List of works - Francesco d'Errico

82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior

scientific article (publication date: 12 June 2007)

A 100,000-year-old ochre-processing workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa

scientific article published in October 2011

A Middle Palaeolithic bone tool from Crimea (Ukraine)

scholarly article by Ariane Burke & Francesco d'Errico published December 2008 in Antiquity

A New Look at the Berekhat Ram Figurine: Implications for the Origins of Symbolism

scientific article published in April 2000

A New Model and its Implications for the Origin of Writing: The La Marche Antler Revisited

scientific article published in October 1995

A Paleolithic bird figurine from the Lingjing site, Henan, China

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

A rock engraving made by Neanderthals in Gibraltar

scientific article

A short-term, task-specific site: Epipalaeolithic settlement patterns inferred from marine shells found at Praileaitz I (Basque Country, Spain)

article

Adaptation to ionizing radiation of higher plants: From environmental radioactivity to chernobyl disaster

scientific article published on 10 August 2020

Additional evidence for bone technology in the southern African Middle Stone Age.

scientific article

An Early Instance of Upper Palaeolithic Personal Ornamentation from China: The Freshwater Shell Bead from Shuidonggou 2

scientific article

An Early Upper Palaeolithic decorated bone tubular rod from Pod Hradem Cave, Czech Republic

scholarly article by Duncan Wright et al published March 2014 in Antiquity

An acoustical bubble counter for superheated drop detectors

scientific article published on 4 August 2006

Analysis of Aurignacian interstratification at the Chatelperronian-type site and implications for the behavioral modernity of Neandertals

scientific article

Analysis of Site Formation and Assemblage Integrity Does Not Support Attribution of the Uluzzian to Modern Humans at Grotta del Cavallo

scientific article

Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective

scientific article

Assessing the function of early hominin bone tools

Bone tools from Beds II-IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and implications for the origins and evolution of bone technology

scientific article published on 10 October 2020

Border Cave and the beginning of the Later Stone Age in South Africa

scientific article (publication date: 14 August 2012)

Chapter 4. Middle Stone Age engravings and their significance to the debate on the emergence of symbolic material culture

article

Characterization of bone surface modifications on an Early to Middle Pleistocene bird assemblage from Mata Menge (Flores, Indonesia) using multifocus and confocal microscopy

scholarly article by Hanneke J.M. Meijer et al published September 2019 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Chronology of the site of Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France

article

Clinical simulations of prostate radiotherapy using BOMAB-like phantoms: Results for neutrons

article

Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Corrigendum to “Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Palaeolithic: Testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian” [J. H. Evol. 54 (2013) 39–55]

scholarly article published in Journal of Human Evolution

Critical reassessment of putative Acheulean Porosphaera globularis beads

Culture: The Driving Force of Human Cognition

scientific article published on 22 July 2018

Cutmarked human remains bearing Neandertal features and modern human remains associated with the Aurignacian at Les Rois.

scientific article published in January 2009

Dosimetric issues in radiation protection of radiotherapy patients

scientific article published on 31 March 2006

Earliest evidence of personal ornaments associated with burial: the Conus shells from Border Cave

scientific article

Earliest known human burial in Africa

scientific article published on 5 May 2021

Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa

scientific article

Early hominid bone tools from Drimolen, South Africa

scientific article published in November 2008

Ecological constraints on the first prehistoric farmers in Europe

article

Emergence of modern human behavior: Middle Stone Age engravings from South Africa.

scientific article

Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

scientific article published on 31 May 2009

Enhancing Radiation Detection by Drones through Numerical Fluid Dynamics Simulations

scientific article published on 23 March 2020

Evaluating the Photoprotective Effects of Ochre on Human Skin by In Vivo SPF Assessment: Implications for Human Evolution, Adaptation and Dispersal

scientific article

Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe

Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures?

scientific article

Fast high-resolution 3D segmented echo planar imaging for dose mapping using a superheated emulsion chamber

scientific article published on 01 April 2003

Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

From the origin of language to the diversification of languages: What can archaeology and palaeoanthropology say?

H4 abrupt event and late Neanderthal presence in Iberia

scientific article published in June 2007

Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving.

scientific article

Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling

scientific article published in February 2008

Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Paleolithic: testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

Identifying early modern human ecological niche expansions and associated cultural dynamics in the South African Middle Stone Age.

scientific article

Intercomparison of active personal dosemeters in interventional radiology

scientific article published on 24 May 2008

Investigating links between ecology and bifacial tool types in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum

article

La nouvelle « bataille aurignacienne »

Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

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

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Ma'anshan cave and the origin of bone tool technology in China

scientific article

Middle Paleolithic shell beads in Israel and Algeria

scientific article published in June 2006

Middle Stone Age Ochre Processing and Behavioural Complexity in the Horn of Africa: Evidence from Porc-Epic Cave, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

scientific article

Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa

article

Middle Stone Age shell beads from South Africa

scientific article published in April 2004

Multiproxy record of late Quaternary climate change and Middle Stone Age human occupation at Wonderkrater, South Africa

article

Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age.

scientific article

Neanderthal Acculturation in Western Europe? A Critical Review of the Evidence and Its Interpretation

article

Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion

scientific article published in 2008

Neuroimaging supports the representational nature of the earliest human engravings

scientific article published on 7 November 2018

Neuroimaging supports the representational nature of the earliest human engravings ⬇️

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Neutron and Gamma Albedo Evaluation at an Irradiation Facility

scientific article published on 23 December 2020

New Excavations at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

article by Lucinda R. Backwell et al published 18 August 2018 in Journal of Field Archaeology

Notation versus Decoration in the Upper Palaeolithic: a Case-Study from Tossal de la Roca, Alicante, Spain

OPERA: a novel method to reduce ghost and aliasing artifacts

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Optimization of oncological ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT imaging based on a multiparameter analysis

scientific article published on February 2016

Ornaments reveal resistance of North European cultures to the spread of farming

scientific article

Out of Africa: modern human origins special feature: additional evidence on the use of personal ornaments in the Middle Paleolithic of North Africa

scientific article (publication date: 22 September 2009)

Possible bone threshing tools from the Neolithic levels of the Grotta dei Piccioni (Abruzzo, Italy)

scientific article published in July 1995

Possible evidence of bone tool shaping by Swartkrans early hominids

article

Possible shell beads from the Middle Stone Age layers of Sibudu Cave, South Africa

article

Provenance, modification and use of manganese-rich rocks at Le Moustier (Dordogne, France)

scientific article published on 17 July 2019

Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Reply to Evans: Use of poison remains the most parsimonious explanation for Border Cave castor bean extract.

scientific article published on 23 October 2012

Reply to Read: Middle Stone Age cultural variability and the risk hypothesis.

scientific article

Revisiting the chronology of the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian in Europe: a reply to Higham et al.'s comments on Banks et al. (2013).

scientific article

Seeking black. Geochemical characterization by PIXE of Palaeolithic manganese-rich lumps and their potential sources

article

Status of radiation detection with superheated emulsions

scientific article published on 25 July 2006

Stratigraphic and spatial distribution of ochre and ochre processing tools at Porc-Epic Cave, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

scholarly article by Daniela Eugenia Rosso et al published September 2014 in Quaternary International

Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals

scientific article

Taphonomic Analysis of the Faunal Assemblage Associated with the Hominins (Australopithecus sediba) from the Early Pleistocene Cave Deposits of Malapa, South Africa

scientific article

Tephra studies and the reconstruction of Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic cultural trajectories

scholarly article

Testing the hypothesis of fire use for ecosystem management by neanderthal and upper palaeolithic modern human populations

scientific article

The Archaeology of Teaching: A Conceptual Framework

scientific article published on 15 October 2015

The Chronology and Taphonomy of the Earliest Aurignacian and Its Implications for the Understanding of Neandertal Extinction

article published in 1999

The La Marche Antler Revisited

scientific article published in April 1996

The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave

article

The earliest evidence of coloured ornaments in China: The ochred ostrich eggshell beads from Shuidonggou Locality 2

article

The newsletter 'European Research in Radiological Sciences'

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

The origin of symbolically mediated behaviour: From antagonistic scenarios to a unified research strategy

The reality of Neandertal symbolic behavior at the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France

scientific article published in 2011

The technology of the earliest European cave paintings: El Castillo Cave, Spain

article

The ‘to be or not to be’ of archaeological enquiry

scholarly article by Francesco d'Errico published in July 2016

Thinking strings: additional evidence for personal ornament use in the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa

scientific article published on 14 March 2013

Tracing the source of Upper Palaeolithic shell beads by strontium isotope dating

scholarly article by Marian Vanhaeren et al published October 2004 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Traditional Glue, Adhesive and Poison Used for Composite Weapons by Ju/'hoan San in Nyae Nyae, Namibia. Implications for the Evolution of Hunting Equipment in Prehistory

scientific article

Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa: Personal ornaments, bone artifacts, and ocher from Panga ya Saidi, Kenya

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

Using SUV as a guide to 18F-FDG dose reduction.

scientific article

List of works by Francesco d'Errico

82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior

A 100,000-year-old ochre-processing workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa

A Middle Palaeolithic bone tool from Crimea (Ukraine)

A New Look at the Berekhat Ram Figurine: Implications for the Origins of Symbolism

A New Model and its Implications for the Origin of Writing: The La Marche Antler Revisited

A Paleolithic bird figurine from the Lingjing site, Henan, China

A rock engraving made by Neanderthals in Gibraltar

A short-term, task-specific site: Epipalaeolithic settlement patterns inferred from marine shells found at Praileaitz I (Basque Country, Spain)

Adaptation to ionizing radiation of higher plants: From environmental radioactivity to chernobyl disaster

Additional evidence for bone technology in the southern African Middle Stone Age.

An Early Instance of Upper Palaeolithic Personal Ornamentation from China: The Freshwater Shell Bead from Shuidonggou 2

An Early Upper Palaeolithic decorated bone tubular rod from Pod Hradem Cave, Czech Republic

An acoustical bubble counter for superheated drop detectors

Analysis of Aurignacian interstratification at the Chatelperronian-type site and implications for the behavioral modernity of Neandertals

Analysis of Site Formation and Assemblage Integrity Does Not Support Attribution of the Uluzzian to Modern Humans at Grotta del Cavallo

Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective

Assessing the function of early hominin bone tools

Bone tools from Beds II-IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and implications for the origins and evolution of bone technology

Border Cave and the beginning of the Later Stone Age in South Africa

Chapter 4. Middle Stone Age engravings and their significance to the debate on the emergence of symbolic material culture

Characterization of bone surface modifications on an Early to Middle Pleistocene bird assemblage from Mata Menge (Flores, Indonesia) using multifocus and confocal microscopy

Chronology of the site of Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France

Clinical simulations of prostate radiotherapy using BOMAB-like phantoms: Results for neutrons

Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago

Corrigendum to “Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Palaeolithic: Testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian” [J. H. Evol. 54 (2013) 39–55]

Critical reassessment of putative Acheulean Porosphaera globularis beads

Culture: The Driving Force of Human Cognition

Cutmarked human remains bearing Neandertal features and modern human remains associated with the Aurignacian at Les Rois.

Dosimetric issues in radiation protection of radiotherapy patients

Earliest evidence of personal ornaments associated with burial: the Conus shells from Border Cave

Earliest known human burial in Africa

Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa

Early hominid bone tools from Drimolen, South Africa

Ecological constraints on the first prehistoric farmers in Europe

Emergence of modern human behavior: Middle Stone Age engravings from South Africa.

Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

Enhancing Radiation Detection by Drones through Numerical Fluid Dynamics Simulations

Evaluating the Photoprotective Effects of Ochre on Human Skin by In Vivo SPF Assessment: Implications for Human Evolution, Adaptation and Dispersal

Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe

Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures?

Fast high-resolution 3D segmented echo planar imaging for dose mapping using a superheated emulsion chamber

Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa

From the origin of language to the diversification of languages: What can archaeology and palaeoanthropology say?

H4 abrupt event and late Neanderthal presence in Iberia

Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving.

Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling

Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Paleolithic: testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian

Identifying early modern human ecological niche expansions and associated cultural dynamics in the South African Middle Stone Age.

Intercomparison of active personal dosemeters in interventional radiology

Investigating links between ecology and bifacial tool types in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum

La nouvelle « bataille aurignacienne »

Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers

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

Ma'anshan cave and the origin of bone tool technology in China

Middle Paleolithic shell beads in Israel and Algeria

Middle Stone Age Ochre Processing and Behavioural Complexity in the Horn of Africa: Evidence from Porc-Epic Cave, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa

Middle Stone Age shell beads from South Africa

Multiproxy record of late Quaternary climate change and Middle Stone Age human occupation at Wonderkrater, South Africa

Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age.

Neanderthal Acculturation in Western Europe? A Critical Review of the Evidence and Its Interpretation

Neanderthal extinction by competitive exclusion

Neuroimaging supports the representational nature of the earliest human engravings

Neuroimaging supports the representational nature of the earliest human engravings ⬇️

Neutron and Gamma Albedo Evaluation at an Irradiation Facility

New Excavations at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Notation versus Decoration in the Upper Palaeolithic: a Case-Study from Tossal de la Roca, Alicante, Spain

OPERA: a novel method to reduce ghost and aliasing artifacts

Optimization of oncological ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT imaging based on a multiparameter analysis

Ornaments reveal resistance of North European cultures to the spread of farming

Out of Africa: modern human origins special feature: additional evidence on the use of personal ornaments in the Middle Paleolithic of North Africa

Possible bone threshing tools from the Neolithic levels of the Grotta dei Piccioni (Abruzzo, Italy)

Possible evidence of bone tool shaping by Swartkrans early hominids

Possible shell beads from the Middle Stone Age layers of Sibudu Cave, South Africa

Provenance, modification and use of manganese-rich rocks at Le Moustier (Dordogne, France)

Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea

Reply to Evans: Use of poison remains the most parsimonious explanation for Border Cave castor bean extract.

Reply to Read: Middle Stone Age cultural variability and the risk hypothesis.

Revisiting the chronology of the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian in Europe: a reply to Higham et al.'s comments on Banks et al. (2013).