List of works - Patrick Roberts

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest.

scientific article

A multi-isotope, multi-tissue study of colonial origins and diet in New Zealand

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

An Imagined Past?

scientific article published in June 2021

Ancient DNA from the skeletons of Roopkund Lake reveals Mediterranean migrants in India

scientific article published on 20 August 2019

Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Ancient proteins provide evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa

scientific article published on 27 January 2021

Anthropogenic impacts on Late Holocene land-cover change and floristic biodiversity loss in tropical southeastern Asia

scientific article published in 2021

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Bone Technology from Late Pleistocene Caves and Rockshelters of Sri Lanka

scientific article

Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Calling all archaeologists: guidelines for terminology, methodology, data handling, and reporting when undertaking and reviewing stable isotope applications in archaeology.

scientific article published on 13 December 2017

Climate, Environment and Early Human Innovation: Stable Isotope and Faunal Proxy Evidence from Archaeological Sites (98-59ka) in the Southern Cape, South Africa

scientific article

Cold comfort: Arctic seabirds find refugia from climate change and potential competition in marginal ice zones and fjords

scientific article published on 09 November 2021

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

scientific article

Defining the ‘generalist specialist’ niche for Pleistocene Homo sapiens

scientific article published on 30 July 2018

Direct evidence for human reliance on rainforest resources in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka

scientific article published on March 2015

Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago

scientific article published on 07 January 2021

Earliest known human burial in Africa

scientific article published on 5 May 2021

Ecological flexibility and adaptation to past climate change in the Middle Nile Valley: A multiproxy investigation of dietary shifts between the Neolithic and Kerma periods at Kadruka 1 and Kadruka 21

scientific article published in 2023

Economic Diversification Supported the Growth of Mongolia's Nomadic Empires

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Economic Diversification Supported the Growth of Mongolia’s Nomadic Empires ⬇️

journal article from 'Scientific Reports' published in 2020

Ecosystem Engineering Among Ancient Pastoralists in Northern Central Asia

scientific article published on 2 June 2020

Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Exaptation Traits for Megafaunal Mutualisms as a Factor in Plant Domestication

scientific article published on 24 March 2021

Extensive elemental mapping unlocks Mg/Ca ratios as climate proxy in seasonal records of Mediterranean limpets

scientific article published on 06 March 2019

Field-based sciences must transform in response to COVID-19

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

Finding the anthropocene in tropical forests

scientific article published in September 2018

Forest mosaics, not savanna corridors, dominated in Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Maximum

scientific article published in 2023

Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in 'Green Arabia'

scientific article published in 2018

Fossils, fish and tropical forests: prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers of Oceania

scientific article published in 2022

Fruits of the forest: Human stable isotope ecology and rainforest adaptations in Late Pleistocene and Holocene (∼36 to 3 ka) Sri Lanka.

scientific article published on 21 March 2017

Heading north: Late Pleistocene environments and human dispersals in central and eastern Asia.

scientific article

Historical Tropical Forest Reliance amongst the Wanniyalaeto (Vedda) of Sri Lanka: an Isotopic Perspective.

scientific article

Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Human forager response to abrupt climate change at 8.2 ka on the Atlantic coast of Europe

scientific article published on 20 April 2022

Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh) during the 2nd millennium BC: integration of isotopic and genomic evidence

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh), Hatay, Turkey during the 2nd millennium BC: Integration of isotopic and genomic evidence

scientific article published on 30 June 2021

Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Lehi Horse: Implications for Early Historic Horse Cultures of the North American West

scientific article published on 4 February 2021

Isotopic and microbotanical insights into Iron Age agricultural reliance in the Central African rainforest

scientific article published on 27 October 2020

Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea

scientific article published on 29 April 2020

Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa

scientific article published in January 2020

Late Pleistocene to early-Holocene rainforest foraging in Sri Lanka: Multidisciplinary analysis at Kitulgala Beli-lena

scientific article

Local diversity in settlement, demography and subsistence across the southern Indian Neolithic-Iron Age transition: site growth and abandonment at Sanganakallu-Kupgal

scholarly article by Patrick Roberts published in May 2015

Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes: pre-Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range

scientific article published on 8 August 2021

Micro Methods for Megafauna: Novel Approaches to Late Quaternary Extinctions and Their Contributions to Faunal Conservation in the Anthropocene

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Multi-isotope analysis of dietary variation among the early Christian communities of northern Sudan

scientific article published in June 2021

Multidisciplinary perspectives on the origins of past foodways and farming practice in South Asia

scientific article published on 13 May 2021

New multi-proxy record shows potential impacts of precipitation on the rise and ebb of Bronze Age and imperial Persian societies in southeastern Iran

scientific article published in 2022

No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival

scientific article

Non-uniform tropical forest responses to the ‘Columbian Exchange’ in the Neotropics and Asia-Pacific

scientific article

Origin and Health Status of First-Generation Africans from Early Colonial Mexico

scientific article published on 17 April 2020

Paleolithic to Bronze Age Siberians Reveal Connections with First Americans and across Eurasia

scientific article published in June 2020

Pandanus nutshell generates a palaeoprecipitation record for human occupation at Madjedbebe, northern Australia

scientific article

Persistent tropical foraging in the highlands of terminal Pleistocene/Holocene New Guinea.

scientific article

Plant wax biomarkers in human evolutionary studies

scientific article published on 9 August 2021

Pleistocene rainforests: barriers or attractive environments for early human foragers?

scholarly article by Patrick Roberts published in August 2015

Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest.

scientific article

Re-evaluating Scythian lifeways: Isotopic analysis of diet and mobility in Iron Age Ukraine

scientific article published on 10 March 2021

Reimagining the relationship between Gondwanan forests and Aboriginal land management in Australia's "Wet Tropics"

publication published on 16 February 2021

Restructuring of nutrient flows in island ecosystems following human colonization evidenced by isotopic analysis of commensal rats

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Sampling and Pretreatment of Tooth Enamel Carbonate for Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Analysis

Spatial variation in bioavailable strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) in Kenya and northern Tanzania: Implications for ecology, paleoanthropology, and archaeology

scientific article published in December 2020

Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Stable carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, isotope analysis of plants from a South Asian tropical forest: Implications for primatology.

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa

scientific article published in April 2021

The Sri Lankan ‘Microlithic’ Tradition c. 38,000 to 3,000 Years Ago: Tropical Technologies and Adaptations of Homo sapiens at the Southern Edge of Asia

scientific article

The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation

scientific article published on 3 August 2017

The men of Nelson's navy: a comparative stable isotope dietary study of late 18th century and early 19th century servicemen from Royal Naval Hospital burial grounds at Plymouth and Gosport, England.

scientific article published on 8 March 2012

The spread of herds and horses into the Altai: How livestock and dairying drove social complexity in Mongolia

scientific article published on 11 May 2022

Tropical Trees as Time Capsules of Anthropogenic Activity

scientific article published on 06 February 2020

Tropical forests and the genus Homo

scientific article published on November 2016

Tropical forests as key sites of the "Anthropocene": Past and present perspectives

scientific article published on 01 October 2021

‘Emptying Forests?’ Conservation Implications of Past Human–Primate Interactions

scientific article published in April 2021

List of works by Patrick Roberts

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest.

A multi-isotope, multi-tissue study of colonial origins and diet in New Zealand

An Imagined Past?

Ancient DNA from the skeletons of Roopkund Lake reveals Mediterranean migrants in India

Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa

Ancient proteins provide evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa

Anthropogenic impacts on Late Holocene land-cover change and floristic biodiversity loss in tropical southeastern Asia

Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use

Bone Technology from Late Pleistocene Caves and Rockshelters of Sri Lanka

Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics

Calling all archaeologists: guidelines for terminology, methodology, data handling, and reporting when undertaking and reviewing stable isotope applications in archaeology.

Climate, Environment and Early Human Innovation: Stable Isotope and Faunal Proxy Evidence from Archaeological Sites (98-59ka) in the Southern Cape, South Africa

Cold comfort: Arctic seabirds find refugia from climate change and potential competition in marginal ice zones and fjords

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

Defining the ‘generalist specialist’ niche for Pleistocene Homo sapiens

Direct evidence for human reliance on rainforest resources in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka

Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago

Earliest known human burial in Africa

Ecological flexibility and adaptation to past climate change in the Middle Nile Valley: A multiproxy investigation of dietary shifts between the Neolithic and Kerma periods at Kadruka 1 and Kadruka 21

Economic Diversification Supported the Growth of Mongolia's Nomadic Empires

Economic Diversification Supported the Growth of Mongolia’s Nomadic Empires ⬇️

Ecosystem Engineering Among Ancient Pastoralists in Northern Central Asia

Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia

Exaptation Traits for Megafaunal Mutualisms as a Factor in Plant Domestication

Extensive elemental mapping unlocks Mg/Ca ratios as climate proxy in seasonal records of Mediterranean limpets

Field-based sciences must transform in response to COVID-19

Finding the anthropocene in tropical forests

Forest mosaics, not savanna corridors, dominated in Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Maximum

Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in 'Green Arabia'

Fossils, fish and tropical forests: prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers of Oceania

Fruits of the forest: Human stable isotope ecology and rainforest adaptations in Late Pleistocene and Holocene (∼36 to 3 ka) Sri Lanka.

Heading north: Late Pleistocene environments and human dispersals in central and eastern Asia.

Historical Tropical Forest Reliance amongst the Wanniyalaeto (Vedda) of Sri Lanka: an Isotopic Perspective.

Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior

Human forager response to abrupt climate change at 8.2 ka on the Atlantic coast of Europe

Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh) during the 2nd millennium BC: integration of isotopic and genomic evidence

Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh), Hatay, Turkey during the 2nd millennium BC: Integration of isotopic and genomic evidence

Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Lehi Horse: Implications for Early Historic Horse Cultures of the North American West

Isotopic and microbotanical insights into Iron Age agricultural reliance in the Central African rainforest

Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea

Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania

Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa

Late Pleistocene to early-Holocene rainforest foraging in Sri Lanka: Multidisciplinary analysis at Kitulgala Beli-lena

Local diversity in settlement, demography and subsistence across the southern Indian Neolithic-Iron Age transition: site growth and abandonment at Sanganakallu-Kupgal

Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes: pre-Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range

Micro Methods for Megafauna: Novel Approaches to Late Quaternary Extinctions and Their Contributions to Faunal Conservation in the Anthropocene

Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: New insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka

Multi-isotope analysis of dietary variation among the early Christian communities of northern Sudan

Multidisciplinary perspectives on the origins of past foodways and farming practice in South Asia

New multi-proxy record shows potential impacts of precipitation on the rise and ebb of Bronze Age and imperial Persian societies in southeastern Iran

No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival

Non-uniform tropical forest responses to the ‘Columbian Exchange’ in the Neotropics and Asia-Pacific

Origin and Health Status of First-Generation Africans from Early Colonial Mexico

Paleolithic to Bronze Age Siberians Reveal Connections with First Americans and across Eurasia

Pandanus nutshell generates a palaeoprecipitation record for human occupation at Madjedbebe, northern Australia

Persistent tropical foraging in the highlands of terminal Pleistocene/Holocene New Guinea.

Plant wax biomarkers in human evolutionary studies

Pleistocene rainforests: barriers or attractive environments for early human foragers?

Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest.

Re-evaluating Scythian lifeways: Isotopic analysis of diet and mobility in Iron Age Ukraine

Reimagining the relationship between Gondwanan forests and Aboriginal land management in Australia's "Wet Tropics"

Restructuring of nutrient flows in island ecosystems following human colonization evidenced by isotopic analysis of commensal rats

Sampling and Pretreatment of Tooth Enamel Carbonate for Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Analysis

Spatial variation in bioavailable strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) in Kenya and northern Tanzania: Implications for ecology, paleoanthropology, and archaeology

Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago

Stable carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, isotope analysis of plants from a South Asian tropical forest: Implications for primatology.

The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa

The Sri Lankan ‘Microlithic’ Tradition c. 38,000 to 3,000 Years Ago: Tropical Technologies and Adaptations of Homo sapiens at the Southern Edge of Asia

The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation

The men of Nelson's navy: a comparative stable isotope dietary study of late 18th century and early 19th century servicemen from Royal Naval Hospital burial grounds at Plymouth and Gosport, England.

The spread of herds and horses into the Altai: How livestock and dairying drove social complexity in Mongolia

Tropical Trees as Time Capsules of Anthropogenic Activity

Tropical forests and the genus Homo

Tropical forests as key sites of the "Anthropocene": Past and present perspectives

‘Emptying Forests?’ Conservation Implications of Past Human–Primate Interactions