Francesco d'Errico
Position
Professor
Affiliation
Publications
Academic lecture
- d'Errico, Francesco (2025). Tracing the evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage. (external link)
- Colagè, Ivan; d'Errico, Francesco (2025). Cooperation and the Evolution of Transmission Strategies in Human Culture. (external link)
- Keller, Hanna; d'Errico, Francesco; Queffelec, Alain (2025). Multiproxy Analysis of Ethnographic Ostrich Eggshell (OES) Dancing Rattles: Identifying Criteria for Inferring Musical Accompaniment and Dance in Prehistory. (external link)
- Rosa, Neemias Santos da; d'Errico, Francesco; Maguregui, M. et al. (2025). Modelling the taphonomic effects of wind erosion and marine aerosol degradation on paintedages through accelerated ageing experiments: implications for the origins of rock art and the evolution of human symbolic behaviour. (external link)
- Cendrowska, Marzena; d'Errico, Francesco; Niekerk, Karen Loise van et al. (2025). Knapping Ochre: Experimental Insights into MSA Ochre Use and Lithic Techniques. (external link)
- Rosso, Daniela; d'Errico, Francesco; backwell, lucinda et al. (2025). A 225,000 year-old record of ochre use at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (external link)
- Courtenay, Lloyd; Doyon, Luc; Brochard, Emilie et al. (2025). Quantifying fluvial abrasion in Ishango (D.R. Congo) and its impact on the study of human behaviour. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2025). Prehistoric Horizons of Connectivity: Cultural Interactions Across Africa, Europe, and East Asia in the Palaeolithic. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2025). The Culturalisation of the Human Body: From Adaptive Niche Expansion to Symbolic Niche Construction. (external link)
- Muller, Antoine; Straffon, Larissa; Shipton, Ceri et al. (2025). Searching for the origins of recursive thinking via the complexity of stone toolmaking. (external link)
- Muller, Antoine; Straffon, Larissa; Shipton, Ceri et al. (2025). Stone toolmaking and cognitive complexity: Searching for the origins of hierarchical and recursive reasoning in the Palaeolithic. (external link)
- Courtenay, Lloyd A.; Geis, Lila; Doyon, Luc et al. (2024). A high resolution analysis and re-evaluation of the notched artefacts from Ishango (≈ 20 ka, D.R. Congo).. (external link)
- Culey, Jasmin; d'Errico, Francesco; Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine et al. (2024). Shifting perspectives: theoretical and analytical trends in Middle Stone Age ochre studies. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2024). A multistep evolutionary scenario for the culturalisation of the human body. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Mauran, Guilhem; Marti, Africa Pitarch et al. (2024). Mineral pigments use by Micoquian Neanderthals in Crimea,. (external link)
- Rosa, Neemias Santos da; d'Errico, Francesco; Maguregui, Maite et al. (2024). Taphart: an experimental approach to the impact of wind erosion and marine aerosol degradation on coastal rock art sites. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2024). The 100 ka old ochre toolkits from Blombos Cave.. (external link)
- Colagé, Ivan; d'Errico, Francesco (2024). An empirically based scenario for the evolution of cultural transmission in our lineage. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; meneganzin, Andra; Colagé, Ivan (2024). Engineered Social Worlds: Symbolic Material Culture and Collective Intelligence. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2024). The evolution of creativity in our lineage. A long term process of niche construction. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2024). Human creativity: the outcome of a long process of niche construction. (external link)
- Rosa, Neemias Santos da; d'Errico, Francesco; Maguregui, Maite et al. (2024). TaphArt: an experimental approach to the impact of wind erosion and marine aerosol on coastal rock art sites. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2023). L’origine della creatività umana. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2023). What can archaeology say on the origin of human cognition?. (external link)
- Beard, Thomas; Backwell, Lucinda; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2023). Macroscale descriptions of anthropogenic features in the archaeological sequence at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, using a multiproxy geoarchaeological approach. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2023). Archeologia e evoluzione cognitiva. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2023). Can we envision an evolutionary scenario for the emergence and evolution of musical practices from direct archeological evidence and other cultural proxies?. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2023). The archaeology of modern human origin. (external link)
- bello, silvia; Stringer, Chris; crimmen, O et al. (2023). Fish bones used as tools by Early Humans in Tabun Cave (Israel). (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2023). 100 ka old ochre toolkits from Blombos Cave. (external link)
- Cassard, Laura; Geis, Lila; Queffelec, Alain et al. (2022). Paleolithic quantification systems: A first review. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2022). Research update of Francesco d’Errico (Cognition Research Group).. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2022). How to be strategic and successful. Suggestions on how to survive an academic career. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2022). Research update of Francesco d’Errico (Archeology Research Group).. (external link)
- Clark, J.L.; Backwell, Lucinda; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2022). Middle and Later Stone Age Faunal Remains from the Renewed Excavations at Border Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa): Preliminary Results.. (external link)
- Brooks, Alison; Cornelissen, Erik; Helgren, D et al. (2022). Generic or specific? A Review of Data from the Katanda Sites of the Eastern D.R. Congo. (external link)
- Cassard, Laura; d'Errico, Francesco (2022). An attempt to apply the ECSaCT’s grid to Palaeolithic objects. Issues of interpretation and nomenclature. (external link)
- Beard, Thomas; Backwell, Lucinda; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2022). Understanding the formation of the upper stratigraphic units at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, through the application of fabric analysis. (external link)
- Li, Z.; Wang, H.; Queffelec, Alain et al. (2021). Of Rock ‘n’ Bones: Knapping and using long bone fragments at the early Late Pleistocene site of Lingjing, Henan, China. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2021). Les premières manifestations symboliques. Au Louvre ou au Quai Branly ?. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Arslanoglu, J; Collins, M. et al. (2021). Advanced Mass Spectrometry Applied to Cultural Heritage. Round Table.. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Colagé, Ivan; Straffon, Larissa Mendoza et al. (2021). When, how and why did symbolic practices emerge and become more complex?. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2021). L’origine des comportements symboliques: état de la question. (external link)
- Dayet, Laure; d'Errico, Francesco; Diez, M Garcia et al. (2021). The technology of the non-figurative red paintings from El Castillo Cave, Spain: invasive and non-invasive analysis. (external link)
- Pante, Michael; Torre, Ignacio de la; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2021). New bone tools from Beds II-IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and implications for the origins and evolution of bone technology. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2021). Ecocultural niche modelling and the construction of the human niche. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2021). Discussant of the Presentation: Henshilwood, Ch. Studying the behavioural origins of Homo sapiens in southern Africa between 120 000 – 50 000 years ago: Norway/South Africa Co-operative Research. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2021). L’origine graduale della cognizione moderna. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2021). La parure : traceur de changements cognitifs, sociaux, identitaires, technologiques et populationnels. (external link)
- Queffelec, Alain; Bassel, L; Caux, Solene et al. (2021). Confocal microscopy for 3D surface texture characterization of diverse paleolithic artifacts, and more. (external link)
- Li, Z; Fang, H; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2021). A Paleolithic bird figurine from the Lingjing site, Henan, China. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2021). Il Middle Stone Age Africano: Innovazioni culturali a Panga Ya Saidi. (external link)
- Rosso, Daniela Eugenia; d'Errico, Francesco; Queffelec, Alain (2021). Using surface analysis to understand ochre use during the middle stone age.. (external link)
- Queffelec, Alain; Bassel, L.; d'Errico, Francesco (2021). Confocal microscopy for 3D surface texture characterization of diverse Paleolithic artifacts. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2021). From number sens to number symbols. (external link)
- Cassard, Laura; Binder, Didier; Coli, V.L. et al. (2021). Prehistoric ornamental and symbolic productions. Method and on-going analytical development by 3D surface imaging and AI applied to Neolithic impressed ceramics and Palaeolithic engraved animal hard tissues. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2020). Origin of symbolic thinking in the Palaeolithic. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2020). The complex and gradual origin of modern cognition. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2020). La faute des civilisations. (external link)
- Ramstein, Gilles; Banks, William E.; Barboni, Doris et al. (2020). Human ancestors' dispersal: the role of climate. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2020). Riflessioni sulla relazione tra cultura, ambiente e educazione: i San del Kalahari e gli Ovahimba del Kunene. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2019). What does archeology tell us about the origin of modern cognition. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2019). Can we trigger Serendipity?. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2019). The origin of human creativity. (external link)
- Doyon, Luc; Li, Zhanyang; Li, Hao et al. (2019). Engravings on weathered bones from the archaic hominin site of Lingjing (Xuchang, Henan, P. R. of China). (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2019). Middle Stone Age symbolic material culture and its significance. (external link)
- Doyon, Luc; Wang, H.; Kolfschoten, Thijs van et al. (2019). Archaic hominin behavioural variability and the issue of a Chinese Middle Palaeolithic. Insights from bone technologies. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2019). Archaeological evidence for a gradual and multiregional origin of modern cognition and language. (external link)
- Marti, Africa Pitarch; Zilhao, J; Ramos-Munoz, J et al. (2019). Geochemical characterization of the earliest Palaeolithic paintings from southwestern Europe: Ardales Cave, Spain.. (external link)
- Fourcade, T; Sanchez-Goni, Maria Fernanda; Lahaye, Christelle et al. (2019). Environmental changes and cultural adaptations of human populations during the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in southwestern France (44,000 and 38,000 years BP). (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2019). The emergence of symbolic thinking in human evolution. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Rigaud, Solange; Marti, Africa Pitarch (2019). The earliest beads and methods to make them speak. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2019). L’origine della creatività umana. Una prospettiva archeologica. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2018). From Material culture to cognition. Interdisciplinary perspectives. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2018). L’origine du sens esthétique. Qu’est qu’il nous enseigne l’archéologie ?. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2018). La contribution de la parure châtelperronienne de la grotte du Renne à la remise en question de l’axiome d’une cognition propre à chaque espèce fossile. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2018). Middle and Later Stone Age archaeology: interdisciplinary perspectives. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2018). I gioielli dei Neandertaliani. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Henshilwood, Christopher; Niekerk, Karen Loise Van (2018). Les premières utilisations du rouge en Afrique. (external link)
- Marti, Africa Pitarch; d'Errico, Francesco (2018). Preliminary analysis of ochre from recent excavations and results of the 2018 season fieldwork. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2018). Neanderthals and the end of the one-fossil-species-one-cognition-axiom. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Rigaud, Solange; Marti, Africa Pitarch et al. (2018). Synthesis of Previous Results Obtained on Panga ya Saidi by the Bordeaux Team and the CUMILA Project: Documenting a New Cultural Trajectory Toward Modernity. (external link)
- Rigaud, Solange; d'Errico, Francesco (2018). Preliminary analysis of shell beads from recent excavations and result of the 2018 fieldwork. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2018). The earliest known abstract representations. (external link)
Lecture
- d'Errico, Francesco (2025). Key transitions in the culturalisation of the human body. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2025). An Evolutionary Scenario for the Culturalisation of the Human Body.. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2025). An Evolutionary Scenario for the Culturalisation of the Human Body. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2025). L’origine des comportements symboliques. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2024). The implications of the Blombos discoveries for the emergence and culturalisation of the human body. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2023). La longue histoire du rouge au Paléolithique. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2022). Quando siamo diventati come siamo?. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2022). L’origine delle culture moderne. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Armitage, Simon James (2021). Panga Ya Saidi and the earliest known burial from Africa. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2021). Les plus anciennes cultures matérielles symboliques Quelques nouveautés.. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Rigaud, Solange; Maureille, Bruno et al. (2021). CUMILA - Innovations culturelles au cours de la préhistoire en l'Afrique de l'Est. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2020). L’emergence de comportement symboliques, fruit d’un évolution biologique ou culturelle ?. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2020). Come abbiamo scoperto la più antica arte cinese. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2020). The origin and evolution of symbolic material culture. (external link)
- Bentsen, Silje Evjenth; d'Errico, Francesco; Armitage, Simon James et al. (2019). A day in the life: Homo sapiens 100 000 years ago. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2019). Nouvelles découvertes archéologiques en Europe et en Afrique: comment changent-elles notre vision de l’origine des cultures humaines ?. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2018). The origin of modern cultures. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2018). I simboli e la mente. (external link)
Poster
- Li, Y.; d'Errico, Francesco; Geis, Lila et al. (2025). Bone Tool Technologies in the Kasitu Valley, Northern Malawi. (external link)
- Daujeard, Camille; Marin, Hernando Juan; Uzinidis, Antigone et al. (2022). The RINO project: The use of Rhinoceros teeth for Industry among Neandertals: an Original behaviour?. (external link)
- Salagnon, Mathilde; Cremona, S; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2021). Expertise during the visual analyse of palaeolithic abstract engravings: an fMRI study. (external link)
- Dayet, Laure; Faivre, Jean-Philippe; Discamps, Emmanuel et al. (2019). Usage d’oxydes de fer et de manganèse à la fin du Paléolithique moyen, quelle signification culturelle? L’exemple de la séquence de Combe-Grenal, Dordogne, France. (external link)
Popular scientific article
- d'Errico, Francesco; Doyon, Luc (2025). Et si on n'avait pas dit le dernier mot sur la" disparition" des Néandertaliens ?. (external link)
- Geis, Lila; d'Errico, Francesco; Queffelec, Alain (2024). L'énigme des graviers polis paléolithiques dévoilée. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Queffelec, Alain (2024). Du nouveau sur l’arrivée des hommes modernes. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2024). Le point de vue du specialiste. (external link)
- Doyon, Luc; d'Errico, Francesco (2023). Un outil pour la couture vieux de 40 000 ans. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Savatier, François (2022). La première étape vers un comptage précis a pu consister en la production de marques de découpe. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2022). Les fondements culturels de la quantification précise. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Doyon, Luc (2022). Afrique du Sud : creuser le sol et écorcer des arbres avec des outils vieux de 80 000 ans. (external link)
- Rigaud, Solange; Marti, Africa Pitarch; Queffelec, Alain et al. (2021). À la découverte de la plus ancienne sépulture africaine datant de 78 000 ans. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Rigaud, Solange; Marti, Africa Pitarch et al. (2021). Découverte de la plus ancienne sépulture africaine. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2020). La dieta di pesci e molluschi che accese la mente. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Wadley, Lyn; Backwell, Lucinda et al. (2020). Les plus anciens tubercules. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Chicki, Lounes (2019). La nascita delle culture umane. (external link)
Academic article
- Courtenay, Lloyd Austin; d'Errico, Francesco; Núñez, Rafael et al. (2025). Identifying potential palaeolithic artificial memory systems via Spatial statistics: Implications for the origin of quantification. (external link)
- Torre, Ignacio de la; Doyon, Luc; Benito-Calvo, Alfonso et al. (2025). Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago. (external link)
- Velliky, Elizabeth Catherine; d'Errico, Francesco; Niekerk, Karen Loise van et al. (2025). Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave. (external link)
- Colagè, Ivan; d'Errico, Francesco (2025). An empirically-based scenario for the evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage during the last 3.3 million years. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Doyon, Luc; Zilhão, Joao et al. (2024). Tooth in the spotlight: exploring the integration of archaeological and genetic data to build multidisciplinary narratives of the Past. (external link)
- Salagnon, M.; d'Errico, Francesco; Rigaud, S. et al. (2024). Assigning a social status from face adornments: an fMRI study. (external link)
- Colagé, I.; Oliva, Stefano; d'Errico, Francesco (2024). Rewriting the environment, remaking humanity: niche construction, creativity, and cultural evolution. (external link)
- Yang, Shi-Xia; Zhang, Jia-Fu; Yue, Jian-Ping et al. (2024). Initial Upper Palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China. (external link)
- Baker, Jack; Rigaud, Solange; Pereira, Daniel et al. (2024). Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe. (external link)
- Wojcieszak, Marine; Backwell, Lucinda; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2023). Evidence for large land snail cooking and consumption at Border Cave c. 170–70 ka ago. Implications for the evolution of human diet and social behaviour. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Niekerk, Karen Loise van; Geis, Lila et al. (2023). New Blombos Cave evidence supports a multi-step evolutionary scenario for the culturalization of the human body. (external link)
- Rosso, Daniela Eugenia; Regert, Martine; d'Errico, Francesco (2023). First identification of an evolving Middle Stone Age ochre culture at Porc-Epic Cave, Ethiopia. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; David, Serge; Coqueugniot, Hélène et al. (2023). A 36,200-year-old carving from Grotte des Gorges, Amange, Jura, France. (external link)
- baker, jack; Rigaud, Solange; Vanhaeren, Marian et al. (2023). Cro-Magnon personal ornaments revisited. (external link)
- Colagé, Ivan; d'Errico, Francesco (2023). The roots of creativity: investing in cultural transmission. (external link)
- Doyon, Luc; Faure, T; Sanz, M et al. (2023). A 39,600-year-old leather punch board from Canyars, Gavà, Spain. (external link)
- Esteban, Irene; Stratford, Dominic; Sievers, Christine et al. (2023). Plants, people and fire: Phytolith and FTIR analyses of the post-Howiesons Poort occupations at Border Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa). (external link)
- Geis, Lila; d'Errico, Francesco; Jordan, Fiona et al. (2023). Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels supports their anthropogenic use. (external link)
- Beaudet, Amélie; d'Errico, Francesco; Backwell, Lucinda et al. (2022). A reappraisal of the Border Cave 1 cranium (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa). (external link)
- Sievers, Christine; Backwell, Lucinda R.; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2022). Plant bedding construction between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago at Border Cave, South Africa. (external link)
- Dayet, Laure; d'Errico, Francesco; Diez, Marcos Garcia et al. (2022). Critical evaluation of in situ analyses for the characterisation of red pigments in rock paintings: A case study from El Castillo, Spain. (external link)
- Peña, Paloma de la; Colino, Fernando; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2022). Lithic technological and spatial analysis of the final Pleistocene at Border Cave, South Africa. (external link)
- Tribolo, Chantal; Mercier, Norbert; Dumottay, Charles et al. (2022). Luminescence dating at Border Cave: attempts, questions, and new results. (external link)
- Stratford, Dominic; Clark, Jamie L.; Wojcieszak, Marine et al. (2022). Geoarchaeology and zooarchaeology of Border Cave, South Africa: Initial multiproxy considerations of stratigraphy and site formation processes from the Backwell et al. excavations. (external link)
- Lennox, Sandra; Backwell, Lucinda; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2022). A vegetation record based on charcoal analysis from Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, ∼227 000 to ∼44 000 years ago. (external link)
- Timbrell, Lucy; Peña, Paloma de la; Way, Amy et al. (2022). Technological and geometric morphometric analysis of ‘post-Howiesons Poort points’ from Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (external link)
- Backwell, Lucinda; Wadley, Lyn; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2022). Border Cave: A 227,000-year-old archive from the southern African interior. (external link)
- Salagnon, Mathilde; Cremona, Sandrine; Joliot, Marc et al. (2022). Neural correlates of perceiving and interpreting engraved prehistoric patterns as human production: Effect of archaeological expertise. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Backwell, Lucinda R.; Wadley, Lyn et al. (2022). Technological and functional analysis of 80–60 ka bone wedges from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa). (external link)
- Wang, Fa-Gang; Yang, Shi-Xia; Ge, Jun-Yi et al. (2022). Innovative ochre processing and tool use in China 40,000 years ago. (external link)
- Guarido, A; Stefano, J De; Backwell, Lucinda R. et al. (2021). Border Cave: una aproximación a la práctica arqueológica sudafricana. (external link)
- Zilhão, João; Angelucci, Diego; Arnold, D.E. et al. (2021). Revisiting the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition at Gruta do Caldeirão (Tomar, Portugal). (external link)
- Salagnon, Mathilde; d'Errico, Francesco; Mellet, Emmanuel (2021). Neuroimaging and neuroarchaeology : a window on cognitive evolution. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Martí, Africa Pitarch; Wei, Yi et al. (2021). Zhoukoudian Upper Cave personal ornaments and ochre: Rediscovery and reevaluation. (external link)
- Hanon, Raphael; d'Errico, Francesco; Backwell, Lucinda R. et al. (2021). New evidence of bone tool use by Early Pleistocene hominins from Cooper’s D, Bloubank Valley, South Africa. (external link)
- Banks, William E.; Moncel, Marie-Helene; Raynal, J.P. et al. (2021). An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago. (external link)
- Doyon, Luc; Li, Z; Wang, H et al. (2021). A 115,000-year-old expedient bone technology at Lingjing, Henan, China.. (external link)
- Marti, Africa Pitarch; Zilhão, João; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2021). The symbolic role of the underground world among Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals. (external link)
- Martinon-Torres, Maria; d'Errico, Francesco; Santos, Elena et al. (2021). Earliest known human burial in Africa. (external link)
- Núñez, Rafael; d'Errico, Francesco; Gray, Russell D. et al. (2021). The perception of quantity ain’t number: Missing the primacy of symbolic reference. (external link)
- Wadley, Lyn; Esteban, I; Peña, Paloma de la et al. (2020). Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa. (external link)
- Antunes, Nicolas; Schiefenhövel, W; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2020). Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea. (external link)
- Pante, Michael; Torre, Ignacio de la; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2020). Bone tools from Beds II-IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania and implications for the origins and evolution of bone technology. (external link)
- Wadley, Lyn; Backwell, Lucinda; d'Errico, Francesco et al. (2020). Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago. (external link)
- Zilhao, J; Angelucci, Diego; Igregia, M Araujo et al. (2020). Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers. (external link)
- Chicki, Lounes; d'Errico, Francesco (2020). Un berceau à l'échelle du continent africain. (external link)
- Li, Z; Doyon, Luc; Fang, Hui et al. (2020). A Palaeolithic bird figurine from the Lingjing site, China. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Marti, Africa Pitarch; Shipton, Ceri et al. (2020). Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa: Personal ornaments, bone artifacts, and ocher from Panga ya Saidi, Kenya. (external link)
- Mellet, Emmanuel; Colagè, Ivan; Bender, Andrea et al. (2019). What processes sparked off symbolic representations? A reply to Hodgson and an alternative perspective. (external link)
- Marti, Africa Pitarch; d'Errico, Francesco; Turq, Alain et al. (2019). Provenance, modification and use of manganese-rich rocks at Le Moustier (Dordogne, France). (external link)
- Vanhaeren, Marian; d'Errico, Francesco; Julien, M et al. (2019). Les objets de parure. (external link)
- Julien, M; Vanhaeren, Marian; d'Errico, Francesco (2019). L’industrie osseuse châtelperronienne de la Grotte du Renne, (Arcy-sur-Cure. (external link)
- Banks, William E.; d'Errico, Francesco (2019). La chronologie des couches Châtelperroniennes de la Grotte du Renne. (external link)
- Dayet, Laure; Faivre, Jean-Philippe; Bourdonnec, F.X. Le et al. (2019). Manganese and iron oxide use at Combe-Grenal (Dordogne, France): A proxy for cultural change in Neanderthal communities. (external link)
- Meijer, Hanneke; d'Errico, Francesco; Queffelec, Alain et al. (2019). Characterization of bone surface modifications on an Early to Middle Pleistocene bird assemblage from Mata Menge (Flores, Indonesia) using multifocus and confocal microscopy. (external link)
- Li, Zhanyang; Doyon, Luc; Li, Hao et al. (2019). Engraved bones from the archaic hominin site of Lingjing, Henan Province. (external link)
- Vanhaeren, Marian; Wadley, Lyn; d'Errico, Francesco (2019). Variability in Still Bay symbolic traditions: the marine shell beads from Sibudu Cave, South Africa. (external link)
- Zhang, Shuangquan; Doyon, Luc; Zhang, Yue et al. (2018). Innovation in bone technology and artefact types in the Late Upper Palaeolithic of China: Insights from Shuidonggou Locality 12. (external link)
- Doyon, Luc; Li, Zhanyang; Li, Hao et al. (2018). Discovery of circa 115,000-year-old bone retouchers at Lingjing, Henan, China. (external link)
- Marti, Africa Pitarch; d'Errico, Francesco (2018). Seeking black. Geochemical characterization by PIXE of Palaeolithic manganese-rich lumps and their potential sources. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Doyon, Luc; Colagé, Ivan et al. (2018). From number sense to number symbols. An archaeological perspective. (external link)
- Backwell, Lucinda; Bradfield, Justin; Carlson, Kristian J. et al. (2018). The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave. (external link)
- Majkic, Ana; d'Errico, Francesco; Stepanchuk, Vadim (2018). Assessing the significance of Palaeolithic engraved cortexes. A case study from the Mousterian site of Kiik-Koba, Crimea. (external link)
- Backwell, Lucinda R.; d'Errico, Francesco; Banks, William E. et al. (2018). New Excavations at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. (external link)
- Shipton, Ceri; Roberts, Patrick; Archer, Will et al. (2018). 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest. (external link)
Reader opinion piece
- Yang, Shi-Xia; Zhang, Jia-Fu; Yue, Jian-Ping et al. (2024). Reply to: An Initial Upper Palaeolithic attribution is not empirically supported at Shiyu, northern China. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Backwell, Lucinda R. (2021). Comment on Pascual-Garrido, F. and Almeida-Warren C. “Group-specific use of raw material for termite-fishing tools by Tanzanian chimpanzees: ecological constraints and cultural variants. (external link)
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Academic literature review
Interview
- d'Errico, Francesco (2023). Un petit coup de rouge au paleolithique ca vous dit?. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2020). Oldest Homo sapiens in Europe—and a cave bear pendant—suggest cultural link to Neanderthals. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2019). L'odyssée de l'homme – Francesco d'Errico : « L'abstrait est né avant le figuratif ». (external link)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
- d'Errico, Francesco; Colagè, Ivan (2022). The emergence of symbolic cognition. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco (2021). L’émergence des comportements symboliques en Afrique et en Asie. (external link)
- Backwell, Lucinda; Huchet, Jean-Bernard; Harrison, James Du Guesclin et al. (2021). Invertebrate Modification of Bone. (external link)
- d'Errico, Francesco; Rigaud, Solange (2021). La faute des Civilisations. (external link)