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7619
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7985
National Ranking
298

Overview

Rachel Wood is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and conducts research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Social Sciences.

The scientist's research spans several subfields including Paleontology, Anthropology, Archaeology, Atmospheric Science, and Geography, Planning and Development. Their work addresses multiple topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Radiocarbon, Antiquity, Quaternary Science Reviews, Australian Archaeology, and the Journal of Archaeological Science Reports.

Notable recent papers authored by Rachel Wood include:

  • Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Sherds as archaeobotanical assemblages: Gua Sireh reconsidered, 2020, Antiquity
  • Human occupation of the Kimberley coast of northwest Australia 50,000 years ago, 2022, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • A large-scale environmental strontium isotope baseline map of Portugal for archaeological and paleoecological provenance studies, 2022, Journal of Archaeological Science
  • Initial Upper Palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China, 2024, Nature Ecology & Evolution

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including Fiona Petchey, Matthew C. McDowell, Lee J. Arnold, Bruno David, and Jean-Jacques Delannoy.

Best Publications

  • The timing and spatiotemporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance

    Tom Higham;Katerina Douka;Rachel Wood;Christopher Bronk Ramsey

  • Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals

    Joao C Zilhao;Diego E. Angelucci;Ernestina Badal-Garcia;Francesco d'Errico

  • Τesting models for the beginnings of the Aurignacian and the advent of figurative art and music: the radiocarbon chronology of Geißenklösterle.

    Thomas F. G. Higham;Laura Basell;Roger Jacobi;Roger Jacobi;Rachel Wood;Rachel Wood

  • Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya

    M. Mirazón Lahr;F. Rivera;R. K. Power;A. Mounier

  • Evolutionary Robotics: A New Scientific Tool for Studying Cognition

    Inman Harvey;Ezequiel Di Paolo;Rachel Wood;Matt Quinn

  • Chronology of the Grotte du Renne (France) and implications for the context of ornaments and human remains within the Châtelperronian

    Thomas F. G. Higham;Roger Jacobi;Michele Julien;Francine David

  • Problems with radiocarbon dating the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Italy

    Thomas Higham;Fiona Brock;Marco Peresani;Alberto Broglio

  • Radiocarbon dating casts doubt on the late chronology of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in southern Iberia

    Rachel E. Wood;Rachel E. Wood;Cecilio Barroso-Ruíz;Miguel Caparrós;Jesús F. Jordá Pardo

  • The chronology of the earliest Upper Palaeolithic in northern Iberia: New insights from L'Arbreda, Labeko Koba and La Viña.

    Rachel Wood;Rachel Wood;Alvaro Arrizabalaga;M Camps;Stewart Fallon

  • From revolution to convention: The past, present and future of radiocarbon dating

    Rachel Wood

  • Current issues in late Middle Palaeolithic chronology: New assessments from Northern Iberia

    Julià Maroto;Manuel Vaquero;Álvaro Arrizabalaga;Javier Baena

  • Child-robot interaction in the wild: advice to the aspiring experimenter

    Raquel Ros;Marco Nalin;Rachel Wood;Paul Baxter

  • On the chronology of the Uluzzian.

    Katerina Douka;Thomas F.G. Higham;Rachel Wood;Rachel Wood;Paolo Boscato

  • Reliability of Nitrogen Content (%N) and Carbon:Nitrogen Atomic Ratios (C:N) as Indicators of Collagen Preservation Suitable for Radiocarbon Dating

    Fiona Brock;Rachel Wood;Thomas F G Higham;Peter Ditchfield

  • Refining Background Corrections for Radiocarbon Dating of Bone Collagen at ORAU

    Rachel Wood;C. Bronk Ramsey;Thomas F. G. Higham

  • Testing the ABOx-SC method: Dating known-age charcoals associated with the Campanian Ignimbrite

    Rachel Wood;Rachel Wood;K Douka;P Boscato;P Haesaerts

  • U-series and radiocarbon analyses of human and faunal remains from Wajak, Indonesia.

    Paul Storm;Rachel Wood;Chris Stringer;Antonis Bartsiokas

  • Wintertime stress, nursing, and lead exposure in Neanderthal children

    Tanya M. Smith;Christine Austin;Daniel R. Green;Daniel R. Green;Renaud Joannes-Boyau

  • A new date for the neanderthals from El Sidrón cave (Asturias, Northern Spain)

    R. E. Wood;R. E. Wood;T. F. G. Higham;T. De Torres;N. Tisnérat-Laborde

  • Extinction of eastern Sahul megafauna coincides with sustained environmental deterioration

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

  • Sherds as archaeobotanical assemblages: Gua Sireh reconsidered

    Aleese Barron;Ipoi Datan;Peter Bellwood;Rachel Wood

  • A reassessment of the early archaeological record at Leang Burung 2, a Late Pleistocene rock-shelter site on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi

    Adam Brumm;Budianto Hakim;Muhammad Ramli;Maxime Aubert

Frequent Co-Authors

Rainer Grün
Rainer Grün Australian National University
Fiona Brock
Fiona Brock Cranfield University
Stewart Fallon
Stewart Fallon Australian National University
Lee J. Arnold
Lee J. Arnold University of Adelaide
Tony Belpaeme
Tony Belpaeme Ghent University
Christopher Bronk Ramsey
Christopher Bronk Ramsey University of Oxford
Julien Louys
Julien Louys Griffith University
Peter Bellwood
Peter Bellwood Australian National University
Katerina Douka
Katerina Douka University of Vienna
João Zilhão
João Zilhão University of Lisbon

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