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Julien Louys is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia and conducts research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Social Sciences. Their work spans several subfields, including Paleontology, Anthropology, Ecology, Archaeology, and Geography, Planning and Development.

The main topics covered by their research include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, and Primate Behavior and Ecology.

Julien Louys has contributed extensively to the scientific community with publications appearing in a variety of renowned venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • Records of the Australian Museum
  • Nature Communications
  • Quaternary International
  • Alcheringa An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology
  • Nature

Their recent papers illustrate the scope and focus of their research interests. Notable publications include:

  • Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus, 2023, Science
  • Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia, 2020, Nature
  • Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years, 2021, Nature

Julien Louys has also authored a book titled Quaternary Palaeontology and Archaeology of Sumatra, published by ANU Press in 2024.

The scientist has collaborated frequently with colleagues, including:

  • Gilbert J. Price
  • Yan Rizal
  • Michael D. Petraglia
  • Mika Rizki Puspaningrum
  • Sue O'Connor

Best Publications

  • An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000–63,000 years ago

    K. E. Westaway;J. Louys;R. Due Awe;M. J. Morwood

  • Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago

    Huw S. Groucutt;Huw S. Groucutt;Rainer Grün;Rainer Grün;Iyad A. S. Zalmout;Nick A. Drake;Nick A. Drake

  • Island extinctions: processes, patterns, and potential for ecosystem restoration

    Jamie R. Wood;Josep A. Alcover;Tim M. Blackburn;Pere Bover

  • Characteristics of Pleistocene megafauna extinctions in Southeast Asia

    Julien Louys;Darren Curnoe;Haowen Tong

  • Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea)

    Stephen Wroe;Judith H. Field;Michael Archer;Donald K. Grayson

  • Least-cost pathway models indicate northern human dispersal from Sunda to Sahul.

    Shimona Kealy;Julien Louys;Susan O'Connor

  • Oldest human occupation of Wallacea at Laili Cave, Timor-Leste, shows broad-spectrum foraging responses to late Pleistocene environments

    Stuart Hawkins;Sue O'Connor;Tim Ryan Maloney;Mirani Litster

  • Palaeoecology of Southeast Asian megafauna-bearing sites from the Pleistocene and a review of environmental changes in the region

    Julien Louys;Julien Louys;Erik Meijaard

  • Current status of species-level representation in faunas from selected fossil localities in the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, northwestern Queensland

    Michael Archer;Derrick A. Arena;Mina Bassarova;Robin M.D. Beck

  • Islands Under the Sea: A Review of Early Modern Human Dispersal Routes and Migration Hypotheses Through Wallacea

    Shimona Kealy;Julien Louys;Sue O’Connor

  • Isotopic evidence for initial coastal colonization and subsequent diversification in the human occupation of Wallacea

    Patrick Roberts;Patrick Roberts;Julien Louys;Jana Zech;Ceri Shipton

  • Differentiating bamboo from stone tool cut marks in the zooarchaeological record, with a discussion on the use of bamboo knives

    Jolee A. West;Julien Louys

  • Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years.

    Huw S. Groucutt;Huw S. Groucutt;Tom S. White;Eleanor M. L. Scerri;Eleanor M. L. Scerri;Eleanor M. L. Scerri;Eric Andrieux;Eric Andrieux

  • Environmental drivers of megafauna and hominin extinction in Southeast Asia

    Julien Louys;Patrick Roberts

  • Reconstructing Palaeogeography and Inter-island Visibility in the Wallacean Archipelago During the Likely Period of Sahul Colonization, 65–45 000 Years Ago

    Shimona Kealy;Julien Louys;Sue O'Connor

  • Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration

    Scott A. Hocknull;Scott A. Hocknull;Richard Lewis;Lee J. Arnold;Tim Pietsch

  • Fishing in life and death: Pleistocene fish-hooks from a burial context on Alor Island, Indonesia

    Sue O'Connor;Mahirta;Sofía C. Samper Carro;Stuart Hawkins

  • The origins and persistence of Homo floresiensis on Flores: biogeographical and ecological perspectives

    Robin W. Dennell;Julien Louys Louys;Hannah J. O'Regan;David M. Wilkinson

  • Human maritime subsistence strategies in the Lesser Sunda Islands during the terminal Pleistocene–early Holocene: New evidence from Alor, Indonesia

    Sofía C. Samper Carro;Sue O'Connor;Julien Louys;Stuart Hawkins

  • Forty-thousand years of maritime subsistence near a changing shoreline on Alor Island (Indonesia)

    Shimona Kealy;Sue O’Connor;Mahirta;Devi Mustika Sari

  • Limited effect of the Quaternary's largest super-eruption (Toba) on land mammals from Southeast Asia

    Julien Louys

  • Paleontology in Ecology and Conservation

    Julien Louys

  • Big data little help in megafauna mysteries

    Gilbert J. Price;Julien Louys;J. Tyler Faith;Eline Lorenzen

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael D. Petraglia
Michael D. Petraglia Griffith University
Huw S. Groucutt
Huw S. Groucutt Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Nicholas Drake
Nicholas Drake King's College London
Carlo Meloro
Carlo Meloro Liverpool John Moores University
Peter Ditchfield
Peter Ditchfield University of Oxford
Michael Archer
Michael Archer University of New South Wales
Rachel Wood
Rachel Wood Australian National University
David M. Wilkinson
David M. Wilkinson University of Lincoln
Jian-xin Zhao
Jian-xin Zhao University of Queensland
Yuexing Feng
Yuexing Feng University of Queensland

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