Publications of James Blinkhorn

Blinkhorn, J.; Zinner, D.; Timbrell, L.; Manica, A.; Grove, M.; Scerri, E. M. L.: Identifying late Pleistocene and Holocene refugia for baboons. Communications Biology 8 (1), 1003 (2025)

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 641, s41586-025-08780-y, pp. 137 - 143 (2025)

Markowska, M.; Vonhof, H. B.; Groucutt, H. S.; Breeze, P. S.; Drake, N.; Stewart, M.; Albert, R.; Andrieux, E.; Blinkhorn, J.; Boivin, N. L. et al.; Budsky, A.; Clark-Wilson, R.; Fleitmann, D.; Gerdes, A.; Martin, A. N.; Martínez-García, A.; Nicholson, S. L.; Price, G. J.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Scholz, D.; Vanwezer, N.; Weber, M.; Alsharekh, A. M.; Omari, A. A. A.; Al-Mufarreh, Y. S. A.; Al-Jibreen, F.; Alqahtani, M.; Al-Shanti, M.; Zalmout, I.; Petraglia, M. D.; Haug, G. H.: Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years. Nature 640, s41586-025-08859-6, pp. 954 - 961 (2025)

Ben Arous, E.; Blinkhorn, J.; Elliott, S.; Kiahtipes, C. A.; N’zi, C. D.; Bateman, M. D.; Duval, M.; Roberts, P.; Patalano, R.; Blackwood, A. et al.; Niang, K.; Kouamé, E. A.; Lebato, E.; Hallett, E.; Cerasoni, J. N.; Scott, E.; Ilgner, J.; Escarza, A.; Jesús, M.; Guédé, F. Y.; Scerri, E. M. L.: Humans in Africa’s wet tropical forests 150 thousand years ago. Nature 640, s41586-025-08613-y, pp. 402 - 407 (2025)

Timbrell, L.; Blinkhorn, J.; Grove, M.: Random forest models highlight early Homo sapiens habitats and their relationship to lithic assemblage composition. Quaternary environments and humans 3 (1), 100048, pp. 1 - 11 (2025)

Ben Arous, E.; Niang, K.; Blinkhorn, J.; Del Val, M.; Medialdea, A.; Coussot, C.; Alonso Escarza, M.J.; Bateman, M.D.; Churruca Clemente, A.; Blackwood, A. et al.; Iglesias-Cibanal, J.; Saíz, C.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Duval, M.: Constraining the age of the Middle Stone Age locality of Bargny (Senegal) through a combined OSL-ESR dating approach. Quaternary environments and humans 2 (6), 100044, pp. 1 - 8 (2024)

Stewart, M.; Andrieux, E.; Blinkhorn, J.; Guagnin, M.; Fernandes, R.; Vanwezer, N.; Hatton, A.; Alqahtani, M.; Zalmout, I.; Clark-Wilson, R. et al.; Al-Mufarreh, Y. S. A.; Al-Shanti, M.; Zahrani, B.; Al Omari, A.; Al-Jibreen, F.; Alsharekh, A. M.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Boivin, N.; Petraglia, M.; Groucutt, H. S.: First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: the archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia. PLOS ONE 19 (4), e0299292 (2024)

Timbrell, L.; Habte, B.; Tefera, Y.; Maroma, C.; Ndiema, E.; Plomp, K.; Blinkhorn, J.; Grove, M.: Stone point variability reveals spatial, chronological and environmental structuring of eastern African Middle Stone Age populations. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 59 (1), 2268986, pp. 111 - 139 (2024)

Padilla-Iglesias, C.; Grove, M.; Blinkhorn, J.: Ecological drivers of hunter-gatherer lithic technology from the Middle and Later Stone Age in Central Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 322, 108390, pp. 1 - 16 (2023)

Anil, D.; Devi, M.; Blinkhorn, J.; Smith, V.; Sanghode, S.; Mahesh, V.; Khan, Z.; Ajithprasad, P.; Chauhan, N.: Youngest Toba Tuff deposits in the Gundlakamma River basin, Andhra Pradesh, India and their role in evaluating Late Pleistocene behavioral change in South Asia. Quaternary Research 115, 13, pp. 134 - 145 (2023)

Niang, K.; Blinkhorn, J.; Bateman, M. D.; Kiahtipes, C. A.: Longstanding behavioural stability in West Africa extends to the Middle Pleistocene at Bargny, coastal Senegal. Nature Ecology & Evolution, s41559-023-02046-4 (2023)

Cerasoni, J. N.; Hallett, E.; Orijemie, E. A.; Ashastina, K.; Lucas, M.; Farr, L.; Höhn, A.; Kiahtipes, C. A.; Blinkhorn, J.; Roberts, P. et al.; Manica, A.; Scerri, E. M. L.: Human interactions with tropical environments over the last 14,000 years at Iho Eleru, Nigeria. iScience 26 (3), 106153 (2023)

Buchanan, B.; Hamilton, M. J.; Macdonald, D.; Blinkhorn, J.; Groucutt, H. S.; Eren, M. I.; Kuhn, S. L.: Geometric morphometric analyses of Levallois points from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic do not support functional specialization. Lithic technology 48 (4), 2208930, pp. 437 - 451 (2023)

Picin, A.; Wedage, O.; Blinkhorn, J.; Amano, N.; Deraniyagala, S.; Boivin, N.; Roberts, P.; Petraglia, M.: Homo sapiens lithic technology and microlithization in the South Asian rainforest at Kitulgala Beli-lena (c. 45 – 8,000 years ago). PLoS One 17 (10), e0273450 (2022)

Blinkhorn, J.; Timbrell, L.; Grove, M.; Scerri, E. M. L.: Evaluating refugia in recent human evolution in Africa. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 377 (1849), 20200485, pp. 1 - 15 (2022)

Timbrell, L.; Grove, M.; Manica, A.; Rucina, S.; Blinkhorn, J.: A spatiotemporally explicit paleoenvironmental framework for the Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa. Scientific Reports 12 (1), 3689 (2022)

Blinkhorn, J.; Achyuthan, H.; Durcan, J.; Roberts, P.; Ilgner, J.: Constraining the chronology and ecology of Late Acheulean and Middle Palaeolithic occupations at the margins of the monsoon. Scientific Reports 11 (1), 19665 (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)

Blinkhorn, J.: The gateway to the oriental zone: environmental change and palaeolithic behaviour in the Thar Desert. Quaternary International 596, 021, pp. 79 - 92 (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, pp. 1 - 25 (2021)