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Michael D. Petraglia

Michael D. Petraglia

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Earth Science

D-Index
66
Citations
14253
World Ranking
1337
National Ranking
83

Overview

Michael D. Petraglia is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities. Their research spans multiple subfields including Anthropology, Paleontology, Archeology, Atmospheric Science, and Genetics, with significant publications in topics such as Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa, 2020, Science Advances
  • Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years, 2021, Nature
  • Earliest known human burial in Africa, 2021, Nature
  • Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago, 2020, Nature Communications

Their frequent co-authors include Nicole Boivin, Patrick Roberts, Huw S. Groucutt, Paul S. Breeze, and Ceri Shipton.

Michael D. Petraglia's work is published regularly in a variety of scientific venues with notable contributions in:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Nature Communications
  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Science Advances
  • Nature

They have also authored a book titled Conversations in Human Evolution, published in 2020 by Archaeopress Archaeology eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

    Nicole L. Boivin;Melinda A. Zeder;Melinda A. Zeder;Dorian Q. Fuller;Alison Crowther

  • Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

    Luca Pagani;Luca Pagani;Luca Pagani;Daniel John Lawson;Evelyn Jagoda;Evelyn Jagoda;Alexander Mörseburg

  • 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

  • On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives

    Christopher J. Bae;Katerina Douka;Katerina Douka;Michael D. Petraglia;Michael D. Petraglia

  • 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

  • Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa.

    Huw S. Groucutt;Michael D. Petraglia;Geoff Bailey;Eleanor M. L. Scerri

  • Modern human origins and the evolution of behavior in the later pleistocene record of South Asia

    Hannah V.A. James;Michael D. Petraglia

  • Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene

    Nicole Boivin;Dorian Q. Fuller;Robin Dennell;Robin G. Allaby

  • Out of Africa: new hypotheses and evidence for the dispersal of Homo sapiens along the Indian Ocean rim

    Michael D. Petraglia;Michael Haslam;Dorian Q. Fuller;Nicole Boivin

  • The prehistory of the Arabian peninsula: Deserts, dispersals, and demography

    Huw S. Groucutt;Michael D. Petraglia

  • Water Flow and the Formation of Early Pleistocene Artifact Sites in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

    Michael D. Petraglia;Richard P. Potts

  • 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

  • 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

  • The southern dispersal hypothesis and the South Asian archaeological record: Examination of dispersal routes through GIS analysis

    Julie S. Field;Michael D. Petraglia;Marta Mirazón Lahr

  • The oldest and longest enduring microlithic sequence in India: 35 000 years of modern human occupation and change at the Jwalapuram Locality 9 rockshelter

    Chris Clarkson;Michael Petraglia;Ravi Korisettar;Michael Haslam

  • Formation processes in archaeological context

    Paul Goldberg;David T. Nash;Michael D. Petraglia

  • The Lower Paleolithic of the Arabian Peninsula: Occupations, Adaptations, and Dispersals

    Michael D. Petraglia

  • The Middle Palaeolithic of Arabia: Implications for modern human origins, behaviour and dispersals

    Michael D. Petraglia;Abdullah M. Alsharekh

  • Recent findings on the Acheulian of the Hunsgi and Baichbal valleys, Karnataka, with special reference to the Isampur excavation and its dating

    Katragadda Paddayya;Bonnie A. B. Blackwell;Richa Jhaldiyal;Michael D. Petraglia

  • The Evolution of Human Populations in Arabia

    Michael D. Petraglia;Jeffrey I. Rose

  • The evolution of human populations in Arabia : paleoenvironments, prehistory and genetics

    Jeffrey I. Rose;Michael D. Petraglia

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Huw S. Groucutt
Huw S. Groucutt Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology
Nicole Boivin
Nicole Boivin Max Planck Society
Nicholas Drake
Nicholas Drake King's College London
Peter Ditchfield
Peter Ditchfield University of Oxford
Richard G. Roberts
Richard G. Roberts University of Wollongong
Katerina Douka
Katerina Douka University of Vienna
Julien Louys
Julien Louys Griffith University
Adrian G. Parker
Adrian G. Parker Oxford Brookes University
Julia A. Lee-Thorp
Julia A. Lee-Thorp University of Oxford
Robin Dennell
Robin Dennell University of Exeter

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