Roberts, Richard

Top Publications

Year	Title
2021	Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave Published in Nature
2021	Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments Published in Science
2019	Timing of archaic hominin occupation of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia Published in Nature

Research Areas

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2022	Author Correction: Hominin and animal activities in the microstratigraphic record from Denisova Cave (Altai Mountains, Russia) (Scientific Reports, (2019), 9, 1, (13785), 10.1038/s41598-019-49930-3) Published In Scientific Reports
2022	Bayesian analysis of De distributions in optical dating: Towards a robust method for dealing with outliers Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2022	Beta dose heterogeneity in sediment samples measured using a Timepix pixelated detector and its implications for optical dating of individual mineral grains Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2022	Discovering the "Hobbit"Little Species, Big Mystery: The Story of Homo FloresiensisDebbie Argue Melbourne University Press, 2022. 216 pp Published In Science (New York, N.Y.)
2022	Erratum: Late Pleistocene shell midden microstratigraphy indicates a complex history of human-environment interactions in the uplands of North Vietnam (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B (2022) 377 (20200493) DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0493) Published In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022	Genetic insights into the social organization of Neanderthals Published In Nature
2022	Human occupation of the Kimberley coast of northwest Australia 50,000 years ago Published In Quaternary Science Reviews
2022	Late Pleistocene shell midden microstratigraphy indicates a complex history of human-environment interactions in the uplands of North Vietnam Published In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022	Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2021	Composite grains from volcanic terranes: Internal dose rates of supposed ��potassium-rich�� feldspar grains used for optical dating at Liang Bua, Indonesia Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2021	Establishing a pIRIR procedure for De determination of composite mineral grains from volcanic terranes: A case study of sediments from Liang Bua, Indonesia Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2021	Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave Published In Nature
2021	Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul Published In Nature Communications
2021	The acid test: An experimental microarchaeological study of guano-driven diagenesis in tropical cave sediments Published In Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2021	Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments Published In Science
2021	Use-polished stone flakes from Liang Bua, Indonesia: Implications for plant processing and fibrecraft in the Late Pleistocene Published In Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2020	A key to identify use-related micro-residues on prehistoric stone artefacts using Raman spectroscopy Published In Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2020	Archaeological evidence for two separate dispersals of Neanderthals into southern Siberia Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2020	Establishing standardised growth curves (SGCs) for OSL signals from individual grains of quartz: A continental-scale case study Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2020	Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago Published In Nature Communications
2020	Stone tools reveal epic trek of nomadic Neanderthals Published In The Conversation
2020	The chronological, sedimentary and environmental context for the archaeological deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa Published In Quaternary Science Reviews
2020	Validation of the LnTn method for De determination in optical dating of K-feldspar and quartz Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2019	A timeline for the Denisovans, an enigmatic group of archaic humans Published In TheScienceBreaker
2019	Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave Published In Nature
2019	Combined organic biomarker and use-wear analyses of stone artefacts from Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia Published In Scientific Reports
2019	Dishing the dirt: sediments reveal a famous early human cave site was also home to hyenas and wolves Published In The Conversation
2019	Fresh clues to the life and times of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient group of humans Published In The Conversation
2019	Hominin and animal activities in the microstratigraphic record from Denisova Cave (Altai Mountains, Russia) Published In Scientific Reports
2019	Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul Published In Nature Ecology and Evolution
2019	Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands Published In Climate of the Past
2019	The Pleistocene geoarchaeology and geochronology of Con Moong Cave, North Vietnam: Site formation processes and hominin activity in the humid tropics Published In Geoarchaeology: an international journal
2019	Timing of archaic hominin occupation of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia Published In Nature
2019	pIRIR and IR-RF dating of archaeological deposits at Badahlin and Gu Myaung Caves - First luminescence ages for Myanmar Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2018	A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi Published In PLoS One
2018	Correction: A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi (PLoS ONE (2018) 13, 4 (e0193025) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193025) Published In PLoS ONE
2018	Corrigendum to ��Raman spectroscopy of lipid micro-residues on Middle Palaeolithic stone tools from Denisova Cave, Siberia�� [J. Archaeol. Sci. 95 July 2018 52��63](S0305440318302127)(10.1016/j.jas.2018.05.001) Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2018	Fifty years ago, at Lake Mungo, the true scale of Aboriginal Australians’ epic story was revealed Published In The Conversation
2018	Incorporating terpenes, monoterpenoids and alkanes into multiresidue organic biomarker analysis of archaeological stone artefacts from Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) Published In Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2018	Monitoring the extent of vertical and lateral movement of human decomposition products through sediment using cholesterol as a biomarker Published In Forensic Science International
2018	Raman spectroscopy of lipid micro-residues on Middle Palaeolithic stone tools from Denisova Cave, Siberia Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2018	Reply to comments on Clarkson et al. (2017) ‘Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago’ Published In Australian Archaeology
2018	Single-grain dating of potassium-rich feldspar grains: Towards a global standardised growth curve for the post-IR IRSL signal Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2018	The spatio-temporal distribution of archaeological and faunal finds at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) in light of the revised chronology for Homo floresiensis Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2018	Timelines for human evolution and dispersals Published In Elements (Ottawa): an international magazine of mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology
2017	Deriving spatially resolved beta dose rates in sediment using the Timepix pixelated detector Published In Radiation Measurements
2017	Development and application of a comprehensive analytical workflow for the quantification of non-volatile low molecular weight lipids on archaeological stone tools Published In Analytical Methods: advancing methods and applications
2017	Early human symbolic behavior in the Late Pleistocene of Wallacea Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2017	Friday essay: when did Australia’s human history begin? Published In The Conversation
2017	Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago Published In Nature
2017	Initial micromorphological results from Liang Bua, Flores (Indonesia): Site formation processes and hominin activities at the type locality of Homo floresiensis Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2017	Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments Published In Science
2017	New ages for the Upper Palaeolithic site of Xibaimaying in the Nihewan Basin, northern China: implications for small-tool and microblade industries in north-east Asia during Marine Isotope Stages 2 and 3 Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2017	Single-grain OSL chronologies for the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries and the transition between them: Further analyses and statistical modelling Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2017	The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya) - Optical dating of early human occupation during Marine Isotope Stages 4, 5 and 6 Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2017	Variability in quartz OSL signals caused by measurement uncertainties: Problems and solutions Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2017	Viability of Raman microscopy to identify micro-residues related to tool-use and modern contaminants on prehistoric stone artefacts Published In Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
2016	A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul's Quaternary vertebrates Published In Scientific Data
2016	A late Quaternary vertebrate deposit in Kudjal Yolgah Cave, south-western Australia: refining regional late Pleistocene extinctions Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2016	Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia Published In Nature Communications
2016	Earliest hominin occupation of Sulawesi, Indonesia Published In Nature
2016	Erratum: 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 (2014) 111 (5848-5853) DOI 10.1073/pnas.1323465111) Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2016	Investigation of the applicability of standardised growth curves for OSL dating of quartz from Haua Fteah cave, Libya Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2016	Luminescence ages for three 'Middle Palaeolithic' sites in the Nihewan Basin, northern China, and their archaeological and palaeoenvironmental implications Published In Quaternary Research
2016	Revised stratigraphy and chronology for Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua in Indonesia Published In Nature
2016	The ‘hobbits’ were extinct much earlier than first thought Published In The Conversation
2016	What caused extinction of the pleistocene megafauna of sahul? Published In Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2015	A stone age "Rosetta stone" Published In Australasian Science
2015	An improved single grain OSL chronology for the sedimentary deposits from Diepkloof Rockshelter, Western Cape, South Africa Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2015	Archaeological evidence for indigenous human occupation of Southern Arabia at the Pleistocene/ Holocene transition: The case of al-Hatab in Dhofar, Southern Oman Published In Pal��orient
2015	Construction of a 'global standardised growth curve' (gSGC) for infrared stimulated luminescence dating of K-feldspar Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2015	Criteria for assessing the quality of Middle Pleistocene to Holocene vertebrate fossil ages Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2015	Dating techniques: illuminating the past Published In Nature
2015	Luminescence-based chronologies for Palaeolithic sites in the Nihewan Basin, northern China: first tests using newly developed optical dating procedures for potassium feldspar grains Published In Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2015	Optical dating in archaeology: thirty years in retrospect and grand challenges for the future Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2015	Potential of establishing a 'global standardised growth curve' (gSGC) for optical dating of quartz from sediments Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2015	Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeology and stratigraphy of the southern Nejd, Oman Published In Quaternary International
2015	The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): a site in northern Australia with early occupation Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2014	A decade on and the Hobbit still holds secrets Published In The Conversation
2014	A pardon for the Dingo Published In Science
2014	A single-aliquot luminescence dating procedure for K-feldspar based on the dose-dependent MET-pIRIR signal sensitivity Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2014	Assessing the time of final deposition of Youngest Toba Tuff deposits in the Middle Son Valley, northern India
2014	Continuity of mammalian fauna over the last 200,000 y in the Indian subcontinent Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2014	Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet Published In Nature
2014	Human evolution: just add water Published In Nature
2014	Review and assessment of the potential of post-IR IRSL dating methods to circumvent the problem of anomalous fading in feldspar luminescence Published In Geochronometria: journal on methods and applications of absolute chronology
2014	Testing a model of alluvial deposition in the Middle Son Valley, Madhya Pradesh, India - IRSL dating of terraced alluvial sediments and implications for archaeological surveys and palaeoclimatic reconstructions Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2014	The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya) Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2014	The discovery of Homo floresiensis: Tales of the hobbit Published In Nature
2013	An improved OSL chronology for the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa: further tests of single-grain dating procedures and a re-evaluation of the timing of the Still Bay industry across southern Africa Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2013	Beyond the Levant: first evidence of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic incursion into the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia Published In PLoS One
2013	Extending the age limit of luminescence dating using the dose-dependent sensitivity of MET-pIRIR signals from K-feldspar Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2013	Generativity, hierarchical action and recursion in the technology of the Acheulean to middle palaeolithic transition: a perspective from patpara, the Son Valley, India Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2013	Humans, megafauna and environmental change in tropical Australia Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2013	Lack of chronological support for stepwise prehuman extinctions of Australian megafauna Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2013	Michael John Morwood (1950–2013): rock-art archaeologist and driving force behind the 'Hobbit' discovery Published In Nature
2013	Mid-Holocene age obtained for nested diamond pattern petroglyph in the Billasurgam Cave complex, Kurnool District, southern India Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2013	OSL dating of loess deposits bracketing Sheep Creek tephra beds, northwest Canada: dim and problematic single-grain OSL characteristics and their effect on multi-grain age estimates Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2013	On the dose dependency of the bleachable and non-bleachable components of IRSL from K-feldspar: improved procedures for luminescence dating of Quaternary sediments Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2013	Toba supereruption: age and impact on East African ecosystems Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2012	A southern Indian middle palaeolithic occupation surface sealed by the 74 ka Toba eruption: Further evidence from Jwalapuram Locality 22 Published In Quaternary International
2012	Afromontane foragers of the Late Pleistocene: site formation, chronology and occupational pulsing at Melikane Rockshelter, Lesotho Published In Quaternary International
2012	Armageddon and its aftermath: dating the Toba super-eruption Published In The Conversation
2012	Astronomically calibrated 40Ar/39Ar age for the Toba supereruption and global synchronization of late Quaternary records Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2012	Evolutionary anthropology - Homo 'incendius' Published In Nature
2012	Hominin dispersal into the Nefud Desert and Middle Palaeolithic settlement along the Jubbah Palaeolake, Northern Arabia Published In PLoS One
2012	Luminescence characteristics and dose distributions for quartz and feldspar grains from Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania Published In Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
2012	Melting ice sheets 400,000 yr ago raised sea level by 13 m: past analogue for future trends Published In Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2012	Melting ice sheets 400,000 yr ago raised sea level by 13m: Past analogue for future trends Published In Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2012	Natural variations in the properties of TL and IRSL emissions from metamorphic and volcanic K-feldspars from East Africa: assessing their reliability for dating Published In Radiation Measurements
2012	New ages for middle and later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grains Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2012	New excavations at the site of Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco Published In PaleoAnthropology
2012	Single-grain OSL chronologies for Middle Palaeolithic deposits at El Mnasra and El Harhoura 2, Morocco: Implications for Late Pleistocene human-environment interactions along the Atlantic coast of northwest Africa Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2012	Single-grain OSL dating of glaciofluvial quartz constrains Reid glaciation in NW Canada to MIS 6 Published In Quaternary Research
2012	Sources of overdispersion in a K-rich feldspar sample from north-central India: Insights from De, K content and IRSL age distributions for individual grains Published In Radiation Measurements
2012	Statistical aspects of equivalent dose and error calculation and display in OSL dating: an overview and some recommendations Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2011	Application of sedimentary and chronological analyses to refine the depositional context of a Late Pleistocene vertebrate deposit, Naracoorte, South Australia Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2011	Development of the SAR TT-OSL procedure for dating Middle Pleistocene dune and shallow marine deposits along the southern Cape coast of South Africa Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2011	Dirt, dates and DNA:OSL and radiocarbon chronologies of perenially frozen sediments in Siberia, and their implications for sedimentary ancient DNA studies Published In Boreas: an international journal of quaternary research
2011	Late Acheulean hominins at the Marine Isotope Stage 6/5e transition in north-central India Published In Quaternary Research
2011	Middle Paleolithic occupation on a Marine Isotope Stage 5 lakeshore in the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2011	Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of perenially frozen deposits in north-central Siberia: OSL characteristics of quartz grains and methodological considerations regarding their suitability for dating Published In Boreas: an international journal of quaternary research
2011	Single-grain OSL dating at La Grotte des Contrebandiers ('Smugglers' Cave'), Morocco: improved age constraints for the Middle Paleolithic levels Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2011	The Nubian complex of Dhofar, Oman: an African Middle Stone Age industry in Southern Arabia Published In PLoS One
2010	And then there were none? Published In Science
2010	Low temperature (LT) combustion of sediments does not necessarily provide accurate radiocarbon ages for site chronology Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2010	New excavations of Middle Stone Age deposits at Apollo 11 Rockshelter, Namibia: stratigraphy, archaeology, chronology and past environments Published In Journal of African Archaeology
2010	Still Bay and serrated points from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2010	The biggest losers Published In Australasian Science
2010	Timing and dynamics of Late Pleistocene mammal extinctions in southwestern Australia Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2010	Turning back the clock on the extinction of megafauna in Australia Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2009	A revised burial dose estimation procedure for optical dating of young and modern-age sediments Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2009	Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2009	Catalysts for stone age innovations: what might have triggered two short-lived bursts of technological and behavioral innovation in southern Africa during the middle stone age? Published In Communicative and Integrative Biology
2009	Geochronology of cave deposits at Liang Bua and of adjacent river terraces in the Wae Racang valley, western Flores, Indonesia: a synthesis of age estimates for the type locality of Homo floresiensis Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2009	Holocene palaeofire records in a high-level, proximal valley-fill (Wilson Bog), Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia Published In The Holocene: a major interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change
2009	Homo floresiensis and the late Pleistocene environments of eastern Indonesia: defining the nature of the relationship Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2009	Human history written in stone and blood Published In American Scientist: the Magazine of Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society
2009	Human occupation, adaptation and behavioural change in the pleistocene and holocene of south India: recent investigations in the Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh Published In Eurasian Prehistory
2009	Kam di KULTUR aus AFRIKA? Published In Spektrum Der Wissenschaft
2009	Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2009	Reconstructing the geomorphic history of Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia: a stratigraphic interpretation of the occupational environment Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2009	Stochastic modelling of multi-grain equivalent dose (De) distributions: implications for OSL dating of sediment mixtures Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2009	The evolving landscape and climate of western Flores: an environmental context for the archaeological site of Liang Bua Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2009	Were environmental or demographic factors the driving force behind Middle Stone Age innovations in southern Africa? Published In SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE
2009	Were environmental or demographic factors the driving force behind Middle Stone Age innovations in southern Africa? Published In South African Journal of Science
2009	Were environmental or demographic factors the driving force behind Middle Stone Age innovations in southern Africa?: Scientific correspondence Published In South African Journal of Science
2008	Age constraints on Pleistocene megafauna at Tight Entrance Cave in southwestern Australia Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2008	Ages for the middle stone age of Southern Africa: implications for human behavior and dispersal Published In Science
2008	Changing ideas on the identity and stratigraphic significance of the Sheep Creek tephra beds in Alaska and the Yukon Territory, northwestern North America Published In Quaternary International
2008	Equivalent dose distributions from single grains of quartz at Sibudu, South Africa: context, causes and consequences for optical dating of archaeological deposits Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2008	Late-surviving megafauna in Tasmania, Australia, implicate human involvement in their extinction Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2008	New ages for the post-Howiesons Poort, late and final Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2008	Optical dating of perennially frozen deposits associated with preserved ancient plant and animal DNA in north-central Siberia Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2008	Optically stimulated luminescence dating of single and multiple grains of quartz from perennially frozen loess in western Yukon Territory, Canada: Comparison with radiocarbon chronologies for the late Pleistocene Dawson tephra Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2008	Testing Times: old and new chronologies for the Howieson's poort and still bay industries in environmental context Published In South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series
2008	The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008: the second season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the initial (2007) fieldwork Published In Libyan Studies
2008	The Lost Giants of Tasmania Published In Australasian Science
2007	A high-resolution record of vegetation and climate through the last glacial cycle from Caledonia Fen, southeastern highlands of Australia Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2007	Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating of individual grains of quartz from archaeological deposits Published In Evolutionary Anthropology
2007	Age and biostratigraphic significance of the Punung Rainforest Fauna, East Java, Indonesia, and implications for Pongo and Homo Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2007	An arid-adapted middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from south-central Australia Published In Nature
2007	Editorial Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2007	Establishing the time of initial human occupation of Liang Bua, western Flores, Indonesia Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2007	Initial speleothem results from western Flores and eastern Java, Indonesia: were climate changes from 47 to 5ka responsible for the extinction of Homo floresiensis? Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2007	Mammalian responses to Pleistocene climate change in southeastern Australia Published In Geology (Boulder)
2007	Middle Paleolithic assemblages from the Indian subcontinent before and after the Toba super-eruption Published In Science
2007	Motoji Ikeya (1940-2006) Published In QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY
2007	Progress in optical dating of guano-rich sediments associated with the Deep Skull, West Mouth of the Great Cave of Niah, Sarawak, Borneo Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2007	Redating the advance of the New Zealand Franz Josef Glacier during the Last Termination: evidence for asynchronous climate change Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2007	Sediment mixing at Nonda Rock: investigations of stratigraphic integrity at an early archaeological site in northern Australia and implications for the human colonisation of the continent Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2007	Would the Australian megafauna have become extinct if humans had never colonised the continent? Comments on 'A review of the evidence for a human role in the extinction of Australian megafauna and an alternative explanation' by S.Wroe and J.Field Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2001	Archaeology and Australian megafauna - Response Published In SCIENCE
2001	Early human occupation at Devil��s Lair, southwestern Australia 50, 000 years ago Published In Quaternary Research
2001	Erratum 1: New ages for the last Australian megafauna: Continent-wide extinction about 46,000 years ago (Science (June 8) (1888)) Published In Science
1999	Optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartz from Jinmium rock shelter, northern Australia: Part I, experimental design and statistical models Published In Archaeometry
1999	Optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartz from Jinmium rock shelter, northern Australia: Part II, results and implications Published In Archaeometry
1999	Origin of dose distributions in fluvial sediments, and the prospect of dating single grains from fluvial deposits using optically stimulated luminescence Published In Radiation Measurements
1998	Measurement of the equivalent dose in quartz using a regenerative-dose single-aliquot protocol Published In Radiation Measurements
1998	Optical and radiocarbon dating at Jinmium rock shelter in northern Australia Published In Nature
1997	A novel method for determining residence times of river and lake sediments based on disequilibrium in the thorium decay series Published In Water Resources Research
1997	Determining the burial time of single grains of quartz using optically stimulated luminescence Published In Earth and Planetary Science Letters
1997	Luminescence dating in archaeology: From origins to optical Published In Radiation Measurements
1997	Luminescence dating of rock art and past environments using mud-wasp nests in northern Australia Published In Nature
1997	New optical and radiocarbon dates from Ngarrabullgan Cave, a Pleistocene archaeological site in Australia: Implications for the comparability of time clocks and for the human colonization of Australia Published In Antiquity
1996	An evaluation of radiocarbon chronologies at Miriwun rock shelter and the Monsmont site, Ord valley, east Kimberley, Western Australia Published In Australian Archaeology
1996	The effects of disequilibria in the uranium and thorium decay chains on burial dose rates in fluvial sediments Published In Quaternary Science Reviews
1996	Time and process rates over the past 100 m.y.: A case for dramatically increased landscape denudation rates during the late Quaternary in northern Australia Published In Geology
1994	Beyond the radiocarbon barrier in Australian prehistory Published In Antiquity
1994	Optical Dating of Quartz: A Comment on Stokes and Gaylord (1993) Published In Quaternary Research
1993	Dating loess up to 800 ka by thermoluminescence: Comment and Reply Published In Geology
1993	Geomorphological stability of sites for the long-term containment of uranium mining wastes in the seasonally wet tropics, northern Australia Published In Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband
1993	Optical Dating At Deaf Adder Gorge, Northern Territory, Indicates Human Occupation Between 53,000 and 60,000 Years Ago Published In Australian Archaeology
1993	Quaternary stratigraphy, geochronology and evolution of the Magela Creek catchment in the monsoon tropics of northern Australia Published In Sedimentary Geology
1990	Stratigraphy and statistics at Malakunanja II: reply to Hiscock Published In Archaeology in Oceania
1990	Thermoluminescence dating of a 50,000-year-old human occupation site in northern Australia Published In Nature
1990	backfill Published In Australian Archaeology
1986	The sediment budget in severely disturbed watersheds, Queen Charlotte Ranges, British Columbia. Published In Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Chapter

Year	Title
2022	Homo floresiensis Published In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior Publisher Springer International Publishing
2022	Homo floresiensis Published In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior Publisher Springer Nature
2020	Homo floresiensis Published In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior Publisher : Springer International Publishing
2020	Homo floresiensis Published In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior Publisher : Springer Nature
2018	Optical dating of sediment samples from Chagyrskaya Cave Published In Multidisciplinary Studies of Chagyrskaya Cave - A Middle Paleolithic Site in Altai Publisher Novosibirsk
2017	Optical dating of rock art Published In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art Publisher United Kingdom
2016	Optical dating of sediments from the West Mouth Published In Archaeological Investigations in the Niah Caves, Sarawak Publisher Cambridge
2015	Luminescence dating, single-grain dose distribution Published In Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods Publisher Netherlands
2014	Luminescence Dating, Single-Grain Dose Distribution Published In Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods Publisher : Springer Nature
2014	Luminescence Dating, Single-Grain Dose Distribution Published In Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods Publisher : Springer Netherlands
2014	Opinion Box 11: When did modern humans first colonize Southeast Asia and Australia? Published In Human Evolutionary Genetics Publisher New York
2010	Beneath the peat: A refined pollen record from an interstadial at Caledonia Fen, highland eastern Victoria, Australia Published In Altered ecologies : fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes
2008	Dating in landscape archaeology Published In Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
1999	Late Quaternary Extinctions in Australasia Published In Extinctions in Near Time Publisher Springer Nature
1999	Late Quaternary Extinctions in Australasia Published In Extinctions in Near Time Publisher Springer US

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2022	Sediment DNA reveals Neandertal population history Published In EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
2019	Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave Published In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
2012	Late Palaeolithic core reduction strategies in Dhofar, Oman Published In Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies (42)
2000	Distinguishing dose populations in sediment mixtures: A test of single-grain optical dating procedures using mixtures of laboratory-dosed quartz Published In Radiation Measurements
1997	Disequilibria in the uranium decay series in sedimentary deposits at Allen's Cave, Nullarbor Plain, Australia: Implications for dose rate determinations Published In Radiation Measurements
1997	Equivalent dose measurement using a single aliquot of quartz Published In Radiation Measurements
1994	Palaeodose underestimates caused by extended-duration preheats in the optical dating of quartz Published In Radiation Measurements
1994	The human colonisation of Australia: optical dates of 53,000 and 60,000 years bracket human arrival at Deaf Adder Gorge, Northern Territory Published In Quaternary Science Reviews

Investigator On

Year	Title
2017 - 2024	ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Centres of Excellence
2018 - 2019	A national facility for the analysis of pyrogenic carbon Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2014 - 2019	Out of Asia: unique insights into human evolution and interactions using frontier technologies in archaeological science Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Australian Laureate Fellowships
2015	Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2013	Dating the Aboriginal rock art of the Kimberley region, WA - landscape geochemistry, surface processes and complementary dating techniques Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
2013	What is 'natural'? : Locating and deciphering pre-human records of vegetation from northern Australian savannas Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2010	A facility for sensitive and precise isotopic dating of Earth's and extraterrestrial rocks Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2009	Change and continuity: chronology, archaeology and art in the North Kimberley, Northwest Australia Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
2009	The future of palaeoclimate and archaeological research in Australia: next generation instrumentation for chronology and environmental reconstruction Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2008	A stable-isotope mass spectrometer for novel determinations of past temperature Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2008	Monsoons and migrations: Quaternary climates, landscapes and human prehistory of the Arabian peninsula and the Indian subcontinent Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2007	A new generation Noble Gas Mass Spectrometer Facility for advanced research in the Earth, planetary and environmental sciences Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
	ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) Awarded by: NSW Government Funding Scheme: Research Attraction and Acceleration Program (RAAP)
	Dating the aboriginal rock art sequence of the Kimberley in NW Australia Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
	Revisiting funerary practices: A methodological approach to the study of funerary sequences and social organisation in the Neolithic Near East (ArchFarm) Awarded by: European Commission Funding Scheme: Marie Curie Individual Fellowships

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	New insights into the Pleistocene archaeology of North Vietnam: understanding tropical cave sediments through microstratigraphic investigations and geo-ethnoarchaeological experiments	Mcadams, Conor
Doctor of Philosophy	Development and Application of Luminescence Approaches to Dating of Indonesian Archaeological and Palaeoanthropological Sites	Sontag Gonzalez, Mariana
Doctor of Philosophy	Reconstructing the Pleistocene environmental and human history of Flores and neighbouring islands in eastern Indonesia using geochemical and biochemical methods.	Koutamanis, Dafne
Doctor of Philosophy	New terrestrial paleoenvironmental archives from Wallacea	Wall, Alexander
Doctor of Philosophy	N-alkane and compound-specific isotope distribution in sediments and implications for palaeo-hydrology in tropical Australasia	Boesl, Fabian

Orcid Id

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0128-4119 (confirmed)

Web Of Science Researcher Id

B-8245-2013

Scopus Id

7404281684

Top Publications

Year	Title
2021	Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave Published in Nature
2021	Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments Published in Science
2019	Timing of archaic hominin occupation of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia Published in Nature

Research Areas

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2022	Author Correction: Hominin and animal activities in the microstratigraphic record from Denisova Cave (Altai Mountains, Russia) (Scientific Reports, (2019), 9, 1, (13785), 10.1038/s41598-019-49930-3) Published In Scientific Reports
2022	Bayesian analysis of De distributions in optical dating: Towards a robust method for dealing with outliers Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2022	Beta dose heterogeneity in sediment samples measured using a Timepix pixelated detector and its implications for optical dating of individual mineral grains Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2022	Discovering the "Hobbit"Little Species, Big Mystery: The Story of Homo FloresiensisDebbie Argue Melbourne University Press, 2022. 216 pp Published In Science (New York, N.Y.)
2022	Erratum: Late Pleistocene shell midden microstratigraphy indicates a complex history of human-environment interactions in the uplands of North Vietnam (Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B (2022) 377 (20200493) DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0493) Published In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022	Genetic insights into the social organization of Neanderthals Published In Nature
2022	Human occupation of the Kimberley coast of northwest Australia 50,000 years ago Published In Quaternary Science Reviews
2022	Late Pleistocene shell midden microstratigraphy indicates a complex history of human-environment interactions in the uplands of North Vietnam Published In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022	Microstratigraphic preservation of ancient faunal and hominin DNA in Pleistocene cave sediments Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2021	Composite grains from volcanic terranes: Internal dose rates of supposed ��potassium-rich�� feldspar grains used for optical dating at Liang Bua, Indonesia Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2021	Establishing a pIRIR procedure for De determination of composite mineral grains from volcanic terranes: A case study of sediments from Liang Bua, Indonesia Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2021	Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave Published In Nature
2021	Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul Published In Nature Communications
2021	The acid test: An experimental microarchaeological study of guano-driven diagenesis in tropical cave sediments Published In Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2021	Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments Published In Science
2021	Use-polished stone flakes from Liang Bua, Indonesia: Implications for plant processing and fibrecraft in the Late Pleistocene Published In Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2020	A key to identify use-related micro-residues on prehistoric stone artefacts using Raman spectroscopy Published In Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2020	Archaeological evidence for two separate dispersals of Neanderthals into southern Siberia Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2020	Establishing standardised growth curves (SGCs) for OSL signals from individual grains of quartz: A continental-scale case study Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2020	Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago Published In Nature Communications
2020	Stone tools reveal epic trek of nomadic Neanderthals Published In The Conversation
2020	The chronological, sedimentary and environmental context for the archaeological deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa Published In Quaternary Science Reviews
2020	Validation of the LnTn method for De determination in optical dating of K-feldspar and quartz Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2019	A timeline for the Denisovans, an enigmatic group of archaic humans Published In TheScienceBreaker
2019	Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave Published In Nature
2019	Combined organic biomarker and use-wear analyses of stone artefacts from Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia Published In Scientific Reports
2019	Dishing the dirt: sediments reveal a famous early human cave site was also home to hyenas and wolves Published In The Conversation
2019	Fresh clues to the life and times of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient group of humans Published In The Conversation
2019	Hominin and animal activities in the microstratigraphic record from Denisova Cave (Altai Mountains, Russia) Published In Scientific Reports
2019	Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul Published In Nature Ecology and Evolution
2019	Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands Published In Climate of the Past
2019	The Pleistocene geoarchaeology and geochronology of Con Moong Cave, North Vietnam: Site formation processes and hominin activity in the humid tropics Published In Geoarchaeology: an international journal
2019	Timing of archaic hominin occupation of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia Published In Nature
2019	pIRIR and IR-RF dating of archaeological deposits at Badahlin and Gu Myaung Caves - First luminescence ages for Myanmar Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2018	A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi Published In PLoS One
2018	Correction: A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi (PLoS ONE (2018) 13, 4 (e0193025) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0193025) Published In PLoS ONE
2018	Corrigendum to ��Raman spectroscopy of lipid micro-residues on Middle Palaeolithic stone tools from Denisova Cave, Siberia�� [J. Archaeol. Sci. 95 July 2018 52��63](S0305440318302127)(10.1016/j.jas.2018.05.001) Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2018	Fifty years ago, at Lake Mungo, the true scale of Aboriginal Australians’ epic story was revealed Published In The Conversation
2018	Incorporating terpenes, monoterpenoids and alkanes into multiresidue organic biomarker analysis of archaeological stone artefacts from Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) Published In Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2018	Monitoring the extent of vertical and lateral movement of human decomposition products through sediment using cholesterol as a biomarker Published In Forensic Science International
2018	Raman spectroscopy of lipid micro-residues on Middle Palaeolithic stone tools from Denisova Cave, Siberia Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2018	Reply to comments on Clarkson et al. (2017) ‘Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago’ Published In Australian Archaeology
2018	Single-grain dating of potassium-rich feldspar grains: Towards a global standardised growth curve for the post-IR IRSL signal Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2018	The spatio-temporal distribution of archaeological and faunal finds at Liang Bua (Flores, Indonesia) in light of the revised chronology for Homo floresiensis Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2018	Timelines for human evolution and dispersals Published In Elements (Ottawa): an international magazine of mineralogy, geochemistry, and petrology
2017	Deriving spatially resolved beta dose rates in sediment using the Timepix pixelated detector Published In Radiation Measurements
2017	Development and application of a comprehensive analytical workflow for the quantification of non-volatile low molecular weight lipids on archaeological stone tools Published In Analytical Methods: advancing methods and applications
2017	Early human symbolic behavior in the Late Pleistocene of Wallacea Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2017	Friday essay: when did Australia’s human history begin? Published In The Conversation
2017	Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago Published In Nature
2017	Initial micromorphological results from Liang Bua, Flores (Indonesia): Site formation processes and hominin activities at the type locality of Homo floresiensis Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2017	Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments Published In Science
2017	New ages for the Upper Palaeolithic site of Xibaimaying in the Nihewan Basin, northern China: implications for small-tool and microblade industries in north-east Asia during Marine Isotope Stages 2 and 3 Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2017	Single-grain OSL chronologies for the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries and the transition between them: Further analyses and statistical modelling Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2017	The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya) - Optical dating of early human occupation during Marine Isotope Stages 4, 5 and 6 Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2017	Variability in quartz OSL signals caused by measurement uncertainties: Problems and solutions Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2017	Viability of Raman microscopy to identify micro-residues related to tool-use and modern contaminants on prehistoric stone artefacts Published In Journal of Raman Spectroscopy
2016	A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul's Quaternary vertebrates Published In Scientific Data
2016	A late Quaternary vertebrate deposit in Kudjal Yolgah Cave, south-western Australia: refining regional late Pleistocene extinctions Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2016	Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia Published In Nature Communications
2016	Earliest hominin occupation of Sulawesi, Indonesia Published In Nature
2016	Erratum: 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 (2014) 111 (5848-5853) DOI 10.1073/pnas.1323465111) Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
2016	Investigation of the applicability of standardised growth curves for OSL dating of quartz from Haua Fteah cave, Libya Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2016	Luminescence ages for three 'Middle Palaeolithic' sites in the Nihewan Basin, northern China, and their archaeological and palaeoenvironmental implications Published In Quaternary Research
2016	Revised stratigraphy and chronology for Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua in Indonesia Published In Nature
2016	The ‘hobbits’ were extinct much earlier than first thought Published In The Conversation
2016	What caused extinction of the pleistocene megafauna of sahul? Published In Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2015	A stone age "Rosetta stone" Published In Australasian Science
2015	An improved single grain OSL chronology for the sedimentary deposits from Diepkloof Rockshelter, Western Cape, South Africa Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2015	Archaeological evidence for indigenous human occupation of Southern Arabia at the Pleistocene/ Holocene transition: The case of al-Hatab in Dhofar, Southern Oman Published In Pal��orient
2015	Construction of a 'global standardised growth curve' (gSGC) for infrared stimulated luminescence dating of K-feldspar Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2015	Criteria for assessing the quality of Middle Pleistocene to Holocene vertebrate fossil ages Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2015	Dating techniques: illuminating the past Published In Nature
2015	Luminescence-based chronologies for Palaeolithic sites in the Nihewan Basin, northern China: first tests using newly developed optical dating procedures for potassium feldspar grains Published In Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2015	Optical dating in archaeology: thirty years in retrospect and grand challenges for the future Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2015	Potential of establishing a 'global standardised growth curve' (gSGC) for optical dating of quartz from sediments Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2015	Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeology and stratigraphy of the southern Nejd, Oman Published In Quaternary International
2015	The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): a site in northern Australia with early occupation Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2014	A decade on and the Hobbit still holds secrets Published In The Conversation
2014	A pardon for the Dingo Published In Science
2014	A single-aliquot luminescence dating procedure for K-feldspar based on the dose-dependent MET-pIRIR signal sensitivity Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2014	Assessing the time of final deposition of Youngest Toba Tuff deposits in the Middle Son Valley, northern India
2014	Continuity of mammalian fauna over the last 200,000 y in the Indian subcontinent Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2014	Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet Published In Nature
2014	Human evolution: just add water Published In Nature
2014	Review and assessment of the potential of post-IR IRSL dating methods to circumvent the problem of anomalous fading in feldspar luminescence Published In Geochronometria: journal on methods and applications of absolute chronology
2014	Testing a model of alluvial deposition in the Middle Son Valley, Madhya Pradesh, India - IRSL dating of terraced alluvial sediments and implications for archaeological surveys and palaeoclimatic reconstructions Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2014	The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya) Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2014	The discovery of Homo floresiensis: Tales of the hobbit Published In Nature
2013	An improved OSL chronology for the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa: further tests of single-grain dating procedures and a re-evaluation of the timing of the Still Bay industry across southern Africa Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2013	Beyond the Levant: first evidence of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic incursion into the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia Published In PLoS One
2013	Extending the age limit of luminescence dating using the dose-dependent sensitivity of MET-pIRIR signals from K-feldspar Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2013	Generativity, hierarchical action and recursion in the technology of the Acheulean to middle palaeolithic transition: a perspective from patpara, the Son Valley, India Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2013	Humans, megafauna and environmental change in tropical Australia Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2013	Lack of chronological support for stepwise prehuman extinctions of Australian megafauna Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2013	Michael John Morwood (1950–2013): rock-art archaeologist and driving force behind the 'Hobbit' discovery Published In Nature
2013	Mid-Holocene age obtained for nested diamond pattern petroglyph in the Billasurgam Cave complex, Kurnool District, southern India Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2013	OSL dating of loess deposits bracketing Sheep Creek tephra beds, northwest Canada: dim and problematic single-grain OSL characteristics and their effect on multi-grain age estimates Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2013	On the dose dependency of the bleachable and non-bleachable components of IRSL from K-feldspar: improved procedures for luminescence dating of Quaternary sediments Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2013	Toba supereruption: age and impact on East African ecosystems Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2012	A southern Indian middle palaeolithic occupation surface sealed by the 74 ka Toba eruption: Further evidence from Jwalapuram Locality 22 Published In Quaternary International
2012	Afromontane foragers of the Late Pleistocene: site formation, chronology and occupational pulsing at Melikane Rockshelter, Lesotho Published In Quaternary International
2012	Armageddon and its aftermath: dating the Toba super-eruption Published In The Conversation
2012	Astronomically calibrated 40Ar/39Ar age for the Toba supereruption and global synchronization of late Quaternary records Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2012	Evolutionary anthropology - Homo 'incendius' Published In Nature
2012	Hominin dispersal into the Nefud Desert and Middle Palaeolithic settlement along the Jubbah Palaeolake, Northern Arabia Published In PLoS One
2012	Luminescence characteristics and dose distributions for quartz and feldspar grains from Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania Published In Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
2012	Melting ice sheets 400,000 yr ago raised sea level by 13 m: past analogue for future trends Published In Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2012	Melting ice sheets 400,000 yr ago raised sea level by 13m: Past analogue for future trends Published In Earth and Planetary Science Letters
2012	Natural variations in the properties of TL and IRSL emissions from metamorphic and volcanic K-feldspars from East Africa: assessing their reliability for dating Published In Radiation Measurements
2012	New ages for middle and later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grains Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2012	New excavations at the site of Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco Published In PaleoAnthropology
2012	Single-grain OSL chronologies for Middle Palaeolithic deposits at El Mnasra and El Harhoura 2, Morocco: Implications for Late Pleistocene human-environment interactions along the Atlantic coast of northwest Africa Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2012	Single-grain OSL dating of glaciofluvial quartz constrains Reid glaciation in NW Canada to MIS 6 Published In Quaternary Research
2012	Sources of overdispersion in a K-rich feldspar sample from north-central India: Insights from De, K content and IRSL age distributions for individual grains Published In Radiation Measurements
2012	Statistical aspects of equivalent dose and error calculation and display in OSL dating: an overview and some recommendations Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2011	Application of sedimentary and chronological analyses to refine the depositional context of a Late Pleistocene vertebrate deposit, Naracoorte, South Australia Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2011	Development of the SAR TT-OSL procedure for dating Middle Pleistocene dune and shallow marine deposits along the southern Cape coast of South Africa Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2011	Dirt, dates and DNA:OSL and radiocarbon chronologies of perenially frozen sediments in Siberia, and their implications for sedimentary ancient DNA studies Published In Boreas: an international journal of quaternary research
2011	Late Acheulean hominins at the Marine Isotope Stage 6/5e transition in north-central India Published In Quaternary Research
2011	Middle Paleolithic occupation on a Marine Isotope Stage 5 lakeshore in the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2011	Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of perenially frozen deposits in north-central Siberia: OSL characteristics of quartz grains and methodological considerations regarding their suitability for dating Published In Boreas: an international journal of quaternary research
2011	Single-grain OSL dating at La Grotte des Contrebandiers ('Smugglers' Cave'), Morocco: improved age constraints for the Middle Paleolithic levels Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2011	The Nubian complex of Dhofar, Oman: an African Middle Stone Age industry in Southern Arabia Published In PLoS One
2010	And then there were none? Published In Science
2010	Low temperature (LT) combustion of sediments does not necessarily provide accurate radiocarbon ages for site chronology Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2010	New excavations of Middle Stone Age deposits at Apollo 11 Rockshelter, Namibia: stratigraphy, archaeology, chronology and past environments Published In Journal of African Archaeology
2010	Still Bay and serrated points from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2010	The biggest losers Published In Australasian Science
2010	Timing and dynamics of Late Pleistocene mammal extinctions in southwestern Australia Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2010	Turning back the clock on the extinction of megafauna in Australia Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2009	A revised burial dose estimation procedure for optical dating of young and modern-age sediments Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2009	Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2009	Catalysts for stone age innovations: what might have triggered two short-lived bursts of technological and behavioral innovation in southern Africa during the middle stone age? Published In Communicative and Integrative Biology
2009	Geochronology of cave deposits at Liang Bua and of adjacent river terraces in the Wae Racang valley, western Flores, Indonesia: a synthesis of age estimates for the type locality of Homo floresiensis Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2009	Holocene palaeofire records in a high-level, proximal valley-fill (Wilson Bog), Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia Published In The Holocene: a major interdisciplinary journal focusing on recent environmental change
2009	Homo floresiensis and the late Pleistocene environments of eastern Indonesia: defining the nature of the relationship Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2009	Human history written in stone and blood Published In American Scientist: the Magazine of Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society
2009	Human occupation, adaptation and behavioural change in the pleistocene and holocene of south India: recent investigations in the Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh Published In Eurasian Prehistory
2009	Kam di KULTUR aus AFRIKA? Published In Spektrum Der Wissenschaft
2009	Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2009	Reconstructing the geomorphic history of Liang Bua, Flores, Indonesia: a stratigraphic interpretation of the occupational environment Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2009	Stochastic modelling of multi-grain equivalent dose (De) distributions: implications for OSL dating of sediment mixtures Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2009	The evolving landscape and climate of western Flores: an environmental context for the archaeological site of Liang Bua Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2009	Were environmental or demographic factors the driving force behind Middle Stone Age innovations in southern Africa? Published In SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE
2009	Were environmental or demographic factors the driving force behind Middle Stone Age innovations in southern Africa? Published In South African Journal of Science
2009	Were environmental or demographic factors the driving force behind Middle Stone Age innovations in southern Africa?: Scientific correspondence Published In South African Journal of Science
2008	Age constraints on Pleistocene megafauna at Tight Entrance Cave in southwestern Australia Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2008	Ages for the middle stone age of Southern Africa: implications for human behavior and dispersal Published In Science
2008	Changing ideas on the identity and stratigraphic significance of the Sheep Creek tephra beds in Alaska and the Yukon Territory, northwestern North America Published In Quaternary International
2008	Equivalent dose distributions from single grains of quartz at Sibudu, South Africa: context, causes and consequences for optical dating of archaeological deposits Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2008	Late-surviving megafauna in Tasmania, Australia, implicate human involvement in their extinction Published In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA
2008	New ages for the post-Howiesons Poort, late and final Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa Published In Journal of Archaeological Science
2008	Optical dating of perennially frozen deposits associated with preserved ancient plant and animal DNA in north-central Siberia Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2008	Optically stimulated luminescence dating of single and multiple grains of quartz from perennially frozen loess in western Yukon Territory, Canada: Comparison with radiocarbon chronologies for the late Pleistocene Dawson tephra Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2008	Testing Times: old and new chronologies for the Howieson's poort and still bay industries in environmental context Published In South African Archaeological Society Goodwin Series
2008	The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008: the second season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the initial (2007) fieldwork Published In Libyan Studies
2008	The Lost Giants of Tasmania Published In Australasian Science
2007	A high-resolution record of vegetation and climate through the last glacial cycle from Caledonia Fen, southeastern highlands of Australia Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2007	Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating of individual grains of quartz from archaeological deposits Published In Evolutionary Anthropology
2007	Age and biostratigraphic significance of the Punung Rainforest Fauna, East Java, Indonesia, and implications for Pongo and Homo Published In Journal of Human Evolution
2007	An arid-adapted middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from south-central Australia Published In Nature
2007	Editorial Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2007	Establishing the time of initial human occupation of Liang Bua, western Flores, Indonesia Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2007	Initial speleothem results from western Flores and eastern Java, Indonesia: were climate changes from 47 to 5ka responsible for the extinction of Homo floresiensis? Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2007	Mammalian responses to Pleistocene climate change in southeastern Australia Published In Geology (Boulder)
2007	Middle Paleolithic assemblages from the Indian subcontinent before and after the Toba super-eruption Published In Science
2007	Motoji Ikeya (1940-2006) Published In QUATERNARY GEOCHRONOLOGY
2007	Progress in optical dating of guano-rich sediments associated with the Deep Skull, West Mouth of the Great Cave of Niah, Sarawak, Borneo Published In Quaternary Geochronology
2007	Redating the advance of the New Zealand Franz Josef Glacier during the Last Termination: evidence for asynchronous climate change Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2007	Sediment mixing at Nonda Rock: investigations of stratigraphic integrity at an early archaeological site in northern Australia and implications for the human colonisation of the continent Published In Journal of Quaternary Science
2007	Would the Australian megafauna have become extinct if humans had never colonised the continent? Comments on 'A review of the evidence for a human role in the extinction of Australian megafauna and an alternative explanation' by S.Wroe and J.Field Published In Quaternary Science Reviews: the international multidisciplinary research and review journal
2001	Archaeology and Australian megafauna - Response Published In SCIENCE
2001	Early human occupation at Devil��s Lair, southwestern Australia 50, 000 years ago Published In Quaternary Research
2001	Erratum 1: New ages for the last Australian megafauna: Continent-wide extinction about 46,000 years ago (Science (June 8) (1888)) Published In Science
1999	Optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartz from Jinmium rock shelter, northern Australia: Part I, experimental design and statistical models Published In Archaeometry
1999	Optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartz from Jinmium rock shelter, northern Australia: Part II, results and implications Published In Archaeometry
1999	Origin of dose distributions in fluvial sediments, and the prospect of dating single grains from fluvial deposits using optically stimulated luminescence Published In Radiation Measurements
1998	Measurement of the equivalent dose in quartz using a regenerative-dose single-aliquot protocol Published In Radiation Measurements
1998	Optical and radiocarbon dating at Jinmium rock shelter in northern Australia Published In Nature
1997	A novel method for determining residence times of river and lake sediments based on disequilibrium in the thorium decay series Published In Water Resources Research
1997	Determining the burial time of single grains of quartz using optically stimulated luminescence Published In Earth and Planetary Science Letters
1997	Luminescence dating in archaeology: From origins to optical Published In Radiation Measurements
1997	Luminescence dating of rock art and past environments using mud-wasp nests in northern Australia Published In Nature
1997	New optical and radiocarbon dates from Ngarrabullgan Cave, a Pleistocene archaeological site in Australia: Implications for the comparability of time clocks and for the human colonization of Australia Published In Antiquity
1996	An evaluation of radiocarbon chronologies at Miriwun rock shelter and the Monsmont site, Ord valley, east Kimberley, Western Australia Published In Australian Archaeology
1996	The effects of disequilibria in the uranium and thorium decay chains on burial dose rates in fluvial sediments Published In Quaternary Science Reviews
1996	Time and process rates over the past 100 m.y.: A case for dramatically increased landscape denudation rates during the late Quaternary in northern Australia Published In Geology
1994	Beyond the radiocarbon barrier in Australian prehistory Published In Antiquity
1994	Optical Dating of Quartz: A Comment on Stokes and Gaylord (1993) Published In Quaternary Research
1993	Dating loess up to 800 ka by thermoluminescence: Comment and Reply Published In Geology
1993	Geomorphological stability of sites for the long-term containment of uranium mining wastes in the seasonally wet tropics, northern Australia Published In Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie, Supplementband
1993	Optical Dating At Deaf Adder Gorge, Northern Territory, Indicates Human Occupation Between 53,000 and 60,000 Years Ago Published In Australian Archaeology
1993	Quaternary stratigraphy, geochronology and evolution of the Magela Creek catchment in the monsoon tropics of northern Australia Published In Sedimentary Geology
1990	Stratigraphy and statistics at Malakunanja II: reply to Hiscock Published In Archaeology in Oceania
1990	Thermoluminescence dating of a 50,000-year-old human occupation site in northern Australia Published In Nature
1990	backfill Published In Australian Archaeology
1986	The sediment budget in severely disturbed watersheds, Queen Charlotte Ranges, British Columbia. Published In Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Chapter

Year	Title
2022	Homo floresiensis Published In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior Publisher Springer International Publishing
2022	Homo floresiensis Published In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior Publisher Springer Nature
2020	Homo floresiensis Published In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior Publisher : Springer International Publishing
2020	Homo floresiensis Published In Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior Publisher : Springer Nature
2018	Optical dating of sediment samples from Chagyrskaya Cave Published In Multidisciplinary Studies of Chagyrskaya Cave - A Middle Paleolithic Site in Altai Publisher Novosibirsk
2017	Optical dating of rock art Published In The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art Publisher United Kingdom
2016	Optical dating of sediments from the West Mouth Published In Archaeological Investigations in the Niah Caves, Sarawak Publisher Cambridge
2015	Luminescence dating, single-grain dose distribution Published In Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods Publisher Netherlands
2014	Luminescence Dating, Single-Grain Dose Distribution Published In Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods Publisher : Springer Nature
2014	Luminescence Dating, Single-Grain Dose Distribution Published In Encyclopedia of Scientific Dating Methods Publisher : Springer Netherlands
2014	Opinion Box 11: When did modern humans first colonize Southeast Asia and Australia? Published In Human Evolutionary Genetics Publisher New York
2010	Beneath the peat: A refined pollen record from an interstadial at Caledonia Fen, highland eastern Victoria, Australia Published In Altered ecologies : fire, climate and human influence on terrestrial landscapes
2008	Dating in landscape archaeology Published In Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
1999	Late Quaternary Extinctions in Australasia Published In Extinctions in Near Time Publisher Springer Nature
1999	Late Quaternary Extinctions in Australasia Published In Extinctions in Near Time Publisher Springer US

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2022	Sediment DNA reveals Neandertal population history Published In EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
2019	Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave Published In AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
2012	Late Palaeolithic core reduction strategies in Dhofar, Oman Published In Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies (42)
2000	Distinguishing dose populations in sediment mixtures: A test of single-grain optical dating procedures using mixtures of laboratory-dosed quartz Published In Radiation Measurements
1997	Disequilibria in the uranium decay series in sedimentary deposits at Allen's Cave, Nullarbor Plain, Australia: Implications for dose rate determinations Published In Radiation Measurements
1997	Equivalent dose measurement using a single aliquot of quartz Published In Radiation Measurements
1994	Palaeodose underestimates caused by extended-duration preheats in the optical dating of quartz Published In Radiation Measurements
1994	The human colonisation of Australia: optical dates of 53,000 and 60,000 years bracket human arrival at Deaf Adder Gorge, Northern Territory Published In Quaternary Science Reviews

Investigator On

Year	Title
2017 - 2024	ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Centres of Excellence
2018 - 2019	A national facility for the analysis of pyrogenic carbon Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2014 - 2019	Out of Asia: unique insights into human evolution and interactions using frontier technologies in archaeological science Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Australian Laureate Fellowships
2015	Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2013	Dating the Aboriginal rock art of the Kimberley region, WA - landscape geochemistry, surface processes and complementary dating techniques Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
2013	What is 'natural'? : Locating and deciphering pre-human records of vegetation from northern Australian savannas Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2010	A facility for sensitive and precise isotopic dating of Earth's and extraterrestrial rocks Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2009	Change and continuity: chronology, archaeology and art in the North Kimberley, Northwest Australia Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
2009	The future of palaeoclimate and archaeological research in Australia: next generation instrumentation for chronology and environmental reconstruction Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2008	A stable-isotope mass spectrometer for novel determinations of past temperature Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
2008	Monsoons and migrations: Quaternary climates, landscapes and human prehistory of the Arabian peninsula and the Indian subcontinent Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
2007	A new generation Noble Gas Mass Spectrometer Facility for advanced research in the Earth, planetary and environmental sciences Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities (LIEF)
	ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage (CABAH) Awarded by: NSW Government Funding Scheme: Research Attraction and Acceleration Program (RAAP)
	Dating the aboriginal rock art sequence of the Kimberley in NW Australia Awarded by: Australian Research Council (ARC) Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects
	Revisiting funerary practices: A methodological approach to the study of funerary sequences and social organisation in the Neolithic Near East (ArchFarm) Awarded by: European Commission Funding Scheme: Marie Curie Individual Fellowships

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	New insights into the Pleistocene archaeology of North Vietnam: understanding tropical cave sediments through microstratigraphic investigations and geo-ethnoarchaeological experiments	Mcadams, Conor
Doctor of Philosophy	Development and Application of Luminescence Approaches to Dating of Indonesian Archaeological and Palaeoanthropological Sites	Sontag Gonzalez, Mariana
Doctor of Philosophy	Reconstructing the Pleistocene environmental and human history of Flores and neighbouring islands in eastern Indonesia using geochemical and biochemical methods.	Koutamanis, Dafne
Doctor of Philosophy	New terrestrial paleoenvironmental archives from Wallacea	Wall, Alexander
Doctor of Philosophy	N-alkane and compound-specific isotope distribution in sediments and implications for palaeo-hydrology in tropical Australasia	Boesl, Fabian

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http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0128-4119 (confirmed)

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B-8245-2013

Scopus Id

7404281684

Roberts, Richard Distinguished Professor

Director - ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage

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