List of works - Richard Potts

Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

scientific article

Paleolandscape variation and early pleistocene hominid activities: members 1 and 7, Olorgesailie formation, Kenya

scientific article

Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age.

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia

scientific article

Small mid-Pleistocene hominin associated with East African Acheulean technology

scientific article published in July 2004

Environmental dynamics during the onset of the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Chronology of the Acheulean to Middle Stone Age transition in eastern Africa

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits

article

Evolution and Environmental Change in Early Human Prehistory 1, *

scientific article

A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary

scientific article published in 2014

Erratum: Corrigendum: Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

scientific article published in Nature

Chronostratigraphic model of a high-resolution drill core record of the past million years from the Koora Basin, south Kenya Rift: Overcoming the difficulties of variable sedimentation rate and hiatuses

scientific article published in July 2019

Selective use of distant stone resources by the earliest Oldowan toolmakers

scholarly article published on 15 August 2025

Apparent Versus Real Faunal Turnover in the Late Pliocene Vertebrate Record of Africa

scholarly article

Lyons et al. reply

scientific article published in Nature

Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution

scientific article published on 21 October 2020

Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas

scholarly article

Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time

scientific article published on 13 October 2020

Reconstructing the Environmental Context of Human Origins in Eastern Africa Through Scientific Drilling

scientific article published in 2022

Microevolution in our megadont relative

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

The Oltulelei Formation of the southern Kenyan Rift Valley: A chronicle of rapid landscape transformation over the last 500 k.y

scholarly article

Pinning down the Brunhes/Matuyama and upper Jaramillo boundaries: a reconciliation of orbital and isotopic time scales

scientific article published in 1992

Lyons et al. reply

scientific article

List of works by Richard Potts

Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

Paleolandscape variation and early pleistocene hominid activities: members 1 and 7, Olorgesailie formation, Kenya

Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age.

The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia

Small mid-Pleistocene hominin associated with East African Acheulean technology

Environmental dynamics during the onset of the Middle Stone Age in eastern Africa

Chronology of the Acheulean to Middle Stone Age transition in eastern Africa

The Hominin Sites and Paleolakes Drilling Project: inferring the environmental context of human evolution from eastern African rift lake deposits

Evolution and Environmental Change in Early Human Prehistory 1, *

A framework for evaluating the influence of climate, dispersal limitation, and biotic interactions using fossil pollen associations across the late Quaternary

Erratum: Corrigendum: Holocene shifts in the assembly of plant and animal communities implicate human impacts

Chronostratigraphic model of a high-resolution drill core record of the past million years from the Koora Basin, south Kenya Rift: Overcoming the difficulties of variable sedimentation rate and hiatuses

Selective use of distant stone resources by the earliest Oldowan toolmakers

Apparent Versus Real Faunal Turnover in the Late Pliocene Vertebrate Record of Africa

Lyons et al. reply

Increased ecological resource variability during a critical transition in hominin evolution

Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas

Investigating Biotic Interactions in Deep Time

Reconstructing the Environmental Context of Human Origins in Eastern Africa Through Scientific Drilling

Microevolution in our megadont relative

The Oltulelei Formation of the southern Kenyan Rift Valley: A chronicle of rapid landscape transformation over the last 500 k.y

Pinning down the Brunhes/Matuyama and upper Jaramillo boundaries: a reconciliation of orbital and isotopic time scales

Lyons et al. reply