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Andy I.R. Herries

Andy I.R. Herries

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Earth Science

D-Index
37
Citations
6966
World Ranking
6729
National Ranking
335

Overview

Andy I.R. Herries is affiliated with La Trobe University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Social Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, with a focus on Anthropology, Archeology, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Social Psychology.

Their scientific work covers a range of topics including:

  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa" (2020), published in Science
  • "Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus" (2023), published in Science
  • "Drimolen cranium DNH 155 documents microevolution in an early hominin species" (2020), published in Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "No scientific evidence that Homo naledi buried their dead and produced rock art" (2023), published in Journal of Human Evolution
  • "The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa" (2021), published in Journal of Human Evolution

Frequent co-authors in their research include Stephanie E. Baker, Matthew V. Caruana, Jesse M. Martin, A. B. Leece, and David S. Strait.

They have published in a variety of scientific journals, with notable frequent venues being:

  • Journal of Human Evolution (7 publications)
  • Quaternary Geochronology (4 publications)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University) (3 publications)
  • Science (2 publications)
  • Nature (2 publications)

Additionally, they have contributed to book publications, including a work titled Conversations in Human Evolution, published by Archaeopress Archaeology eBooks in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene

    Curtis W. Marean;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Jocelyn Bernatchez;Erich Fisher

  • Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans

    Kyle S. Brown;Kyle S. Brown;Curtis W. Marean;Andy I. R. Herries;Andy I. R. Herries;Zenobia Jacobs

  • Early hominin diet included diverse terrestrial and aquatic animals 1.95 Ma in East Turkana, Kenya

    David R. Braun;John W. K. Harris;Naomi E. Levin;Jack T. McCoy

  • The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa

    P.H.G.M. Dirks;P.H.G.M. Dirks;Eric M. Roberts;Eric M. Roberts;Hannah Louise Hilbert-Wolf;Jan Dirk Kramers

  • A high resolution and continuous isotopic speleothem record of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment from 90 to 53 ka from Pinnacle Point on the south coast of South Africa

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Curtis W. Marean;Zenobia Jacobs;Panagiotis Karkanas

  • Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and Implications for the Origins of the Genus Homo

    Robyn Pickering;Robyn Pickering;Paul H. G. M. Dirks;Paul H. G. M. Dirks;Zubair Jinnah;Darryl J. de Ruiter;Darryl J. de Ruiter

  • Geological Setting and Age of Australopithecus sediba from Southern Africa

    Paul H. G. M. Dirks;Paul H. G. M. Dirks;Job M. Kibii;Brian F. Kuhn;Christine Steininger

  • Palaeomagnetic analysis of the Sterkfontein palaeocave deposits: implications for the age of the hominin fossils and stone tool industries.

    Andy I.R. Herries;Andy I.R. Herries;John Shaw

  • Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa.

    Andy I. R. Herries;Andy I. R. Herries;Jesse M. Martin;A. B. Leece;Justin W. Adams;Justin W. Adams

  • A multi-disciplinary seriation of early Homo and Paranthropus bearing palaeocaves in southern Africa

    Andrew Ian Herries;Andrew Ian Herries;Darren Curnoe;Justin Winfield Adams

  • Human Remains from the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition of Southwest China Suggest a Complex Evolutionary History for East Asians

    Darren Curnoe;Ji Xueping;Andy I. R. Herries;Bai Kanning

  • A Chronological Perspective on the Acheulian and Its Transition to the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa: The Question of the Fauresmith

    Andy I. R. Herries

  • Regional and global context of the Late Cenozoic Langebaanweg (LBW) palaeontological site: West Coast of South Africa

    David L. Roberts;Thalassa Matthews;Andrew I.R. Herries;Claire Boulter

  • 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest

    Ceri Shipton;Ceri Shipton;Patrick Roberts;Will Archer;Will Archer;Simon J. Armitage;Simon J. Armitage

  • The stratigraphy of the Middle Stone Age sediments at Pinnacle Point Cave 13B (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa).

    Curtis W Marean;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Erich C Fisher;Paul Goldberg

  • A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on the Age of Australopithecus in Southern Africa

    Andrew Ian Herries;Robyn Pickering;Justin Winfield Adams;Darren Curnoe

  • U–Pb-dated flowstones restrict South African early hominin record to dry climate phases

    Robyn Pickering;Andy I. R. Herries;Andy I. R. Herries;Jon D. Woodhead;John C. Hellstrom

  • Orbital forcing and the spread of C4 grasses in the late Neogene: stable isotope evidence from South African speleothems.

    Philip J. Hopley;Philip J. Hopley;Jim D. Marshall;Graham P. Weedon;Alf G. Latham

  • First hominine remains from a ~1.0 million year old bone bed at Cornelia-Uitzoek, Free State Province, South Africa.

    James S Brink;Andrew Ian Herries;Andrew Ian Herries;Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi;John A Gowlett

  • Palaeontology and geological context of a Middle Pleistocene faunal assemblage from the Gladysvale Cave, South Africa

    R S Lacruz;James S Brink;P J Hancox;A R Skinner

Frequent Co-Authors

Curtis W. Marean
Curtis W. Marean Arizona State University
Zenobia Jacobs
Zenobia Jacobs University of Wollongong
Paul H.G.M. Dirks
Paul H.G.M. Dirks James Cook University
John Hellstrom
John Hellstrom University of Melbourne
Michael D. Petraglia
Michael D. Petraglia Griffith University
Lee R. Berger
Lee R. Berger James Cook University
Jon D. Woodhead
Jon D. Woodhead University of Melbourne
Jan Kramers
Jan Kramers University of Johannesburg
Avner Ayalon
Avner Ayalon Hebrew University of Jerusalem
David R. Braun
David R. Braun George Washington University

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