Archaeology Publications

Antonosyan, M.; Mkrtchyan, S.; Amano, N.; Davtyan, R.; Yeranyan, N.; Badalyan, M.; Poghosyan, S.; Telunts, A.; Stepanyan, K.; Amiryan, M. et al.; Zakyan, T.; Eloshvili, M.; Zarikian, N.; Adigyozalyan, A.; Gyonjyan, A.; Simonyan, H.; Sargsyan, V.; Saribekyan, M.; Hovhannisyan, A.; Simonyan, H.; Martirosyan-Olshansky, K.; Piliposyan, A.; Khachatryan, , Z.; Evora, M.; Paladugu, R.; Bobokhyan, A.; Roberts, P.; Yepiskoposyan, L.: Species identification of osseous museum artefacts through peptide mass fingerprinting illustrated by a study on objects from Neolithic to Iron Age Armenia. npj Heritage Science 13 (1), 152 (2025)

Antonosyan, M.; Maurer, G.; Mkrtchyan, S.; Boxleitner, K.; Saribekyan, M.; Hovhannisyan, A.; Furquim, L.; Stokes, F. J.; Davtyan, R.; Bobokhyan, A. et al.; Azatyan, K.; Ilgner, J.; Reinhold, S.; Frahm, E.; Spengler III, R. N.; Roberts, P.; Amano, N.; Yepiskoposyan, L.: A biomolecular perspective on mobile pastoralism and its role in wider socioeconomic connections in the Chalcolithic South Caucasus. iScience, 112544 (2025)

Markowska, M.; Vonhof, H. B.; Groucutt, H. S.; Breeze, P. S.; Drake, N.; Stewart, M.; Albert, R.; Andrieux, E.; Blinkhorn, J.; Boivin, N. L. et al.; Budsky, A.; Clark-Wilson, R.; Fleitmann, D.; Gerdes, A.; Martin, A. N.; Martínez-García, A.; Nicholson, S. L.; Price, G. J.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Scholz, D.; Vanwezer, N.; Weber, M.; Alsharekh, A. M.; Omari, A. A. A.; Al-Mufarreh, Y. S. A.; Al-Jibreen, F.; Alqahtani, M.; Al-Shanti, M.; Zalmout, I.; Petraglia, M. D.; Haug, G. H.: Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years. Nature, s41586-025-08859-6 (2025)

Scerri, E. M. L.; Blinkhorn, J.; Groucutt, H. S.; Stewart, M.; Candy, I.; Allué, E.; Burguet-Coca, A.; Currás, A.; Carleton, W. C.; Lindauer, S. et al.; Spengler, R.; Boxleitner, K.; Asciak, G.; Colucci, M.; Gauci, R.; Hatton, A. G.; Kutowsky, J.; Maier, A.; Mata-González, M.; Mifsud, N.; Niang, K.; Roberts, P.; de Giorgio, J.; Xerri, R.; Vella, N. C.: Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands. Nature, s41586-025-08780-y (2025)

Findley, D. M.; Hudson, M.; Schottenhammer, A.: Dispersal, adoption, rejection: the Columbian exchange and the West Pacific. International journal of historical archaeology 29 (1), s10761-024-00757-3, pp. 1 - 13 (2025)

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 29 (1), s10761-024-00753-7, pp. 14 - 39 (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)

Mir-Makhamad, B.; Larsen, T.; Giddings Vassão, D.; Spengler III, R. N.; Wang, Y.: Bile acids as biomarkers in carbonized archaeological sediment: Insights from dung burning experiments. PLOS ONE 20 (2), e0312699, pp. 1 - 18 (2025)

Stantis, C.; Schaefer, B. J.; Correia, M. A.; Alaica, A. K.; Huffer, D.; Plomp, E.; Di Giusto, M.; Chidimuro, B.; Rose, A. K.; Nayak, A. et al.; Kendall, E. J.: Ethics and applications of isotope analysis in archaeology. American journal of biological anthropology 186 (1), e24992, pp. 1 - 17 (2025)

Macarena, Z. M.; Magalí, P. K.; Larsen, T.; del Papa, L. M.; Nicolás, L. G.: Morphogeometric analysis of tooth plates of Lepidosiren paradoxa (Sarcopterygii, Dipnoi) to infer Late-Holocene paleoenvironmental variations in the South American Gran Chaco. The Holocene 35 (1), 09596836241285796, pp. 89 - 99 (2025)

Sadhir, S.; McGrosky, A.; Ford, L.; Nzunza, R.; Wemanya, S.; Mashaka, H.; Kinyanjui, R.; Ndiema, E.; Braun, D.; Rosinger, A. et al.; Pontzer, H.: Physical activity and pregnancy norms among Daasanach semi-nomadic pastoralist women in Northern Kenya. American Journal of Human Biology 37 (1), e24174, pp. 1 - 12 (2024)

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)

Hatton, A. G.; Breeze, P. S.; Guagnin, M.; al-Jibrin, F.; Alsharekh, A. M.; Petraglia, M.; Groucutt, H. S.: Landscape positioning of Neolithic mustatil stone structures along the margins of the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. The Holocene 34 (12), 09596836241275010, pp. 1837 - 1851 (2024)

Jha, G.; Sinha, D. K.; Jha, D.; Ajithprasad, P.: Coasting into India?: Assessing lithostratigraphic context of Middle Palaeolithic occupation in Saurashtra Peninsula. Quaternary environments and humans 2 (6), 100034, pp. 1 - 16 (2024)

Jorgo, R.; Molnar, R. E.; Yates, A. M.: Reassessment of isolated reptilian teeth confirms the presence of ziphodont crocodylians during the Pliocene of New Guinea. Historical biology, 2429585 (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)

Wang, N.; Conard, N. J.; Douka, K.: Integrating morphological and ZooMS-based Approaches to Zooarchaeology at Vogelherd Cave in Southwestern Germany. PaleoAnthropology 2024 (2), 1094 (2024)

Mir Makhamad, B.; Bjorn, R.; Boxleitner, K.; Spengler III, R. N.: The Cotton Road: the history of an exchange commodity in Central Asia. Inner Asia 26 (2), 02602002, pp. 193 - 230 (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)

Ritchey, M. M.; Tang, L.; Vaiglova, P.; Lu, H.; Sun, Y.; Frachetti, M. D.; Liu, X.: Into thin air: prehistoric intensive crop management in high altitude western Tibet. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 3, 1398209 (2024)