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List of works by Michael D. Petraglia

67,000 years of coastal engagement at Panga ya Saidi, eastern Africa

scientific article published on 26 August 2021

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

scientific article

A high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Young Toba Tuff and dating of ultra-distal tephra: Forcing of Quaternary climate and implications for hominin occupation of India

article by Darren F. Mark et al published June 2014 in Quaternary Geochronology

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

scholarly article

A transect of environmental variability across South Asia and its influence on Late Pleistocene human innovation and occupation

scientific article

Acheulean technology and landscape use at Dawadmi, central Arabia

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Alluvial fan records from southeast Arabia reveal multiple windows for human dispersal

scholarly article

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

Archaeological and environmental cave records in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia

scientific article published in June 2021

Archaeology: Trailblazers across Arabia

scientific article published in February 2011

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

scientific article

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

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

scientific article

Coring, profiling, and trenching: Archaeological field strategies for investigating the Pleistocene-Holocene-Anthropocene continuum

scientific article published in March 2022

Correction: Acheulean technology and landscape use at Dawadmi, central Arabia

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Correction: The lithic assemblages of Donggutuo, Nihewan basin: Knapping skills of Early Pleistocene hominins in North China

scientific article published on 7 December 2017

Cryptotephra from the 74 ka BP Toba super-eruption in the Billa Surgam caves, southern India

article by Christine Lane et al published July 2011 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Defining paleoclimatic routes and opportunities for hominin dispersals across Iran

scientific article published in 2023

Dhaba: An initial report on an Acheulean, Middle Palaeolithic and microlithic locality in the Middle Son Valley, north-central India

scientific article

Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter?

scientific article published in 2018

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

scientific article published on March 2015

Discovery of Youngest Toba Tuff localities in the Sagileru Valley, south India, in association with Palaeolithic industries

scholarly article

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 consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions ⬇️

scientific article

Environments and Cultural Change in the Indian Subcontinent: Implications for the Dispersal of Homo sapiens in the Late Pleistocene

scientific article

Epipalaeolithic occupation and palaeoenvironments of the southern Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia, during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene

article

Erratum to "Large cutting tool variation west and east of the Movius Line" J. H. Evol. 55 (2008) 962-966.

scientific article published in September 2009

Exaptation Traits for Megafaunal Mutualisms as a Factor in Plant Domestication

scientific article published on 24 March 2021

Federal Planning and Historic Places: The Section 106 Process

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

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

First technological comparison of Southern African Howiesons Poort and South Asian Microlithic industries: An exploration of inter-regional variability in microlithic assemblages

scientific article

Fluted-point technology in Neolithic Arabia: An independent invention far from the Americas

scientific article published on 05 August 2020

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

scientific article published in 2018

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

Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

scientific article (publication date: 13 October 2016)

Geochemical fingerprinting of the widespread Toba tephra using biotite compositions

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

scientific article

High altitude hunting, climate change, and pastoral resilience in eastern Eurasia

scientific article published on 12 July 2021

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

scientific article

Hominin Ecology of the Early Oldowan 2 Ma

scientific article published on 6 August 2020

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

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago

scientific article published on 09 April 2018

Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene

article

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

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

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

scientific article published on 25 February 2020

Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia

scientific article published on 13 April 2020

Hunter-gatherer technological organization and responses to Holocene climate change in coastal, lakeshore, and grassland ecologies of eastern Africa

scientific article published in March 2022

Hunting, herding, and people in the rock art of Mongolia: New discoveries in the Gobi-Altai Mountains

scientific article published in June 2021

Immunological and Microwear Analysis of Chipped-Stone Artifacts from Piedmont Contexts

scholarly article by Michael Petraglia et al published January 1996 in American Antiquity

Interpreting the Formation of the Abri Dufaure: An Upper Paleolithic Site in Southwestern France

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Iron Age hunting and herding in coastal eastern Africa: ZooMS identification of domesticates and wild bovids at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya

scientific article published in June 2021

K.A.R. Kennedy, J.R. Lukacs & V.N. Misra (ed.). The biological anthropology of human skeletal remains from Bhimbetka, central India. xvii+107 pages, 39 figures, 15 tables. 2002. Pune: Indian Society for Prehistoric & Quaternary Studies; hardback Rs25

article by Michael D. Petraglia published October 2002 in Antiquity

Large cutting tool variation west and east of the Movius Line

scientific article published on 17 September 2008

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

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

Lithic technology and social transformations in the South Indian Neolithic: The evidence from Sanganakallu–Kupgal

scholarly article by Ceri Shipton published in June 2012

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

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

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 Palaeolithic occupation in the Thar Desert during the Upper Pleistocene: the signature of a modern human exit out of Africa?

scientific article

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

scientific article

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

scholarly article

Middle Pleistocene vertebrate fossils from the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia: Implications for biogeography and palaeoecology

scholarly article by Christopher M. Stimpson et al published July 2016 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Middle palaeolithic and neolithic occupations around Mundafan Palaeolake, Saudi Arabia: implications for climate change and human dispersals

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Modern Human Origins and the Evolution of Behavior in the Later Pleistocene Record of South Asia

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Monumental landscapes of the Holocene humid period in Northern Arabia: The mustatil phenomenon

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Multiple interpretive errors? Indeed. Reply to: Climate effects of the 74 ka Toba super-eruption: Multiple interpretive errors in ‘A high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Young Toba Tuff and dating of ultra-distal tephra’ by Michael Haslam

Neandertal humeri may reflect adaptation to scraping tasks, but not spear thrusting

scientific article (publication date: 2012)

New rock art discoveries in the Kurnool District, Andhra Pradesh, India

scholarly article by Paul Taçon published in June 2010

Oldowan Technology Amid Shifting Environments ∼2.03–1.83 Million Years Ago

scientific article published on 3 March 2022

On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives

scientific article published in December 2017

Ostrich expansion into India during the Late Pleistocene: Implications for continental dispersal corridors

scientific article

Out of Africa: new hypotheses and evidence for the dispersal of Homo sapiens along the Indian Ocean rim.

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

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

scientific article (publication date: 28 July 2009)

Pre-Neolithic evidence for dog-assisted hunting strategies in Arabia

article

Primate archaeology

scientific article published on July 2009

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

scientific article

Reinvestigation of Kuumbi Cave, Zanzibar, reveals Later Stone Age coastal habitation, early Holocene abandonment and Iron Age reoccupation

Reply to Ellis et al.: Human niche construction and evolutionary theory

scientific article

Reply to Westaway and Lyman: Emus, dingoes, and archaeology's role in conservation biology

scientific article

Reply to: ‘No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave’ ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 January 2022

Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa.

scientific article

Rock Art Research in India: Historical Approaches and Recent Theoretical Directions

Rock art landscapes beside the Jubbah palaeolake, Saudi Arabia

Rock art provides new evidence on the biogeography of kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis ), wild dromedary, aurochs (Bos primigenius ) and African wild ass (Equus africanus ) in the early and middle Holocene of north-western Arabia

scholarly article by Maria Guagnin et al published 14 January 2018 in Journal of Biogeography

Ryan J. Rabett. Human adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic: hominin dispersal and behaviour during the Late Quaternary. xii+372 pages, 73 illustrations, 10 tables. 2012. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-01-107-01829-7 hardback £ 65 & $99

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

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Species identification of Australian marsupials using collagen fingerprinting

scientific article published in October 2021

Stone tool assemblages and models for the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa

scientific article

Taphonomy of an excavated striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) den in Arabia: implications for paleoecology and prehistory

scientific article

The 74 ka Toba super-eruption and southern Indian hominins: archaeology, lithic technology and environments at Jwalapuram Locality 3

scientific article

The Lithic Assemblages of Xiaochangliang, Nihewan Basin: Implications for Early Pleistocene Hominin Behaviour in North China

scientific article

The Middle Palaeolithic of the Nejd, Saudi Arabia

scientific article published on 3 March 2016

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 Paleolithic in the Nihewan Basin, China: Evolutionary history of an Early to Late Pleistocene record in Eastern Asia

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

The Prehistoric Axe Factory at Sanganakallu-Kupgal (Bellary District), Southern India

scholarly article by Roberto Risch published in January 2009

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 Toba volcanic super-eruption, environmental change, and hominin occupation history in India over the last 140,000 years

article by Michael D. Petraglia et al published May 2012 in Quaternary International

The dispersal of Homo sapiens across southern Asia: how early, how often, how complex?

article

The expansion of later Acheulean hominins into the Arabian Peninsula

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

The greening of Arabia: Multiple opportunities for human occupation of the Arabian Peninsula during the Late Pleistocene inferred from an ensemble of climate model simulations

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The lithic assemblages of Donggutuo, Nihewan basin: Knapping skills of early pleistocene hominins in North China

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

The oldest and longest enduring microlithic sequence in India: 35 000 years of modern human occupation and change at the Jwalapuram Locality 9 rockshelter

scholarly article by Chris Clarkson published in June 2009

The prehistory of the Arabian peninsula: deserts, dispersals, and demography

scientific article published on May 2012

The southern dispersal hypothesis and the South Asian archaeological record: Examination of dispersal routes through GIS analysis

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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

Tropical forests and the genus Homo

scientific article published on November 2016

Unexpected technological heterogeneity in northern Arabia indicates complex Late Pleistocene demography at the gateway to Asia.

scientific article

Variation in lithic technological strategies among the Neanderthals of Gibraltar

scientific article published in 2013

Water Flow and the Formation of Early Pleistocene Artifact Sites in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

scholarly article by Michael D. Petraglia & Richard Potts published September 1994 in Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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