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Denis Geraads

Denis Geraads

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Earth Science

D-Index
45
Citations
9957
World Ranking
4367
National Ranking
317

Overview

Denis Geraads is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France and has a research focus spanning Earth and Planetary Sciences, Social Sciences, and Environmental Science. Their work encompasses several subfields, including Paleontology, Anthropology, Ecology, Social Psychology, and Atmospheric Science.

The main topics in their research include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies.

Frequent coauthors in their publications include Margherita Mussi, Raymonde Bonnefille, Rita Teresa Melis, Giuseppe Briatico, and Hervé Bocherens.

Key venues where Denis Geraads has published work include Scientific Reports, Quaternary International, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, and Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored include:

  • Early Homo erectus lived at high altitudes and produced both Oldowan and Acheulean tools, 2023, Science
  • After the emergence of the Acheulean at Melka Kunture (Upper Awash, Ethiopia): From Gombore IB (1.6 Ma) to Gombore Iγ (1.4 Ma), Gombore Iδ (1.3 Ma) and Gombore II OAM Test Pit C (1.2 Ma), 2021, Quaternary International
  • Fossils from Mille-Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, elucidate the link between Pliocene environmental changes and Homo origins, 2020, Nature Communications
  • First high resolution chronostratigraphy for the early North African Acheulean at Casablanca (Morocco), 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Earliest African evidence of carcass processing and consumption in cave at 700 ka, Casablanca, Morocco, 2020, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa

    Michel Brunet;Franck Guy;Franck Guy;David Pilbeam;Hassane Taisso Mackaye

  • Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia

    Shannon P. McPherron;Zeresenay Alemseged;Curtis W. Marean;Jonathan G. Wynn

  • The age of the hominin fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, and the origins of the Middle Stone Age

    Daniel Richter;Rainer Grün;Rainer Grün;Renaud Joannes-Boyau;Renaud Joannes-Boyau;Teresa E. Steele

  • Geology and palaeontology of the Upper Miocene Toros-Menalla hominid locality, Chad

    Patrick Vignaud;Philippe Duringer;Hassane Taïsso Mackaye;Andossa Likius;Andossa Likius

  • Isotopic biogeochemistry ( 13 C, 18 O) of mammalian enamel from African Pleistocene hominid sites

    Herve Bocherens;Paul L. Koch;Andre Mariotti;Denis Geraads

  • The Fossil Record and Evolution of Bovidae: State of the Field

    Faysal Bibi;Maia Bukhsianidze;Alan W. Gentry;Denis Geraads

  • Carnivores du Pliocène terminalde Ahl al Oughlam (Casablanca, Maroc)

    Denis Geraads

  • The earliest occupation of North-Africa: the Moroccan perspective

    J.P. Raynal;F.Z. Sbihi Alaoui;D. Geraads;L. Magoga

  • Diversity and paleoecology of Greek late Miocene mammalian faunas

    L. de Bonis;G. Bouvrain;D. Geraads;G. Koufos

  • New hominid skull material from the late Miocene of Macedonia in Northern Greece

    L de Bonis;G Bouvrain;D Geraads;G Koufos

  • The Pleistocene Hominid Site of Ternifine, Algeria: New Results on the Environment, Age, and Human Industries

    Denis Geraads;Jean-Jacques Hublin;Jean-Jacques Jaeger;Haiyan Tong

  • Chad: discovery of a vertebrate fauna close to the Mio-Pliocene boundary

    Michel Brunet

  • Geological and palaeontological context of a Pliocene juvenile hominin at Dikika, Ethiopia.

    Jonathan G. Wynn;Jonathan G. Wynn;Zeresenay Alemseged;René Bobe;Denis Geraads

  • Remarques sur la systématique et la phylogénie des Giraffidae(Artiodactyla, Mammalia)

    Denis Geraads

  • The Pleistocene fauna (other than Primates) from Asbole, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia, and its environmental and biochronological implications

    Denis Geraads;Zeresenay Alemseged;Denne N Reed;Jonathan Wynn

  • Messinian age and savannah environment of the possible hominin Graecopithecus from Europe

    Madelaine Böhme;Nikolai Spassov;Martin Ebner;Denis Geraads

  • Plio-Pleistocene Mammalian biostratigraphy of Atlantic Morocco

    Denis Geraads

  • The Early Middle Pleistocene Site of Gombore II (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia) and the Issue of Acheulean Bifacial Shaping Strategies

    Rosalia Gallotti;Carmine Collina;Carmine Collina;Jean-Paul Raynal;Guy Kieffer

  • Vertébrés fossiles du miocène supérieur du djebel krechem el artsouma(Tunisie centrale). Comparaisons biostratigraphiques

    Denis Geraads

  • A new hominin from the Basal Member of the Hadar Formation, Dikika, Ethiopia, and its geological context.

    Zeresenay Alemseged;Jonathan G. Wynn;William H. Kimbel;Denne N Reed

  • The earliest occupation of North-Africa : the Moroccan perspective.

    Jean-Paul Raynal;Fatima-Zohra Sbihi Alaoui;Denis Geraads;Lionel Magoga

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan G. Wynn
Jonathan G. Wynn National Science Foundation
Michel Brunet
Michel Brunet University of Poitiers
Patrick Vignaud
Patrick Vignaud University of Poitiers
Jean-Jacques Hublin
Jean-Jacques Hublin Collège de France
Shannon P. McPherron
Shannon P. McPherron Max Planck Society
Paul Tafforeau
Paul Tafforeau European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Rainer Grün
Rainer Grün Australian National University
Mathieu Schuster
Mathieu Schuster University of Strasbourg
Hervé Bocherens
Hervé Bocherens University of Tübingen
David Pilbeam
David Pilbeam Harvard University

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