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Francesco d'Errico

Francesco d'Errico

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Social Sciences and Humanities
Norway
2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
82
Citations
27875
World Ranking
330
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Norway Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Norway Leader Award

Overview

Francesco d'Errico is affiliated with the University of Bergen in Norway and specializes in research across Social Sciences and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work predominantly covers Anthropology and Archeology, with significant contributions in Paleontology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Atmospheric Science. The scientist's main research topics include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies. Additional topics of interest include Archaeology and Rock Art Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

Frequent publication venues for d'Errico include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Journal of Human Evolution
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Science Advances

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by d'Errico are:

  • 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 (2020) - Journal of Human Evolution
  • Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers (2020) - Science
  • Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago (2020) - Science
  • Earliest known human burial in Africa (2021) - Nature
  • The symbolic role of the underground world among Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals (2021) - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Lucinda Backwell
  • Lyn Wadley
  • Alain Queffelec
  • Solange Rigaud
  • Luc Doyon

Francesco d'Errico has authored works published by Oxford University Press and Johns Hopkins University. Notable books include The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Body Modification (2023) and San Elders Speak: Ancestral knowledge of the Kalahari San (2021).

Best Publications

  • Emergence of modern human behavior: Middle Stone Age engravings from South Africa.

    Christopher S. Henshilwood;Francesco d'Errico;Royden Yates;Zenobia Jacobs

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

    Francesco d'Errico;Christopher Henshilwood;Marian Vanhaeren;Karen van Niekerk

  • Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa

    Christopher Henshilwood;Christopher Henshilwood;Francesco d'Errico;Marian Vanhaeren;Karen van Niekerk

  • Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals

    Joao C Zilhao;Diego E. Angelucci;Ernestina Badal-Garcia;Francesco d'Errico

  • Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective

    Francesco d'Errico;Christopher Henshilwood;Christopher Henshilwood;Graeme Lawson;Marian Vanhaeren

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

    Christopher S. Henshilwood;Francesco d'Errico;Francesco d'Errico;Ian Watts

  • A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa

    Christopher S. Henshilwood;Christopher S. Henshilwood;Francesco d’Errico;Francesco d’Errico;Karen L. van Niekerk;Yvan Coquinot

  • 82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior

    Abdeljalil Bouzouggar;Nick Barton;Marian Vanhaeren;Francesco d'Errico

  • Neanderthal acculturation in western Europe? A critical review of the evidence and its interpretation

    Francesco d'Errico;Joao Zilhão;Michèle Julien;Dominique Baffier

  • The invisible frontier. A multiple species model for the origin of behavioral modernity

    Francesco D'Errico

  • Middle Paleolithic Shell Beads in Israel and Algeria

    Marian Vanhaeren;Francesco d'Errico;Chris Stringer;Sarah L. James

  • 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

    Christopher S. Henshilwood;Francesco D'errico;Curtis W. Marean;Richard G. Milo

  • Aurignacian ethno-linguistic geography of Europe revealed by personal ornaments

    Marian Vanhaeren;Marian Vanhaeren;Francesco d'Errico;Francesco d'Errico

  • The Chronology and Taphonomy of the Earliest Aurignacian and Its Implications for the Understanding of Neandertal Extinction

    João Zilhão;Francesco d'Errico

  • Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and why does it matter?

    Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Eleanor M.L. Scerri;Mark G. Thomas;Andrea Manica;Philipp Gunz

  • Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa

    Francesco d’Errico;Lucinda Backwell;Paola Villa;Paola Villa;Paola Villa;Ilaria Degano

  • Additional evidence on the use of personal ornaments in the Middle Paleolithic of North Africa

    Francesco d'Errico;Marian Vanhaeren;Nick Barton;Abdeljalil Bouzouggar

  • Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving

    Josephine C. A. Joordens;Josephine C. A. Joordens;Francesco d’Errico;Francesco d’Errico;Frank P. Wesselingh;Stephen Munro;Stephen Munro

  • Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures?

    Francesco d'Errico;Chris B. Stringer

  • Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age

    Alison S. Brooks;Alison S. Brooks;John E. Yellen;John E. Yellen;Richard Potts;Anna K. Behrensmeyer

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

    Lucinda Backwell;Francesco d'Errico;Francesco d'Errico;Lyn Wadley

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher S. Henshilwood
Christopher S. Henshilwood University of Bergen
João Zilhão
João Zilhão University of Lisbon
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi University of Bordeaux
Michael D. Petraglia
Michael D. Petraglia Griffith University
Masa Kageyama
Masa Kageyama Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Emmanuel Mellet
Emmanuel Mellet University of Bordeaux
Zenobia Jacobs
Zenobia Jacobs University of Wollongong
Jean-Jacques Hublin
Jean-Jacques Hublin Collège de France
Marc Joliot
Marc Joliot University of Bordeaux
Bernard Mazoyer
Bernard Mazoyer University of Bordeaux

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