Professor Michael Petraglia
Honorary Professor & Honorary Professor
School of Social Science
Publications
Journal Articles
Finestone, Emma M., Breeze, Paul S., Breitenbach, Sebastian F.M., Drake, Nick, Bergmann, Laura, Maksudov, Farhod, Muhammadiyev, Akmal, Scott, Pete, Cai, Yanjun, Khatsenovich, Arina M., Rybin, Evgeny P., Nehrke, Gernot, Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael (2022). Paleolithic occupation of arid Central Asia in the Middle Pleistocene. PLoS One, 17 (10) e0273984, 1-31. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273984
Wang, Fa-Gang, Yang, Shi-Xia, Ge, Jun-Yi, Ollé, Andreu, Zhao, Ke-Liang, Yue, Jian-Ping, Rosso, Daniela Eugenia, Douka, Katerina, Guan, Ying, Li, Wen-Yan, Yang, Hai-Yong, Liu, Lian-Qiang, Xie, Fei, Guo, Zheng-Tang, Zhu, Ri-Xiang, Deng, Cheng-Long, d’Errico, Francesco and Petraglia, Michael (2022). Innovative ochre processing and tool use in China 40,000 years ago. Nature, 603 (7900), 284-289. doi: 10.1038/s41586-022-04445-2
Rick, Torben C., Alsharekh, Abdullah M., Braje, Todd J., Crowther, Alison, Erlandson, Jon M., Fuller, Dorian Q., Gill, Kristina M., Groucutt, Huw S., Guagnin, Maria, Helm, Richard, Hofman, Courtney A., Horton, Mark, Kay, Andrea, Korisettar, Ravi, Radimilahy, Chantal, Reeder-Myers, Leslie, Shipton, Ceri, Wright, Henry T., Petraglia, Michael and Boivin, Nicole (2022). Coring, profiling, and trenching: Archaeological field strategies for investigating the Pleistocene-Holocene-Anthropocene continuum. Quaternary International, 628, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2022.02.011
Blinkhorn, James, Zanolli, Clément, Compton, Tim, Groucutt, Huw S., Scerri, Eleanor M., Crete, Lucile, Stringer, Chris, Petraglia, Michael D. and Blockley, Simon (2022). Reply to: ‘No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave’. Scientific Reports, 12 (1) 1208, 1208. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-05049-6
Groucutt, Huw S., White, Tom S., Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Andrieux, Eric, Clark-Wilson, Richard, Breeze, Paul S., Armitage, Simon J., Stewart, Mathew, Drake, Nick, Louys, Julien, Price, Gilbert J., Duval, Mathieu, Parton, Ash, Candy, Ian, Carleton, W. Christopher, Shipton, Ceri, Jennings, Richard P., Zahir, Muhammad, Blinkhorn, James, Blockley, Simon, Al-Omari, Abdulaziz, Alsharekh, Abdullah M. and Petraglia, Michael D. (2022). Author Correction: Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years. Nature, 602 (7895), E15-E15. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-04289-2
Patalano, Robert, Hamilton, Rebecca, Finestone, Emma, Amano, Noel, Heddell-Stevens, Phoebe, Itambu, Makarius, Petraglia, Michael and Roberts, Patrick (2021). Microhabitat variability in human evolution. Frontiers in Earth Science, 9 787669. doi: 10.3389/feart.2021.787669
Blinkhorn, James, Groucutt, Huw S., Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Petraglia, Michael D. and Blockley, Simon (2021). Directional changes in Levallois core technologies between Eastern Africa, Arabia, and the Levant during MIS 5. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 11465, 11465. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-90744-z
Mercader, Julio, Akuku, Pam, Boivin, Nicole, Bugumba, Revocatus, Bushozi, Pastory, Camacho, Alfredo, Carter, Tristan, Clarke, Siobhán, Cueva-Temprana, Arturo, Durkin, Paul, Favreau, Julien, Fella, Kelvin, Haberle, Simon, Hubbard, Stephen, Inwood, Jamie, Itambu, Makarius, Koromo, Samson, Lee, Patrick, Mohammed, Abdallah, Mwambwiga, Aloyce, Olesilau, Lucas, Patalano, Robert, Roberts, Patrick, Rule, Susan, Saladie, Palmira, Siljedal, Gunnar, Soto, María, Umbsaar, Jonathan and Petraglia, Michael (2021). Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago. Nature Communications, 12 (1) 3, 3. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20176-2
Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Frouin, Marine, Breeze, Paul S., Armitage, Simon J., Candy, Ian, Groucutt, Huw S., Drake, Nick, Parton, Ash, White, Tom S., Alsharekh, Abdullah M. and Petraglia, Michael D. (2021). The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 10111, 1-10. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-89489-6
Taylor, William, Hart, Isaac, Pan, Caleb, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav, Murdoch, James, Caspari, Gino, Klinge, Michael, Pearson, Kristen, Bikhumar, Umirbyek, Shnaider, Svetlana, Abdykanova, Aida, Bittner, Peter, Zahir, Muhammad, Jarman, Nicholas, Williams, Mark, Pettigrew, Devin, Petraglia, Michael, Lee, Craig, Dixon, E. James and Boivin, Nicole (2021). High altitude hunting, climate change, and pastoral resilience in eastern Eurasia. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 14287, 1-13. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-93765-w
Patalano, Robert, Roberts, Patrick, Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael D. and Mercader, Julio (2021). Plant wax biomarkers in human evolutionary studies. Evolutionary Anthropology, 30 (6), 385-398. doi: 10.1002/evan.21921
Peters, Carli, Richter, Kristine K., Manne, Tiina, Dortch, Joe, Paterson, Alistair, Travouillon, Kenny, Louys, Julien, Price, Gilbert J., Petraglia, Michael, Crowther, Alison and Boivin, Nicole (2021). Species identification of Australian marsupials using collagen fingerprinting. Royal Society Open Science, 8 (10) 211229, 211229. doi: 10.1098/rsos.211229
Groucutt, Huw S., White, Tom S., Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Andrieux, Eric, Clark-Wilson, Richard, Breeze, Paul S., Armitage, Simon J., Stewart, Mathew, Drake, Nick, Louys, Julien, Price, Gilbert J., Duval, Mathieu, Parton, Ash, Candy, Ian, Carleton, W. Christopher, Shipton, Ceri, Jennings, Richard P., Zahir, Muhammad, Blinkhorn, James, Blockley, Simon, Al-Omari, Abdulaziz, Alsharekh, Abdullah M. and Petraglia, Michael D. (2021). Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years. Nature, 597 (7876), 376-380. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03863-y
Faulkner, Patrick, Miller, Jennifer M., Quintana Morales, Eréndira M., Crowther, Alison, Shipton, Ceri, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael D. (2021). 67,000 years of coastal engagement at Panga ya Saidi, eastern Africa. PLoS ONE, 16 (8 August) e0256761, e0256761. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256761
Stewart, Mathew, Andrieux, Eric, Clark-Wilson, Richard, Vanwezer, Nils, Blinkhorn, James, Armitage, Simon J., al Omari, Abdulaziz, Zahrani, Badr, Alqahtani, Mesfer, Al-Shanti, Mahmoud, Zalmout, Iyad, Al-Mufarreh, Yahya S. A., Alsharekh, Abdullah M., Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael D. and Groucutt, Huw S. (2021). Taphonomy of an excavated striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) den in Arabia: implications for paleoecology and prehistory. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 13 (8) 139. doi: 10.1007/s12520-021-01365-6
Vanwezer, Nils, Breitenbach, Sebastian F.M., Gázquez, Fernando, Louys, Julien, Kononov, Aleksandr, Sokol'nikov, Dmitry, Avirmed, Erdenedalai, Burguet-Coca, Aitor, Picin, Andrea, Cueva-Temprana, Arturo, Sánchez-Martínez, Javier, Taylor, William Timothy Treal, Boivin, Nicole, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav and Petraglia, Michael D. (2021). Archaeological and environmental cave records in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia. Quaternary International, 586, 66-89. doi: 10.1016/j.quaint.2021.03.010
Shoaee, Mohammad Javad, Vahdati Nasab, Hamed and Petraglia, Michael D. (2021). The Paleolithic of the Iranian Plateau: hominin occupation history and implications for human dispersals across southern Asia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 62 101292, 101292. doi: 10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101292
Vanwezer, Nils, Timothy Treal Taylor, William, Bayarsaikhan, Jamsranjav, Breitenbach, Sebastian F.M., Amano, Noel, Louys, Julien, del Val, Miren, Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael (2021). Hunting, herding, and people in the rock art of Mongolia: New discoveries in the Gobi-Altai Mountains. Archaeological Research in Asia, 26 100267, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.ara.2021.100267
Martinon-Torres, Maria, d'Errico, Francesco, Santos, Elena, Alvaro Gallo, Ana, Amano, Noel, Archer, William, Armitage, Simon J., Arsuaga, Juan Luis, de Castro, Jose Maria Bermudez, Blinkhorn, James, Crowther, Alison, Douka, Katerina, Dubernet, Stephan, Faulkner, Patrick, Fernandez-Colon, Pilar, Kourampas, Nikos, Gonzalez Garcia, Jorge, Larreina, David, Le Bourdonnec, Francois-Xavier, MacLeod, George, Martin-Frances, Laura, Massilani, Diyendo, Mercader, Julio, Miller, Jennifer M., Ndiema, Emmanuel, Notario, Belen, Pitarch Marti, Africa, Prendergast, Mary E., Queffelec, Alain ... Petraglia, Michael D. (2021). Earliest known human burial in Africa. Nature, 593 (7857), 95-+. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03457-8
Shipton, Ceri, Blinkhorn, James, Archer, Will, Kourampas, Nikolaos, Roberts, Patrick, Prendergast, Mary E., Curtis, Richard, Herries, Andy I.R., Ndiema, Emmanuel, Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael D. (2021). The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 153 102954, 102954. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2021.102954
Blinkhorn, James, Zanolli, Clément, Compton, Tim, Groucutt, Huw S., Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Crété, Lucile, Stringer, Chris, Petraglia, Michael D. and Blockley, Simon (2021). Nubian Levallois technology associated with southernmost Neanderthals. Scientific Reports, 11 (1) 2869, 2869. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-82257-6
Bleasdale, Madeleine, Richter, Kristine K., Janzen, Anneke, Brown, Samantha, Scott, Ashley, Zech, Jana, Wilkin, Shevan, Wang, Ke, Schiffels, Stephan, Desideri, Jocelyne, Besse, Marie, Reinold, Jacques, Saad, Mohamed, Babiker, Hiba, Power, Robert C., Ndiema, Emmanuel, Ogola, Christine, Manthi, Fredrick K., Zahir, Muhammad, Petraglia, Michael, Trachsel, Christian, Nanni, Paolo, Grossmann, Jonas, Hendy, Jessica, Crowther, Alison, Roberts, Patrick, Goldstein, Steven T. and Boivin, Nicole (2021). Ancient proteins provide evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa. Nature Communications, 12 (1) 632, 632. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-20682-3
Yang, Shi-Xia, Wang, Fa-Gang, Xie, Fei, Yue, Jian-Ping, Deng, Cheng-Long, Zhu, Ri-Xiang and Petraglia, Michael D. (2021). Technological innovations at the onset of the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition in high-latitude East Asia. National Science Review, 8 (1) nwaa053, 1-11. doi: 10.1093/nsr/nwaa053
Scerri, Eleanor M. L., Kühnert, Denise, Blinkhorn, James, Groucutt, Huw S., Roberts, Patrick, Nicoll, Kathleen, Zerboni, Andrea, Orijemie, Emuobosa Akpo, Barton, Huw, Candy, Ian, Goldstein, Steven T., Hawks, John, Niang, Khady, N’Dah, Didier, Petraglia, Michael D. and Vella, Nicholas C. (2020). Field-based sciences must transform in response to COVID-19. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 4 (12), 1571-1574. doi: 10.1038/s41559-020-01317-8
Yang, Shi-Xia, Yue, Jian-Ping, Zhou, Xinying, Storozum, Michael, Huan, Fa-Xiang, Deng, Cheng-Long and Petraglia, Michael D. (2020). Hominin site distributions and behaviours across the Mid-Pleistocene climate transition in China. Quaternary Science Reviews, 248 106614, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106614
Stewart, Mathew, Clark-Wilson, Richard, Breeze, Paul S., Janulis, Klint, Candy, Ian, Armitage, Simon J., Ryves, David B., Louys, Julien, Duval, Mathieu, Price, Gilbert J., Cuthbertson, Patrick, Bernal, Marco A., Drake, Nick A., Alsharekh, Abdullah M., Zahrani, Badr, Al-Omari, Abdulaziz, Roberts, Patrick, Groucutt, Huw S. and Petraglia, Michael D. (2020). Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior. Science Advances, 6 (38) eaba8940, eaba8940. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aba8940
Groucutt, Huw S., Breeze, Paul S., Guagnin, Maria, Stewart, Mathew, Drake, Nick, Shipton, Ceri, Zahrani, Badr, Al Omarfi, Abdulaziz, Alsharekh, Abdullah M. and Petraglia, Michael D. (2020). Monumental landscapes of the Holocene humid period in Northern Arabia: The mustatil phenomenon. Holocene, 30 (12), 1767-1779. doi: 10.1177/0959683620950449
Guagnin, Maria, Breeze, Paul, Shipton, Ceri, Ott, Florian, Stewart, Mathew, Bateman, Mark, Martin, Louise, Graham, Lisa, el-Dossary, Sarah, Kingwell-Banham, Eleanor, Zahrani, Badr, al-Omari, Abdulaziz, Alsharekh, Abdullah M. and Petraglia, Michael (2020). The Holocene humid period in the Nefud Desert: Hunters and herders in the Jebel Oraf palaeolake basin, Saudi Arabia. Journal of Arid Environments, 178 104146, 104146. doi: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2020.104146
Langley, Michelle C., Amano, Noel, Wedage, Oshan, Deraniyagala, Siran, Pathmalal, M. M., Perera, Nimal, Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael D. and Roberts, Patrick (2020). Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics. Science Advances, 6 (24) EABA3831, eaba3831. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aba3831
Wang, Ke, Goldstein, Steven, Bleasdale, Madeleine, Clist, Bernard, Clist, Bernard, Bostoen, Koen, Bakwa-Lufu, Paul, Buck, Laura T., Buck, Laura T., Crowther, Alison, Crowther, Alison, Dème, Alioune, McIntosh, Roderick J., Mercader, Julio, Mercader, Julio, Ogola, Christine, Power, Robert C., Power, Robert C., Sawchuk, Elizabeth, Sawchuk, Elizabeth, Robertshaw, Peter, Wilmsen, Edwin N., Wilmsen, Edwin N., Petraglia, Michael, Petraglia, Michael, Petraglia, Michael, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Manthi, Fredrick K., Krause, Johannes ... Schiffels, Stephan (2020). Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa. Science Advances, 6 (24) EAAZ0183, eaaz0183. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0183
Stewart, Mathew, Louys, Julien, Breeze, Paul S., Clark-Wilson, Richard, Drake, Nick A., Scerri, Eleanor M.L., Zalmout, Iyad S., Al-Mufarreh, Yahya S. A., Soubhi, Saleh A., Haptari, Mohammad A., Alsharekh, Abdullah M., Groucutt, Huw S. and Petraglia, Michael D. (2020). A taxonomic and taphonomic study of Pleistocene fossil deposits from the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Research, 95, 1-22. doi: 10.1017/qua.2020.6
Petraglia, Michael D., Groucutt, Huw S., Guagnin, Maria, Breeze, Paul S. and Boivin, Nicole (2020). Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117 (15), 8263-8270. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1920211117
Wedage, Oshan, Roberts, Patrick, Faulkner, Patrick, Crowther, Alison, Douka, Katerina, Picin, Andrea, Blinkhorn, James, Deraniyagala, Siran, Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael and Amano, Noel (2020). Late Pleistocene to early-Holocene rainforest foraging in Sri Lanka: Multidisciplinary analysis at Kitulgala Beli-lena. Quaternary Science Reviews, 231 106200, 106200. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106200
Clarkson, Chris, Harris, Clair, Li, Bo, Neudorf, Christina M., Roberts, Richard G., Lane, Christine, Norman, Kasih, Pal, Jagannath, Jones, Sacha, Shipton, Ceri, Koshy, Jinu, Gupta, M. C., Mishra, D. P., Dubey, A. K., Boivin, Nicole and Petraglia, Michael (2020). Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago. Nature Communications, 11 (1) 961, 961. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-14668-4
Crassard, Rémy, Charpentier, Vincent, McCorriston, Joy, Vosges, Jérémie, Bouzid, Sofiane and Petraglia, Michael D. (2020). Fluted-point technology in Neolithic Arabia: An independent invention far from the Americas. PloS One, 15 (8) e0236314, e0236314. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236314
Roberts, Patrick, Prendergast, Mary, Janzen, Anneke, Shipton, Ceri, Blinkhorn, James, Zech, Jana, Crowther, Alison, Sawchuk, Elizabeth, Stewart, Mathew, Ndiema, Emmanuel, Petraglia, Michael and Boivin, Nicole (2020). Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 537 109438, 1-18. doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109438
Stewart, Mathew, Louys, Julien, Groucutt, H. S., Candy, Ian, Clark-Wilson, Richard, Breeze, Paul S., Drake, Nick A., Price, Gilbert J., Al-Mufarreh, Yahya S.A., Soubhi, Saleh A., Zalmout, Iyad S., Alsharekh, Abdullah M., Omari, Abdulaziz al and Petraglia, Michael D. (2019). Taphonomic and zooarchaeological investigations at the middle Pleistocene site of Ti's al Ghadah, western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 218, 228-253. doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.05.024
Wedage, Oshan, Picin, Andrea, Blinkhorn, James, Douka, Katerina, Deraniyagala, Siran, Kourampas, Nikos, Perera, Nimal, Simpson, Ian, Boivin, Nicole, Petraglia, Michael and Roberts, Patrick (2019). Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka. PLoS ONE, 14 (10) e0222606, e0222606. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222606
Yang, Shi-Xia, Deng, Cheng-Long, Zhu, Ri-Xiang and Petraglia, Michael D. (2019). The Paleolithic in the Nihewan Basin, China: Evolutionary history of an Early to Late Pleistocene record in Eastern Asia. Evolutionary Anthropology, 29 (3) evan.21813, 125-142. doi: 10.1002/evan.21813