Publications of the Max Planck Research Group Extreme Events

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in press
1Carleton, W. C., Groucutt, H. S. (in press). Sum things are not what they seem: Problems with the interpretation and analysis of radiocarbon date. socarxiv. doi:10.31235/osf.io/yp38j. [HUW003] OPEN ACCESS gold MPG.PuRE
2Schlebusch, C. M., Loog, L., Groucutt, H. S., King, T., Rutherford, A., Barbieri, C., Barbujani, G., Chikhi, L., Jakobsson, M., Eriksson, A., Manica, A., Tishkoff, S. A., Scerri, E. M. L., Scally, A., Brierley, C., Thomas, M. G. (in press). Human origins in southern African palaeo-wetlands? Strong claims from weak evidence. Preprints, 2019110193. doi:10.20944/preprints201911.0193.v1. [HUW004] OPEN ACCESS gold MPG.PuRE
2021
1Blinkhorn, J., Zanolli, C., Compton, T., Groucutt, H. S., Scerri, E. M. L., Crété, L., Stringer, C., Petraglia, M. D., Blockley, S. (2021). Nubian Levallois technology associated with southernmost Neanderthals. Scientific Reports, 11: 2869. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-82257-6. [HUW016] OPEN ACCESS gold MPG.PuRE
2Carleton, W. C. (2021). Evaluating Bayesian Radiocarbon-dated Event Count (REC) models for the study of long-term human and environmental processes. Journal of Quaternary Science, 36(1), 110-123. doi:10.1002/jqs.3256. [HUW013] OPEN ACCESS gold MPG.PuRE
3Carleton, W. C., Campbell, D., Collard, M. (2021). A reassessment of the impact of temperature change on European conflict during the second millennium CE using a bespoke Bayesian time-series model. Climatic Change, 165: 4. doi:10.1007/s10584-021-03022-2. [HUW018] MPG.PuRE
4Carleton, W. C., Groucutt, H. S. (2021). Sum things are not what they seem: Problems with point-wise interpretations and quantitative analyses of proxies based on aggregated radiocarbon dates. The Holocene, 31(4), 630-643. doi:10.1177/0959683620981700. [HUW014] OPEN ACCESS gold MPG.PuRE
5Scerri, E. M. L., Niang, K., Candy, I., Blinkhorn, J., Mills, W., Cerasoni, J. N., Bateman, M. D., Crowther, A., Groucutt, H. S. (2021). Continuity of the Middle Stone Age into the Holocene. Scientific Reports, 11: 70. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-79418-4. [HUW015] OPEN ACCESS gold MPG.PuRE
6Stewart, M., Carleton, W. C., Groucutt, H. S. (2021). Climate change, not human population growth, correlates with Late Quaternary megafauna declines in North America. Nature Communications, 12: 965. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21201-8. [HUW017] OPEN ACCESS gold MPG.PuRE
2020
1Groucutt, H. S. (2020). Volcanism and human prehistory in Arabia. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 402: 107003. doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2020.107003. [HUW012] MPG.PuRE
2Groucutt, H. S., Breeze, P. S., Guagnin, M., Stewart, M., Drake, N., Shipton, C., Zahrani, B., Al Omarfi, A., Alsharekh, A. M., Petraglia, M. D. (2020). Monumental landscapes of the Holocene humid period in Northern Arabia: The mustatil phenomenon. The Holocene. doi:10.1177/0959683620950449. [HUW009] OPEN ACCESS gold MPG.PuRE
3Petraglia, M. D., Groucutt, H. S., Guagnin, M., Breeze, P. S., Boivin, a. N. (2020). Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(15), 8263-8270. doi:10.1073/pnas.1920211117. [HUW008] OPEN ACCESS gold MPG.PuRE
4Riede, F., Araujo, A. G. M., Barton, M. C., Bergsvik, K. A., Groucutt, H. S., Hussain, S. T., de Pablo, J. F., Maier, A., Marwick, B., Pyne, L., Ranhorn, K., Reynolds, N., Riel-Salvatore, J., Sauer, F., Serwatka, K., Zander, A. (2020). Cultural taxonomies in the Paleolithic—Old questions, novel perspectives. Evolutionary Anthropology, 29(2), 49-52. doi:10.1002/evan.21819. [HUW005] OPEN ACCESS gold MPG.PuRE
5Roberts, P., Prendergast, M. E., Janzen, A., Shipton, C., Blinkhorn, J., Zech, J., Crowther, A., Sawchuk, E. A., Stewart, M., Ndiema, E., Petraglia, M., Boivin, N. (2020). Late Pleistocene to Holocene human palaeoecology in the tropical environments of coastal eastern Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 537: 109438. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.109438. [HUW006] MPG.PuRE
6Scerri, 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. (2020). Field-based sciences must transform in response to COVID-19. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 4, 1571-1574. doi:10.1038/s41559-020-01317-8. [HUW010] MPG.PuRE
7Stewart, M., Clark-Wilson, R., Breeze, P. S., Janulis, K., Candy, I., Armitage, S. J., Ryves, D. B., Louys, J., Duval, M., Price, G. J., Cuthbertson, P., Bernal, M. A., Drake, N. A., Alsharekh, A. M., Zahrani, B., Al-Omari, A., Roberts, P., Groucutt, H. S., Petraglia, M. D. (2020). Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior. Science Advances, 6(38): eaba8940. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aba8940. [HUW011] OPEN ACCESS gold MPG.PuRE
8Stewart, M., Louys, J., Breeze, P. S., Clark-Wilson, R., Drake, N. A., Scerri, E. M., Zalmout, I. S., Al-Mufarreh, Y. S. A., Soubhi, S. A., Haptari, M. A., Alsharekh, A. M., Groucutt, H. S., Petraglia, M. D. (2020). A taxonomic and taphonomic study of Pleistocene fossil deposits from the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Research, 95, 1-22. doi:10.1017/qua.2020.6. [HUW007] OPEN ACCESS gold MPG.PuRE
2019
1Stewart, 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. (2019). Taphonomic and zooarchaeological investigations at the Middle Pleistocene site of Ti's al Ghadah, western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 218, 228-253. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.05.024. [HUW002] MPG.PuRE
2Will, 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. (2019). Comparative analysis of Middle Stone Age artifacts in Africa (CoMSAfrica). Evolutionary Anthropology, 28(2), 57-59. doi:10.1002/evan.21772. [HUW001] MPG.PuRE