Publications of Eleanor M. L. Scerri

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)

Hallett, E.; Leonardi, M.; Cerasoni, J. N.; Will, M.; Beyer, R.; Krapp, M.; Kandel, A. W.; Manica, A.; Scerri, E. M. L.: Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal. Nature, s41586-025-09154-0 (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)

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.; Clark, J.; Linares-Matás, G.; Boisard, S.; Arous, E. B.; Blinkhorn, J.; Grove, M.; Scerri, E. M. L.: Climate seasonality and predictability during the Middle Stone Age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens. Scientific Reports 15, 11645 (2025)

Colucci, M.; Leonardi, M.; Hodgson, J. A.; Stringer, C.; Scerri, E. M. L.: The legacy of Luca Cavalli-Sforza on human evolution. Human Population Genetics and Genomics 5 (1), 0001 (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)

Leonardi, M.; Colucci, M.; Pozzi, A. V.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Manica, A.: tidysdm: leveraging the flexibility of tidymodels for species distribution modelling in R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15 (10), 14406, pp. 1789 - 1795 (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)

Will, M.; Scerri, E. M. L.: The generic Middle Stone Age: fact or fiction? Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 59 (1), 2323374, pp. 4 - 21 (2024)

Scerri, E. M. L.; Will, M.: The revolution that still isn't: the origins of behavioral complexity in Homo sapiens. Journal of Human Evolution 179, 103358, pp. 1 - 19 (2023)

Scerri, E. M. L.: One species, many roots? Nature Ecology & Evolution, s41559-023-02080-2 (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)

Guagnin, M.; Haburaj, V.; Groucutt, H. S.; Hoelzmann, P.; Gauci, R.; Vella, N. C.; Parisi, C.; Cassar, M.; Cassar, Y.; Asciak, G. et al.; Scerri, E.: Evaluating possible prehistoric cave art in the central Mediterranean: Analyses of pigment traces and identification of taphonomic processes at Għar Ħasan, Malta. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 47, 103815, pp. 1 - 14 (2023)

Pargeter, J.; Brooks, A.; Douze, K.; Eren, M.; Groucutt, H. S.; McNeil, J.; Mackay, A.; Ranhorn, K.; Scerri, E.; Shaw, M. et al.; Tryon, C.; Will, M.; Leplongeon, A.: Replicability in lithic analysis. American antiquity 88 (2), 2023.4, pp. 163 - 186 (2023)

Shipton, C.; Groucutt, H. S.; Scerri, E. M. L.; Petraglia, m, M. D.: Uniformity and diversity in handaxe shape at the End of the Acheulean in Southwest Asia. Lithic technology 48 (4), 2225982, pp. 364 - 377 (2023)

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)

Scerri, E. M. L.; Roberts, P.; Maezumi, S. Y.; Malhi, Y.: Tropical forests in the deep human past. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 377 (1849), 2020.0500, pp. 1 - 12 (2022)

Cerasoni, J. N.; Hallett, E.; Ben Arous, E.; Beyer, R. M.; Krapp, M.; Manica, A.; Scerri, E. M. L.: Archaeological sites and palaeoenvironments of Pleistocene West Africa. Journal of maps, 2022.2052767, pp. 1 - 8 (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)