Prof. Dr. Patrick Roberts

CV and Publications

• Curriculum Vitae

  Other and Previous Positions

  01.2025–present Director (tenured), Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany

  02.2025–present Außerplanmäßige Professur, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany

  09.2023–present Honorary Professor, School of Culture, History and Language, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

  04.2020–present Affiliated Professor, School of Archaeology, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines

  07.2022–02.2025 Privatdozent, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany

  04.2022–12.2024 W2 Independent Group Leader (tenured), isoTROPIC Research Group, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany

  11.2021–present Lead Scientist, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

  09.2018–09.2023 Senior Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

  11.2020–03.2022 W2 Senior Scientist (tenured), Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

  09.2016–10.2020 Group Leader, Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany

  Education and Qualifications

  2022 Habilitation in Prehistory and Early History (Ur- und Frühgeschichte), Universität zu Köln. Thesis title: Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity.

  2016 DPhil in Archaeological Science, University of Oxford. Thesis title: Fruits of the Forest: Human Stable Isotope Ecology and Rainforest Adaptations in Late Pleistocene and Holocene Sri Lanka. Supervisors: Prof. Julia Lee-Thorp, Prof. Michael Petraglia.

  2013 MSc in Archaeological Science (First Class with Distinction), University of Oxford. Dissertation title: Stable Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Analysis of Ostrich Eggshell (OES) Samples from LSA and MSA Levels at Blombos Cave, Klipdrift Shelter, and Klipdrift Cave (South Africa).

  2012 BA in Archaeology and Anthropology (First Class with Distinction), St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford.

  Grants and Scholarships

  2025 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Excellence Cluster, “Imaginamics: Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining”, Co-Principal Investigator.

  2024 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, “Rituale und Biographien: Körperbestattungen der jüngeren Bronzezeit und der Umgang mit dem Tod in Gräbern und Siedlungen des Zentralortes Kuckenburg (Unstrutgruppe)”, Co-Principal Investigator.

  2022 Arts and Humanities Research Council (U.K.) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DE), UK–Germany Collaborative Funding Scheme, “Comparative Legacies of Human Land Use in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest”, German Principal Investigator.

  2022 Australian Research Council Discovery Project Award, “Dispersing myths: Characterising the timing and nature of human migration through Asia”, Partner Investigator.

  2021 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, “Management and conservation of agropastoral landscapes on the edge of the Andes”, German Principal Investigator.

  2019 European Research Council Starting Grant, “PANTROPOCENE: Finding a Pre-industrial, Pan-tropical ‘Anthropocene’”, Principal Investigator.

  2019 National Geographic Explorer Grant, “The impacts of a changing Indian Ocean Monsoon on early urban settlements in Sri Lanka”, Principal Investigator.

  2019 European Research Council Advanced Grant, “LASTJOURNEY: Following the footsteps of early human colonisation in South America”, Project Partner.

  2013 Natural Environmental Research Council Scholarship (U.K.), “A Sri Lankan perspective on the palaeoenvironmental context of the early humans of South Asia and its bearing on behavioural ‘modernity’”, Principal Investigator.

  2012 Clarendon Scholarship and Santander Scholarship, University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., “Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in Pleistocene South Africa”, Principal Investigator.

  Awards and Honours

  2024 Thüringer Forschungspreis, Grundlagenforschung zur Menschheitsgeschichte in den Tropen und ihre Relevanz für die Gegenwart, Erfurt, Thuringia.

  2023 Humanitarian Award for services to repatriation and cultural protection, Indigenous Veddah Community, Dambana, Sri Lanka.

  2023 Corresponding Member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.

  2021 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis, award for Early Career Investigators in Germany, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, Germany.

  2018 Beutenberg Campus Award for Best Young Scientist, Beutenberg-Campus e.V., Jena, Germany.

• Publications

  Books

  2021    Roberts, P. Jungle: How Tropical Forests Shaped the World and Us. London: Viking / Penguin Random House.

  2021    Roberts, P. (translated by S. Vogel). Die Wurzeln des Menschen: Wie der Dschungel die Erde formte, das menschliche Leben hervorbrachte und unsere Zukunft bestimmt. Munich: dtv Verlag.

  2019    Roberts, P. Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  Published Journal Articles 

  2026    Carleton, W.C., Lawrence, D., Brotherson, D., Ebert, C.E., Lobo, J., Ortman, S.G., Smith, M.E., Tho, T., Romanowska, I., Klassen, S., Roberts, P. Making comparative archaeological and historical urbanism rigorous and open access through the URBank data platform. Antiquity: 10287.

  2026    Bleasdale, M., Derbyshire, S., Lucas, M., Lowasa, L., Lehn, C., Nami, J.E., Ilgner, J., Boivin, N.l., Roberts, P. Exploring contemporary pastoral variability through stable isotope analysis in the Turkana Basin, Kenya. Current Anthropology 67: 739930.

  2026    Rosencrance, R.L., Smith, G.M., McDonough, K.N., Jazwa, C.S., Antonosyan, M., Kallenbach, E.A., Connolly, T.J., Culleton, B.J., Puseman, K., McGuinness, M., Jenkins, D.L., Stueber, D.O., Endzweig, P.E., Roberts, P. Complex perishable technologies from the North American Great Basin reveal specialized Late Pleistocene adaptations. Science Advances 12: eaec2916.

  2026    Reinhardt, A.L., Riris, P., Harris, B., Jha, D.K., de Primam, L., Leite, G., Bauermann, S.G., Gayantha, K., Rudd, R., Roberts, P., Behling, H. Late Holocene vegetation dynamics, fire regimes, and human impact in Southern Brazil: a multi-proxy palaeoecological record from the Matematico Lake. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 686: 1-13.

  2026    Chakraborty, K.S., Mukhopadhyay, S., Jha, D.K., Roberts, P. Quaternary research in South Asia: exploring human-environment interactions (editorial). Quaternary Environments and Humans 4: 1-4.

  2026    Boulanger, C., Roberts, P., Lucas, M., Ingicco, T., O’Connor, S., Ono, R., Sémah, A-M. Stable isotope variation in East and Southeast Asian marine ecosystems and its relevance for archaeological analysis. Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Palaeoecology 31: 129-146.

  2026    Zuccarelli Freire, V., Samec, C., Roberts, P., Moreno, E. 2026. Editorial: New theoretical and methodological approaches to land use dynamics in the Andes during the Late Holocene. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 5: 1833526.

  2025    Roberts, P., Los, S., Carleton, W.C., Winkelmann, R., Maezumi, S.Y. ‘Wildland-urban interfaces’ from an archaeological perspective. Journal of Urban Archaeology 11: 141-154.

  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 understranding urban inequality. Nature Cities, s44284-025-00213-1.

  2025    Wang, H., Caetano Andrade, V.L., Boivin, N.L., Clement, C.R., Ayala, W.E., Melinski, R.D., da Costa, F.S., Weigel, D., Roberts, P. Long-term human influence on the demography and genetic diversity of the hyperdominant Bertholletia excelsa in the Amazon Basin. Current Biology 35: 629-639.e4.

  2025    Bourgon, N., Lüdecke, T., Leichliter, J.N., Bauman, C., Brömme, S., Vink, M., Bacon, A.-M., McCormack, J., Nguyen, T.M.H., Nguyen, A.T., Antoine, P.-O., Ponche, J.-L., Duringer, P., Demeter, F., Boualaphane, S., Luangkhoth, T., Dufour, E., Hublin, J.-J., Jaouen, K., Tütken, T., Martinez-Garcia, A., Roberts. P. Faunal persistence and ecological flexibility in Pleistocene Southeast Asia revealed through multi-isotope analysis. Science Advances 11, eadu3642.

  2025    Stokes, F.J., Benites, S., Ekman, A., Suruí, U.A., Furquim, L., Winkelmann, R., Renn, J., Roberts, P. Tropical deforestation and Indigenous resistance over the longue durée in South America. Journal of Global History, S1740022825000051.

  2025    Gitau, P.N., Kinyanjui, R., Roberts, P. Colonial-era settlements and post-colonial legacies have increased the loss of montane forests in the central highlands of Kenya. Communications Earth & Environment 6, 728.

  2025    Wang, X., Tang, Z., Li, Y., Zhang, G., Lu, L., Wang, B., Wang, W., Lü, H., Roberts, P. Illuminating interaction networks along the Silk Roads: a multi-isotopic analysis of the Zaghunluq Cemetery, southern Xinjiang, China. Antiquity 45.

  2025    Findley, D.M., Roberts, P. Cultivating wheat in the Philippines, ca. 1600-1800 CE: why a grain was not adopted by local populations. International Journal of Historical Archaeology29: 14-39.

  2025    Riccomi, G., Tulumello, G., Naime, Y., Scott, E., Giuffra, V., Roberts, P. Persistence of Roman economic structures reflected in the dietary habits of late antique Tuscany (central Italy, 3rd-7th centuries CE). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 66, 105329.

  2025    Bouron, N., Oelze, M., Roberts, P. Less is more: limiting semi-invasive sampling for multi-isotope analyses and increasing data output from single aliquot samples. Journal of Archaeological Science 180, 106308.

  2025    Itambu, M., Arous, E.B., Fernandes, R., Gallinaro, M., Ilgner, J., Lucas, M., Roberts, P., Scott, E., Steinhof, A., Patalano, R. Renewed archaeological research in Singida Region, central Tanzania. African Archaeological Review 42: 211-228.

  2025    Joka, K., Carretero, L.G., Fuller, D.Q., Roberts, P., Carter, R., Wengrow, D. Storage story: investigating food surplus and agricultural methods in Late Ubaid Gurga Chiya (Iraqi Kurdistan). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 64: 1-10.

  2025    Antonosyan, M., Mkrtchyan, S., Amano, N., Davtyan, R., Yeranyan, N., Badalyan, M., Poghosyan, S., telunts, A., Stepanyan, K., Amiryan, M., Zakyan, T., Eloshvili, M., Zarikian, N., Adigyozalyan, A., Gyonjyan, A., Simonyan, H., Sargsyan, V., Saribekyan, M., Hovhannisyan, A., Simonyan, H., Martirosyan-Olshansky, K., Piliposyan, A., Khachatryan, Z., Evora, M., Paladugu, R., Bobokhyan, A., Roberts, P., Yepiskoposyan, L. Species identification of osseous museum artefacts through peptide mass fingerprinting illustrated by a study on objects from Neolithic to Iron Age Armenia. NPJ Heritage Science 13, 152.

  2025    Antonosyan, M., Maurer, G., Mkrtchyan, S., Boxleitner, K., Saribekyan, M., Hovhannisyan, A., Furquim, L., Stokes, F.J., Davtyan, R., Bobokhyan, A., Azatyan, K., Ilgner, J., Reinhold, S., Frahm, E., Spengler III, R.N., Roberts, P., Amano N., Yepiskoposyan, L. A biomolecular perspective on mobile pastoralism and its role in wider socioeconomic connections in the Chalcolithic South Caucasus. iScience, 112544.

  2025    Scerri, E.M.L., Blinkhorn, J., Groucutt, H.S., Stewart, M., Candy, I., Allué, E., Burguet-Coca, A., Currás, A., Carleotn, W.C., Lindauer, S., 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: 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., 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: 402-407.

  2025    Barquera, R., Sitter, T.L., Kirkpatrick, C.L., Ramirez, D.A., Kocher, A., Spyrou, M.A., Couoh, L.R., Talavera-González, J.A., Castro, M., von Hunnius, T., Guevara, E.K., Hamilton, W.D., Roberts, P., Scott, E., Fabra, M., Peña, D., V, G., Pacheco, A., Rodriguez, M., Aspillaga, E., Tiliakou, A., Nelson, E.A., Giffin, K.L., Bianco, R.A., Rohrlach, A.B., de los Ángeles García Martínez, M., Solís, B., A, F., Sajantila, A., Saunders, S.R., Nores, R., Herbig, A., Krause, J., Bos, K.I. Ancient genomes reveal a deep history of treponemal disease in the Americas. Nature 640: 186-193.

  2025    Samec, C.T., Yacobaccio, H.D., Roberts, P. Late Holocene camelid pastoralism in the Puna highlands of Argentina: an integrative approach using stable isotope analysis of tooth enamel. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 4, 1557715.

  2025    Antonosyan, M., Paladugu, R., Ziegler, M., Carneiro, G.P., Chim, E., Strauss, A.M., Mendes, D., Lemos, R., Carrillo-Briceño, J.D., Furquim, L.P., Schirmer, S., Ilgner, J., Volke, D., Roberts, P. Peptide mass fingerprinting of South American Xenarthrans: a new resource for Zooarchaeology and Palaeontology. Journal of Proteome Research, 5c00636.

  2025    Gastaldi, M.R., Zuccarelli Freire, V., Natalia, V., Gheco, L., Meléndez, A.S., Ferreyra, S., Boscatto, S., Egea, D., Rodríguez Oviedo, M., Nagel, A., Quesada, M.N., Roberts, P., Moreno, E.A. Reconstructing pre-Columbian agrarian territorialities in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range, Eastern NW Argentina. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 4, 1679633.

  2025    Harris, B., Behling, J., de Souza, G., Reinhardt, A., Roberts, P., Riris, P. Investigating pre-Columbian floristic legacy effects using machine learning in the southern Atlantic Forest, Brazil. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 4, 1587670.

  2025    Jha, G., Vyas, V., Jha, D., Patalano, R., Paladugu, R., Ilgner, J., Boivin, N.L., Raj, R., Krishnan, K., Roberts, P., Petraglia, M. On-site plant-wax biomarker analysis for assessing soil-organic-microbial degradation in archaeological contexts: A case-study from Southern-India. iScience 28: 113656.

  2025    Jha, G., Costa, M., Tsoupra, A., Dias, C.B., Kwiecien, O., Longman, J., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Ditchfield, P., Jha, D., Rudd, R., Anilkumar, D., Paladugu, R., Shree, S., Achyuthan, H., Raj, R., Krishnan, K., Boivin, N.L., Roberts, P., Petraglia, M. Seasonally-resolved stratigraphy at Jwalapuram India shows regional surface warming after the Toba volcanic super-eruption. PNAS Nexus 4, pgaf109.

  2025    Solís Torres, Ó.R., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Roberts, P., Amano, N. A critical review of Late Pleistocene human-megafaunal interactions in Mexico. Quaternary Science Reviews 353: 1-12.

  2025    Stewart, M., Peters, C., Ziegler, M., Carleton, W.C., Roberts, P., Boivin, N.L., Groucutt, H. The state of the late Quaternary megafauna extinction debate: a systematic review and analysis. Frontiers in Mammal Science 4, 1678231.

  2025    Mercader, J., Akuku, P., Boivin, N.L., Camacho, A., Carter, T., Clarke, S., Cueva Temprana, A., Favreau, J., Galloway, J., Hernando, R., Huang, H., Hubbard, S., Kaplan, J.O., Larter, S., Magohe, S., Mohamed, A., Mwambwiga, A., Oladele, A., Petraglia, M., Roberts, P., Saladié, P., Shikoni, A., Silva, R., Soto, M., Stricklin, D., Mekonnen, D.Z., Zhao, W., Durkin, P. Homo erectus adapted to steppe-desert climate extremes one million years ago. Communications Earth & Environment 6: s43247-024-01919-1.

  2025    Ciesielska, J.A., Drzewiecki, M., LeRoux, P., Roberts, P. Early settlers of Soba: Strontium isotope evidence for population dynamics in medieval Nubia. World Archaeology: 2588257.

  2025    Ciesielska, J., Scott, E., Roberts, P. Bridging worlds: unravelling Alwan cultural identity at the nexus of the Savannah and Nile valley through subsistence practices. Archaeometry: 70055.

  2024    Roberts, P., Caetano-Andrade, V.L., Fisher, M., Hamilton, R., Rudd, R., Stokes, F., Amano, N., Antonosyan, M., Dugmore, A., Findley, D.M., Freire, V.Z., Furquim, L.P., Fletcher, M-S., Hambrecht, G., Heddell-Stevens, P., Iminjili, V., Jha, D., Jha, G., Kinyanjui, R., Maezumi, S.Y., Morrison, K.D., Renn, J., Stevenson, J., Winkelmann, R., Ziegler, M., Scarborough, V., White, S., Degroot, D., Green, A.S., Isendahl, C. Uncovering the multi-biome environmental and Earth system legacies of past human societies. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-112321-101257

  2024    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: 30-41.

  2024    Findley, D.M., Amano, N., Biong, I., Bankoff, G., Dacudao, P.I., Gealogo, F., Hamilton, R., Pagunsan, R., Roberts, P. Colonial policy, ecological transformations, and agricultural “improvement”: comparing agricultural yields and expansion in the Spanish and U.S. Philippines, 1870-1925 CE. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11: 839. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03310-z

  2024    Los, S., Winkelmann, R., Roberts, P. Exploring tropical forest abvoveground carbon dynamics via modelled landscapoes of varied food production, past and present. Plants, people, planet, 10608.  https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10608

  2024    Urban, M.C., Alberti, M., De Meester, L., Zhou, Y., Verrelli, B.C., Szulkin, M., Schmidt, C., Savage, A.M., Roberts, P., Rivkin, L.R., Palkovacs, E.P., Munshi-South, J., Malesis, A. N., Harris, N.C., Gotanda, K.M., Garroway, C.J., Diamond, S.E., Roches, S.D., Charmantier, A., Brans, K.I. Interactions between climate change and urbanization will shape the future of biodiversity. Nature Climate Change 14: 436-447.

  2024    Heddell-Stevens, P., Barakat, S., Pastoors, A., Lucas, M., Scott, E., Le Roux, P., Roberts, P. Spatial palaeoecology of large-herbivore hominin prey-species at Salzgitter-Lebenstedt, Lower Saxony, Germany: multi-isotope analysis of sequentially-sampled tooth enamel from Rangifer tarandus and Equus sp. Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology 3, 1458040.

  2024    Orfanou, E., Zach, B., Rohrlach, A.B., Schneider, F.N., Paust, E., Lucas, M., Hermes, T., Ilgner, J., Scott, E., Ettel, P., Haak, W., Spengler, R., Roberts. P. Biomolecular evidence for changing millet reliance in Late Bronze Age central Germany. Scientific Reports 14: 4382. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54824-0

  2024    Hermenegildo, T.., Prümers, H., Betancourt, C.J., Roberts, P., O’Connell, T.C. Stable isotope evidence for pre-colonial maize agriculture and animal management in the Bolivian Amazon. Nature Human Behaviour s41562-024-02070-9.

  2024    Pérez-Ramallo, P., Rodríguez-Varela, R., Staniewska, A., Ilgner, J., Krzewińska, M., Chivall, D., Higham, T., Götherström, A., Roberts, P. Unveiling Bishop Teodomiro of Iria Flavia? An attempt to identify the discoverer of St James’ tomb through osteological and biomolecular analyses (Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain). Antiquity 98: 973-990.

  2024    Barquera, R., Del Castillo-Chávez, O., Nägele, K., Pérez-Ramallo, P., Hernández-Zaragoza, D.I., Szolek, A., Rohrlach, A.B., Librado, P., Childebayeva, A., Bianco, R.A., Penman, B.S., Acuña-Alonzo, V., Lucas, M., Lara-Riegos, J.C., Moo-Mezeta, M.E., Torres-Romero, J.C., Roberts, P., Kohlbacker, O., Warinner, C., Krause, J. Ancient genomes reveal insights into ritual life at Chichén Itzá. Nature 630: 912-919.

  2024    Spiciarich, A., Gadot, Y., Shalev, Y., Sapir-Hen, L., Scott, E., le Roux, P., Roberts, P., Stockhammer, P.W. Unveiling ancient Jerusalem’s pastoral dynamics (7th to 2nd centuries BCE) with multi-isotope analysis. Scientific Reports 14, 27278.

  2024    Amano, N., Faulkner, P., Wedage, O., Clarkson, C., Amila, D., del Val, M., Jurkenas, D., Kapukotuwa, A., López, G.I., Pares, J., Pathmalal, M.M., Smith, T., Wright, M., Roberts, P., Petraglia, M., Boivin, N. Early Sri Lankan coastal site tracks technological change and estuarine resource exploitation over the last ca. 25,000 years. Scientific Reports 14, 26693.

  2024    Furquim, L., Roberts, P., Winkelmann, R., Jha, D., Antonosyan, M., Jha, G., Maezumi, S.Y., Rudd, R., Stokes, F., Lellau, R., Iminjili, V., Caetano Andrade, V.L., Ziegler, M.J., Zuccarelli Freire, V. Addressing the Anthropocene from the Global South: integrating paleoecology, archaeology and traditional knowledge for COP engagement. Frontiers in Earth Science 12: 1470577.

  2024    Sekhar Chakraborty, K., Bestel, S., Lucas, M., Roberts, P., Shirvalkar, P., Rawat, Y., Larsen, T., Miller, H.M.L. To waste or not to waste: a multi-proxy analysis of human-waste interaction and rural waste management in Indus Era Gujarat. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 16: 141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-02046-w

  2024    Gaffney, D., Tanudirjo, D.A., Djami, E.N.I., Mas’ud, Z.., Macap, A.R., Russell, T., Dailom, M., Ray, Y., Higham, T., Bradshaw, F., Petchey, F., Florin, S.A., Roberts, P., Lucas, M., Tromp, M., Greig, K., Xhauflair, H., Montenegro, A., Hall, R., Boulanger, C., Ono, R., Oertle, A., Scholz, D., Spitzer, M., Szabo, K., Bertelli, I., Ribechini, E., Haberle, S. Human dispersal and plant processing in the Pacific 55,000-50,000 years ago. Antiquity 98: 885-904.

  2024    Frahm, E., Saribekyan, M., Mkrtchyan, S., Furquim, L., Avagyan, A., Sahakyan, L., Azatyan, K., Roberts, P., Fernandes, R., Yepiskoposyan, L., Amano, N., Antonosyan, M. Increasing obsidian diversity during the Chalcolithic Period at Yeghegis-1 Rockshelter (Armenia) reveals shifts in land use and social networks. Scientific Reports 14: 9528. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59661-9

  2024    Gur-Arieh, S., Eisenmann, S., Henry, A.G., Lucas, M., Lenz, D., Paxinos, P., Weber, H., Morandi, L.F., Stone, J.R., Schultz, M., Roberts, P., Stockhammer, P.W. Reconstructing dietary practices all Tell Kami del-Loz (Lebanon) during the Bronze and Iron Age III/ Persian to Hellenistic periods using plant micro-remains from dental calculus and stable isotope analysis of bone collagen. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 16: 127. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-02000-w

  2024    Joka, K., Hixon, S., Lucas, M., Wachtel, I., Davidovich, U., Gonzaga Santesteban, L., Roberts, P. Exploring the potential of stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of perennial plants from archaeological sites: A case study of olive pits and grape pips from Early Bronze Age Qedesh in the Galilee. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 54: 104410. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104410

  2024    Caetano Andrade, V.L., Clement, C.R., Herrera-Ramírez, D., Larsen, T., Durgante, F., Boivin, N., Schöngart, J., Trumbore, S., Roberts, P. Insights into growth, ring formation and maximum ages of Brazil nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) using 14C dating and tree-ring analysis. Radiocarbon 66: 306-325.

  2024    Jha, D., Patalano, R., Ilgner, J., Achyuthan, H., Alsharekh, A.M., Armitage, S., Blinkhorn, J., Boivin, N., Breeze, P.S., Devra, R., Drake, N., Groucutt, H.S., Guagnin, M., Roberts, P., Petraglia, M. Preservation of plant-wax biomarkers in deserts: implications for Quaternary environment and human evolutionary studies. Journal of Quaternary Science 3597. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3597

  2024    Zhang, Y., Westaway, K.E., Haberle, S., Lubeek, J.K., Bailey, M., Ciochon, R., Morley, M.W., Roberts, P., Zhao, J.-x., Duval, M., Dosseto, A., Pan, Y., Rule, S.., Liao, W., Gully, G.A., Lucas, M., Mo, J., Yang, L., Cai, Y., Wang, W., Joannes-Boyau, R. The demise of the giant ape Gigantopithecus blacki. Nature 625: 535-539.

  2024    Spyrou, A., Roberts, P., Bleasdale, M., Lucas, M., Crewe, L., Simmons, A., Webb, J. Human-cattle interactions in PPNB and Early/Middle Bronze Age Cyprus: integrating zooarchaeological and stable isotope data. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 16: 1-17.

  2024    Hamilton, R., Amano, N., Bradshaw, C.J.A., Saltré, F., Patalano, R., Penny, D., Stevenson, J., Wolfhagen, J., Roberts, P. Forest mosaics, not savanna corridors, dominated in Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Maximum. Proceedings of the Nagtional Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121, e2311280120: 1-8.

  2024    Hixon, S., Roberts, P., Rodríguez-Varela, R., Götherström, A., Rossoni-Notter, E., Notter, O., Raimondeau, P., Besnard, G., Paust, E., Lucas, M., Lagia, A., Fernandes, R. Expedient Bayesian prediction of subfossil bone protein content using portable ATR-FTIR data. Quaternary International 694: 2024.05.002.

  2024    Boulanger, C., Roberts, P., Lucas, M., Ingicco, T., O’Connor, S., Ono, R., Sémah, A.-M. Stable isotope variation in East and Southeast Asian marine ecosystems and its relevance for archaeological analysis. Environmental Archaeology: The Journal of Human Palaeoecology: 2352666. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2024.2352666

  2024    Shoaee, M.J., Vahdati Nasab, H., Storozum, M., Frenzel, P., Akhavan Kharazian, M., Fernandes, R., Hashemi, S.M., Jayez, M., Amano, N., Marzban Abbasabadi, B., Aalipoor, M., Lucas, M., Marzo, S., Ilgner, J., Patalano, R., Roberts, P., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. Initial upper paleolithic in the Zagros Mountains. Frontiers in Earth Science 12: 1352099. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2024.1352099

  2024    García-Escárzaga, A., Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I., Arniz-Mateos, R., Cuenca-Solana, D., González-Morales, M.R., Ilgner, J., Lucas, M., Colonese, A.C., Roberts, P. Seasonal exploitation of intertidal resources at El Mazo (N Iberia) reveals optimized human subsistence strategies during the Mesolithic in Atlantic Europe. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 16: 1-16.

  2024    Heddell Stevens, P., Jöris, O., Britton, K., Matthies, T., Lucas, M., Scott, E., Le Roux, P., Meller, H., Roberts, P. Multi-isotope reconstructon of Late Pleistocene large-herbivore biogeography and mobility patterns in Central Europe. Communications Biology 7: 568. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-024-06233-2

  2024    Pérez-Ramallo, P., Rissech, C., Lloveras, L., Lucas, M., Urbina, D., Urquijo, C., Roberts, P. Unravelling social status in the first medieval military order of the Iberian Peninsula using isotope analysis. Scientific Reports 14: 11074. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-61792-y

  2024    Riccomi, G., Simonit, R., Maudet, S., Scott, E., Lucas, M., Giuffra, V., Roberts, P. Diets, stress, and disease in the Etruscan society: isotope analysis and infantile skeletal palaeopathology from Pontecagnano (Campania, southern Italy, 730-580 BCE). PLoS ONE 19: e0302334. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302334

  2024    Ciesielska, J.A., Le Roux, P., Scott, E., Lucas, M., Roberts. P. Isotopic evidence for socio-economic dynamics within the capital of the Kingdom of Alwa, Sudan. African Archaeological Review 41: 271-291.

  2024    Hawkins, S., Zetika, G.A., Kinaston, R., Firmando, Y.R., Sari, D.M., Suniarti, Y., Lucas, M., Roberts, P., Reepmeyer, C., Maloney, T., Kealy, S., Stirling, C., Reid, M., Barr, D., Kleffmann, T., Kumar, A., Yuwono, P., Litster, M., Usni, M., Ririmasse, M., Mahirta., Mujabuddawat, M., Harriyadi., O’Connor, S. Earliest known funerary rites in Wallacea after the last glalcial maximum. Scientific Reports 14: 282. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50294-y

  2024    Antonosyan, M., Roberts, P., Aspaturyan, N., Mkrtchyan, S., Lucas, M., Boxleitner, K., Jabbour, F., Hovhannisyan, A., Cieślik, A., Sahakyan, L., Avagyan, A., Spengler, R., Kandel, A.W., Petraglia, M., Boivin, N., Yepiskoposyan, L., Amano, N. Multiproxy evidence for environmental stability in the lesser Caucasus during the late Pleitocene. Quaternary Science Reviews 330: 108559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108559

  2024    Antonosyan, M., Azatyan, K., Bobokhyan, A., Frahm, E., Hovhannisyan, A., Mkrtchyan, S., Roberts, P., Saribekyan, M., Yepiskoposyan, L., Amano N. Yeghegis-1 rockshelter site: New investigations into the lalte Chalcolithic of Armenia. Antiquity 98(398):e8. doi:10.15184/aqy.2023.201

  2023    Roberts, P., Kaplan, J., Findley, D.M., Hamilton, R.J., Caetano Andrade, V.L., Amano, N., Kay, A., Renn, J., Winkelmann, R. Mapping our reliance on the tropics can reveal the roots of the Anthropocene. Nature Ecology & Evolution s41559-023-01998-x.

  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: 17913. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44875-0

  2023    Wang, X., Skourtanioti, E., Benz, M., Gresky, J., Ilgner, J., Lucas, M., Morsch, M., Peters, J., Pöllath, N., Ringbauer, H., le Roux, P., Schultz, M., Krause, J., Roberts, P., Stockhammer, P.W. Isotopic and DNA analyses reveal multiscale PPNB mobility and migration across Southeastern Anatolia and the Southern Levant. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120: e2210611120. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.221061112

  2023    Wang, X., Zhang, B., Sun, Y., Ingman, T., Eisenmann, S., Lucas, M., Scott, E., Ilgner, J., Wu, G., le Roux, P., Wu, X., Zhang, X., Fan, A., Roberts, P., Stockhammer, P.W. Isotopic and proteomic evidence for communal stability at Pre-Pottery Neolithic Jericho in the Southern Levant. Scientific Reports 13: 16360. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-43549-1

  2023    Pérez-Ramallo, P., Ignacio Lorenzo-Lizalde, J., Staniewska, A., Aiestaran, M., Aguirre, J., Semas Sesma, J., Marzo, S., Lucas, M., Ilgner, J., Chivall, D., Higham, T., Rodríguez-Varela, R., Götherström, A., Etxeberria, F., Grandal-d’Anglade, A., Alexander, M., Roberts, P. To the field of stars: stable isotope analysis of medieval pilgrims and populations along the Camino de Santiago in Navarre and Aragon, Spain. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 4: 103847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.103847

  2023    Patalano, R., Hu, J., Leng, Q., Liu, W., Wang, H., Roberts, P., Storozum, M., Yang, L., Yang, H. Ancient Great Wall building materials reveal environmental changes associated with oases in northwestern China. Scientific Reports 12: 22517. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-27071-4

  2023    Roberts, P., Hixon, S., Hamilton, R.J., Lucas, M., Ilgner, J., Marzo, S., Hawkins, S., Luu, S., Gosden, C., Spriggs, M., Summerhayes, G. Assessing Pleistocene-Holocene climatic and environmental change in insular Near Oceania using stable isotope analysis of archaeological fauna. Journal of Quaternary Science 38: 1267-1278.

  2023    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. https://doi.org/10.3389/fearc.2023.1208985

  2023    Patalano, R., Arthur, C., Carleton, W.C., Challis, S., Dewar, G., Gayantha, K., Gleixner, G., Ilgner J., Lucas, M., Marzo, S., 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: 129. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00784-8

  2023    Ciesielska, J.A., Stark, R.J., Obluski, A., Boivin, N.L., Lucas, M., Le Roux, P., Roberts. P. Multi-isotopic investigation of population dynamics and mobility among rural medieval Christian communities at Ghazali, Northern Sudan. Journal of African Archaeology 10028: 1-23.

  2023    King, C.L., Buckley, H.R., Petchey, P., Kinaston, R., Millard, A.R., Nowell, G., Roberts, P., Ilgner, J. Gröcke, D.R. Seeking their fortunes on the Otago goldfields, New Zealand: constructing isotopic biographies of colonial goldminers. Journal of Archaeological Science 157: 1-12.

  2023    Huber, B., Hammann, S., Loeben, C.E., Jha, D., Giddings Vassão, D., Larsen, T., Spengler III, R.N., Fuller, D.Q., Roberts, P., Devièse, T., Boivin, N.L. Biomolecular characterization of 3500-year-old ancient Egyptian mummification balms from the Valley of the Kings. Scientific Reports 13: 12477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39393-y

  2023    Cocozza, C., Teegen, W.-R., Vigliarolo, I., Favia, P., Giuliani, R., Muntoni, I.M., Oione, D., Clemens, L., Gross, M., Roberts, P., Lubritto, C., Fernandes, R. A Bayesian multi-proxy contribution to the socioeconomic, political, and cultural history of late medieval Capitanata (southern Italy). Scientific Reports 13: 4078.

  2023    Le Moyne, C., Roberts, P., Hua, Q., Bleasdale, M., Desideri, J., Boivin, N., Crowther, A. Ecological flexibility and adaptation to past climate change in the Middle Nile Valley: a multiproxy investigation of dietary shifts between the Neolithic and Kerma periods at Kadruka 1 and Kadruka 21. PLoS ONE 18: e0280347.

  2023    Taylor, W.T.T., Librado, P., Hunska Tašunke Icu, M., Shield, C., Arterberry, J., Luta Wiƞ, A., Nujipi, A., Omniya, T., Gonzalez, M., Means, B., High Crane, S., Yellow Bull, W.W., Dull Knife, B., Wiƞ, W., Tecumseh Collin, C., Ward, C., Pasqual, T.A., Chauvey, L., Tonasso-Calviere, L., Schiavinato, S., Seguin-Orlando, A., Fages, A., Khan, N., Der Sarkissian, C., Liu, X., Wagner, S., Ginondidoy Leonard, B., Manzano, B.L., O’Malley, N., Leonard, J.A., Bernáldez-Sánchez, E., Barrey, E., Charliquart, L., Robbe, E., Denoblet, T., Gregersen, K., Vershinina, A.O., Weinstock, J., Rajić Šikanjić, P., Mashkour, M., Singiray, I., Aury, J.-M., Perdereau, A., Alquraishi, S., Alfarhan, A.H., Al-Rasheid, K.A.S., Trbojević Vukičević, T., Buric, M., Sauer, E., Lucas, M., Brenner-Coltrain, J., Bozell, J.R., Thornhill, C.A., Monagle, V., Perri, A., Newton, C., Hall, W.E., Conver, J.L., Le Roux, P., Buckser, S.G., Gabe, C., Belardi, J.B., Barrón-Ortiz, C.I., Hart, I.A., Ryder, C., Sponheimer, M., Shapiro, B., Southon, J., Hibbs, J., Faulkner, C., Outram, A., Patterson, Rosa, L., Palermo, K., Solé, M., William, A., McCrory, W., Lindegren, G., Brooks, S., Eché, C., Donnadieu, C., Bouchez, O., Wincker, P., Hodgins, G., Trabert, S., Bethke, B., Roberts, P., Jones, E.L., Collin, Y.R.H., Orlando, L. Early dispersal of domestic horses into the Great Plains and northern Rockies. Science 379: 1316-1323.

  2023    Taylor, W.T.T., Belardi, J.B., Barberena, R., Coltrain, J.B., Marina, F.C., Borrero, L.A., Conver, J.L., Hodgins, G., Admiraal, M., Craig, O.E., Lucquin, A., Talbot, H.M., Lundy, J., Liu, X., Chauvey, L., Schiavinato, S., Seguin-Orlando, A., Le Roux, P., Lucas, M., Orlando, L., Roberts, P., Jones, E.L. Interdisciplinary evidence for early domestic horse exploitation in southern Patagonia. Science Advances 9: eadk5201.

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

  2023    Vetrensca Miller, A.R., Wilkin, S., Smithers, R., Larson, K., Spengler, R., Haruda, A., Kradin, N., Bazarov, B., Miyagashev, D., Odbaatar, T., Turbat, T., Zhambaltarova, E., Konovalov, P., Bayarsaikhan, J., Hein, A., Hommel, P., Nash, B., Nayak, A., Vanwezer, N., Miller, B.K., Fernandes, R., Boivin, N., Roberts, P. Adaptability of millets and landscapes: ancient cultivation in North-Central Asia. Agronomy 13: 2848.

  2023    Willis, A., Roberts, P., Kyaw, M.M., Win, T.T., Pradier, B., King, C., Ilgner, J., Lucas, M., Cook, A., Piper, P., Pryce, T.O. Living in the dry zone: stable isotope insights into palaeodiet in ancient Myanmar. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 48: 103900.

  2023    Spengler III, R.N., Kienast, F., Roberts, P., Boivin, N., Begun, D.R., Ashastina, K., Petraglia, M. Bearing fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous fruit evolution. Biological Theory: s13752-022-00413-1.

  2023    Tang, L., Wilkin, S., Richter, K.K., Bleasdale, M., Fernandes, R., He, Y., Li, S., Petraglia, M., Scott, A., Teoh, F.K.Y., Tong, Y., Tsering, T., Tsho, Y., Xi, L., Yang, F., Yuan, H., Chen, Z., Roberts, P., Hew, W., Spengler III, R.N., Lu, H., Wangdue, S., Boivin, N. Paleoproteomic evidence reveals dairying supported prehistoric occupation of the highland Tibetan Plateau. Science Advances 9: eadf0345.

  2023    Martínez-Minchero, M., Cobo, A., Méndez-Vicente, A., Pisonero, J., Bordel, N., Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I., Roberts, P., Arrizabalaga, Á, Valdiande, J., Mirapeix, J., López-Higuera, J.M., García-Escárzaga, A. Comparison of Mg/Ca concentration series from Patella depressa limpet shells using CF-LIBS and LA-ICP-MS. Talanta 251: 123757.

  2022    Findley, D.M.,Acabado, S., Amano, N., Kay, A.U., Hamilton, R.J., Barretto-Tesoro, G., Bankoff, G., Kaplan, J.O., Roberts, P. Land use change in a pericolonial society: intensification and diversification in Ifugao, Philippines between 1570 and 1800 CE. Frontiers in Earth Science 10: 680926.

  2022    Roberts, P., Douka, K., Tromp, M., Bedford, S., Hawkins, S., Bouffandeau, L., Ilgner, J., Lucas, M., Marzo, S., Hamilton, R.J., Ambrose, W., Bulbeck, D., Luu, S., Shing, R., Gosden, C., Summerhayes, G., Spriggs, M. Fossils, fish and tropical forests: prehistoric human adaptations on the island frontiers of Oceania. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 377: 20200495.

  2022    Müller, L.M., Kipnis, R., Ferreira, M.P., Marzo, S., Fiedler, B., Lucas, M., Ilgner, J., Silva, H.P., Roberts, P. Late Holocene dietary and cultural variability on the Xingu River, Amazon Basin: a stable isotopic approach. PLoS ONE 17: 0271545.

  2022    Pérez-Ramallo, P., Grandal-d’Anglade, A., Organista, E., Santos, E., Chivall, D., Rodríguez-Varela, R., Götherström, A., Etxeberria, F., Ilgner, J., Fernandes, R., Arsuaga, J.L., Le Roux, P., Higham, T., Beaumont, J., Koon, H., Roberts, P. Multi-isotopic study of the earliest mediaeval inhabitants of Santiago de Compostela (Galicia, Spain). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14: 214.

  2022    Larsen, T., Fernandes, R., Wang, Y., Roberts, P. Reconstructing hominin diets withs table isotope analysis of amino acids: new perspectives and future directions. BioScience: biac028.

  2022    Hixon, S., Domic, A.I., Douglass, K.G., Roberts, P., Eccles, L., Buckley, M., Ivory, S., Noe, S., Kennett, D.J. Cutmarked bone of drought-tolerant extinct megafauna deposited with traces of fire, human foraging, and introduced animals in SW Madagascar. Scientific Reports 12: 18504.

  2022    Roberts, P., Stock, J., Kulatilake, S., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M.D., Deraniyagala, S., Perera, N. From forests to the coast: multidisciplinary investigation of human adaptations at the Mini-athiliya shell midden, Sri Lanka. Ancient Lanka 1: 650.

  2022    Vaezi, A., Rought, J., Djamali, M., Gurjazkaite, K., Tavakoli, V., Beni, A.N., Roberts, P. New multi-proxy record shows potential impacts of precipitation on the rise and ebb of Bronze Age and imperial Persian societies in southeastern Iran. Quaternary Science Reviews 298: 1-12.

  2022    Silva, F., Coward, F., Davies, K., Elliott, S., Jenkins, E., Newton, A.C., Riris, P., Vander Linden, M., Bates, J., Cantarello, E., Contreras, D.A., Crabtree, S.A., Crema, E.R., Edwards, M., Filatova, T., Fitzhugh, B., Fluck, H., Freeman, J., Klein Goldewijk, K., Krzyzanska, M., Lawrence, D., Mackay, H., Madella, M., Maezumi, S.Y., Marchant, R., Monsarrat, S., Morrison, K.D., Rabett, R., Roberts, P., Saqalli, M., Stafford, R., Svenning, J.-C., Whitehouse, N.J., Williams, A. Developing transdisciplinary approaches to sustainability challenges: the need to model socio-environmental systems in the Longue Durée. Sustainability 14: 10234.

  2022    Nayak, A., Basa, K.K., Boivin, N.L., Fuller, D.Q., Mohanty, R.K., Kingwell-Banham, E., Murphy, C., Roberts, P., Lee-Thorp, J., Bogaard, A. A stable isotope perspective on archaeological agricultural variability and Neolithic experimentation in India. Journal of Archaeological Science 141: 105591.

  2022    García-Escárzaga, A., Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I., Marín-Arroyo, A.B., Fernandes, R., Núñez de la Fuente, S., Cuenca-Solana, D., Iriarte, E., Simões, C., Martín-Chivelet, J., González-Morales, M.R., Roberts, P. Human forager response to abrupt climate change at 8.2 ka on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Scientific Reports 12: 6481.

  2022    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: e0273450.

  2022    García-Escárzaga, A., Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I., Cuenca-Solana, D., González-Morales, M.R., Hamann, C., Roberts, P., Fernandes, R. Bayesian estimates of marine radiocarbon reservoir effect in northern Iberia during the Early and Middle Holocene. Quaternary Geochronology 67: 101232.

  2022    Perez Ramallo, P., Lorenzo-Lizalde, J.I., Staniewska, A., Lopez, B., Alexander, M., Marzo, S., Lucas, M., Ilgner, J., Chivall, D., Grandal-dAnglade, A., Roberts, P. Stable isotope analysis and differences in diet and social status in northern Medieval Christian Spain (9th-13th centuries CE). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 41: 103325.

  2022    Hapanova, V., Kots, A., Lucas, M., Both, M., Roberts, P. Medieval and early modern diets in the Polack region of Belarus: A stable isotope perspective. PLoS ONE 17: e0275758.

  2022    Freire, V.Z., Roberts, P., Meléndez, A.S., Tromp, M. Quesada, M.N. Managing environmental diversity in the eastern foothills of the Andes: pre-Columbian agrarian landscapes in the El Alto-Ancasti mountain range. World Archaeology 1997639: 1-28.

  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: 20200500.

  2022    Huber, B., Giddings Vassão, D., Roberts, P., Wang, Y., Larsen T. Chemical modification of biomarkers through accelerated degradation: implications for ancient plant identification in archaeo-organic residues. Molecules 27: 3331.

  2022    Stock, J., Pomeroy, E., Wedage, O., Eregama, S., Deraniyagala, S., Perera, N., Roberts, P., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. Early Holocene human burials from Fa Hien-lena and Kuragala Sri Lanka. Ancient Lanka 1: 637.

  2022    Ventresca Miller, A.R., Wilkin, S., Hendy, J., Turbat, T., Batsukh, D., Bayarkhuu, N., Giscard, P.-H., Bemmann, J., Bayarsaikhan, J., Miller, B.K., Clark, J., Roberts, P., Boivin, N. The spread of herds and horses into the Altai: how livestock and dairying drove social complexity in Mongolia. PLoS ONE 17: e0265775.

  2022    Iriarte, J., Ziegler, M., Outram, A.K., Robinson, M., Roberts, P., Aceituno, F.J., Morcote-Ríos, G., Keesey, T.M. Ice Age megafauna rock art in the Colombian Amazon? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 377: 20200496.

  2022    Louys, J., Duval, M., Price, G.J., Westaway, K., Zaim, Y., Rizal., Puspaningrum, M., Trihascaryo, A., Breitenbach, S.F.M., Kwiecien, O., Cai, Y., Higgins, P., Albers, P.C.H., de Vos, J., Roberts, P. Speleological and environmental history of Lida Ajer cave, western Sumatra. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B: Biological Sciences 377: 20200494.

  2021    Roberts, P., Hamilton, R., Piperno, D. Tropical forests as key sites of the ‘Anthropocene’: Past and present perspectives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118: e2109243118.

  2021    Hamilton, R., Wolfhagen, J., Amano, N., Boivin, N., Findley, D.M., Iriarte, J., Kaplan, J.O., Stevenson, J., Roberts, P. Non-uniform tropical forest responses to the ‘Columbian Exchange’ in the Neotropics and Asia-Pacific. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5: 1174–1184

  2021    Roberts, P., Buhrich, A., Caetano-Andrade, V.L., Cosgrove, R., Fairbairn, A., Florin, S.A., Vanwezer, N., Boivin, N., Hunter, B., Mosquito, D., Turpin, G., Ferrier, A. Reimagining the relationship between Gondwanan forests and Aboriginal land management in Australia’s “Wet Tropics”. iScience 24: 102190. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102190.

  2021    Caetano-Andrade, V.L., Schöngart, J., Espindola Ayala, W., Melinski, R.D., Silva, F., Dobrindt, R., Roberts, P. Advances in increment coring system for large tropical trees with high wood densities. Dendrochronologia 68: 125860.

  2021    Gayantha, K., Roberts, P., Routh, J., Wedage, O., Ott, F., Frenzel, P., Chandrajith, R., Gleixner, G. Mid-late Holocene sub-millenial scale inverse trends of South Asian summer and winter monsoons in Sri Lanka. Frontiers in Earth Science 9: 1244.

  2021    Robbeets, M., Bouckaert, R., Conte, M., Savelyev, A., Li, T., An, D.-I., Shinoda, K., Cui, Y., Kawashima, T., Kim, G., Uchiyama, J., Dolinska, J., Oskolskaya, S., Yamano, K.-Y., Seguchi, N., Tomita, H., Takamiya, H., Kanzawa-Kiriyama, H., Oota, H., Ishida, H., Kimura, R., Sato, T., Kim, J.-H., Bjorn, R., Deng, B., Rhee, S., Ahn, K.-D., Gruntov, I., Mazo, O., Bentley, J., Fernandes, R., Roberts, P., Bausch, I., Gilaizeau, L., Yoneda, M., Kugai, M., Bianco, R.A., Zhang, F., Himmel, M., Krause, J., Hudson, M., Ning, C. Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages. Nature 599: 616-621.

  2021    Zheng, Z., Ma, T., Roberts, P., Li, Z., Yue, Y., Peng, H., Huang, K., Han, Z., Wan, Q., Zhang, Y., Zhang, X., Zheng, Y., Saito, Y. Anthropogenic impacts on Late Holocene land-cover change and floristic biodiversity loss in tropical southeastern Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118: e2022210118.

  2021    Martinón-Torres, M., d’Errico, F., Santos, E., Gallo, A.A., Amano, N., Archer, W., Armitage, S.J., Luis Arsuaga, J., Bermúdez de Castro, J.M., Blinkhorn, J., Crowther, A., Douka, K., Dubernet, S., Faulkner, P., Fernández-Colón, P., Kourampas, N., Garcia, J.G., Larreina, D., Le Bourdonnec, F-X., MacLeod, G., Martin-Francés, L., Massilani, D., Mercader, J., Miller, J.M., Ndiema, E., Notario, B., Marti, A.P., Prendergast, M.E., Queffelec, A., Rigaud, S., Roberts, P., Shoaee, M.J., Shipton, C., Simpson, I., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M.D. Earliest known human burial in Africa. Nature 593: 95-100.

  2021    Florin, S.A., Roberts, P., Marwick, B., Patton, N.R., Shulmeister, J., Lovelock, C.E., Barry, L.A., Hua, Q., Nango, M., Djandjomerr, D., Fullagar, R., Wallis, L.A., Fairbairn, A.S., Clarkson, C. Pandanus nutshell generates a palaeoprecipitation record for human occupation at Madjedbebe, northern Australia. Nature Ecology & Evolution 5: 295-303.

  2021    Shipton, C., Blinkhorn, J., Archer, W., Kourampas, N., Roberts, P., Prendergast, M.E., Curtis, R., Herries, A.I.R., Ndiema, E., Boivin, N. Petraglia, M.D. The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa. Journal of Human Evolution 153: 102954.

  2021    Solis-Torres, Ó.R., Acosta-Ochoa, G., Arroyo-Cabrales, J., Flores-Granados, F., Roberts, P. Pleistocene-Holocene human palaeoecology in southern Mexico: Stable isotopic evidence from the Santa Marta Cave, Chiapas. Journal of Archaeological Sites: Reports 39: 103131.

  2021    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: 1-14.

  2021    Spengler III, R.N., Ventresca Miller, A., Schmaus, T., Matuzevičiūtė, G.M., Miller, B.K., Wilkin, S., Taylor, W.T.T., Li, Y., Roberts, P., Boivin, N. An imagined past?: Nomadic narratives in Central Asian Archaeology. Current Anthropology 62. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1086/714245

  2021    Nayak, A., Boivin, N., Roberts, P. Multidisciplinary perspectives on the origins of past foodways and farming practice in South Asia. Archaeology of Food and Foodways. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1558/aff.13983

  2021    Ciesielska, J.A., Stark, R.J., Obluski, A., Boivin, N., Roberts, P. Multi-isotope analysis of dietary variation among the early Christian communities of northern Sudan. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103016

  2021    Louys, J., Braje, T.J., Chang, C-H., Cosgrove, R., Fitzpatrick, S.M., Fujita, M., Hawkins, S., Ingicco, T., Kawamura, A., MacPhee, R.D.E., McDowell, M.C., Meijer, H.J.M., Piper, P.J., Roberts, P., Simmons, A.H., van den Bergh, G., van der Geer, A., Kealy, S., O’Connor, S. No evidence for widespread island extinctions after Pleistocene hominin arrival. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023005118

  2021    Wang, X., Roberts, P., Tang, Z., Yang, S., Storozum, M., Groß, M., Fernandes, R. The circulation of ancient animal resources across the Yellow River Basin: A preliminary Bayesian re-evaluation of Sr isotope data from the Early Neolithic to the western Zhou Dynasty. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.583301.

  2021    Amano, N., Wang, Y.V., Boivin, N., Roberts, P. ‘Emptying Forests?’ Conservation implications of past human-primate interactions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2020.12.004.

  2021    Patalano, R., Hamilton, R.J., Finestone, E., Amano, N., Heddell Stevens, P., Itambu, M., Petrgalia, M.D., Roberts, P. Microhabitat variability in Human Evolution. Frontiers in Earth Science 9: 1208.

  2021    Bonnet-Lebrun, A.-S., Larsen, T., Thórarinsson, T.L., Kolbeinsson, Y., Frederiksen, M., Morley, T.I., Fox, D., Boutet, A., le Bouard, F., Deville, T., Hansen, E.S., Hansen, T., Roberts, P., Ratcliffe, N. Cold comfort: arctic seabirds find refugia from climate change and potential competition in marginal ice zones and fjords. Ambio s13280-021-01650-7.

  2021    Mercader, J., Akuku, P., Boivin, N., Bugumba, R., Bushozi, P., Camacho, A., Carter, T., Clarke, S., Cueva-Temprana, A., Durkin, P., Favreau, J., Fella, K., Haberle, S., Hubbard, S., Inwood, J., Itambu, M., Koromo, S., Lee, P., Mohammed, A., Mwambwiga, A., Olesilau, L., Patalano, R., Roberts, P., Rule, S., Saladie, P., Siljedal, G., Soto, M., Umbsaar, J., Petraglia, M. Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago. Nature Communications 12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20176-2.

  2021    García-Escárzaga, A., Martínez-Minchero, M., Cobo, A., Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I., Arrizabalaga, A., Roberts, P. Using Mg/Ca Ratios from the Limpet Patella depressa Pennant, 1777 Measured by Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) to Reconstruct Paleoclimate. Applied Sciences 11: (7) 2959.

  2021    Robinson, M., Morcote-Rios, G., Aceituno, F.J., Roberts, P., Berrío, C., Iriarte, J. ‘Moving South’: Late Pleistocene plant exploitation and the importance of palm in the Colombian Amazon. Quaternary 4. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/quat4030026.

  2021    Han, B., Chong, J., Sun, Z., Jiang, X., Xiao, Q., Zech, J., Roberts, P., Rao, H., Yang, Y. The rise of the cosmetic industry in ancient China: Insights from a 2700-year-old face cream. Archaeometry 63. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12659.

  2021    Ingman, T., Eisenmann, S., Skourtanioti, E., Akar, M., Ilgner, J., Ruscone, G.A.G., le Roux, P., Shafiq, R., Neumann, G.U., Keller, M., Freund, C., Marzo, S., Lucas, M., Krause, J., Roberts, P., Yener, K.A.Y., Stockhammer, P.W. Human mobility at Tell Atchana (Alalakh), Hatay, Turkey during the 2nd millennium BC: Integration of isotopic and genomic evidence. PLoS ONE. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241883.

  2021    Taylor, W.T.T., Hart, I., Lena Jones, E., Brenner-Coltrain, J., Jobe, J.T., Britt, B.B., McDonald, H.G., Li, Y., Zhang, C., Le Roux, P., Gover, C.Q.S.C., Schiavinato, S., Orlando, L., Roberts, P. Interdisciplinary analysis of the Lehi Horse: Implications for early Historic horse cultures of the North American West. American Antiquity 86. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.109.

  2021    Bleasdale, M., Richter, K.K., Janzen, A., Brown, S., Scott, A., Zech, J., Wilkin, S., Wang, K., Schiffels, S., Desideri, J., Besse, M., Reinold, J., Saad, M., Babiker, H, Power, R.C., Ndiema, E., Ogola, C., Manthi, F.K., Zahir, M., Petraglia, M., Trachsel, C., Nanni, P., Grossmann, J., Hendy, J., Crowther, A., Roberts, P., Goldstein, S.T., Boivin, N. Ancient proteins provide evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa. Nature Communications 12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20682-3.

  2021    Spengler, R.N., Petraglia, M., Roberts, P., Ashastina, K., Kistler, L., Mueller, N., Boivin, N. Exaptation traits for megafaunal mutualisms as a factor in plant domestication. Frontiers in Plant Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.649394.

  2021    Swift, J.A., Kirch, P.V., Ilgner, J., Brown, S., Lucas, M., Marzo, S., Roberts, P. Stable isotopic evidence for nutrient rejuvenation and long-term resilience on Tikopia Island (Southeast Solomon Islands). Sustainability 13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13158567.

  2021    King, C.L., Buckley, H.R., Petchey, P., Roberts, P., Zech, J., Kinaston, R., Collins, C., Kardailsky, O., Matisoo-Smith, E., Nowell, G. An isotopic and genetic study of multi-cultural colonial Zealand. Journal of Archaeological Science 128: 105337.

  2021    Ventresca Miller, A.R., Johnson, J., Makhortykh, S., Gerling, C., Litvinova, L., Andrukh, S., Toschev, G., Zech, J., le Roux, P., Makarewicz, C., Boivin, N., Roberts, P. Re-evaluating Scythian lifeways: Isotopic analysis of diet and mobility in Iron Age Ukraine. PLoS ONE. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0245996.

  2021    Patalano, R., Roberts, P., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M.D., Mercader, J. Plant wax biomarkers in human evolutionary studies. Evolutionary Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21921.

  2020    Louys, J., Roberts, P. Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia. Nature 586: 402-406.

  2020    Bleasdale, M., Wotzka, H-P., Eichhorn, B., Mercader, J., Styring, A., Zech, J., Soto, M., Inwood, J., Clarke, S., Marzo, S., Fiedler, B., Linseele, V., Boivin, N., Roberts, P. Isotopic and microbotanical insights into Iron Age agricultural reliance in the Central African rainforest. Communications Biology 3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01324-2.

  2020    García-Escárzaga, A., Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I., González-Morales, M.R., Arrizabalaga, A., Zech, J., Roberts, P. Shell schlerochronology 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.

  2020    Riccomi, G., Minozzi, S., Zech, J., Cantini, F., Giuffra, V., Roberts, P. Stable isotopic reconstruction of dietary changes across Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Tuscany. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 33: 102546.

  2020    Roberts, P., Louys, J., Zech, J., Shipton, C., Kealy, S., Samper Carro, S., Hawkins, S., Boulanger, C., Marzo, S., Fiedler, B., Boivin, N., Mahirta, Aplin, K., O’Connor, S. Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea. Nature Communications DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15969-4.

  2020    Amano, N., Bankoff, G., Findley, D.M., Barretto-Tesoro, G., Roberts, P. Archaeological and historical insights into the ecological impacts of pre-colonial and colonial introductions in to the Philippine Archipelago. The Holocene DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683620941152.

  2020    Caetano-Andrade, V., Clement, C.R., Weigel, D., Trumbore, S., Boivin, N., Schöngart, J., Roberts, P. Tropical trees as time capsules of anthropogenic activity. Trends in Plant Science 25: 369-380.

  2020    Janzen, A., Bataille, C., Copeland, S.R., Quinn, R.L., Ambrose, S.H., Reed, D., Hamilton, M., Grimes, V., Richards, M.P., le Roux, P., Roberts, P. Spatial variation in bioavailable strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) in Kenya and northern Tanzania: implications for ecology, paleoanthropology, and archaeology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 560: 109957.

  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., 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba8940.

  2020    Langley, M., Amano, N., Wedage, O., Deraniyagala, S., Pathamalal, M., Perera, N., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M., Roberts, P. Bows-and-arrows and complex symbolic displays at 48,000-years-ago in the South Asian tropics. Science Advances 6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aba3831.

  2020    Javidpour, J., Molinero, J-C., Ramírez-Romeo, E., Roberts, P., Larsen, T. Cannibalism makes invasive comb jelly, Mnemiopsis leidyi, resilient to unfavourable conditions. Communications Biology 3: DOI: 10.1038/s42003-020-0940-2.

  2020    Scerri, E.M.L., Kühnert, D., Blinkhorn, J., Groucutt, H.S., Roberts, P., Nicoll, K., Zeroni, A., Orijemie, E.A., Barton, H., Candy, I., 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. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01317-8.

  2020    Wang, K., Goldstein, S., Bleasdale, M., Clist, B., Bostoen, k., Bakwa-Lufu, P., Buck, L.T., Crowther, A., Dème, A., McIntosh, R.J., Mercader, J., Ogola, C., Power, R.C., Sawchuk E., Robertshaw, P., Wilmsen, E.N., Petraglia, M., Ndiema, E., Manthi, F.K., Krause, J., Roberts, P., Boivin, N., Schiffels, S. Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa. Science Advances 6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz0183.

  2020    Ventresca Miller, A., Spengler, R., Haruda, A., Miller, B., Wilkin, S., Robinson, S., Roberts, P., Boivin N. Ecosystem engineering among ancient pastoralists in northern Central Asia. Frontiers in Earth Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2020.00168.

  2020    King, C.L., Buckley, H.R., Petchey, P., Kinaston, R., Millard, A., Zech, J., Roberts, P., Matisoo-Smith, E., Nowell, G., Gröcke, D.R. A multi-isotope, multi-tissue study of colonial origins and diet in New Zealand. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24077.

  2020    Barquera, R., Lamnidis, T.C., Lankapalli, A.K., Kocher, A., Hernández-Zaragoza, D.I., Nelson, E.A., Zamora-Herrera, A.C., Ramallo, P., Bernal-Felipe, N., Immel, A., Bos, K., Acuña-Alonzo, V., Barbieri, C., Roberts, P., Herbig, A., Kühnert, D., Márquez-Morfín, L., Krause, J. Origin and health status of first-generation Africans from early colonial Mexico. Current Biology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.002.

  2020    Yu, H., Spyrou, M.A., Karapetian, M., Shnaider, S., Radzevičiūtė, R., Nägele, K., Neumann, G.U., Penske, S., Zech, J., Lucas, M., LeRoux, P., Roberts, P., Pavlenok, G., Buzhilova, A., Posth, C., Jeong, C., Krause, J. Paleolithic to Bronze Age Siberians reveal connections with first Americans and Eurasia. Cell. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.04.037.

  2020    Wilkin, S., Ventresca Miller, A., Miller, B.K., Spengler, R.N. III., Taylor, W.T.T., Fernandes, R., Hagan, R.W., Bleasdale, M., Zech, J., Ulziibayar, S., Myagmar, E., Boivin, N., Roberts, P. Economic diversification supported the growth of Mongolia’s nomadic empires. Scientific Reports 10: 3916. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-60194-0.

  2020    Li, F., Petraglia, M.D., Roberts, P., Gao, X. The northern dispersal of early modern humans in eastern Eurasia. Science Bulletin 65: 1699-1701.

  2020    Hodgkins, J., Marean, C.W., Venter, J.A., Richardson, L., Roberts, P., Zech, J., Difford, M., Copeland, S.R., Orr, C.M., May Keller, H., Fahey, B.P., Lee-Thorp, J.A. An isotopic test of the seasonal migration hypothesis for large grazing ungulate inhabiting the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain. Quaternary Science Reviews. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.04.002.

  2020    Wedage, O., Roberts, P., Faulkner, P., Crowther, A., Douka, K., Picin, A., Blinkhorn, J., Deraniyagala, S., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M., Amano, N. Late Pleistocene to early-Holocene rainforest foraging in Sri Lanka: Multidisciplinary analysis at Kitulgala Beli-Lena. Quaternary Science Reviews 231: 106200. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106200.

  2020    Gayantha, K., Routh, J., Anupama, K., Lazar, Prasad, S., Chandrajith, R., Roberts, P., Gleixner, G. Reconstruction of the Late Holocene climate and environmental history from North Bolgoda Lake, Sri Lanka, using lipid biomarkers and pollen records. Journal of Quaternary Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3196.

  2020    Roberts, P., Prendergast, M.E., Janzen, A., Shipton, C., Blinkhorn, J., Zech, J., Crowther, A., Sawchuk, E.A., Stewart, M., Ndiema, E., Petraglia, M., Boivin, N. Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109438.

  2019    Tucker, L., Favreau, J., Itambu, M., Larter, F., Mollel, N., Mwambwiga, A., Patalano, R., Roberts, P., Soto, M., Mercader, J. Initial assessment of bioavailable strontium at Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania: Potential for early mobility studies. Journal of Archaeological Science 114: 105066. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2019.105066.

  2019    Blinkhorn, J., Ajithprasad, P., Mukherjee, A., Kumar, P., Durcan, J.A., Roberts, P. The first directly dated evidence for Palaeolithic occupation on the Indian coast at Sandhav, Kachchh. Quaternary Science Reviews 224. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.105975.

  2019    Roberts, P., Amano, N. Plastic pioneers: Hominin biogeography east of the Movius Line during the Pleistocene. Archaeological Research in Asia DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2019.01.003.

  2019    Wedage, O., Picin, A., Blinkhorn, J., Douka, K., Deraniyagala, S., Kourampas, N., Perera, N., Simpson, I., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M., Roberts, P. Microliths in the South Asian rainforest ~45-4 ka: new insights from Fa-Hien Lena Cave, Sri Lanka. PLoS ONE 14: e0222606. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222606.

  2019    Swift, J., Bunce, M., Dortch, J., Douglass, K., Faith, T., Fellows Yates, J., Field, J., Haberle, S., Jacob, E., Johnson, C., Lindsey, E., Lorenzen, E., Louys, J., Mychajliw, P., Slon, V., Villavicencio, N., Waters, M., Welker, F., Wood, R., Petraglia, M., Boivin, N., Roberts, P. Micro-methods for megafauna: Novel approaches to the study of Late Quaternary extinctions and their contributions to conservation in the Anthropocene. BioScience 69: 877-887.

  2019    Wedage, O., Amano, N., Langley, M.C., Douka, K., Blinkhorn, J., Crowther, A., Deraniyagala, S., Kourampas, N., Simpson, I., Perera, N., Picin, A., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M., Roberts, P. Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens 45,000 years ago. Nature Communications 10: 739. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08623-1.

  2019    Stephens, L., Fuller, D., Boivin N., Rick, T., Gauthier, N., Kay, A., Marwick, B., Geralda, C., Armstrong, D., Barton, C.M., Denham, T., Douglass, K., Driver, J., Janze, L., Roberts, P., Rogers, J.D., Thakar, H., Altaweel, M., Johnson, A.L., Vattuone, M.M.S., Aldenderfer, M., Archila, S., Artioli, G., Bale, M.T., Beach, T., Borrell, F., Braje, T., Buckland, P.I., Guadalupe, N., Cano, J., Capriles, J.M., Castillo, A.D., Çilingiroğlu, Ç., Clearly, M.N., Conolly, J., Coutros, P.R., Covey, R.A., Cremaschi, M., Crowther, A., Der, L., diLernia, S., Doershuk, J.F., Doolittle, W.E., Edwards, K.J., Erlandson, J.M., Evans, D., Fairbairn, A., Faulkner, P., Feinman, G., Fernandes, R., Fitzpatrick, S.M., Fyfe, R., Garcea, E., Goldstein, S., Goodman, R.C., Guedes, J.D., Herrmann, J., Hiscock, P., Hommel, P., Ann Horsburgh, K., Hritz, C., Ives, J.W., Junno, A., Kahn, J.G., Kaufman, B., Kearns, C., Kidder, T.R., Lanoë, F., Lawrence, D., Lee, G-A., Levin, M.J., Lindskoug, H.B., López-Sáez, J.A., Macrae, S., Marchant, R., Marston, J.M., McClure, S., McCoy, M.D., Ventresca Miller, A., Morrison, M., Matizeviciute, G.M., Müller, J., Nayak, A., Noerwidi, S., Peres, T.M., Peterson, C.E., Proctor, L., Randall, A.R., Renette, S., Schug, G.R., Ryzewksi, K., Saini, R., Scheinsohn, V., Schmidt, P., Sebillaud, P., Seitsonen, O., Simpson, I.A., Soltysiak, A., Speakman, R.J., Spengler, R.N., Steffen, M.L., Storozum, M.J., Strickland, K.M., Thompson, J., Thurston, T.L., Ulm, S., Ustunkaya, M.C., Welker, M.H., West, C., Williams, P.R., Wright, D.K., Wright, N., Zahir, M., Zerboni, A., Beaudoin, E., Garcia, S.M., Powell, J., Thornton, A., Kaplan, J.O., Gaillard, M-J., Klein Goldewijk, K., Ellis, E. Archaeological assessment reveals Earth’s early transformation through land use. Science 365: 897-902.

  2019    García-Escárzaga, A., Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I., Cobo, A., Cuenca-Solana, D., Martin-Chivelet, J., Roberts, P., González-Morales, M.R. Stable oxygen isotope analysis of Phorcus lineatus (da Costa, 1778) as a proxy for foraging seasonality during the Mesolithic in northern Iberia. Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00880-x.

  2019    Éadaoin H., Nayak, A., Patterson, N., Joglekar, P., Mushrif-Tripathy, V., Mallick, S., Rohland, N., Sedig, J., Adamski, N., Bernardos, R., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Culleton, B.J., Ferry, M., Harper, T.K., Michel, M., Oppenheimer, J., Stewardson, K., Zhang, Z., Harashawaradhana, Singh Bartwal, M., Kumar, S., Diyundi, S.C., Roberts, P., Boivin, N., Kennett, D.J., Thangaraj, K., Reich, D., Rai, N. Ancient DNA from the skeletons of Roopkund Lake reveals Mediterranean migrants in India. Nature Communications 10: 3670. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11357-9.

  2019    Li, F., Vanwezer, N., Boivin, N., Gao, X., Ott, F., Petraglia, M., Roberts, P. Heading north: Late Pleistocene environments and human dispersals in central and eastern Asia. PLoS ONE 14: e0216433. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0216433.

  2019    Caetano Andrade, V.L., Flores, B.M., Levis, C., Clement, C.R., Roberts, P., Schöngart, J. Growth rings of Amazon nut trees (Bertholletia excelsa) as living record of historical human disturbance in Central Amazonia. PLoS ONE 14: e0214128. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214128.

  2019    Hausmann, N., Prendergast, A.L., Lemonis, A., Zech, J., Roberts, P., Siozos, P., Anglos, D. Mg/Ca ratios as climate proxy in seasonal records of Mediterranean limpets. Scientific Reports 9: 3698. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39959-9.

  2018    Roberts, P., Stewart, M., Alagaili, A.N., Breeze, P., Candy, I., Drake, N., Groucutt, H.S., Scerri, E.M.L., Lee-Thorp, J., Louys, J., Zalmout, I.S., Al-Mufarreh, Y.S.A., Zech, J., Alsharekh, A.M., al Omari, A., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal Middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in ‘Green Arabia’. Nature Ecology & Evolution. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0698-9.

  2018    Roberts, P., Stewart, B. Defining the ‘generalist-specialist’ niche for Pleistocene Homo sapiens. Nature Human Behaviour. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0394-4.

  2018    Roberts, P., Boivin, N., Kaplan, J. Finding the anthropocene in tropical forests. Anthropocene 23: 5-16.

  2018    Ventresca Miller, A., Fernandes, R., Janzen, A., Nayak, A., Swift, J., Zech, J., Boivin, N., Roberts, P. Sampling and pretreatment of tooth enamel carbonate for stable carbon and oxygen isotope analysis. Journal of Visual Experiments 138: e58002. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3791/58002.

  2018    Roberts, P., Gillingwater, T., Lahr, M., Lee-Thorp, J., MacCallum, M., Petraglia, M., Wedage, O., Heenbanda, U., Wanniya-laeto, U. Historical tropical forest reliance amongst the Wanniyalaeto (Vedda) of Sri Lanka: an isotopic perspective. Human Ecology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-018-9997-7.

  2018    Swift, J., Roberts P., Boivin, N., Kirch, P. Restructuring of nutrient flows in island ecosystems following human colonization evidenced by isotopic analysis of commensal rats. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805787115.

  2018    Shipton, C., Roberts, P., Armitage, S., Blinkhorn, J., Crowther, A., Curtis, R., d’Errico, F., Douka, K., Faulkner, P., Groucutt, H.S., Helm, R., Herries, A.I.R., Kourampas, N., Lee-Thorp, J., Marchant, R., Marti, A.P., Mbita, C., Mercader, J., Prendergast, M., Rowson, B., Tengeza, A., Tibesasa, R., White, T.S., Petraglia, M.D., Boivin, N. A 78,000-year-old record of tropical adaptation and complex human behaviour in coastal East Africa. Nature Communications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04057-3.

  2018    Roberts, P., Fernandes, R., Craig, O.E., Larsen, T., Lucquin, A., Swift, J., Zech, J. Calling all archaeologists: guidelines for terminology. Data handling, reporting, and reviewing stable isotope applications in archaeology. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.8044.

  2018    Posth, C., Nagele, K., Colleran, H., Valentin, F., Bedford, S., Kami, K., Shing, R., Buckley, H., Kinaston, R., Walworth, M., Clark, G., Reepmeyer, C., Flexner, J., Maric, T., Moser, J., Gresky, J., Kiko, L., Robson, K., Auckland, K., Oppenheimer, S., Hill, A., Mentzer, A., Zech, J., Petchey, F., Roberts, P., Jeong, C., Gray, R., Krause, J., Powell. A.  Language continuity despite population replacement in Remote Oceania. Nature Ecology & Evolution: 2: 731-740.

  2017    Roberts, P., Hunt, C., Arroyo-Kalin, M., Evans, D., Boivin, N. The deep human prehistory of global tropical forests and its relevance for modern conservation. Nature Plants 3: 17093.

  2017    Roberts, P., Blinkhorn, J., Petraglia, M. A transect of environmental variability across South Asia and its influence on Late Pleistocene human innovation and occupation. Journal of Quaternary Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2975.

  2017    Roberts, P. Forests of plenty: Ethnographic and archaeological rainforests as hotspots of human activity. Quaternary International. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.03.041.

  2017    Roberts, P., Blumenthal, S.A., Dittus, W., Wedage, O., Lee-Thorp, J.A. Stable carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen isotope analysis of plants from a South Asian tropical forest: implications for primatology. American Journal of Primatology DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22656.

  2017    Roberts, P., Perera, N., Wedage, O., Deraniyagala, S.U., Perera, J., Eregama, S., Gledhill, A., Petraglia, M., Lee-Thorp, J. Fruits of the forest: human stable isotope ecology and rainforest adaptations in Late Pleistocene and Holocene (~ 36 to 3 ka) Sri Lanka. Journal of Human Evolution 106: 102-118.

  2017    Roberts, P., Gaffney, D., Lee-Thorp, J., Summerhayes, G. Persistent tropical foraging in the Highlands of Terminal Pleistocene-Holocene New Guinea. Nature Ecology & Evolution 0044. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-016-0044.

  2016    Roberts, P., Boivin, N., Lee-Thorp, J., Petraglia, M., Stock, J. Tropical forests and the genus Homo. Evolutionary Anthropology 25: 306-317.

  2016    Loftus, E., Roberts, P., Lee-Thorp, J.A. An isotopic generation: four decades of stable isotope analysis in African archaeology. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 51: 88-114.

  2016    Roberts, P., Henshilwood, C.S., van Niekerk, K.L., Keene, P., Gledhill, A., Reynard, J., Badenhorst, S., Lee-Thorp, J. Climate, environment and early human innovation: stable isotope and faunal proxy evidence from archaeological sites (98-59ka) in the southern Cape, South Africa. PLoS ONE. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157408.

  2015    Roberts, P. ‘We have never been behaviourally modern’: the implications of Material Engagement Theory and metaplasticity for understanding the Late Pleistocene record of human behaviour. Quaternary International. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.03.011.

  2015    Roberts, P., Petraglia, M.D. Pleistocene rainforests: barriers or attractive environments for early human foragers? World Archaeology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2015.1073119.

  2015    Roberts, P., Perera, N., Wedage, O., Deraniyagala, S.U., Perera, J., Eregama, S., Gledhill, A., Petraglia, M., Lee-Thorp, J. Direct evidence for human rainforest resource reliance in Late Pleistocene Sri Lanka. Science 347: 1246-1249.

  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: 69-112.

  2015    Roberts, P., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M., 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. Journal of Archaeological and Anthropological Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-015-0240-9.

  2014    Roberts, P., Delson, E., Miracle, P., Ditchfield, P., Roberts, R.G., Jacobs, Z., Blinkhorn, J., Ciochon, R.L., Fleagle, J.G., Frost, S.R., 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: 5848-5853.

  2013    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: 360-369.

  2012    Roberts, P., Weston, S., Wild, B., Boston, C., Ditchfield, P., Shortland, A.J., Pollard, 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: 1-10.

  Book chapters

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

  2021    Patalano, R., Roberts, P. Climate Proxies. In T.D. Potts, E. Harkness, J. Neelis, R. McIntosh (eds.). The encyclopedia of ancient history: Asia and Africa. London: John Wiley & Sons. eahaa00609.

  2019    Roberts, P., Krigbaum, J., Lee-Thorp, J.A. Hunting and gathering in prehistoric rainforests: insights from stable isotope analysis. In A. Lemke (ed.). Foraging in the Past: Archaeological Studies of Hunter-gatherer Diversity. Colorado: Colorado University Press. Pp. 119-158.

  2018    Roberts, P., Hendy, J., Boivin, N. Scientific practice. In The Society for Archaeological Science Encyclopaedia of Archaeological Sciences. The Society for Archaeological Science. United Kingdom: Wiley-Blackwell.

  2018    Roberts, P. Late Pleistocene tropical rainforest forager sustainability and resilience. In N. Sanz (ed.). Exploring Frameworks for Tropical Forest Conservation: Managing Production and Consumption for Sustainability. Mexico City: UNESCO. Pp. 116-135.

  2016    Roberts, P. Early human adaptation to Late Pleistocene-Holocene rainforests in South Asia. In N. Sanz (ed.). Exploring Frameworks for Tropical Forest Conservation: Managing Production and Consumption for Sustainability. Mexico City: UNESCO. Pp. 28-44.

  2016    Perera, N., Roberts, P., Petraglia, M.D.P. Bone Technology in South Asia from Late Pleistocene rockshelter deposits in Sri Lanka. In M.C. Langley (ed.). Osseous Projectile Weaponry: Towards an Understanding of Pleistocene Cultural Variability. VERT Series. New York: Springer-Verlag. Pp. 173-189.