Publications of Patrick Roberts

Roberts, P.; Petraglia, M.: Pleistocene rainforests: barriers or attractive environments for early human foragers? World Archaeology 47 (5), pp. 718 - 739 (2015)

Roberts, P.; Boivin, N.; Petraglia, M. D.; Masser, P.; Meece, S.; Weisskopf, A.; Silva, F.; Korisettar, R.; Fuller, D.Q.: Local diversity in settlement, demography and subsistence across the southern Indian Neolithic-Iron Age transition: site growth and abandonment at Sanganakallu-Kupgal from a regional environmental perspective. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 8 (3), pp. 575 - 599 (2015)

Roberts, P.; Boivin, N.; Petraglia, M.: 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. Journal of World Prehistory 28 (2), pp. 69 - 112 (2015)

Roberts, P.; Perera, N.; Wedage, O.; Deraniyagala, S.; Perera, J.; Eregama, S.; Gledhill, A.; Petraglia, M. D.; Lee-Thorp, J. A.: Direct evidence for human reliance on rainforest resources in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka. Science 347 (6227), pp. 1246 - 1249 (2015)

Roberts, P.; Delson, E.; Miracle, P.; Ditchfield, P.; Roberts, R. G.; Jacobs, Z.; Blinkhorn, J.; Ciochon, R. L.; Fleagle, J. G.; Frost, S. R. et al.; Gilbert, C. C.; Gunnell, G. F.; Harrison, T.; Korisettar, R.; Petraglia, M. D.: Continuity of mammalian fauna over the last 200,000 y in the Indian subcontinent. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 111 (16), pp. 5848 - 5853 (2014)

Roberts, P.; Lee-Thorp, J. A.; Mitchell, P. J.; Arthur, C.: Stable carbon isotopic evidence for climate change across the late Pleistocene to early Holocene from Lesotho, southern Africa. Journal of Quaternary Science 28 (4), pp. 360 - 369 (2013)

Roberts, P.; Weston, S.; Wild, B.; Boston, C.; Ditchfield, P.; Shortland, A. J.; Pollard, A. M.: 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. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 148 (1), pp. 1 - 10 (2012)

Roberts, P.: Die Wurzeln des Menschen: wie der Dschungel die Erde formte, das menschliche Leben hervorbrachte und unsere Zukunft bestimmt. dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, München (2021), 495 pp.

Roberts, P.: Jungle: how tropical forests shaped the world - and us. Basic Books, New York (2021), 432 pp.

Roberts, P.: Tropical forests in prehistory, history, and modernity. Oxford University Press, Oxford (2019), XVI, 350 pp.

Tolla, M.; Roberts, P.; Lucas, M.; Bonatz, D.; Posth, C.: Late Holocene human diets in the lowlands of West New Guinea: the isotopic evidence. In: West New Guinea: social, biological, and material histories, Ch. 10, pp. 217 - 238 (Eds. Gaffney, D.; Tolla, M.). ANU Press, Cranberra (2025)

van Dalen, B.; Roberts, P.: Prehistoric human development and sustainability. In: The Palgrave handbook of global sustainability, 1st edition Ed., pp. 2195 - 2234 (Ed. Brinkmann, R.). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham (2023)

Patalano, R.; Roberts, P.: Climate Proxies. In: The encyclopedia of ancient history: Asia and Africa, eahaa00609 (Eds. Potts, D. T.; Harkness, E.; Neelis, J.; McIntosh, R.) (2021)

Roberts, P.: Foreword [to Bioarchaeology and Dietary Reconstruction across Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Tuscany, Central Italy / Giulia Riccomi]. In: Bioarchaeology and Dietary Reconstruction across Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Tuscany, Central Italy, pp. x - xi. Archaeopress, Summerville (2021)

Roberts, P.; Krigbaum, J.; Lee-Thorp, J.: Hunting and gathering in prehistoric rainforests: insights from stable isotope analysis. In: Foraging in the past: archaeological studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity, pp. 119 - 158 (Ed. Lemke, A. K.). University Press of Colarado, Louisville (2019)

Roberts, P.; Hendy, J.; Boivin, N. L.: Scientific Practice. In: The Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences, pp. 1526 - 1530 (Ed. López Varela, . L.). Wiley, Hoboken (2018)

Perera, N.; Roberts, P.; Petraglia, M. D.: Bone Technology from Late Pleistocene Caves and Rockshelters of Sri Lanka. In: Osseous Projectile Weaponry, pp. 173 - 188 (Ed. Langley, M. C.). Springer (2016)

Gayantha, K.; Routh, J.; Anupama, K.; Lazar, J.; Prasad, S.; Chandrajith, R.; Roberts, P.; Gleixner, G.: Biomarker and pollen approach to reconstruct Late Holocene climate and environmental history in western Sri Lnka. In: Conference Proceedings, 29th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry, Vol. 2019, 152636, pp. 1 - 2. 29th International Meeting on Organic Geochemistry (IMOG), Gothenburg, September 01, 2019 - September 06, 2019. European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers, EAGE, Houten (2019)

García-Escárzaga, A.; Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I.; González-Morales, M. R.; Arrizabalaga, A.; Zech, J.; Roberts, P.: Shell sclerochronology and stable oxygen isotope ratios from the limpet Patella depressa Pennant, 1777: implications for palaeoclimate reconstruction and archaeology in northern Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 560, 110023, pp. 1 - 15 (2020), 15 pp.

Ben Arous, E.; Aouadi, N.; Belhouchet, L.; Mekki, H.; Trabelsi, K.; Mabrouki, M.; Essid, E. M.; Fehri, N.; Shao, Q.; Falguères, C. et al.; Lebreton, V.; Roberts, P.; Patalano, R.: Sidi Zin Archaeological Project: new investigations into the Acheulean and Middle Stone Age in Tunisia, Antiquity, (2025)