Conference lecture

• Jeremy Beller; Karen Loise van Niekerk; Pieter-Jan Grabe et al. (2024). Raw material distribution in the southern Cape region and its significance for lithic procurement during the MSA at Blombos Cave, South Africa. (external link)
• Ole Fredrik Unhammer; Magnus Mathisen Haaland; Simon James Armitage (2020). Comprehensive 3D reconstruction of an archaeological site based on archive images. (external link)
• Ella Victoria Walsh; Simon James Armitage; Christopher Miller et al. (2024). Palaeolandscape evolution during the period of Middle Stone Age occupation of Blombos Cave, South Africa. (external link)
• Elizabeth Niespolo; Warren Sharp; Christian A Tryon et al. (2019). Evaluating the temporal range of 230Th/U burial dating of ostrich eggshell, a new chronometer for Pleistocene terrestrial strata. (external link)
• Ole Fredrik Unhammer; Simon James Armitage (2021). 4-Dimensional Recording of Fire related Experiments. (external link)
• Jeremy Alexander Beller; Karen Loise van Niekerk; Simon Armitage et al. (2025). Hunter-gatherer mobility and lithic procurement in the southern Cape: Results of artefact provenance from MSA Blombos Cave, South Africa. (external link)
• Christopher Miller; Magnus Mathisen Haaland; Simon James Armitage et al. (2024). Geoarchaeological investigations of Klipdrift Shelter, de Hoop Nature Reserve, South Africa. (external link)
• Antoine Muller; Simon James Armitage; francesco d'Errico et al. (2024). Many ways to get to the point: Experimental insights into the behavioural complexity involved in Middle Stone Age point-making. (external link)
• Ella Victoria Walsh; Simon Armitage; Christopher Miller et al. (2025). Palaeolandscape evolution during the period of Middle Stone Age occupation of Blombos Cave, South Africa.. (external link)
• Margit Hildegard Simon; Ozan mert Göktürk; Willem Godert Maria van der Bilt et al. (2024). Investigation of biomarkers from Blombos Cave, South Africa and from Rabat-Temara Caves in Morocco: Insights into Middle Stone Age sites Palaeoclimate.. (external link)
• Simon James Armitage; Karen Loise Van Niekerk; Christopher Henshilwood (2019). A reassessment of the luminescence chronology for Blombos Cave, South Africa. (external link)

Academic article

• Grzegorz Michalec; Eric Andrieux; Ju Yong Kim et al. (2024). A Mismatched Piece in a Cultural Middle Stone Age Puzzle. Traces of Human Activity Dated to 90 kya (MIS 5) at Sites EDAR 134 and 155 in the Eastern Sahara, Sudan. (external link)
• Huw S. Groucutt; Tom S. White; Eleanor M. L. Scerri et al. (2021). Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years. (external link)
• Ole Fredrik Unhammer; Magnus Mathisen Haaland; Simon James Armitage et al. (2024). Reconcilable differences: Using retrospective photogrammetry to bridge the divide between analogue and digital site data collected during long-term excavation projects. (external link)
• Mathew Stewart; Eric Andrieux; Richard Clark-Wilson et al. (2021). Taphonomy of an excavated striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) den in Arabia: implications for paleoecology and prehistory. (external link)
• Keith N. Wilkinson; Ethel Allué; Simon Armitage et al. (2025). The geoarchaeology, chronology and environment of Lusakert-1, a Late Middle Palaeolithic rockshelter (Kotayk Province, Armenia). (external link)
• Mirosław Masojć; Ju Yong Kim; Joanna Krupa-Kurzynowska et al. (2021). The oldest Homo erectus buried lithic horizon from the Eastern Saharan Africa. EDAR 7 - an Acheulean assemblage with Kombewa method from the Eastern Desert, Sudan. (external link)
• Adrian Parker; Mike W. Morley; Simon James Armitage et al. (2020). Palaeoenvironmental and sea level changes during the Holocene in eastern Saudi Arabia and their implications for Neolithic populations. (external link)
• Maciej Ehlert; Ju Yong Kim; Young Kwan Sohn et al. (2022). The Middle Stone Age in the Eastern Desert. EDAR 135 — a buried early MIS 5 horizon from Sudan. (external link)
• Stuart A. Vyse; Ulrike Herzschuh; Andrei A. Andreev et al. (2020). Geochemical and sedimentological responses of arctic glacial Lake Ilirney, chukotka (far east Russia) to palaeoenvironmental change since ∼51.8 ka BP. (external link)
• Yajun Li; Simon James Armitage; Thomas Stevens et al. (2018). Alluvial fan aggradation/incision history of the eastern Tibetan plateau margin and implications for debris flow/debris-charged flood hazard. (external link)
• Nick A Drake; Rachael E Lem; Simon James Armitage et al. (2018). Reconstructing palaeoclimate and hydrological fluctuations in the Fezzan Basin (southern Libya) since 130 ka: A catchment-based approach. (external link)
• Alex Mackay; Simon James Armitage; Elizabeth M. Niespolo et al. (2022). Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago. (external link)
• Eleanor ML Scerri; Maria Guagnin; Huw S. Groucutt et al. (2018). Neolithic pastoralism in marginal environments during the Holocene Humid Period, northern Saudi Arabia. (external link)
• Karl Guy Romeo Purcell; Margit Hildegard Simon; Ellie Jane Pryor et al. (2025). Climate variability off Africa's southern Cape over the past 260 000 years. (external link)
• Grzegorz Michalec; Marzena Cendrowska; Eric Andrieux et al. (2021). A Window into the Early–Middle Stone Age Transition in Northeastern Africa—A Marine Isotope Stage 7a/6 Late Acheulean Horizon from the EDAR 135 Site, Eastern Sahara (Sudan). (external link)
• Simon James Armitage; A Krishna; Luke E Parker et al. (2019). Optically stimulated luminescence dating of heat retainer hearths from the Sahara: Insights into signal accumulation and measurement. (external link)
• Deepak Kumar Jha; Robert Patalano; Jana Ilgner et al. (2024). Preservation of plant-wax biomarkers in deserts: implications for Quaternary environment and human evolutionary studies. (external link)
• N Diaz; Simon James Armitage; EP Verrecchia et al. (2018). OSL dating of a carbonate island in the Chobe Enclave, NW Botswana. (external link)
• N.A. Drake; I. Candy; P. Breeze et al. (2022). Sedimentary and geomorphic evidence of Saharan megalakes: A synthesis. (external link)
• Maria Guagnin; Ceri Shipton; Faisal Al-Jibreen et al. (2025). Monumental rock art illustrates that humans thrived in the Arabian Desert during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. (external link)
• Zahra Haghighi; Meaghan Mackie; Anne Apalnes Ørnhøi et al. (2024). Palaeoproteomic identification of the original binder and modern contaminants in distemper paints from Uvdal stave church, Norway. (external link)
• Eleanor M. L. Scerri; Marine Frouin; Paul S. Breeze et al. (2021). The expansion of Acheulean hominins into the Nefud Desert of Arabia. (external link)
• Richard Clark‐Wilson; Simon Armitage; Ian Candy et al. (2025). Assessing the intensity of Late Quaternary humid phases in the Nefud Desert, northern Arabia. (external link)
• Simon Armitage; D. Sahy; S.R. Noble et al. (2025). Direct dating of marine sediments using optically stimulated luminescence techniques: Insights from ODP cores 658B and 659A. (external link)
• Huw S. Groucutt; Rainer Grün; Iyad AS Zalmout et al. (2018). Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago. (external link)
• Mathew Stewart; Richard Clark-Wilson; Paul S Breeze et al. (2020). Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior. (external link)
• Maria Martinon-Torres; Francesco d'Errico; Elena Santos et al. (2021). Earliest known human burial in Africa. (external link)
• Ceri Shipton; Patrick Roberts; Will Archer et al. (2018). 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest. (external link)
• Shuang Zhang; Simon Blockley; Simon James Armitage et al. (2023). Distal tephra reveal new MIS 5e Kos eruptions: Implications for the chronology and volcanic evolution histories in the Eastern Mediterranean region. (external link)
• Ozan mert Göktürk; Margit Hildegard Simon; Stefan Pieter Sobolowski et al. (2023). Behaviourally modern humans in coastal southern Africa experienced an increasingly continental climate during the transition from Marine Isotope Stage 5 to 4. (external link)
• Laura C. Streib; Simon James Armitage; Christopher A. Scholz (2024). Using luminescence dating to constrain lake sediment records: A new age model for the 1.38 Ma lake Malawi drill core, Eastern Africa. (external link)
• Alastair C Cunningham; Andrew S Murray; Simon James Armitage et al. (2018). High-precision natural dose rate estimates through beta counting. (external link)

Journal corrigendum

• Huw S. Groucutt; Tom S. White; Eleanor M. L. Scerri et al. (2022). Author Correction: Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years (Nature, (2021), 597, 7876, (376-380), 10.1038/s41586-021-03863-y). (external link)
• Ceri Shipton; Patrick Roberts; Will Archer et al. (2018). Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of middle and later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest. (external link)

Lecture

• Silje Evjenth Bentsen; Francesco d'Errico; Simon James Armitage et al. (2019). A day in the life: Homo sapiens 100 000 years ago. (external link)
• Francesco d'Errico; Simon James Armitage (2021). Panga Ya Saidi and the earliest known burial from Africa. (external link)

Other presentation

• Jeremy Alexander Beller; Karen Loise van Niekerk; Simon Armitage et al. (2025). Forager mobility during the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa. (external link)

Conference poster

• Zahra Haghighi; Meaghan Mackie; Anne Apalnes Ørnhøi et al. (2024). An insight to take away: palaeoproteomics reveals the original binder and modern contaminations in distemper paints from Uvdal Stave Church, Norway. (external link)

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