Extreme Events Publications

Groucutt, H. S.: The morphological variability of Maltese ‘cart ruts’ and its implications. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 41, 103287, pp. 1 - 9 (2022)

Groucutt, H. S.; Carleton, W. C.; Fenech, K.; Gauci, R.; Grima, R.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Stewart, M.; Vella, N. C.: The 4.2 ka event and the end of the Maltese “Temple Period”. Frontiers in Earth Science 9, 771683 (2022)

Carleton, W. C.; Collard , M.; Stewart, M.; Groucutt, H. S.: A song of neither ice nor fire: temperature extremes had no impact on violent conflict among european societies during the 2nd Millennium CE. Frontiers in Earth Science 9, 769107 (2021)

Blinkhorn, J.; Groucutt, H. S.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Petraglia, M. D.; Blockley, S.: Directional changes in Levallois core technologies between Eastern Africa, Arabia, and the Levant during MIS 5. Scientific Reports 11 (1), 11465 (2021)

Groucutt, H. S.; Carleton, W. C.: Mass-kill hunting and Late Quaternary ecology: New insights into the ‘desert kite’ phenomenon in Arabia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 37, 102995, pp. 1 - 10 (2021)

Guagnin, M.; Shipton, C.; Martin, L.; Kingwell-Banham, E.; Breeze, P.; Graham, L.; Ott, F.; Stewart, M.; El-Dossary, S.; Zahrani, B. et al.; Al-Omari, A.; Alsharekh, A. M.; Petraglia, M.: A tale of two hearth sites: Neolithic and intermittent mid to late Holocene occupations in the Jubbah oasis, northern Saudi Arabia. Archaeological Research in Asia 26, 100278 (2021)

Nicholson, S. L.; Hosfield, R.; Groucutt, H. S.; Pike, A. W.G.; Fleitmann, D.: Beyond arrows on a map: the dynamics of Homo sapiens dispersal and occupation of Arabia during Marine Isotope Stage 5. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 62, 101269 (2021)

Schlebusch, C. M.; Loog, L.; Groucutt, H. S.; King, T.; Rutherford, A.; Barbieri, C.; Barbujani, G.; Chikhi, L.; Jakobsson, M.; Eriksson, A. et al.; Manica, A.; Tishkoff, S. A.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Scally, A.; Brierley, C.; Thomas, M. G.: Human origins in southern african Palaeo-wetlands?: strong claims from weak evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science 130, 105374, pp. 1 - 4 (2021)

Scerri, E. M. L.; Frouin, M.; Breeze, P. S.; Armitage, S. J.; Candy, I.; Groucutt, H. S.; Drake, N.; Parton, A.; White, T. S.; Alsharekh, A. M. et al.; Petraglia, M. D.: The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia. Scientific Reports 11 (1), 10111 (2021)

Stewart, M.; Carleton, W. C.; Groucutt, H. S.: Climate change, not human population growth, correlates with Late Quaternary megafauna declines in North America. Nature Communications 12 (1), 965, pp. 1 - 15 (2021)

Blinkhorn, J.; Zanolli, C.; Compton, T.; Groucutt, H. S.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Crété, L.; Stringer, C.; Petraglia, M. D.; Blockley, S.: Nubian Levallois technology associated with southernmost Neanderthals. Scientific Reports 11 (1), 2869, pp. 1 - 13 (2021)

Groucutt, H. S.; White, T. S.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Andrieux, E.; Clark-Wilson, R.; Breeze, P. S.; Armitage, S. J.; Stewart, M.; Drake, N.; Louys, J. et al.; Price, G. J.; Duval, M.; Parton, A.; Candy, I.; Carleton, W. C.; Shipton, C.; Jennings, R. P.; Zahir, M.; Blinkhorn, J.; Blockley, S.; Al-Omari, A.; Alsharekh, A. M.; Petraglia, M. D.: Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years. Nature 597, s41586-021-03863-y, pp. 376 - 380 (2021)

Stewart, M.; Andrieux, E.; Clark-Wilson, R.; Vanwezer, N.; Blinkhorn, J.; Armitage, S. J.; al Omari, A.; Zahrani, B.; Alqahtani, M.; Al-Shanti, M. et al.; Zalmout, I.; Al-Mufarreh, Y. S. A.; Alsharekh, A. M.; Boivin, N.; Petraglia, M. D.; Groucutt, H. S.: Taphonomy of an excavated striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) den in Arabia: implications for paleoecology and prehistory. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13 (8), 139 (2021)

Carleton, W. C.; Groucutt, H. S.: Sum things are not what they seem: Problems with point-wise interpretations and quantitative analyses of proxies based on aggregated radiocarbon dates. The Holocene, 0959683620981700 (2020)

Carleton, W. C.: Evaluating Bayesian Radiocarbon-dated Event Count (REC) models for the study of long-term human and environmental processes. Journal of Quaternary Science 36 (1), 3256, pp. 110 - 123 (2020)

Stewart, M.; Clark-Wilson, R.; Breeze, P. S.; Janulis, K.; Candy, I.; Armitage, S. J.; Ryves, D. B.; Louys, J.; Duval, M.; Price, G. J. et al.; Cuthbertson, P.; Bernal, M. A.; Drake, N. A.; Alsharekh, A. M.; Zahrani, B.; Al-Omari, A.; Roberts, P.; Groucutt, H. S.; Petraglia, M. D.: Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior. Science Advances 6 (38), eaba8940 (2020)

Groucutt, H. S.: Volcanism and human prehistory in Arabia. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 402, 107003, pp. 1 - 14 (2020)

Scerri, E. M. L.; Kühnert, D.; Blinkhorn, J.; Carleton, W. C.; Roberts, P.; Nicoll, K.; Zerboni, A.; Orijemie, E. A.; Barton, H.; Candy, I. et al.; Goldstein, S. T.; Hawks, J.; Niang, K.; N’Dah, D.; Petraglia, M. D.; Vella, N. C.: Field-based sciences must transform in response to COVID-19. Nature Ecology & Evolution, s41559-020-01317-8 (2020)

Petraglia, M. D.; Groucutt, H. S.; Guagnin, M.; Breeze, P. S.; Boivin, N.: Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (15), 1920211117, pp. 8263 - 8270 (2020)

Stewart, M.; Louys, J.; Carleton, W. C.; Candy, I.; Clark-Wilson, R.; Breeze, P. S.; Drake, N. A.; Price, G. J.; Al-Mufarreh, Y. S.A.; Soubhi, S. A. et al.; Zalmout, I. S.; Alsharekh, A. M.; Omari, A. A.; Petraglia, M. D.: Taphonomic and zooarchaeological investigations at the middle Pleistocene site of Ti's al Ghadah, western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews 218, pp. 228 - 253 (2019)