2018 Scerri, E. M., 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., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. The expansion of later Acheulean hominins into the Arabian Peninsula. Scientific Reports 8:17165. LINK
2018 Shipton, C., Blinkhorn, J., Breeze, P.S., Cuthbertson, P., Drake, N., Groucutt, H.S., Jennings, R.P., Parton, A., Scerri, E.M.L., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. Acheulean technology and landscape use at Dawadmi, central Arabia. PLOS ONE 13(7). LINK
2018 Petraglia, M.D., Breeze, P.S., Groucutt, H.S. Blue Arabia, Green Arabia: Examining human colonisation and dispersal models. In: Geological Setting, Palaeoenvironment and Archaeology of the Red Sea, edited by N. Rasul and I. Stewart, Springer, Cham, pp. 675-683. LINK
2018 Roberts, P., Stewart, M., Alagaili, A.N., Breeze, P., Candy, I., Drake, N., Groucutt, H.S., Scerri, E.M.L., Lee-Thorp, J., Louys, J., Zalmout, I.S., Mufarreh, Y.S.A., Zech, J., Alsharekh, A.M., al Omari, A., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironmemt in ‘Green Arabia’. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:1871–1878. LINK
2018 Parton, A., Clark-Balzan, L., Parker, A.G., Preston, G.W., Sung, W.W., Breeze, P.S., Leng, M.J., Grouctt, H.S., White, T.S., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. Middle-late Quaternary palaeoclimate variability from lake and wetland deposits in the Nefud Desert, Northern Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews 202:78-97. LINK
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 Humid Period, northern Saudi Arabia. Antiquity 92(365):1180-1194. LINK
2018 Groucutt, H.S., Grun, R., Zalmout, I.A.S., Drake, N.A., Armitage, S.J., Candy, I., Clark-Wilson, R., Louys, J., Breeze, P.S., Duval, M., Buck, L.T., Kivell, T.L., Pomeroy, E., Stephens, N.B., 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.M.S., Zahrani, B., Scerri, E., Petraglia, M.D. Homo sapiens in Arabia 85,000 years ago. Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:800-809. LINK
2018 Guagnin, M. The hunters and herders of Shuwaymis: New evidence for the population dynamics of the Neolithic transition in Saudi Arabia. In: What Ever Happened to the People? Humans and Anthropomorphs in the Rock Art of Northern Africa, edited by D. Huyge and F. Van Noten, Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences, Brussels, pp. 231-241.
2018 Petraglia, M.D., Groucutt, H.S., Out of Africa: The evolution and history of human populations in the southern dispersal zone. In: Rethinking Human Evolution, edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, The MIT Press, Massachusetts, pp. 129-138. LINK
2018 Guagnin, M., Shipton, C., el-Dossary, S., al-Rashid, M., Fares, M., Stewart, M., Ott, F., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D. Rock art provides new evidence on the biogeography of kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis), wild dromedary, aurochs (Bos primigenius) and African wild ass (Equus africanus) in the early and middle Holocene of north-western Arabia. Journal of Biogeography 45:727-740. LINK
2018 Guagnin, M., Perri, A.R., Petraglia, M.D. Pre-Neolithic evidence for dog-assisted hunting strategies in Arabia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 49:225-236. LINK
2017 Bae, C.J., Douka, K., Petraglia, M.D. On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives. Science 358, LINK
2017 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, in press. LINK
2017 Stewart, M., Louys, J., Price, G.J., Drake, N.A., Groucutt, H.S., Petraglia, M.D. Middle and Late Pleistocene mammal fossils of Arabia and surrounding regions: Implications for biogeography and hominin dispersals. Quaternary International, in press. LINK
2017 Boivin, N., Crassard, R., Petraglia, M. eds., Human Dispersal and Species Movement: From Prehistory to the Present. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. LINK
2017 Guagnin, M., Shipton, C., al‐Rashid, M., Moussa, F., El‐Dossary, S., Sleigh, M.B., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M. An illustrated prehistory of the Jubbah oasis: Reconstructing Holocene occupation patterns in north‐western Saudi Arabia from rock art and inscriptions. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 28:138-52. LINK
2017 Clark-Balzan, L., Parton, A., Breeze, P.S., Groucutt, H.S., Petraglia, M.D. Resolving problematic luminescence chronologies for carbonate- and evaporite-rich sediments spanning multiple humid periods in the Jubbah basin, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Geochronology 45:50-73. LINK
2017 Breeze, P.S., Groucutt, H.S. Drake, N.A., Louys, J., Scerri, E.M.L., Armitage, S.J., Zalmout, I.S.A., Memesh, A.M., Haptari, M.A., Soubhi, S.A., Matari, A.H., Zahir, M., Al-Omari, A., Alsharekh, A.M., Petraglia, M.D. Prehistory and palaeoenvironments of the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Archaeological Research in Asia 10: 1-16. LINK
2017 Guagnin, M., Shipton, C., Martin, L., Petraglia, M. The Neolithic site of Jebel Oraf 2, northern Saudi Arabia: First report of a directly dated site with faunal remains. Archaeological Research in Asia 9: 63-67. LINK
2017 Groucutt, H.S., Scerri, E.M.L., Amor, K., Shipton, C., Jennings, R.P., Parton, A., Clark-Balzan, L., 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. LINK
2016 Clark-Balzan, L. Source and characteristics of blue, infrared (IR), and post-IR IR stimulated signals from gypsum-rich samples. Ancient TL 34: 6-13 PDF
2016 Roberts, P., Boivin, N., Lee-Thorp, J., Petraglia, M., Stock, J. Tropical forests and the genus Homo. Evolutionary Anthropology 25: 306-317. LINK
2016 Jennings, R.P., Parton, A., Clark-Balzan, L., White, T.S., Groucutt, H.S., Breeze P., Parker, A.G.,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. LINK
2016 Engel, M., Matter, A., Parker, A.G., Parton, A., Petraglia, M.D., Preston, G. Lakes or wetlands? A comment on ‘The middle Holocene climatic records from Arabia: Reassessing lacustrine environments, shift of ITCZ in Arabian Sea, and impacts of the southwest Indian and African monsoons’ by Enzel et al. Global and Planetary Change 148: 258-267. LINK
2016 Pagani, L., et al. Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia. Nature 538: 238-242. LINK
2016 Breeze, P.S., Palaeohydrology and Mid-Late Pleistocene hominin dispersals within the Arabian Peninsula. PhD thesis, King’s College, London.
2016 Clark-Wilson, R., Chronology and palaeoenvironments of lacustrine sediments in the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. MSc thesis in Quaternary Science, Royal Holloway, University of London.
2016 Boivin, N.L., Zeder, M.A., Fuller, D.Q., Crowther, A., Larson, G., Erlandson, J.M., Denham, T., Petraglia, M.D., Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions. PNAS, 113: 6388–6396. PDF
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, 144: 155–185. PDF
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. PDF
2016 Guagnin, M., Jennings, R., Eager, H., Parton, A., Stimpson, C., Stepanek, C., Pfeiffer, M., Groucutt, H.S. Drake, N.A. Alsharekh A., Petraglia, M.D. Rock art imagery as a proxy for Holocene environmental change: A view from Shuwaymis, NW Saudi Arabia. The Holocene. PDF
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. PDF
2015 Gaugnin, 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: 3-16. PDF
2015 Groucutt, H.S., Petraglia, M.D., Bailey, G., Scerri, E.M.L., Parton, A., Clark-Balzan, L., Jennings, R.P., Lewis, L., Blinkhorn, J., Drake, N.A., Breeze, P.S., 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. PDF
2015 Petraglia, M.D., Parton, A., Groucutt, H., Alsharekh, A., Green Arabia – Human prehistory at the Crossroads of Continents, Guest Editorial. Quaternary International, 382: 1-7. PDF
2015 Groucutt, H.S., White, T.S., Clark-Balzan, L., Parton, A., Crassard, R., Shipton, C., Jennings, R.P., Parker, A.G., Breeze, P.S., Scerri, E.M.L., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D., Human occupation of the Arabian Empty Quarter during MIS 5: evidence from Mundafan Al-Buhayrah, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews, 119: 116-135. PDF
2015 Jennings, R.P., Shipton, C., Breeze, P., Cuthbertson, P., Bernal, M.A., Wedage, W.M.C.O., Drake, N.A., White, T.S., Groucutt, H.S., 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. PDF
2015 Breeze, P.S., Drake, N.A., Groucutt, H.S., Parton, A., Jennings, R.P., White, T.S., Clark-Balzan, L., Shipton, C., Scerri, E.M.L., Stimpson, C.M., Crassard, R., Hilbert, Y., Alsharekh, A., Al-Omari, A., Petraglia, M.D., Remote sensing and GIS techniques for reconstructing Arabian palaeohydrology and identifying archaeological sites. Quaternary International, 382: 98-119. PDF
2015 Jennings, R.P., Singarayer, J., Stone, E.J., Krebs-Kanzow, U., Khon, V., Nisancioglu, K.H., Pfeiffer, M., Zhang, X., Parker, A., Parton, A., Groucutt, H.S., White, T.S., Drake, N.A., Petraglia, M.D., The greening of Arabia: Multiple opportunities for human occupation of the Arabian Peninsula during the Late Pleistocene inferred from an ensemble of climate model simulations. Quaternary International, 382: 181-199. PDF
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. PDF
2015 Parton, A., Farrant, A.R., Lang, M.J., Telfer, M.W., Groucutt, H.S., Petraglia, M.D., Parker, A.G., Alluvial fan records from southeast Arabia reveal multiple windows for human dispersal. Geology, 43 (4): 295-298. PDF
2015 Parton, A., White, T.S., Parker, A., Breeze, P.S., Jennings, R., Groucutt, H.S., Petraglia, M.D., Orbital-scale climate variability in Arabia as a potential motor for human dispersals. Quaternary International, 382: 82-97. PDF
2014 Groucutt, H.S., Shipton, C., Alsharekh, A., Jennings, R., Scerri, E.M.L., Petraglia, M.D., Late Pleistocene lakeshore settlement in northern Arabia: Middle Palaeolithic technology from Jebel Katefeh, Jubbah. Quaternary International, 382: 215-236. PDF
2014 Stimpson, C.M., Breeze, P.S., Clark-Balzan, L., Groucutt, H.S., Jennings, R., Parton, A., Scerri, E., White, T.S., Petraglia, M.D., Stratified Pleistocene vertebrates with a new record of a jaguar-sized pantherine (Panthera cf. gombaszogensis) from northern Saudi Arabia. Quaternary International, 382: 168-180. PDF
2014 Scerri, E.M.L., Breeze, P.S., Parton, A., Groucutt, H.S., White, T.S., Stimpson, C., Clark-Balzan, L., Jennings, R., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D., Middle to Late Pleistocene human habitation in the Western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary International, 382: 200-214. PDF
2014 Shipton, C., Parton, A., Breeze, P., Jennings, R., Groucutt, H.S., White, T.S., Drake, N., Crassard, R., Alsharekh, A., Petraglia, M.D., Large Flake Acheulean in the Nefud Desert of Northern Arabia. PaleoAnthropology, pp. 446-462. PDF
2014 Crassard, R., Petraglia, M.D. Stone technology in Arabia. In: Encyclopedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer, Dordrecht. PDF
2014 Scerri, E., Drake, N., Jennings, R., Groucutt, H., Earliest evidence for the structure of Homo sapiens populations in Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews 101: 207-216. PDF
2014 Scerri, E., Groucutt, H., Jennings, R., 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. PDF
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. PDF
2014 Jennings, R., Parton, A., Groucutt, H.S., Clark-Balzan, L., Breeze, P., Drake, N.A., 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. PDF
2013 Jennings, R.P., Shipton, C., Al‑Omari, A., Alsharekh, A.M., Crassard, R., Groucutt, H., Petraglia, M.D., Rock art landscapes beside the Jubbah palaeolake, Saudi Arabia. Antiquity 87(337): 666–683. PDF
2013 Crassard, R., Petraglia, M.D., Parker, A.G., Parton, A., Roberts, R.G., Jacobs, Z., Alsharekh, A., Al-Omari, A., Breeze, P., Drake, N.A., Groucutt, H.S., Jennings, R., Shipton, C., Beyond the Levant: first evidence of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic incursion into the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. PLoS ONE 8(7): 68061. PDF
2013 Crassard, R., Petraglia, M.D., Drake, N.A., Breeze, P., Gratuze, B., Alsharekh, A., Almurayh, S., 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(7): e69665. PDF
2013 Groucutt, H.S., Blinkhorn, J., Guest editorial: The Middle Palaeolithic in the desert and its implications for understanding hominin adaptation and dispersal. Quaternary International 300: 1-12. PDF
2013 Parton, A., Farrant, A.R., Leng, M.J., Schwenninger, J.-L., Rose, J.I., Uerpmann, H.-P., Parker, A.G. An early MIS pluvial phase in Southeast Arabia: Climatic and archaeological implications. Quaternary International 300: 62-74. PDF
2013 Blinkhorn, J., Achyuthan, H., Petraglia, M., Ditchfield, P., Middle Palaeolithic occupation in the Thar Desert during the Upper Pleistocene: the signature of a modern human exit out of Africa? Quaternary Science Reviews 77: 233-238. PDF
2013 Boivin, N., Fuller, D.Q., Dennell, R., Allaby, R., Petraglia, M.D., Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene. Quaternary International 300: 32-47. PDF
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., Hominin dispersal into the Nefud Desert and Middle Palaeolithic settlement along the Jubbah palaeolake, northern Arabia. PLoS ONE 7(11): e49840. PDF
2012 Dennell, R., Petraglia, M.D., The dispersal of Homo sapiens across southern Asia: how early, how often, how complex? Quaternary Science Reviews 47: 15-22. PDF
2011 Petraglia, M.D., Alsharekh, A.M., Crassard, R., Drake, N.A., Groucutt, H., Parker, A.G., Roberts, R.G., Middle Paleolithic occupation on a Marine Isotope Stage 5 lakeshore in the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 1555-1559. PDF
2012 Groucutt, H., Petraglia, M.D., The prehistory of the Arabian Peninsula: Deserts, Dispersals, and Demography. Evolutionary Anthropology 21 (3): 113–125. PDF
