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Peter Ditchfield is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and focuses primarily on research within the fields of Arts and Humanities and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Archaeology, Paleontology, Anthropology, Genetics, and Social Psychology.

Their main research topics include:

  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Forensic and Genetic Research
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Paleopathology and ancient diseases
  • Genetic diversity and population structure

Ditchfield has contributed to several academic journals with a range of publication venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Antiquity
  • Nature
  • Science
  • American Journal of Physical Anthropology
  • Journal of Proteomics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Ditchfield include:

  • "Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age," 2021, Nature
  • "Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus," 2023, Science
  • "A guide for an anatomically sensitive dentine microsampling and age-alignment approach for human teeth isotopic sequences," 2020, American Journal of Physical Anthropology
  • "Testing the efficacy and comparability of ZooMS protocols on archaeological bone," 2020, Journal of Proteomics
  • "Biomolecular insights into North African-related ancestry, mobility and diet in eleventh-century Al-Andalus," 2021, Scientific Reports

Throughout their career, Ditchfield has frequently collaborated with several researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Thomas W. Plummer
  • Richard Potts
  • Ceiridwen J. Edwards
  • James S. Oliver
  • Laura C. Bishop

This profile reflects a scientist with interdisciplinary expertise linking archaeology, anthropology, genetics, and bioarchaeology. Their research contributions address both methodological approaches, such as microsampling techniques and biomolecular analyses, and broad topics including ancient migrations and hominin dietary strategies.

Best Publications

  • Current Pretreatment Methods for AMS Radiocarbon Dating at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (Orau)

    Fiona Brock;Thomas Higham;Peter Ditchfield;Christopher Bronk Ramsey

  • Warm tropical sea surface temperatures in the Late Cretaceous and Eocene epochs

    Paul Nicholas Pearson;Peter V. Ditchfield;Joyce Singano;Katherine G. Harcourt-Brown

  • 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

  • Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age

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  • Paleolandscape variation and early pleistocene hominid activities: members 1 and 7, Olorgesailie formation, Kenya.

    Richard Potts;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Peter Ditchfield

  • Earliest archaeological evidence of persistent hominin carnivory.

    Joseph V. Ferraro;Thomas W. Plummer;Briana L. Pobiner;James S. Oliver;James S. Oliver

  • Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time.

    Beatrice Demarchi;Shaun Hall;Teresa Roncal-Herrero;Colin Freeman

  • Raw material quality and Oldowan hominin toolstone preferences: evidence from Kanjera South, Kenya

    David R. Braun;Thomas Plummer;Joseph V. Ferraro;Peter Ditchfield

  • Old stones' song: use-wear experiments and analysis of the Oldowan quartz and quartzite assemblage from Kanjera South (Kenya)

    Cristina Lemorini;Thomas W. Plummer;David R. Braun;Alyssa N. Crittenden

  • Oldowan behavior and raw material transport: perspectives from the Kanjera Formation

    David R. Braun;Thomas Plummer;Peter Ditchfield;Joseph V. Ferraro

  • Investigation of the ‘canopy effect’ in the isotope ecology of temperate woodlands

    M. Bonafini;M. Bonafini;M. Pellegrini;P. Ditchfield;A.M. Pollard

  • 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 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

  • High latitude palaeotemperature variation: New data from the Thithonian to Eocene of James Ross Island, Antarctica

    P.W. Ditchfield;J.D. Marshall;D. Pirrie

  • Small mid-Pleistocene hominin associated with East African Acheulean technology.

    Richard Potts;Anna K. Behrensmeyer;Alan Deino;Peter Ditchfield

  • Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and Paranthropus

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  • Research on Late Pliocene Oldowan Sites at Kanjera South, Kenya

    Thomas Plummer;Laura C. Bishop;Peter Ditchfield;Jason Hicks

  • Sequence of mammalian fossils, including hominoid teeth, from the Bubing Basin caves, South China

    Wei Wang;Richard Potts;Yuan Baoyin;Weiwen Huang

  • Assessing natural variation and the effects of charring, burial and pre-treatment on the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values of archaeobotanical cereals and pulses

    R.A. Fraser;A. Bogaard;M. Charles;A.K. Styring

  • Fossil Vertebrates of Arabia

    PW Ditchfield

  • Oldest Evidence of Toolmaking Hominins in a Grassland- Dominated Ecosystem

    Thomas W. Plummer;Peter W. Ditchfield;Laura C. Bishop;John D. Kingston

  • Palaeoceanographic events in the Middle Cenomanian of Northwest Europe

    C.R.C. Paul;S.F. Mitchell;J.D. Marshall;P.N. Leafy

  • High northern palaeolatitude Jurassic-Cretaceous palaeotemperature variation: new data from Kong Karls Land, Svalbard

    Peter W. Ditchfield

  • Sedimentary and diagenetic markers of the restriction in a marine basin: the Lorca Basin (SE Spain) during the Messinian

    J.M. Rouchy;C. Taberner;M.-M. Blanc-Valleron;R. Sprovieri

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael D. Petraglia
Michael D. Petraglia Griffith University
Richard Potts
Richard Potts National Museum of Natural History
Richard G. Roberts
Richard G. Roberts University of Wollongong
David R. Braun
David R. Braun George Washington University
Julien Louys
Julien Louys Griffith University
Nicole Boivin
Nicole Boivin Max Planck Society
Jean-Jacques Hublin
Jean-Jacques Hublin Collège de France
Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons
Kathryn E. Fitzsimmons Max Planck Society
Shannon P. McPherron
Shannon P. McPherron Max Planck Society
Carlo Meloro
Carlo Meloro Liverpool John Moores University

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