.; Blackwood, A. et al.; Niang, K.; Kouamé, E. A.; Lebato, E.; Hallett, E.; Cerasoni, J. N.; Scott, E.; Ilgner, J.; Escarza, A.; Jesús, M.; Guédé, F. Y.; Scerri, E. M. L.: Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago. Nature, s41586-025-08613-y (2025)

Solís Torres, Ó. R.; Arroyo-Cabrales, J.; Roberts, P.; Amano, N.: A critical review of Late Pleistocene human-megafaunal interactions in Mexico. Quaternary Science Reviews 353, 109200 (2025)

Wang, H.; Caetano Andrade, V. L.; Boivin, N. L.; Clement, C. R.; Ayala, W. E.; Melinski, R. D.; da Costa, F. S.; Weigel, D.; Roberts, P.: Long-term human influence on the demography and genetic diversity of the hyperdominant Bertholletia excelsa in the Amazon Basin. Current Biology, 023 (2025)

Mercader, J.; Akuku, P.; Boivin, N. L.; Camacho, A.; Carter, T.; Clarke, S.; Cueva Temprana, A.; Favreau, J.; Galloway, J.; Hernando, R. et al.; Huang, H.; Hubbard, S.; Kaplan, J. O.; Larter, S.; Magohe, S.; Mohamed, A.; Mwambwiga, A.; Oladele, A.; Petraglia, M.; Roberts, P.; Saladié, P.; Shikoni, A.; Silva, R.; Soto, M.; Stricklin, D.; Mekonnen, D. Z.; Zhao, W.; Durkin, P.: Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago. Communications Earth & Environment 6 (1), s43247-024-01919-1 (2025)

Heddell-Stevens, P.; Barakat, S.; Pastoors, A.; Lucas, M.; Scott, E.; Le Roux, P.; Roberts, P.: Spatial palaeoecology of large-herbivore hominin prey-species at Salzgitter-Lebenstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany: multi-isotope analysis of sequentially-sampled tooth enamel from Rangifer tarandus and Equus sp. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 3, 1458040 (2024)

Hermenegildo, T.; Prümers, H.; Betancourt, C. J.; Roberts, P.; O’Connell, T. C.: Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon. Nature Human Behaviour, s41562-024-02070-9 (2024)

Los, S.; Winkelmann, R.; Roberts, P.: Exploring tropical forest aboveground carbon dynamics via modelled landscapes of varied food production, past and present. Plants, people, planet, 10608 (2024)

Spiciarich, A.; Gadot, Y.; Shalev, Y.; Sapir-Hen, L.; Scott, E.; le Roux, P.; Roberts, P.; Stockhammer, P. W.: Unveiling ancient Jerusalem’s pastoral dynamics (7th to 2nd centuries BCE) with multi-isotope analysis. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 27278 (2024)

Amano, N.; Faulkner, P.; Wedage, O.; Clarkson, C.; Amila, D.; del Val, M.; Jurkenas, D.; Kapukotuwa, A.; López, G. I.; Pares, J. et al.; Pathmalal, M. M.; Smith, T.; Wright, M.; Roberts, P.; Petraglia, M.; Boivin, N.: Early Sri Lankan coastal site tracks technological change and estuarine resource exploitation over the last ca. 25,000 years. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 26693 (2024)

Zuccarelli Freire, V.; Ziegler, M.; Caetano Andrade, V.; Iminjili, V.; Lellau, R.; Stokes, F. J.; Rudd, R.; Heberle Viegas, D.; Maezumi, S. Y.; Jha, G. et al.; Antonosyan, M.; Jha, D.; Winkelmann, R.; Roberts, P.; Furquim, L.: Addressing the Anthropocene from the Global South: integrating paleoecology, archaeology and traditional knowledge for COP engagement. Frontiers in Earth Science 12, 1470577 (2024)

Sekhar Chakraborty, K.; Bestel, S.; Lucas, M.; Roberts, P.; Shirvalkar, P.; Rawat, Y.; Larsen, T.; Miller, H. M.-L.: To waste or not to waste: a multi-proxy analysis of human-waste interaction and rural waste management in Indus Era Gujarat. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 16 (9), 141, pp. 1 - 22 (2024)

Findley, D. M.; Roberts, P.: Cultivating Wheat in the Philippines, ca. 1600–1800 CE: why a Grain Was Not Adopted by Local Populations. International journal of historical archaeology, s10761-024-00753-7 (2024)

Gaffney, D.; Tanudirjo, D. A.; Djami, E. N. I.; Mas’ud, Z.; Macap, A. R.; Russell, T.; Dailom, M.; Ray, Y.; Higham, T.; Bradshaw, F. et al.; Petchey, F.; Florin, S. A.; Roberts, P.; Lucas, M.; Tromp, M.; Greig, K.; Xhauflair, H.; Montenegro, A.; Hall, R.; Boulanger, C.; Ono, R.; Oertle, A.; Scholz, D.; Spitzer, M.; Szabo, K.; Bertelli, I.; Ribechini, E.; Haberle, S.: Human dispersal and plant processing in the Pacific 55,000–50,000 years ago. Antiquity 98 (400), 83, pp. 885 - 904 (2024)

Pérez-Ramallo, P.; Rodríguez-Varela, R.; Staniewska, A.; Ilgner, J.; Krzewińska, M.; Chivall, D.; Higham, T.; Götherström, A.; Roberts, P.: Unveiling Bishop Teodomiro of Iria Flavia?: an attempt to identify the discoverer of St James's tomb through osteological and biomolecular analyses (Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain). Antiquity 98 (400), 91, pp. 973 - 990 (2024)

Gur-Arieh, S.; Eisenmann, S.; Henry, A. G.; Lucas, M.; Lenz, D.; Paxinos, P.; Weber, H.; Morandi, L. F.; Stone, J. R.; Schultz, M. et al.; Roberts, P.; Stockhammer, P. W.: Reconstructing dietary practices at Tell Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon) during the Bronze and Iron Age III / Persian to Hellenistic periods using plant micro-remains from dental calculus and stable isotope analysis of bone collagen. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 16 (8), 127 (2024)

Findley, D. M.; Amano, N.; Biong, I.; Bankoff, G.; Dacudao, P. I.; Gealogo, F.; Hamilton, R.; Pagunsan, R.; Roberts, P.: Colonial policy, ecological transformations, and agricultural “improvement”: comparing agricultural yields and expansion in the Spanish and U.S. Philippines, 1870–1925 CE. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11 (1), 839 (2024)

Barquera, R.; Del Castillo-Chávez, O.; Nägele, K.; Pérez-Ramallo, P.; Hernández-Zaragoza, D. I.; Szolek, A.; Rohrlach, A. B.; Librado, P.; Childebayeva, A.; Bianco, R. A. et al.; Penman, B. S.; Acuña-Alonzo, V.; Lucas, M.; Lara-Riegos, J. C.; Moo-Mezeta, M. E.; Torres-Romero, J. C.; Roberts, P.; Kohlbacher, O.; Warinner, C.; Krause, J.: Ancient genomes reveal insights into ritual life at Chichén Itzá. Nature 630, s41586-024-07509-7, pp. 912 - 919 (2024)

Hixon, S.; Roberts, P.; Rodríguez-Varela, R.; Götherström, A.; Rossoni-Notter, E.; Notter, O.; Raimondeau, P.; Besnard, G.; Paust, E.; Lucas, M. et al.; Lagia, A.; Fernandes, R.: Expedient Bayesian prediction of subfossil bone protein content using portable ATR-FTIR data. Quaternary International 694, 2024.05.002, pp. 1 - 12 (2024)

Ciesielska, J. A.; Le Roux, P.; Scott, E.; Lucas, M.; Roberts, P.: Isotopic evidence for socio-economic dynamics within the capital of the Kingdom of Alwa, Sudan. African Archaeological Review 41 (2), s10437-024-09579-4, pp. 271 - 291 (2024)