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List of works by Richard G. Roberts

A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul's Quaternary vertebrates

scientific article

A dual-aliquot regenerative-dose protocol (DAP) for thermoluminescence (TL) dating of quartz sediments using the light-sensitive and isothermally stimulated red emissions

scholarly article

A late Quaternary vertebrate deposit in Kudjal Yolgah Cave, south-western Australia: refining regional late Pleistocene extinctions

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A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

A single-aliquot luminescence dating procedure for K-feldspar based on the dose-dependent MET-pIRIR signal sensitivity

A southern Indian Middle Palaeolithic occupation surface sealed by the 74 ka Toba eruption: Further evidence from Jwalapuram Locality 22

scholarly article

Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating of individual grains of quartz from archeological deposits

Afromontane foragers of the Late Pleistocene: Site formation, chronology and occupational pulsing at Melikane Rockshelter, Lesotho

scholarly article

Age and biostratigraphic significance of the Punung Rainforest Fauna, East Java, Indonesia, and implications for Pongo and Homo.

scientific article published on 13 August 2007

Age constraints on Pleistocene megafauna at Tight Entrance Cave in southwestern Australia

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Ages for the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa: implications for human behavior and dispersal

scientific article

An arid-adapted middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from south-central Australia

scientific article

An improved OSL chronology for the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa: further tests of single-grain dating procedures and a re-evaluation of the timing of the Still Bay industry across southern Africa

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An improved single grain OSL chronology for the sedimentary deposits from Diepkloof Rockshelter, Western Cape, South Africa

article

Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska

scholarly article

Application of sedimentary and chronological analyses to refine the depositional context of a Late Pleistocene vertebrate deposit, Naracoorte, South Australia

article

Archaeological evidence for two separate dispersals of Neanderthals into southern Siberia

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Archaeology: progress and pitfalls in radiocarbon dating

scientific article published in September 2006

Astronomically calibrated 40 Ar/ 39 Ar age for the Toba supereruption and global synchronization of late Quaternary records ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 13 November 2012)

Author Correction: Hominin and animal activities in the microstratigraphic record from Denisova Cave (Altai Mountains, Russia)

correction of a scholarly article

Beyond the Levant: first evidence of a pre-pottery Neolithic incursion into the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia

scientific article

Beyond the radiocarbon barrier in Australian prehistory

article

Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia

scientific article

Combined organic biomarker and use-wear analyses of stone artefacts from Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia

scientific article published on 26 November 2019

Construction of a ‘global standardised growth curve’ (gSGC) for infrared stimulated luminescence dating of K-feldspar

article by Bo Li et al published April 2015 in Quaternary Geochronology

Continuity of mammalian fauna over the last 200,000 y in the Indian subcontinent

scientific article

Correction: A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Criteria for assessing the quality of Middle Pleistocene to Holocene vertebrate fossil ages

Dating techniques: Illuminating the past

scientific article published on April 2015

Dating the Quaternary: progress in luminescence dating of sediments

article by Olav B. Lian & Richard G. Roberts published October 2006 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Deriving spatially resolved beta dose rates in sediment using the Timepix pixelated detector

Development and application of a comprehensive analytical workflow for the quantification of non-volatile low molecular weight lipids on archaeological stone tools

Development of the SAR TT-OSL procedure for dating Middle Pleistocene dune and shallow marine deposits along the southern Cape coast of South Africa

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Earliest hominin occupation of Sulawesi, Indonesia

scientific article

Early Human Occupation at Devil's Lair, Southwestern Australia 50,000 Years Ago

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Early human symbolic behavior in the Late Pleistocene of Wallacea

scientific article

Ecology. A pardon for the dingo

scientific article

Equivalent dose distributions from single grains of quartz at Sibudu, South Africa: context, causes and consequences for optical dating of archaeological deposits

Evolutionary anthropology: Homo 'incendius'.

scientific article published on 23 May 2012

Extending the age limit of luminescence dating using the dose-dependent sensitivity of MET-pIRIR signals from K-feldspar

Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

scientific article (publication date: 6 February 2014)

Generativity, hierarchical action and recursion in the technology of the Acheulean to Middle Palaeolithic transition: a perspective from Patpara, the Son Valley, India

scientific article

Geochronology of cave deposits at Liang Bua and of adjacent river terraces in the Wae Racang valley, western Flores, Indonesia: a synthesis of age estimates for the type locality of Homo floresiensis.

scientific article

Holocene palaeofire records in a high-level, proximal valley-fill (Wilson Bog), Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia

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Hominin and animal activities in the microstratigraphic record from Denisova Cave (Altai Mountains, Russia)

scientific article published on 26 September 2019

Hominin dispersal into the Nefud Desert and Middle palaeolithic settlement along the Jubbah Palaeolake, Northern Arabia

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Human History Written in Stone and Blood

Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago.

scientific article

Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

Humans, megafauna and environmental change in tropical Australia

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Initial micromorphological results from Liang Bua, Flores (Indonesia): Site formation processes and hominin activities at the type locality of Homo floresiensis

scholarly article by Mike W. Morley et al published January 2017 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Investigation of the applicability of standardised growth curves for OSL dating of quartz from Haua Fteah cave, Libya

Lack of chronological support for stepwise prehuman extinctions of Australian megafauna

scientific article (publication date: 3 September 2013)

Late Acheulean hominins at the Marine Isotope Stage 6/5e transition in north-central India

Late-surviving megafauna in Tasmania, Australia, implicate human involvement in their extinction

scientific article

Low temperature (LT) combustion of sediments does not necessarily provide accurate radiocarbon ages for site chronology

Luminescence ages for three ‘Middle Palaeolithic’ sites in the Nihewan Basin, northern China, and their archaeological and palaeoenvironmental implications

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Luminescence characteristics and dose distributions for quartz and feldspar grains from Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania

Luminescence dating of rock art and past environments using mud-wasp nests in northern Australia

scientific article published in Nature

Luminescence-based chronologies for Palaeolithic sites in the Nihewan Basin, northern China: First tests using newly developed optical dating procedures for potassium feldspar grains

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Mammalian responses to Pleistocene climate change in southeastern Australia

article

Melting ice sheets 400,000 yr ago raised sea level by 13m: Past analogue for future trends

scholarly article by David L. Roberts et al published December 2012 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Michael John Morwood (1950–2013) ⬇️

scientific article published on August 22, 2013

Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments

scientific article published in 2021

Mid-Holocene age obtained for nested diamond pattern petroglyph in the Billasurgam Cave complex, Kurnool District, southern India

scholarly article by Paul Taçon et al published April 2013 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Middle Paleolithic assemblages from the Indian subcontinent before and after the Toba super-eruption

scientific article published in July 2007

Middle Paleolithic occupation on a Marine Isotope Stage 5 lakeshore in the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia

scholarly article

Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul.

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments.

scientific article

New Excavations of Middle Stone Age Deposits at Apollo 11 Rockshelter, Namibia: Stratigraphy, Archaeology, Chronology and Past Environments

scholarly article by Ralf Vogelsang published in December 2010

New ages for Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grains

scientific article

New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia

scientific article

New ages for the Upper Palaeolithic site of Xibaimaying in the Nihewan Basin, northern China: implications for small-tool and microblade industries in north-east Asia during Marine Isotope Stages 2 and 3

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New ages for the post-Howiesons Poort, late and final Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa

OSL dating of loess deposits bracketing Sheep Creek tephra beds, northwest Canada: Dim and problematic single-grain OSL characteristics and their effect on multi-grain age estimates

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On the dose dependency of the bleachable and non-bleachable components of IRSL from K-feldspar: Improved procedures for luminescence dating of Quaternary sediments

Optical Dating of Quartz: A Comment on Stokes and Gaylord (1993)

Optical and radiocarbon dating at Jinmium rock shelter in northern Australia

scientific article published in Nature

Optical dating in archaeology: thirty years in retrospect and grand challenges for the future

scholarly article by Richard G. Roberts published in April 2015

Optical dating of Holocene sediments from a variety of geomorphic settings using single grains of quartz

article by Jon M Olley et al published June 2004 in Geomorphology

Optical dating of quartz sediments and accelerator mass spectrometry14C dating of bone gelatin and moa eggshell: A comparison of age estimates for non‐archaeological deposits in New Zealand

article

Palaeodose underestimates caused by extended-duration preheats in the optical dating of quartz

Paleontology. And then there were none?

scientific article published in January 2010

Paper I - Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of perennially frozen deposits in north-central Siberia: OSL characteristics of quartz grains and methodological considerations regarding their suitability for dating

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Paper II - Dirt, dates and DNA: OSL and radiocarbon chronologies of perennially frozen sediments in Siberia, and their implications for sedimentary ancient DNA studies

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Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave

scientific article published in 2021

Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago

scientific article (publication date: 28 July 2009)

Potential of establishing a ‘global standardised growth curve’ (gSGC) for optical dating of quartz from sediments

article by Bo Li et al published April 2015 in Quaternary Geochronology

Progress in optical dating of guano-rich sediments associated with the Deep Skull, West Mouth of the Great Cave of Niah, Sarawak, Borneo

Progress towards single-grain optical dating of fossil mud-wasp nests and associated rock art in northern Australia

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Quaternary stratigraphy, geochronology and evolution of the Magela Creek catchment in the monsoon tropics of northern Australia

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Review and assessment of the potential of post-IR IRSL dating methods to circumvent the problem of anomalous fading in feldspar luminescence

Revised stratigraphy and chronology for Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua in Indonesia

scientific article (publication date: 30 March 2016)

Sediment mixing at Nonda Rock: investigations of stratigraphic integrity at an early archaeological site in northern Australia and implications for the human colonisation of the continent

article

Single-grain OSL chronologies for Middle Palaeolithic deposits at El Mnasra and El Harhoura 2, Morocco: implications for Late Pleistocene human-environment interactions along the Atlantic coast of northwest Africa.

scientific article published on 13 January 2012

Single-grain OSL chronologies for the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries and the transition between them: Further analyses and statistical modelling

scientific article

Single-grain OSL dating of glaciofluvial quartz constrains Reid glaciation in NW Canada to MIS 6

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Single-grain optical dating of grave-infill associated with human burials at Lake Mungo, Australia

scientific article published in October 2006

Still Bay and serrated points from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

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Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul

scientific article published in 2021

The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: an African middle stone age industry in Southern Arabia

scientific article published on 30 November 2011

The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation

scientific article (publication date: June 2015)

The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya) - Optical dating of early human occupation during Marine Isotope Stages 4, 5 and 6.

scientific article

The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya).

scientific article

The effects of disequilibria in the uranium and thorium decay chains on burial dose rates in fluvial sediments

scholarly article by Jon M. Olley et al published January 1996 in Quaternary Science Reviews

The evolving landscape and climate of western Flores: an environmental context for the archaeological site of Liang Bua.

scientific article

The human colonisation of Australia: optical dates of 53,000 and 60,000 years bracket human arrival at Deaf Adder Gorge, Northern Territory

scientific article (publication date: 1994)

Times of sand: Sedimentary history and archaeology at the Sigatoka Dunes, Fiji

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Timing and dynamics of Late Pleistocene mammal extinctions in southwestern Australia

scientific article (publication date: 21 December 2010)

Toba supereruption: age and impact on East African ecosystems

scientific article published on 21 June 2013

Turning back the clock on the extinction of megafauna in Australia

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Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments

scientific article published in 2021

Variability in quartz OSL signals caused by measurement uncertainties: Problems and solutions

article published in 2017

Viability of Raman microscopy to identify micro-residues related to tool-use and modern contaminants on prehistoric stone artefacts

What caused extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Sahul?

scientific article

Would the Australian megafauna have become extinct if humans had never colonised the continent? Comments on “A review of the evidence for a human role in the extinction of Australian megafauna and an alternative explanation” by S. Wroe and J. Fie

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