Publications of W. Christopher Carleton

Scerri, E. M. L.; Blinkhorn, J.; Groucutt, H. S.; Stewart, M.; Candy, I.; Allué, E.; Burguet-Coca, A.; Currás, A.; Carleton, W. C.; Lindauer, S. et al.; Spengler, R.; Boxleitner, K.; Asciak, G.; Colucci, M.; Gauci, R.; Hatton, A. G.; Kutowsky, J.; Maier, A.; Mata-González, M.; Mifsud, N.; Niang, K.; Roberts, P.; de Giorgio, J.; Xerri, R.; Vella, N. C.: Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands. Nature, s41586-025-08780-y (2025)

Carleton, W. C.; Elton, H.; Miranda, W.; Work, I.; Safarik, D.; Winkelmann, R.; Laubichler, M. D.; Renn, J.; Roberts, P.: Parallel scaling of elite wealth in ancient Roman and modern cities with implications for understanding urban inequality. Nature cities, s44284-025-00213-1 (2025)

Roberts, P.; Carleton, W. C.; Amano, N.; Findley, D. M.; Hamilton, R.; Maezumi, S. Y.; Winkelmann, R.; Laubichler, M. D.; Renn, J.: Using urban pasts to speak to urban presents in the Anthropocene. Nature cities 1 (1), s44284-023-00014-4, pp. 30 - 41 (2024)

Maezumi, S. Y.; Power, M. J.; Smith, R. J.; McLauchlan, K. K.; Brunelle, A. R.; Carleton, W. C.; Kay, A. U.; Roberts, P.; Mayle, F. E.: Fire-human-climate interactions in the Bolivian Amazon rainforest ecotone from the Last Glacial Maximum to late Holocene. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 2, 1208985 (2023)

Carleton, W. C.; Klassen, S.; Niles-Weed, J.; Evans, D.; Roberts, P.; Groucutt, H. S.: Bayesian regression versus machine learning for rapid age estimation of archaeological features identified with lidar at Angkor. Scientific Reports 13 (1), 17913 (2023)

Patalano, R.; Arthur, C.; Carleton, W. C.; Challis, S.; Dewar, G.; Gayantha, K.; Gleixner, G.; Ilgner, J.; Lucas, M.; Marzo, S. et al.; Mokhachane, R.; Pazan, K.; Spurite, D.; Morley, M. W.; Parker, A.; Mitchell, P.; Stewart, B. A.; Roberts, P.: Ecological stability of Late Pleistocene-to-Holocene Lesotho, southern Africa, facilitated human upland habitation. Communications Earth & Environment 4 (1), 129 (2023)

Stewart, M.; Carleton, W. C.; Groucutt, H. S.: Extreme events in biological, societal, and earth sciences: a systematic review of the literature. Frontiers in Earth Science 10, 786829 (2022)

Stewart, M.; Carleton, W. C.; Groucutt, H. S.: Reply to: Accurate population proxies do not exist between 11.7 and 15 ka in North America. Nature Communications 13 (1), 4693 (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)

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 (7876), s41586-021-03863-y, pp. 376 - 380 (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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Will, M.; Tryon, C.; Shaw, M.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Ranhorn, K.; Pargeter, J.; McNeil, J.; Mackay, A.; Leplongeon, A.; Carleton, W. C. et al.; Douze, K.; Brooks, A. S.: Comparative analysis of Middle Stone Age artifacts in Africa (CoMSAfrica). Evolutionary Anthropology 28 (2), pp. 57 - 59 (2019)

Carleton, W. C.; Grün, R.; Zalmout, I. A. S.; Drake, N. A.; Armitage, S. J.; Candy, I.; Clark-Wilson, R.; Louys, J.; Breeze, P. S.; Duval, M. et al.; Buck, L. T.; Kivell, T. L.; Pomeroy, E.; Stephens, N. B.; Stock, J. T.; Stewart, M.; Price, G. J.; Kinsley, L.; Sung, W. W.; Alsharekh, A.; Al-Omari, A.; Zahir, M.; Memesh, A. M.; Abdulshakoor, A. J.; Al-Masari, A. M.; Bahameem, A. A.; Murayyi, K. M. S. A.; Zahrani, B.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Petraglia, M. D.: Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, pp. 800 - 809 (2018)

Carleton, W. C. (Ed.): Culture history and convergent evolution: Can we detect populations in prehistory? Springer, Cham (2020), 302 pp.

Carleton, W. C.: Culture and Convergence: the curious case of the Nubian Complex. In: Culture history and convergent evolution: Can we detect populations in prehistory?, 4, pp. 55 - 86 (Ed. Groucutt, H. S.). Springer, Cham (2020)