Human Palaeosystems Publications

Groucutt, H. S.; Stewart, M.; Al-Jibreen, F.; Al-Qahtani, M.; Al-Shanti, M.; Andrieux, E.; Blinkhorn, J.; Boivin, N. L.; Breeze, P. S.; Drake, N. et al.; Memesh, A.; Mufarreh, Y.; Price, G.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Vanwezer, N.; Vonhof, H.; Zalmout, I.; Alsharekh, A. M.; Petraglia, M. D.: Novel archaeological and palaeontological findings in cave and palaeoriver landscapes of inland northeast Arabia. PLOS ONE 20 (11), e0337005 (2025)

Kirsten, K. L.; Blackwood, A.; Delaney, D. L.; Edwards, T. R.; Fourie, F.; Haberzettl, T.; Hadebe, K.; Hellstrom, J.; Huber, M.; Keebine, M. et al.; Muasya, A. M.; Razafimanantsoa, A. H. I.; Weij, R.; Pickering, R.: Microtopography and surface features of the mid-Pleistocene Kalkkop impact crater and Palaeolake, South Africa. Catena, 109640 (2025)

Blinkhorn, J.; Zinner, D.; Timbrell, L.; Manica, A.; Grove, M.; Scerri, E. M. L.: Identifying late Pleistocene and Holocene refugia for baboons. Communications Biology 8 (1), 1003 (2025)

Ramirez, D. A.; Sitter, T. L.; Översti, S.; Herrera-Soto, M. J.; Pastor, N.; Fontana-Silva, O. E.; Kirkpatrick, C. L.; Castelleti-Dellepiane, J.; Nores, R.; Bos, K. I.: 4,000-year-old Mycobacterium lepromatosis genomes from Chile reveal long establishment of Hansen’s disease in the Americas. Nature Ecology & Evolution, s41559-025-02771-y (2025)

Hallett, E.; Leonardi, M.; Cerasoni, J. N.; Will, M.; Beyer, R.; Krapp, M.; Kandel, A. W.; Manica, A.; Scerri, E. M. L.: Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal. Nature, s41586-025-09154-0 (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 641, s41586-025-08780-y, pp. 137 - 143 (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 640, s41586-025-08859-6, pp. 954 - 961 (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 640, s41586-025-08613-y, pp. 402 - 407 (2025)

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. Scientific Reports 15, 11645 (2025)

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, pp. 1 - 11 (2025)

Colucci, M.; Leonardi, M.; Hodgson, J. A.; Stringer, C.; Scerri, E. M. L.: The legacy of Luca Cavalli-Sforza on human evolution. Human Population Genetics and Genomics 5 (1), 0001 (2025)

Boisard, S.; Wren, C. D.; Timbrell, L.; Burke, A.: Climate frameworks for the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age in Northwest Africa. Quaternary International 716, 109593, pp. 1 - 17 (2025)

Leplongeon, A.; Ben Arous, E.; Mesfin, I.; Forestier, H.; Gallet, X.; Griggo, C.; Puaud, S.; Sémah, A.-M.; Vialou, A.; Pleurdeau, D. et al.; Lourdeau, A.: The Last Glacial Maximum in the Tropics: Human Responses to Global Change, 30–10 ka. Journal of World Prehistory 38 (2), 7 (2025)

Xerri, R. L.; Stewart, M.; Joannes-Boyau, R.; Vella, N. C.; Scerri, E. M. L.: First Pleistocene records of a colubrid snake and wall lizard Podarcis CF. Filfolensis (Bedriaga, 1876) (reptilia: Colubridae, Lacertidae) from Għar il-Fkieren (Fimbank Site), Malta. Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural History, Malta 2 (1), 138179, pp. 66 - 74 (2025)

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. L.; 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)