Forthcoming

• Timbrell, L., Grove, M., Scerri, E.M.L. (in submission).  Assessing the potential of latent class modelling for classifying stone artefacts and the quantification of technological diversity. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. 

• Clark, J., Timbrell, L., Padilla-Iglesias, C., van Holstein, L., Paige, J., Muller, A., Koops, K., Scerri, E.M.L., Will, M. (under review). The Tool Systems Approach: Measuring Complexity in the Primatological, Archaeological, and Ethnographic Records. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 

• Clark, J., Timbrell, L., Paris, S., & Linares-Matás, G. J. (under review). Complex landscapes of cultural evolution: Reexploring the socioecological drivers of technological variation in modern hunter-gatherers. Journal of Anthropological Sciences.

• Timbrell, L., Garcia-Medrano, P., Cobos, M., Moncel, M-H., Banks, W.E.B. (in revision). The onset of the Neanderthal world: Exploring ecological niche dynamics and technological variability across Marine Isotopes Stages 12, 11 and 10. Nature Ecology and Evolution.

• Timbrell, L. (in revision). Evolution of Homo sapiens. In: Evolution, Culture, and Behaviour.

2025

• Timbrell, L., Blinkhorn, J., Colucci, M., Leonardi, M., Chevalier, M., Pozzi,  A.V., Grove, M., Scerri, E.M.L., Manica, A. (2025). More is not always better: delta-downscaling climate model outputs from 30 to 5-minute resolution has minimal impact on coherence with Late Quaternary proxies. Climate of the Past, 21, 7. https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2024-53 

• Blinkhorn, J., Zinner, D., Timbrell, L., Manica, A., Grove, M., Scerri, E.M.L. (2025). Identifying Late Pleistocene and Holocene refugia for baboons. Communications Biology 8, 1003. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-08419-8

• Timbrell, L., Clark, J., Lineras-Matas, G., Boisard, S., Ben Arous, E., Blinkhorn, J., Grove, M., Scerri, E.M.L. (2025). Climate seasonality and predictability during the Middle Stone Age and implications for technological diversification in early Homo sapiens. Scientific Reports 15(1), 1645, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-95573-y

• Boisard, S., Wren, C., Timbrell, L. Burke, A. (2025). Climate frameworks for the Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age in Northwest Africa. Quaternary International 716, 109593, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2024.109593 

• Timbrell, L., Blinkhorn, J., Grove, M. (2025). Random forest models highlight early Homo sapiens habitats and their relationship to lithic assemblage composition. Quaternary Environments and Humans. 100048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qeh.2024.100048 

2024

• Timbrell, L. (2024). Ecology and demography of early Homo sapiens: a synthesis of archaeological and climate data from eastern Africa. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 59(1): 76-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2024.2307790 

• Timbrell, L., Habte, B., Tefera, Y., Maroma, C., Ndiema, E., Plomp, K., Blinkhorn, J., Grove, M. (2024). Stone point variability reveals spatial, chronological, and environmental structuring of eastern African Middle Stone Age populations. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 59(1): 111-139. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2023.2268986 

2023

•  Grove, M., Hall, H., Timbrell, L., Benton, A., French, J. (2023). Moving far or moving often? A neglected axis of variation in hunter-gatherer mobility. Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports 52, 104266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104266 

2022

• Timbrell, L. Scott, C., Habte, B., Tefera, Y., Monod, H., Qazzih, M., Marais, B., Black, W., Maroma, C., Ndiema, E., Henderson, S., Elmes, K., Plomp, K., Grove, M. (2022). Testing inter-observer error under a collaborative research framework for studying lithic shape variability. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 14, 209. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01676-2

• Timbrell, L., de la Peña, P., Way, A., Hoggard, C. S., Backwell, L., d’Errico, F., Wadley, L., Grove, M. (2022). Technological and geometric morphometric analysis of ‘post-Howiesons Poort’ points at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. 297 (107813). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107813

• Timbrell, L. (2022). A collaborative model for lithic shape digitisation in museum settings. Lithic Technology 48, 31-42 https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2022.2092299

• Timbrell, L., Grove, M., Manica, A., Rucina, S. and Blinkorn, J. (2022). A spatiotemporally explicit paleoenvironmental framework for the Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa. Scientific Reports 12, 3689. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-07742-y  

• Blinkhorn, J., Timbrell, L., Grove, M., and Scerri, E. (2022). Evaluating refugia in recent human evolution in Africa. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 377: 1849. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2020.0485

• Grove, M., Timbrell, L., Jolley, B., Polack, F. and Borg, J. M. (2022). The importance of noise colour in simulations of evolutionary systems. Artificial life. 27 (3–4): 164–182. https://doi.org/10.1162/artl_a_00354 

2021

• Timbrell, L. (2021). Conversations in Human Evolution: Volume 2. Oxford: Archaeopress. Printed ISBN 9781789699470. Epublication ISBN 9781789699487.

• Timbrell, L. and Phillips, C. (2021). The University of Liverpool Evolutionary Anthropology Seminar Series: transcending the COVID-19 pandemic. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News and Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21915

2020

• Timbrell, L. (2020). How to read stone tools – a new mode system for describing variation in the Eastern African lithic record? Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News and Reviews 29(5), 280-282 https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21866.

• Timbrell, L. (2020). Conversations in Human Evolution: Volume 1. Oxford: Archaeopress. Printed ISBN 9781789695854. Epublication ISBN 9781789695861

• Kaercher, K., Arntz, M., Bomentre, N., Hermoso-Buxán, X.L., Kay, K., Ki, S., Macleod, R., Muñoz-Mojado, H., Timbrell, L., Wisher, I. eds. (2020). Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference Proceedings 2019. Oxford: Archaeopress. Printed ISBN 9781789697940. Epublication ISBN 9781789697957.

• Timbrell L. (2020). Strength in numbers: combining old datasets to answer new questions. In: Kaercher, K., Arntz, M., Bomentre, N., Hermoso-Buxán, X.L., Kay, K., Ki, S., Maclead, R., Muñoz-Mojado, H., Timbrell, L., Wisher, I. (eds). Cambridge Annual Student Archaeology Conference Proceedings 2019. Oxford: Archaeopress. Printed ISBN 9781789697940. Epublication ISBN 9781789697957.

2019

• Timbrell, L. and Plomp, K. (2019). Using the shape of the basicranial portion of the temporal bone to distinguish between relatively closely-related human groups. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 6(1) doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101885.

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