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BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES
2023 Pargeter, J., Groucutt, H.S. (eds.). Lithic Standardization in the Stone Age. Special issue of Lithic Technology, 48
2022 Groucutt, H.S., Prendergast, A., Riedge, F. (eds.). Extreme Events in Human Evolution: From the Pliocene to the Anthropocene. Special issue of Frontiers in Earth Science. https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/18192/extreme-events-in-human-evolution-from-the-pliocene-to-the-anthropocene
2020 Groucutt, H.S. (ed.) Culture History and Convergent Evolution: Can we detect populations in prehistory? Cham, Springer.
2018 Alghabban, A., Petraglia, M.D., Alsharekh, A., Breeze, P., Groucutt, H.S., Guagnin, M., Stimpson, C., White, T., Almari, A., Alkhalifa, K. Preliminary Archaeological Investigations at the Al Magar Site. Riyadh: Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage.
2016 Blinkhorn, J., Scerri, E., Groucutt, H.S., Delagnes, A. The Middle Palaeolithic in the Desert II. Special issue of Quaternary International, 408.
2015 Parton, A., Groucutt, H.S., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. Green Arabia: Human Prehistory at the Cross-roads of Continents. Special issue of Quaternary International, 382.
2014 Groucutt, H.S. and Scerri, E.M.L. Lithics of the Late Middle Palaeolithic: Post-MIS 5 technological variability and its implications. Special issue of Quaternary International, 350.
2013 Groucutt, H.S. and Blinkhorn, J. The Middle Palaeolithic in the Desert. Special issue Quaternary International, 300.
JOURNAL ARTICLES
2024 Al Kassem, A., Groucutt, H.S., Reize, F., Alsuwaidi, M.A., Al Ali, B.M.A., Karim, M.B.R. Neolithic arrowheads and Bronze Age industry at Saruq al Hadid, UAE. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 57, 104581.
2024 Stewart, M., Andrieux, E., Blinkhorn, J., Guagnin, M., Fernandes, R., Vanwezer, N., Hatton, A., Alqahtani, M., Zalmout, I., Clark-Wilson, R., Al-mufarreh, Y.S.A., Al-Shanti, M., Zahrani, B., Al Omari, A., Al-Jibreen, F., Alsharekh, A.M., Scerri, E.M.L., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M.D., Groucutt, H.S. First evidence for human occupation of a lava tube in Arabia: The archaeology of Umm Jirsan Cave and its surroundings, northern Saudi Arabia. PLoS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299292.
2024 Jha, K.D., Pataloni, 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.D. Preservation of plant-wax biomarkers in deserts: implications for Quaternary environment and human evolutionary studies. Journal of Quaternary Science 39, 349-358.
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.
2023 Guagnin, M., Shipton, C., Stileman, F., Jibreen, F., AlSulaimi, M., Breeze, P.S., Stewart, M., Hatton, A., Drake, N., Jha, D.K., Al-Tamimi, F., Al-Shamry, M., Al-Shammari, M., Kay, A., Groucutt, H.S., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M. Before the Holocene humid period: Life-sized camel engravings and early occupations on the southern edge of the Nefud. Archaeological Research in Asia 36, 100483.
2023 Groucutt, H.S., Rose, J.I. Standardisation of Nubian Levallois technology in Dhofar, southern Arabia. Lithic Technology, DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2023.2211878
2023 Shipton, C., Groucutt, H.S., Scerri, E., Petraglia, M.D. Uniformity and Diveristy in Handaxe shape at the end of the Acheulean in Southwest Asia. Lithic Technology, DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2023.2225982
2023 Buchanan, B., Hamilton, M.J., Macdonald, D., Blinkhorn, J., Groucutt, H.S., Eren, M.I., Kuhn, S.L. Geometric morphometric analyses of Levallois points from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic do not support functional specialization. Lithic Technology, DOI: 10.1080/01977261.2023.2208930
2023 Pargeter, J., Brooks, A., Douze, K., Eren, M., Groucutt, H.S., McNeil, J., Mackay, A., Ranhorn, K., Scerri, E., Shaw, M., Tryon, C., Will, M., Leplongeon, A. Replicability in lithic analysis. American Antiquity 88, 163-186.
2023 Guagnin, M., Haburaj, V., Groucutt, H.S., Hoelzmann, P., Gauci, R., Vella, N.C., Parisi, C., Cassar, M., Cassar, Y., Asiak, G., Scerri, E. Evaluating possible prehistoric cave art in the central Mediterranean: Analyses of pigment traces and identification of taphonomic processes at Għar Ħasan, Malta. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 47, 103815.
2022. Groucutt, H.S., Prendergast, A.L., Riede, F. Editorial: Extreme events in human evolution: from the Pliocene to the Anthropocene. Frontiers in Earth Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.1026989
2022 Groucutt, H. S. Maltese chert: An archaeological perspective on raw material and lithic technology in the central Mediterranean. Malta Archaeological Review 13.
2022 Stewart, M., Carleton, W.C., Groucutt, H.S. Extreme events in biological, societal and earth sciences: A systematic review of the literature Frontiers in Earth Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.786829
2022 Stewart, M., Carleton, W.C., Groucutt, H.S. Reply to: Accurate population proxies do not exist between 11.7 and 15 ka in North America. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32356-3
2022 Rick, T.C., Alsharekh, A., Braje, T.J., Crowther, A., Fuller, D.Q, Erlandson, J.M., Gill, K.M., Groucutt, H.S.,Guagnin, M., Helm, R., Hofman, C.A., Horton, M., Kay, A., Korisettar, R., Petraglia, M., Radimilahy, C., Reeder-Myers, L., Shipton, C., Wright, H.W., Boivin, N. Coring, profiling, and trenching: Archaeological field strategies for investigating the Pleistocene-Holocene-Anthropocene continuum. Quaternary International 628, 1-17.
2022 Groucutt, H.S., Carleton, W.C., Fenech, K., Gauci, R., Grima, R., Scerri, E.M.L., Stewart, M., Vella, N. The 4.2. ka event and the end of the Maltese ‘Temple Period’. Frontiers in Earth Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.771683
2022 Groucutt, H.S. The morphological variability of Maltese ‘cart ruts’ and its implications. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 41, 103287.
2022 Nicholson, S.L., Hosfield, R., Groucutt, H.S., Pike, A.G.W., Burns, S.J., Matter, A., Fleitmann, D. A climatic evaluation of the southern dispersal route during MIS 5e, Quaternary Science Reviews 279, 107378.
2022 Blinkhorn, J., Zanolli, C., Compton, T., Groucutt, H.S., Scerri, E.M.L., Crété, L., Stringer, C., Petraglia, M.D., Blockley, M. Reply to: ‘No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave’. Scientific Reports 12, 1208.
2021 Carleton, W.C., Collard, M., Stewart, M., Groucutt, H.S. A song of neither ice nor fire: Temperature extremes had no impact on violent conflict among European societies during the 2nd millennium CE. Frontiers in Earth Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.769107
2021 Groucutt, H.S., White, T.S., Scerri, E.M.L., Andrieux, E., Clark-Wilson, R., Breeze, P.S., Armitage, S.J., Stewart, M., Drake, N., Louys, J., Price, G.J., Duval, M., Parton, A., Candy, I., Carleton, W.C., Shipton, C., Jennings, R.P., Zahir, M., Blinkhorn, J., Blockley, S., Al-Omari, A., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. Multiple human dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years. Nature 597, 376-380.
2021 Stewart, M., Andrieux, E., Clark-Wilson, R., Vanwezer, N., Blinkhorn, J., Armitage, S.J., al Omari, A., Zahrani, B., Alqahtani, M., Al-Shanti, M., Zalmout, I., Al-Mufarrh, Y.S.A., Alsharekh, A., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M.D., Groucutt, H.S.Taphonomy of an excavated striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) den in Arabia: implications for paleoecology and prehistory. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 13, 139.
2021 Blinkhorn, J., Groucutt H.S., Scerri, E.M.L., Petraglia, M.D., Blockley, S. Directional changes in technological practices in Levallois core technologies between East Africa, Arabia and the Levant during MIS 5. Scientific Reports 11, 11465.
2021 Scerri, E.M.L., Frouin, M., Breeze, P.S., Armitage, S.J., Candy, I., Groucutt, H.S., Drake, N., Parton, A., White, T.S., Alsharekh, A.M., Petraglia, M.D. The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia. Scientific Reports 11, 10111.
2021 Groucutt, H.S., Carleton, W.C. Mass-kill hunting and Late Quaternary ecology: New insights into the ‘desert kite’ phenomenon in Arabia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 37, 102995.
2021 Schlebusch, C.M., Loog, L., Groucutt, H.S., King, T., Rutherford, A., Barbieri, C., Barbujani, G., Chikki, L., Stringer, C., Jakobsson, M., Eriksson, A., Manica, A., Tishkoff, S.A., Scerri, E.M.L., Scally, A., Brierley, C., Thomas, M.G. Human origins in Southern African palaeo-wetlands? Strong claims from weak evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science130, 105374.
2021 Nicholson, S.L., Hosfield, R., Groucutt, H.S., Pike, A.W.G., Fleitmann, D. Beyond arrows on a map: The dynamics of Homo sapiens occupation of Arabia and dispersals during Marine Isotope Stage 5. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology62, 101269.
2021 Carleton, W.C., Groucutt, H.S., Sum things are not what they seem: Potential problems with point-wise interpretations and quantitative analyses of summary radiocarbon-date proxies. The Holocene 31, 630-643.
2021 Blinkhorn, J., Zanolli, C., Compton, T., Groucutt, H.S., Scerri, E.M.L., Crete, L., Stringer, C., Petraglia, M.D., Blockley, S. Nubian Levallois technology associated with southernmost Neanderthals. Scientific Reports 11, 2869.
2021 Stewart, M., Carleton, W.C., Groucutt, H.S. Climate change, not human population growth, correlates with Late Quaternary megafauna declines in North America. Nature Communications 12, 965.
2021 Scerri, E.M.L., Niang, K., Candy, I., Blinkhorn, J., Mills, W., Cerasoni, J.N., Bateman, M., Crowther, A., Groucutt, H.S. Continuity of the Middle Stone Age into the Holocene. Scientific Reports 11, 70.
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.A., 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, eaba8940.
2020 Groucutt, H.S. Volcanism and human prehistory in Arabia. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal research 402, 107003.
2020 Scerri, E.M.L., Kühnert, D., Blinkhorn, J., Groucutt, H.S., Roberts, P., Nicoll, K., Zerboni, 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 and Evolution 4, 1571-1574.
2020 Groucutt, H.S., Breeze, P.S., Guagnin, M., Stewart, M., Drake, N., Shipton, C., Zahrani, B., Al Omari, A., Alsharekh, A.M., Petraglia, M.D. Monumental landscapes of the Holocene humid period in northern Arabia: The Mustatil phenomenon. The Holocene 30, 1767-1779.
2020 Petraglia, M.D., Groucutt, H.S., Guagnin, M., Breeze, P.S., Boivin, N. Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 117, 8263-8270.
2020 Stewart, M., Louys, J., Breeze, P.S., Clark-Wilson, R., Drake, N.A., Scerri, E.M.L., Zalmout, I.S., Al-Mufarreh, Y.S.A., Soubhi, S.A., Haptari, M.A., Alsharekh, A.M., Groucutt, H.S., Petraglia M.D. A taxonomic and taphonomic study of Pleistocene fossil deposits from the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Research 95, 1-22.
2020 Riede, F., Araujo, A.G.M., Barton, M.C., Bergsvik, K.A., Groucutt, H.S., Hussain, S.T., Ferandez-Lopez de Pablo, J., Maier, A., Marwick, B., Pyne, L., Ranhortn, K., Reynolds, N., Riel-Salvatore, J., Sauer, F., Serwatka, K., Zander, A. Cultural taxonomies in the Paleolithic – Old questions, novel perspectives. Evolutionary Anthropology 29, 49-52.
2019 Groucutt, H.S., Scerri, E.M.L., Drake, N., Zahir, M., Louys, J., Armitage, S., Petraglia, M.D., Al-Omari, A., Al-Fageri, S., Al Murayyi, K.S.M., Alsharekh, A., and the SGS. Palaeodeserts Project Nefud Fieldwork report, 2016. Atlal: Journal of Saudi Arabian Archaeology 27, 115-140.
2019 Stewart, M., Louys, J., Groucutt, H.S., Candy, I., Clark-Wilson, R., Breeze, P.S., Drake, N.A., Price, G.J., Al-Mufarreh, Y.S.A., Soubhi, S.A., Zalmout, I.S., Alsharekh, A.M., al Omari, A., Petraglia, M.D. Taphonomy of the Pleistocene faunal assemblages from Ti’s al Ghadah, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews 218, 228-253.
2019 Groucutt, H.S., Scerri, E.M.L., Stringer, C., Petraglia, M.D. Skhul lithic technology and the dispersal of Homo sapiens into Southwest Asia. Quaternary International 515, 30-52.
2019 Stewart, M. Drake, N., Louys, J., Price, G., Groucutt, H.S., Petraglia, M.D. Middle and Late Pleistocene Mammal Fossil Records of Arabia and Surrounding Regions: Implications for Biogeography and Hominin Dispersals. Quaternary International 515, 12-29.
2019 Will, M., Tryon, C., Shaw, M., Scerri, E.M.L., Ranhorn, K., Pargeter, J., McNeil, J., Mackay, A., Leplongeon, A., Groucutt, H.S., Douze, K., Brooks, A.S. Comparative analysis of Middle Stone Age artifacts in Africa (CoMSAfrica). Evolutionary Anthropology 28, 57-59.
2018 Parton, A., Clark-Balzan, L., Parker, A., Preston, G., Sung, W.W., Breeze, P.S., Leng, M., Groucutt, H.S., White, T., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. Middle-Late Quaternary Palaeoclimate variability from lacustrine deposits in the Nefud Desert, Northern Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews 202, 78-97.
2018 Roberts, R., 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., al Omari, A., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M.D. Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in ‘Green Arabia’. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 2, 18731-1878.
2018 Scerri., E.M.L., Guagnin, M., Groucutt, H.S., Armitage, S.J., Parker, L.E., Drake, N., Louys, J., Breeze, P.S., Zahir, M., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. Neolithic pastoralism in marginal environments during the Holocene wet phase, northern Saudi Arabia. Antiquity 92, 1180-1194.
2018 Shipton, C., Roberts, P., Armitage, S., Blinkhorn, J., Crowther, A., Curtis, R., d’Errico, F., Douka, K., Faulkner, P., Groucut, 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 9, 1832.
2018 Shipton, C., Blinkhorn, J., Breeze, P.S., Cuthbertson, P., Drake, N., Groucutt, H.S., Jennings, R.P., Parton, A., Scerri, E., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. Acheulean technology and landscape use at Dawadmi, central Arabia. PLoS ONE 13: e0203488.
2018 Scerri, E.M.L., Thomas, M.G., Manica, A., Gunz, P., Stock, J., Stringer, C.B., Grove, M., Groucutt, H.S., Timmermann A., Rightmire, P.G., d’Errico, F., Tryon, C., Drake, N.A., Brooks, A., Clarke-Balzan, L., Dennell, R., Durbin, R., d’Errico, F., Henn, B., Lee-Thorpe, J., deMenocal, P., Petraglia, M.D., Scally, A., Thompson, J., A., Chikhi, L. Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and why does it matter? Trends in Ecology and Evolution 33, 582-594.
2018 Groucutt, H.S., Grün, R., Zalmout, I.S.A., Drake, N.A., Armitage, S.J., Candy, I., Clark-Wilson, R., Louys, J., Breeze, P.S., Duval, M., Buck, L.T., Kivell, T., Pomeroy, E., Stephens, N., Stock, J.T., Stewart, M., Price, G.J., Kinsley, L., Sung, W.W., Alsharekh, A., Al-Omari, A., Zahir, M., Memesh, A.M., Abdulshakoor, A.J., Al-Masari, A.M., Bahameem, A.A., Al Murayyi, K.S.M., Zahrani, B., Scerri, E.M.L., Petraglia, M.D. Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2, 800-809.
2018 Clark-Balzan, L., Parton, A., Breeze, P., Groucutt, H.S., Petraglia, M.D. Resolving problematic luminescence chronologies for carbonate- and evaporate-rich sediments spanning multiple humid periods in the Jubbah Basin, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Geochronology 45, 50-73.
2018 Scerri, E.M.L., Shipton, C., Clark-Balzan, L., Frouin, M., Schwenninger, J.-L., Groucutt, H.S., Breeze, P.S., Parton A., Blinkhorn, J., Drake, N.A., Jennings, R., Cuthbertson, P., Al Omari, A., Alsharkeh, A.M., Petraglia, M.D. The expansion of later Acheulean hominins into the Arabian Peninsula. Scientific Reports 8, 17165.
2017 Groucutt, H.S., Scerri, E.M.L., Amor, K., Shipton, C., Jennings, R., Parton, A., Clark-Balzan, A., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. Middle Palaeolithic raw material procurement and early stage reduction at Jubbah, Saudi Arabia. Archaeological Research in Asia 9, 44-62.
2017 Breeze, P.S., Groucutt, H.S., Drake, N.A. Louys, J., Scerri, E.M.L., Armitage, S., Zalmout, I.S.A., Memesh, A.M., Haptari, M.A., Zahir, M., Al-Omari, A., Alsharekh, A.M., Petraglia, M.D. Prehistory and palaeoenvironments of the Western Nefud, Saudi Arabia. Archaeological Research in Asia 10: 1-16.
2017 Jennings, R.P., Parton, A., Clark-Balzan, L., White, T.S., Groucutt, H.S., Breeze, P., Parker, A., Drake, N.A., Petraglia, M.D. Human occupation of the northern Arabian interior during early Marine Isotope Stage 3. Journal of Quaternary Science 31, 953-966.
2017 Scerri, E.M.L., Blinkhorn, J., Niang, K., Bateman, M.D., Groucutt, H.S. Persistence of Middle Stone Age technology to the Pleistocene/Holocene transition supports a complex hominin evolutionary scenario in West Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 11, 639-646.
2016 Groucutt, H.S., Breeze, P., Drake, N.A., Jennings, R., Parton, A., White, T., Shipton, C., Clark-Balzan, L., Al-Omari, A., Cuthbertson, P., Wedage, O.M.C., Bernal, M.A., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. The Middle Palaeolithic of the Nejd, Saudi Arabia. Journal of Field Archaeology 41, 131-147.
2016 Breeze, P.S., Groucutt, H.S., Drake, N.A., White, T.S., Jennings, R.P., Petraglia, M.D. Palaeohydrological corridors for hominin dispersals in the Middle East ~250-70,000 years ago. Quaternary Science Reviews 11, 155-185.
2016 Blinkhorn, J., Scerri, E., Groucutt, H.S, Delagnes, A. The Middle Palaeolithic in the Desert II. Quaternary International 408, part B, 1-3.
2016 Stimpson, C.M., Lister, A., Parton, A., Clark-Balzan, L., Breeze, P.S., Drake, N.A., Groucutt, H.S., Jennings, R., Scerri, E.M.L., White, T.S., Zahir, M., Duval, M., Grün, R., Al-Omari, A., Al Murayyi, K.S.M., Zalmout, I.S., Mufarreh, Y.A., Memesh, A.M., Petraglia, M.D. Middle Pleistocene vertebrate fossils from the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia: implications for biogeography and palaeoecology. Quaternary Science Reviews 143, 13-36.
2016 Scerri, E.M.L., Blinkhorn, J., Groucutt, H.S., Niang, K. The Middle Stone Age archaeology of the Senegal River Valley. Quaternary International 408, 16-32.
2016 Guagnin, M., Jennings, R., Eager, H., Parton, A., Stimpson, C., Groucutt, H.S., Drake, N.A., Pfeiffer, M., Stepanek, C., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. Rock art imagery as a proxy for environmental change: a view from Shuwaymis, NW Saudi Arabia. The Holocene 26, 1822-1834.
2015 Guagnin, M., Jennings, R.P., Clark-Balzan, L., Groucutt, H.S., Parton A., Petraglia, M.D. Hunters and herders: Exploring the Neolithic transition in the rock art of Shuwaymis, Saudi Arabia. Archaeological Research in Asia 4, 1-46.
2015 Groucutt, H.S., Petraglia, M.D., Bailey, G., Parton, A., Clark-Balzan, L., Jennings, R.P., Lewis, L., Blinkhorn, J., Scerri, E.M.L., Drake, N.A., Breeze, P., Inglis, R.H., Devès, M.H., Meredith-Williams, M., Boivin, N., Thomas, M.G., Scally, A. Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa. Evolutionary Anthropology 24, 149-164.
2015 Petraglia, M.D., Groucutt, H.S., Parton, A., Alsharekh, A. Editorial, Green Arabia: Human Prehistory at the Cross-Roads of Continents. Quaternary International 382, 1-7.
2015 Groucutt, H.S., Scerri, E.M.L., Lewis, L., Clark-Balzan, L., Blinkhorn, J., Jennings, R.P., Parton, A., Petraglia, M.D. Stone tool assemblages and models for the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa. Quaternary International 382, 8-30.
2015 Groucutt, H.S., Shipton, C., Alsharekh, A., Jennings, R., Scerri, E.M.L., Petraglia, M.D. Late Pleistocene lakeshore settlement in Arabia: Middle Palaeolithic technology from Jebel Katefeh, Jubbah. Quaternary International 382, 215-236.
2015 Breeze, P.S., Drake, N.A., Groucutt, H.S., Parton, A., Jennings, R.G., Clark-Balzan, L., Shipton, C., White, T., Scerri, E., Stimpson, C., Crassard, R., Hilbert, Y., Alsharekh, A., Al-Omari, A., Petraglia, M.D. Remote sensing and GIS techniques for reconstructing palaeohydrology and identifying and characterising archaeological sites. Quaternary International 382, 98-119.
2015 Scerri, E.M.L., Breeze, P., Parton, A., Groucutt, H.S., Stimpson, C., Clark-Balzan, L., Jennings, R.G., White, T., Petraglia, M.D. Middle to Late Pleistocene human habitation in the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary International 382, 200-214.
2015 Stimpson, C.M., Breeze, P., Clark-Balzan, L., Groucutt, H.S., Jennings, R.P., Parton, A., Scerri, E.M.L., White, T.S., Petraglia, M.D. Stratified Pleistocene vertebrates with a new record of Panthera gombaszogensis (Kretzoi, 1938) from northern Saudi Arabia. Quaternary International 382, 168-180.
2015 Parton, A., White, T.S., Parker, A.G., Breeze, P.S., Groucutt, H.S., Petraglia, M.D. Orbital-scale monsoon variability and the greening of Arabia as a motor for human dispersal. Quaternary International 382, 82-97.
2015 Jennings, R.P., Stone, E., Singarayer, J., Krebs-Kanzow, U., Khon, V., Parton, A., Parker, A.G., Groucutt, H.S., Petraglia, M.D. The greening of Arabia: Multiple climate model simulations identify opportunities for human occupation in the Arabian Peninsula during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Quaternary International 382, 58-81.
2015 Jennings, R.P., Shipton, C., Breeze, P., Cuthbertson, P., Drake, N.A., White, T., Groucutt, H.S., Bernal, M., Wedage, O., Parton, A., Clark-Balzan, L., Stimpson, C., Al-Omari, A., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. Multi-scale Acheulean landscape survey in the Arabian Desert. Quaternary International 382, 58-81.
2015 Groucutt, H.S., White, T., Clark-Balzan, L., Crassard, R., Shipton, C., Parton, A., Jennings, R.P., Parker, A.G., Breeze, P., Scerri, E.M.L., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. Human occupation of the Arabian Empty Quarter during MIS 5: evidence from Mundafan al-Buhayrah. Quaternary Science Reviews 119, 116-135.
2015 Parton, A., Parker A.G., Farrant, A.R., Leng, M.J., Telfer, M.W., Breeze, P., Groucutt, H.S., Petraglia, M.D. Alluvial fan records from southeast Arabia reveal multiple windows for human dispersal. Geology 43, 295-298.
2014 Groucutt, H.S., Scerri, E.M.L. Lithics of the Late Middle Palaeolithic. Post MIS 5 technological variability and its implications. Quaternary International 350, 1-6.
2014 Groucutt, H.S. Middle Palaeolithic point technology, with a focus on the site of Tor Faraj (Jordan, MIS 3). Quaternary International 350, 205-226.
2014 Scerri, E.M.L., Groucutt, H.S., Jennings, R.P., Petraglia, M.D. Unexpected technological heterogeneity in northern Arabia indicates complex Late Pleistocene demography at the gateway to Asia. Journal of Human Evolution 75: 125-142.
2014 Shipton, C., Parton, A., Breeze, P., Groucutt, H.S., Drake, N., Crassard, R., Jennings, R., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M. Acheulean dispersal across the Nefud Desert of Northern Arabia. Paleoanthropology 2014: 446-462.
2014 Hilbert, Y.H., White, T.S., Parton, A., Clark-Balzan, L., Crassard, R., Groucutt, H.S., Jennings, R.P., Breeze, P., Parker, A., Shipton, C., Al-Omari, A., Alsharekh, A.M., Petraglia, M.D. Epipalaeolithic occupation and palaeoenvironments of the southern Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia, during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Journal of Archaeological Science 50: 460-474.
2014 Jennings, R., Parton, A., Groucutt, H.S., Clark-Balzan, L., Breeze, P., Drake, N., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. High-resolution geospatial surveying techniques provide new insights into rock art landscapes at Shuwaymis, Saudi Arabia. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 25, 1-21.
2014 Scerri, E.M.L., Drake, N.A., Jennings, R., Groucutt, H.S. Earliest evidence for the structure of Homo sapiens populations in Africa. Quaternary Science reviews 101: 207-216.
2013 Groucutt, H.S., Blinkhorn, J. The Middle Palaeolithic in the desert and its implications for understanding hominin adaptation and dispersal. Quaternary International 300: 1-12.
2013 Crassard, R., Petraglia, M.D., Parker, A.G., Roberts, R.G., Jacobs, Z., Alsharekh, A., Al-Omari, A., Breeze, P., Drake, N.A., Groucutt, H.S., Jennings, R., Régagnon, E., Shipton, C. Beyond the Levant: first evidence of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic incursion into the Nefud desert, Saudi Arabia. PLoS ONE 8: e68061.
2013 Crassard, R., Petraglia, M.D., Drake, N.A., Breeze, P., Gratuze, B., Alsharekh, A., Arbach, M., Groucutt, H.S., Khalidi, L., Michelsen, N., Robin, C.J., Schiettecatte, J. Middle Palaeolithic and Neolithic occupations around Mundafan palaeolake, southern Saudi Arabia: implications for climate change and human dispersals. PLoS ONE 8: e69665.
2012 Jennings, R., Shipton, C., al-Omari, A., Alsharekh, A., Crassard, R., Groucutt, H.S, Petraglia, M.D. A spatial rock-art survey of four jebels at Jubbah Oasis, Saudi Arabia. Antiquity 87: 666-683.
2012 Groucutt, H.S., Petraglia, M.D. The prehistory of Arabia: Deserts, dispersals and demography. Evolutionary Anthropology 21: 113-125.
2012 Petraglia, M.D., Alsharekh, A., Breeze, P., Clarkson, C., Crassard, R., Drake, N.A., Groucutt, H.S., Jennings, R., Parker, A.G., Parton, A., Roberts, R.G., Shipton, C., Matheson, C., al-Omari, A., Veall, M.-A. (2012). Hominin dispersal into the Nefud desert and Middle Palaeolithic settlement along the Jubbah palaeolake, northern Arabia. PLoS ONE 7: e49840.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
2023 Blinkhorn, J., Niang, K., Groucutt, H.S., Scerri, E.M.L. Ndiayène Pendao and the Lower Senegal Valley, Senegal. In: A. Beyin, A., Wright, D.K., Wilkins, J., Olszewsi, D.I. (eds), Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa. Springer. Pp. 929-940.
2020 Groucutt, H.S. Into the tangled web of culture-history and convergent evolution. In: H, Groucutt (ed.), Culture History and Convergent Evolution: Can we Detect Populations in Prehistory? Springer, Cham, pp. 1-12.
2020 Groucutt, H.S. Culture and convergence: The curious case of the Nubian Complex. In: H, Groucutt (ed.), Culture History and Convergent Evolution: Can we Detect Populations in Prehistory? Springer, Cham, pp. 55-86.
2019 Petraglia, M.D., Breeze, P.S., Groucutt, H.S. Blue Arabia, Green Arabia: Examining Human Colonisation and Dispersal Models. In: N. Rasul (ed.), The Red Sea: Volume II. Springer, Berlin, pp. 675-683.
2018 Groucutt, H.S. The Middle Stone Age of the Omo Delta-Turkana Basin. In: T. Clack, M. Brittain (Eds.), The River: Peoples and Histories of the Omo-Turkana Area. Archaeopress: Oxford, pp. 22-34.
2018 Petraglia, M.D. & Groucutt, H.S. Out of Africa: The Evolution and History of Human Populations in the Southern Dispersal Zone. In J.H. Schwartz (ed.) Rethinking Human Evolution. MIT Press, Cambridge, Ma, pp. 129-138.
2014 Groucutt, H.S. & Petraglia, M.D. An Arabian perspective on the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa. In R. Dennell & M. Porr (eds.) Southern Asia, Australia and Human Origins. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 51-63.
2012 Petraglia, M.D., Groucutt, H.S. & Blinkhorn, J. Hominin evolutionary history in the Arabian desert and the Thar Deserts. In L. Mol & T. Sternberg (eds.) Changing Deserts: Integrating People and Their Environments. White Horse Press, Cambridge, pp. 61-82.
BOOK REVIEWS
2022 Groucutt, H.S. Review of Luigi Maria Ugolini’s Malta Antica, volumes I-IV, edited by A. Pessina and N.C. Vella (2021). Malta Archaeological Review 13, 1-4.
2020 Groucutt, H.S. Review of Rose, J.I., Marks, A.E., Usik, V.I., ‘The first peoples of Oman. Palaeolithic archaeology of the Nejd Plateau.’ Paléorient 46, 251-256.
2018 Groucutt, H.S. Review of Hoffecker, J.F., ‘Modern humans: Their African origin and global dispersal’. Paleoanthropology 2018, 3-6.
2015 Groucutt, H.S. Review of Goodale, N. and Andrefsky, W. (Jr), editors, ‘Lithic technological systems and evolutionary theory’. Antiquity 89, 1512-1514.
2015 Groucutt, H.S. Review of Crawford, M.H. and Campbell, B.C., ‘Causes and Consequences of Human Migration: An Evolutionary Perspective’. Palaeoanthropology 2012: 252-254.
2014 Groucutt, H.S. Review of Smith, M., ‘The Archaeology of Australia’s Deserts’. Antiquity 88: 686-688.
2012 Groucutt, H.S. Review of McNabb, J., ‘Dissent with Modification’. Palaeoanthropology 2012: 252-254.
2012 Groucutt, H.S. Review of Henshilwood, C.S. & d’Errico, F., ‘Homo symbolicus: The dawn of language, imagination and spirituality’. Antiquity 85: 1232-33.