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  1. Tephra studies and the reconstruction of Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic cultural trajectories

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, June 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  2. Stratigraphic and spatial distribution of ochre and ochre processing tools at Porc-Epic Cave, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

    Article • Quaternary International, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  3. Multiproxy record of late Quaternary climate change and Middle Stone Age human occupation at Wonderkrater, South Africa

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  4. A short-term, task-specific site: Epipalaeolithic settlement patterns inferred from marine shells found at Praileaitz I (Basque Country, Spain)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, January 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  5. Bone Tools, Paleolithic

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  6. Revisiting the chronology of the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian in Europe: A reply to Higham et al.'s comments on

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  7. Identifying Mechanisms behind Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age Cultural Trajectories

    Article • Current Anthropology, December 2013, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  8. The way we wear makes the difference: residue analysis applied to Mesolithic personal ornaments from Hohlenstein-Stadel (Germany)

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, November 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  9. Air–sea temperature decoupling in western Europe during the last interglacial–glacial transition

    Article • Nature Geoscience, September 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  10. An Ochered Fossil Marine Shell From the Mousterian of Fumane Cave, Italy

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2013, PLOS

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  11. Thinking strings: Additional evidence for personal ornament use in the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, June 2013, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood, Professor Francesco d'Errico

  12. Ecological constraints on the first prehistoric farmers in Europe

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, June 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  13. Corrigendum to “Human-climate interaction during the Early Upper Palaeolithic: Testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian” [J. H. Evol. 54 (2013) 39–55]

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, March 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  14. Human–climate interaction during the Early Upper Paleolithic: testing the hypothesis of an adaptive shift between the Proto-Aurignacian and the Early Aurignacian

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, January 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  15. Human expansion: research tools, evidence, mechanisms

    Article • September 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  16. Identifying regional variability in Middle Stone Age bone technology: The case of Sibudu Cave

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, July 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  17. Criteria for identifying bone modification by termites in the fossil record

    Article • Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, June 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr Jean-Bernard Huchet

  18. North African Origins of Symbolically Mediated Behaviour and the Aterian

    Article • January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  19. Linguistic implications of the earliest personal ornaments

    Article • November 2011

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  20. Eco-cultural niches of the Badegoulian: Unraveling links between cultural adaptation and ecology during the Last Glacial Maximum in France

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, September 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks, Dr Andres Lira-Noriega

  21. L’émergence du corps paré

    Article • Civilisations, June 2011, OpenEdition

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  22. The Reality of Neandertal Symbolic Behavior at the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France

    Article • PLoS ONE, June 2011, PLOS

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  23. Identification of a possible engraved Venus from Předmostí, Czech Republic

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, March 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  24. Pigments from the Middle Palaeolithic levels of Es-Skhul (Mount Carmel, Israel)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, December 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Professor Chris Stringer

  25. Testing the Hypothesis of Fire Use for Ecosystem Management by Neanderthal and Upper Palaeolithic Modern Human Populations

    Article • PLoS ONE, February 2010, PLOS

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  26. Investigating links between ecology and bifacial tool types in Western Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  27. Assessing the function of early hominin bone tools

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, August 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  28. Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, July 2009, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood, Professor Francesco d'Errico

  29. Critical reassessment of putative Acheulean Porosphaera globularis beads

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  30. Neanderthal Extinction by Competitive Exclusion

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2008, PLOS

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  31. Reconstructing ecological niches and geographic distributions of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) and red deer (Cervus elaphus) during the Last Glacial Maximum

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, December 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  32. Continental palaeoenvironments during MIS 2 and 3 in southwestern France: the La Ferrassie rockshelter record

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, November 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  33. Early hominid bone tools from Drimolen, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, November 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  34. Possible shell beads from the Middle Stone Age layers of Sibudu Cave, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  35. Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, June 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  36. Human ecological niches and ranges during the LGM in Europe derived from an application of eco-cultural niche modeling

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, February 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico, Dr William E. Banks

  37. H4 abrupt event and late Neanderthal presence in Iberia

    Article • Earth and Planetary Science Letters, June 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  38. From Tools to Symbols: from Early Hominids to Modern Humans, edited by Francesco d'Errico & Lucinda Backwell, 2005. Johannesburg: Wits University Press; ISBN 1-86814-434-8 hardback £38.94 & US$59.95; ISBN 1-86814-411-9 paperback £26.49 &...

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, May 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  39. Aurignacian ethno-linguistic geography of Europe revealed by personal ornaments

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, August 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  40. Grave goods from the Saint-Germain-la-Rivière burial: Evidence for social inequality in the Upper Palaeolithic

    Article • Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, June 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  41. Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, January 2005, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood, Professor Francesco d'Errico

  42. Tracing the source of Upper Palaeolithic shell beads by strontium isotope dating

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, October 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  43. “A Garden of Eden for the Gibraltar Neandertals? A reply to Finlayson et al.”

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, May 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  44. A stationary Mediterranean forest in southeastern Iberia during OIS 3? A reply to the comments by J.S. Carrión

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, May 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  45. Tracing the source of Upper Palaeolithic shell beads by strontium isotope dating

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, May 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  46. Possible evidence of bone tool shaping by Swartkrans early hominids

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, December 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  47. Neandertal extinction and the millennial scale climatic variability of OIS 3

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, April 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  48. Criteria for Identifying Red Deer (Cervus elaphus) Age and Sex from Their Canines. Application to the Study of Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Ornaments

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, February 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  49. An early bone tool industry from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for the origins of modern human behaviour, symbolism and language

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, December 2001, Elsevier

    Christopher Henshilwood, Professor Francesco d'Errico

  50. Bone and ivory points in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, August 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  51. La nouvelle « bataille aurignacienne ».

    Article • L Anthropologie, January 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  52. Neanderthal Acculturation in Western Europe? A Critical Review of the Evidence and Its Interpretation

    Article • Current Anthropology, June 1998, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  53. Nouvelle analyse des os gravés et perforés du Paléolithique inférieur et moyen. Implications pour l'origine de la pensée symbolique/New analysis of engraved and perforated bones from Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites. Implications for the origins of ...

    Article • Paléo, January 1998, PERSEE Program

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  54. Holes and grooves: the contribution of microscopy and taphonomy to the problem of art origins

    Article • Journal of Human Evolution, July 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  55. Possible bone threshing tools from the Neolithic levels of the Grotta dei Piccioni (Abruzzo, Italy)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, July 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Francesco d'Errico

  56. Early hominin social learning strategies underlying the use and production of bone and stone tools

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Francesco d'Errico