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Overview

Lee J. Arnold is affiliated with the University of Adelaide in Australia and has a research focus spanning Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Social Sciences. Their scholarly output covers over a hundred publications in Earth and Planetary Sciences and more than fifty in Social Sciences, reflecting a cross-disciplinary approach.

Their main research areas include Anthropology, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, Archaeology, and Ecology. Specific topics covered in their work address Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, geology and paleoclimatology research, as well as archaeological and ancient environmental studies. Additional areas of interest include forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology, evolution and paleontology, archaeological and geological studies, and isotope analysis in ecology.

Frequent publication venues where Lee's research appears include Quaternary Science Reviews, Quaternary Geochronology, Quaternary International, Journal of Quaternary Science, and Scientific Reports.

Selected recent papers authored by Lee J. Arnold include the following:

  • Optically stimulated luminescence dating using quartz, 2021, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France, 2022, Science Advances
  • Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers, 2020, Science
  • Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Insights into subtropical Australian aridity from Welsby Lagoon, north Stradbroke Island, over the past 80,000 years, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

Collaborations with frequent co-authors appear alongside Lee's research. Co-authors with notable repeated partnerships include Martina Demuro, Mathieu Duval, Fiona Petchey, Alfonso Benito-Calvo, and Jean-Jacques Delannoy.

Best Publications

  • Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago

    Chris Clarkson;Zenobia Jacobs;Zenobia Jacobs;Ben Marwick;Ben Marwick;Richard Fullagar

  • Neandertal roots: Cranial and chronological evidence from Sima de los Huesos.

    J. L. Arsuaga;I. Martínez;L. J. Arnold;A. Aranburu

  • Stochastic modelling of multi-grain equivalent dose (De) distributions: implications for OSL dating of sediment mixtures

    L.J. Arnold;R.G. Roberts

  • Statistical modelling of single grain quartz De distributions and an assessment of procedures for estimating burial dose

    R.M. Bailey;L.J. Arnold

  • Middle Paleolithic assemblages from the Indian subcontinent before and after the Toba super-eruption.

    Michael D. Petraglia;Michael D. Petraglia;Ravi Korisettar;Nicole Boivin;Christopher Clarkson

  • Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska

    James Haile;Duane G. Froese;Ross D. E. MacPhee;Richard G. Roberts

  • Modern human incursion into Neanderthal territories 54,000 years ago at Mandrin, France

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  • A revised burial dose estimation procedure for optical dating of youngand modern-age sediments

    L.J. Arnold;R.G. Roberts;R.F. Galbraith;S.B. DeLong

  • Statistical treatment of fluvial dose distributions from southern Colorado arroyo deposits

    L.J. Arnold;L.J. Arnold;R.M. Bailey;G.E. Tucker

  • Optically stimulated luminescence dating using quartz

    Andrew Murray;Lee J. Arnold;Jan-Pieter Buylaert;Guillaume Guérin;Guillaume Guérin

  • Early human occupation of a maritime desert, Barrow Island, North-West Australia

    Peter M. Veth;Ingrid Ward;Tiina Manne;Sean Ulm

  • Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago

    Michael Petraglia;Christopher Clarkson;Nicole Boivin;Michael Haslam

  • Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers

    J. Zilhão;J. Zilhão;J. Zilhão;D. E. Angelucci;M. Araújo Igreja;L. J. Arnold

  • Luminescence dating and palaeomagnetic age constraint on hominins from Sima de los Huesos, Atapuerca, Spain.

    Lee J. Arnold;Martina Demuro;Josep M. Parés;Juan Luis Arsuaga

  • An arid-adapted middle Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from south-central Australia

    Gavin J. Prideaux;John A. Long;John A. Long;Linda K. Ayliffe;Linda K. Ayliffe;John C. Hellstrom

  • Evaluating the suitability of extended-range luminescence dating techniques over early and Middle Pleistocene timescales: Published datasets and case studies from Atapuerca, Spain

    Lee J. Arnold;Martina Demuro;Josep María Parés;Alfredo Pérez-González

  • Cultural innovation and megafauna interaction in the early settlement of arid Australia

    Giles Hamm;Peter Mitchell;Lee J. Arnold;Gavin J. Prideaux

  • Reassessing the age of Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain): new paleomagnetic results

    J.M. Parés;L. Arnold;M. Duval;M. Demuro

  • OSL dating of the Middle Palaeolithic Hotel California site, Sierra de Atapuerca, north‐central Spain

    Lee J. Arnold;Martina Demuro;Marta Navazo;Alfonso Benito-Calvo

  • First evidence of an extensive Acheulean large cutting tool accumulation in Europe from Porto Maior (Galicia, Spain)

    E. Méndez-Quintas;M. Santonja;A. Pérez-González;M. Duval

  • Fossil and genomic evidence constrains the timing of bison arrival in North America.

    Duane Froese;Mathias Stiller;Mathias Stiller;Peter D. Heintzman;Alberto V. Reyes

  • Electron spin resonance dating of optically bleached quartz grains from the Middle Palaeolithic site of Cuesta de la Bajada (Spain) using the multiple centres approach

    M. Duval;L.J. Arnold;V. Guilarte;M. Demuro

  • New luminescence ages for the Galería Complex archaeological site: resolving chronological uncertainties on the acheulean record of the Sierra de Atapuerca, northern Spain.

    Martina Demuro;Lee J. Arnold;Josep M. Parés;Alfredo Pérez-González

Frequent Co-Authors

Mathieu Duval
Mathieu Duval National Research Center on Human Evolution
Richard G. Roberts
Richard G. Roberts University of Wollongong
Juan Luis Arsuaga
Juan Luis Arsuaga Complutense University of Madrid
Alfredo Pérez-González
Alfredo Pérez-González Complutense University of Madrid
Nigel A. Spooner
Nigel A. Spooner University of Adelaide
Dirk L. Hoffmann
Dirk L. Hoffmann Max Planck Society
João Zilhão
João Zilhão University of Lisbon
Richard M. Bailey
Richard M. Bailey University of Oxford
Duane G. Froese
Duane G. Froese University of Alberta
Rachel Wood
Rachel Wood Australian National University

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