Human Palaeosystems Publications

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)

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)

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)

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)

Ben Arous, E.; Aouadi, N.; Belhouchet, L.; Mekki, H.; Trabelsi, K.; Mabrouki, M.; Essid, E. M.; Fehri, N.; Shao, Q.; Falguères, C. et al.; Lebreton, V.; Roberts, P.; Patalano, R.: Sidi Zin Archaeological Project: new investigations into the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Tunisia, Antiquity, (2025)

Colucci, M.; Leonardi, M.; Blinkhorn, J.; Irish, S. R.; Padilla-Iglesias, C.; Kaboth-Bar, S.; Gosling, W. D.; Snow, R. W.; Manica, A.; Scerri, E. M. L.: Malaria shaped human spatial organisation for the last 74 thousand years. bioRxiv, 657870 (2025)

Padilla-Iglesias, C.; Xue, Z.; Leonardi, M.; Paijmans, J. L.A.; Colucci, M.; Hovhannisyan, A.; Maisano-Delser, P.; Blanco-Portillo, J.; Ioannidis, A. G.; Lucarini, G. et al.; Cerasoni, J. N.; Kandel, A. W.; Will, M.; Hallett, E. Y.; Lupo, K.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Crevecoeur, I.; Vinicius, L.; Migliano, A. B.; Manica, A.: Pan-African metapopulation model explains Homo sapiens genetic and morphological evolution. bioRxiv, 655514 (2025)

Ben Arous, E.; Scerri, E. M. L.: Humans lived in African rainforests 150,000 years ago, far earlier than believed: new research. (2025)