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Citations
7859
World Ranking
6400
National Ranking
501

Overview

Graeme Barker is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple disciplines primarily within the Arts and Humanities, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Social Sciences, with notable output in subfields such as Archaeology, Paleontology, and Anthropology.

The scientist's work frequently appears in journals and venues including The Holocene, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University), Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews, Frontiers in Digital Humanities, and Quaternary.

Key topics addressed in their research include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History, Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies, Archaeological Research and Protection, and Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Recent publications by Graeme Barker include:

  • Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave (2020, Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews)
  • Patterns of Etruscan Urbanism (2020, Frontiers in Digital Humanities)
  • The Microvertebrates of Shanidar Cave: Preliminary Taphonomic Findings (2022, Quaternary)
  • Geometric morphometrics and paleoproteomics enlighten the paleodiversity of Pongo (2023, PLoS ONE)
  • Bulls for sacrifice, cows for work? Morphometric models suggest that female cattle were used for traction in the Chinese Bronze Age Late Shang dynasty (ca. 1300-1046 BCE) (2021, The Holocene)

Frequent collaborators in their research include Chris Hunt, Simon Stoddart, Alessio Palmisano, David Redhouse, and Tom Rasmussen, each having co-authored multiple works with Barker.

In addition to journal articles, Barker has contributed to academic book publications, notably with Cambridge University Press. One identified publication is In the Footsteps of the Etruscans, released in 2023.

Best Publications

  • The 'human revolution' in lowland tropical Southeast Asia: the antiquity and behavior of anatomically modern humans at Niah Cave (Sarawak, Borneo).

    Graeme Barker;Huw Barton;Michael Bird;Patrick Daly

  • The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory: Why did Foragers become Farmers?

    Graeme Barker

  • Prehistoric farming in Europe

    Graeme Barker

  • Reconstructing the origin and spread of horse domestication in the Eurasian steppe

    Vera Warmuth;Anders Eriksson;Mim Ann Bower;Graeme Barker

  • Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early modern humans to natural hazards

    John Lowe;Nick Barton;Simon Blockley;Christopher Bronk Ramsey

  • The Chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah Cave (Cyrenaica, Northeast Libya)

    Katerina Douka;Zenobia Jacobs;Christine Lane;Rainer Grun

  • A Mediterranean valley : landscape archaeology and Annales history in the Biferno Valley

    Graeme Barker;Richard Hodges;Gillian Clark

  • Prehistoric foragers and farmers in South-East Asia: renewed investigations at Niah Cave, Sarawak

    Graeme Barker;Huw Barton;Paul Beavitt;Michael Bird

  • Landscape and society : prehistoric central Italy

    Graeme Barker

  • Ancient and modern pastoralism in central Italy: an interdisciplinary study in the Cicolano mountains

    Graeme Barker;Annie Grant;Paul Beavitt;Neil Christie

  • Radiocarbon dating of charcoal from tropical sequences: results from the Niah Great Cave, Sarawak, and their broader implications

    Thomas F. G. Higham;Huw Barton;Chris S. M. Turney;Graeme Barker

  • A Classical Landscape in Molise

    Graeme Barker;John Lloyd;Derrick Webley

  • An Experimental and in Situ IR Spectroscopic Study of the Lithiation–Substitution of N-Boc-2-phenylpyrrolidine and -piperidine: Controlling the Formation of Quaternary Stereocenters

    Nadeem S. Sheikh;Daniele Leonori;Graeme Barker;James D. Firth

  • The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008: The second season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the initial (2007) fieldwork

    Graeme Barker;Annita Antoniadou;Simon Armitage;Ian Brooks

  • Early-Holocene environments in the Wadi Faynan, Jordan

    C. O. Hunt;H. A. Elrishi;D. D. Gilbertson;J. Grattan

  • Quaternary palaeogeomorphologic evolution of the Wadi Faynan area, southern Jordan

    Sue McLaren;D. Gilbertson;John Grattan;Chris Hunt

  • New Neanderthal remains associated with the ‘flower burial’ at Shanidar Cave

    Emma Pomeroy;Paul Bennett;Chris O. Hunt;Tim Reynolds

  • Farming the desert : the UNESCO Libyan Valleys archaeological survey

    Graeme Barker

  • Extracting Meaning from Ploughsoil Assemblages

    Riccardo Francovich;Helen Patterson;Graeme Barker

  • Environment and Land Use in the Wadi Faynan, Southern Jordan: the Second Season of Geoarchaeology and Landscape Archaeology (1997)

    G.W. Barker;R. Adams;O.H. Creighton;D.D. Gilbertson

  • Roman landscapes : archaeological survey in the Mediterranean region

    Graeme Barker;Lloyd, John, Apr.

  • Foraging-Farming Transitions in Island Southeast Asia

    Graeme Barker;Martin B. Richards

  • Advances in world archaeology: Edited by F. Wendorf and A. Close. New York: Academic Press. Vol. 1, 1982. xxx + 372 pp., figures, tables, maps. $37.50. ISBN 0 12 039901 6. Vol. 2, 1983. xxviii + 340 pp., figures, tables, maps. $37.50. ISBN 0 12 039902 4

    Graeme Barker

  • Why cultivate? Anthropological and Archaeological Approaches to Foraging-Farming Transitions in Southeast Asia

    Graeme Barker;Monica Janowski

  • The Archaeology of Drylands: Living at the Margin

    Graeme Barker;David Gilbertson

Frequent Co-Authors

Chris Hunt
Chris Hunt Liverpool John Moores University
Tamsin C. O'Connell
Tamsin C. O'Connell University of Cambridge
Michael I. Bird
Michael I. Bird James Cook University
James Rose
James Rose Royal Holloway University of London
Emma L. Tomlinson
Emma L. Tomlinson Trinity College Dublin
Nicholas Drake
Nicholas Drake King's College London
Kevin White
Kevin White University of Reading
Mauro Cremaschi
Mauro Cremaschi University of Milan
Christine S. Lane
Christine S. Lane University of Cambridge
Andrea Manica
Andrea Manica University of Cambridge

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