Paul Mellars

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Paul Mellars is affiliated with the following schools: University of Sheffield, University of Edinburgh, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, Sir Paul Anthony Mellars was a British archaeologist and professor of prehistory and human evolution at the University of Cambridge. Early life and academic career Paul Mellars was born in 1939 in the village of Swallownest near Sheffield. His father, Herbert Mellars, was a miner and a member of the Plymouth Brethren. From the village school, he progressed to Woodhouse, a County Council Grammar School founded in 1909 in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which his mother Elaine had also attended. Mellars obtained his MA, PhD and ScD degrees at the University of Cambridge, where he was a student at Fitzwilliam College. He married his wife Anny in 1969, having first met in an archaeological field trip in the Dordogne in 1964.

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The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans (1991) (662)
Why did modern human populations disperse from Africa ca. 60,000 years ago? A new model. (2006) (536)
Going East: New Genetic and Archaeological Perspectives on the Modern Human Colonization of Eurasia (2006) (465)
Major Issues in the Emergence of Modern Humans (1989) (424)
The impossible coincidence. A single‐species model for the origins of modern human behavior in Europe (2005) (384)
The Neanderthal Legacy: An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europe (1995) (383)
A new radiocarbon revolution and the dispersal of modern humans in Eurasia (2006) (324)
Neanderthals and the modern human colonization of Europe (2004) (323)
Genetic and archaeological perspectives on the initial modern human colonization of southern Asia (2013) (248)
Fire Ecology, Animal Populations and Man: a Study of some Ecological Relationships in Prehistory (1976) (199)
The Neanderthal Problem Continued (1999) (197)
The Emergence of Modern Humans: An Archaeological Perspective (1991) (189)
Archeology and the dispersal of modern humans in Europe: Deconstructing the “Aurignacian” (2006) (186)
The Neanderthal Legacy (1995) (175)
Rethinking the human revolution : new behavioural and biological perspectives on the origin and dispersal of modern humans (2007) (175)
Tenfold Population Increase in Western Europe at the Neandertal–to–Modern Human Transition (2011) (161)
Cognitive Changes and the Emergence of Modern Humans in Europe (1991) (148)
Rethinking the Human Revolution (2007) (146)
Radiocarbon dating of interstratified Neanderthal and early modern human occupations at the Chatelperronian type-site (2005) (111)
Modelling the Early Human Mind (1996) (109)
Stable isotopes and the seasonality of the Oronsay middens (1998) (106)
Hunting and Animal Exploitation in the Later Palaeolithic and Mesolithic of Eurasia (1993) (103)
The Middle Paleolithic: Adaptation, Behavior, and Variability (1993) (102)
Archaeology and the population-dispersal hypothesis of modern human origins in Europe. (1992) (92)
Excavations on Oronsay: Prehistoric Human Ecology on a Small Island (1987) (91)
The Southern Pennine Mesolithic and the ecological record (1976) (90)
The EOS Project: modelling Upper Palaeolithic social change (1994) (87)
The origin of modern humans and the impact of chronometric dating. Symposium. February 26-27, 1992. (1993) (87)
The Chronology of Mousterian Industries in the Périgord Region of South-West France (1970) (82)
Neanderthal symbolism and ornament manufacture: The bursting of a bubble? (2010) (80)
Symbolism and Modern Human Origins [and Comments and Reply] (1990) (80)
The Early Postglacial Settlement of Northern Europe (1980) (71)
Star Carr in context : new archaeological and palaeoecological investigations at the Early Mesolithic site of Star Carr, North Yorkshire (1998) (68)
Radiocarbon-accelerator dating of Ksar 'Aqil (Lebanon) and the chronology of the Upper Palaeolithic sequence in the Middle East (1989) (63)
The Ecological Basis of Social Complexity in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwestern France (1985) (59)
Confirmation of Neanderthal/modern human interstratification at the Chatelperronian type-site (2007) (57)
Palaeoanthropology: The earliest modern humans in Europe (2011) (55)
Fish Otoliths as Indicators of Seasonality in Prehistoric Shell Middens: the Evidence from Oronsay (Inner Hebrides) (1980) (53)
Some comments on the notion of ‘functional variability’ in stone‐tool assemblages (1970) (51)
Radiocarbon Accelerator Dating of French Upper Palaeolithic Sites (1987) (49)
A Comparison of the Electron Spin Resonance and Thermoluminescence Dating Methods: The Results of ESR Dating at Le Moustier (France) (1991) (47)
Archaeology and the origins of modern humans: European and African perspectives (2002) (44)
A new chronology for the French Mousterian period (1986) (44)
Reindeer specialization in the early Upper Palaeolithic: the evidence from south west France (2004) (44)
A dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migration (2019) (43)
Star Carr in Context (1998) (42)
Finding Britain's last hunter-gatherers: A new biomolecular approach to ‘unidentifiable’ bone fragments utilising bone collagen (2016) (39)
A Mesolithic Structure at Deepcar, Yorkshire, England, and the Affinities of its associated Flint Industries (1964) (39)
The fate of the Neanderthals (1998) (38)
Sequence and Development of Mousterian Traditions in South-western France (1965) (34)
ESR chronology of a 100,000-ýear archaeological sequence at Pech de l'Azé II, France (1991) (34)
The Impact of Climatic Changes on the Demography of Late Neandertal and Early Anatomically Modern Populations in Europe (2002) (32)
The early postglacial settlement of Northern Europe : an ecological perspective (1978) (31)
The Language Hypothesis for the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic Transition: An Examination Based on a Multiregional Lithic Analysis [and Comments and Reply] (1995) (29)
‘Absolute’ dating of Mesolithic human activity at Star Carr, Yorkshire: new palaeoecological studies and identification of the 9600 bp radiocarbon ‘plateau’ (1994) (27)
CA Forum on Theory of Anthropology: The Neanderthal Problem Continued (1999) (26)
The Origins and Dispersal of Modern Humans (1988) (22)
Archaeology: Origins of the female image (2009) (19)
The Climate, Environment and Industries of Stone Age Greece: Part I (1964) (19)
Spatial Relationships, Dating and Taphonomy of the Human Bone from the Mesolithic site of Cnoc Coig, Oronsay, Argyll, Scotland (2005) (17)
Biometric studies of morphological variation in the intertidal gastropod Nucella lapillus (L): environmental and palaeoeconomic significance (1985) (16)
Excavation of Two Mesolithic Shell Middens on the Island of Oronsay (Inner Hebrides) (1971) (15)
A major ‘plateau’ in the radiocarbon time-scale at c. 9650 b.p.: the evidence from Star Carr (North Yorkshire) (1990) (13)
World Prehistory: Studies in Memory of Grahame Clark (1999) (13)
New Analysis of ESR Spectra of Fossil Tooth Enamel (1994) (13)
Moonshine over Star Carr: post-processualism, Mesolithic myths and archaeological realities (2009) (12)
The Emergence of Biologically Modern Populations in Europe: A Social and Cognitive 'Revolution'? (1996) (12)
The devil and the deep blue sea (1990) (10)
COMPOSITIONAL INHOMOGENEITY OF SEDIMENTS AND ITS POTENTIAL EFFECTS ON DOSE RATE ESTIMATION FOR ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING OF TOOTH ENAMEL (1997) (10)
Outlining the problem. (1992) (10)
STAGE 3 CLIMATE AND THE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC REVOLUTION IN EUROPE : EVOLUTIONARY ERSPECTIVES (2006) (10)
ESR and mass-spectrometric uranium-series dating studies of a mammoth tooth from stanton harcourt, Oxfordshire, England (1997) (9)
Cognition and climate: why is Upper Palaeolithic cave art almost confined to the Franco-Cantabrian region? (2009) (8)
Archaeology: Progress and pitfalls in radiocarbon dating (Reply) (2006) (8)
Population changes across the Neanderthal-to-modern-human transition in western France: a reply to Dogandžić and McPherron (2013). (2013) (8)
Chronologie du Moustérien du sud-ouest de la France : actualisation du débat (1989) (8)
Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans@@@Context of a Late Neandertal: Implications of Multidisciplinary Research for the Transition to Upper Paleolithic Adaptations at Saint-Cesaire, Charente-Maritime, France@@@Handbook of Paleolithic Typology. Vol. 1: Lower and Middle Paleolithic of Europe (1997) (8)
Cnoc Coig: a Mesolithic shell midden assemblage (2015) (6)
Radiocarbon Dates for a New Creswellian Site (1969) (5)
The Great Kartan Mystery [Book Review] (1982) (5)
Cnoc Coig, Druim Harstell and Cnoc Riach: problems of the identification and location of shell middens on Oronsay (1982) (3)
The Origin of modern humans and the impact of chronometric dating : a discussion (1993) (3)
Dating and correlating the French Mousterian (reply) (1986) (3)
Introduction: The Study of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Hunting (1993) (3)
An upper paleolithic site in france. (1977) (3)
Le Paléolithique Inférieur et Moyen du Midi Méditerranéen dans son Cadre Géologique. Vol. II. Bas-Languedoc—Roussillon—Catalogne. By Henry de Lumley-Woodyear. ix + 443 pages, 300 figures. Èditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 1971. (1972) (2)
La revolución del Paleolítico Superior (1998) (2)
Le Paléolithique Inférieur et Moyen du Midi Mediterranéen dans son Cadre Géologique. Vol. 1. Ligurie-Provence . By Henry de Lumley-Woodyear. xii + 463 pages , 353 figures . Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, 1969. (1971) (2)
Josephine Flood: Archaeology of the dreamtime: the story of Aboriginal Australia and its people . Sydney & London: Collins, 1983. 288 pp., 40 pls., 53 figs. £13.95. (1984) (2)
CHAPTER 9. The Spatial Organization of Middle Palaeolithic Sites (1996) (1)
The Ecological Basis of Upper Palaeolithic Cave Art (2006) (1)
Research priorities in archaeological science (1987) (1)
Review Feature: A review of The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art by David Lewis-Williams. London: Thames & Hudson, 2002. ISBN 0-500-05117-8 hardback £18.95 & US$29.95; 320 pp., 66 figs., 29 colour plates (2003) (1)
Revising the Mesolithic at Star Carr (1999) (1)
The Mesolithic in Europe. Papers presented at the Third International Symposium, Edinburgh 1985: Edited by C. Bonsall. 1989. 645 pp., 340 figures/plates, 70 tables. Edinburgh: John Donald. £45.00. ISBN 0-85976-205-X (1992) (1)
On the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic Transition: A Reply to White (1982) (1)
Before Lascaux: The Complex Record of the Early Upper Paleolithic. Heidi Knecht, Anne Piketay, and Randall White, editors. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1993. 304 pp., figures, tables, references, site index. $75.00 (cloth). (1995) (0)
CHAPTER 3. Stone Tool Technology (1996) (0)
CAJ volume 1 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1991) (0)
AQY volume 78 issue 301 Cover and Front matter (2004) (0)
CAJ volume 2 issue 2 Cover and Front matter (1992) (0)
CHAPTER 7. Middle Palaeolithic Subsistence (1996) (0)
CHAPTER 6. Industrial Taxonomy and Chronology (1996) (0)
A Gazetteer of British Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Sites: C.B.A. Research Report No. 8. Compiled by Derek A. Roe (1969) (0)
The Old Stone Age. By François Bordes (Translated by J. E. Anderson) (1968) (0)
Prehistoric Art: Palaeolithic Painting and Sculpture. By P. M. Grand (1968) (0)
AQY volume 84 issue 325 Cover and Front matter (2010) (0)
CHAPTER 11. Neanderthal Society (1996) (0)
CHAPTER 8. Sites in the Landscape (1996) (0)
AQY volume 85 issue 327 Cover and Front matter (2011) (0)
AQY volume 87 issue 337 Cover and Front matter (2013) (0)
CHAPTER 4. Tool Morphology, Function and Typology (1996) (0)
‘Style’ in prehistoric artefacts (1982) (0)
AQY volume 79 issue 305 Cover and Front matter (2005) (0)
Lower Palaeolithic Archaeology in Britain, as represented by the Thames Valley. By Wymer John. 429 pages, 110 figures, 36 plates (2 in colour). John Baker, London, 1968. Price £8 8. 0. (1970) (0)
CHAPTER 5. The Procurement and Distribution of Raw Materials (1996) (0)
Emergence of Modern Humans (1991) (0)
CHAPTER 10. The Significance of Industrial Variability (1996) (0)
AQY volume 82 issue 318 Cover and Front matter (2008) (0)
AQY volume 81 issue 312 Cover and Front matter (2007) (0)
last hunter-gatherers : A new biomolecular to (2020) (0)
Index of Sites (1996) (0)
A dispersal of Homo sapiens from southern to eastern Africa immediately preceded the out-of-Africa migration (2019) (0)
AQY volume 86 issue 334 Cover and Front matter (2012) (0)
CHAPTER 13. The Big Transition (1996) (0)
AQY volume 82 issue 316 Cover and Front matter (2008) (0)
Jean-Philippe Rigaud (ed.). La Grotte Vaufrey: paléoenvironnement, chronologie, activités humaines . 1988. 616 pages, 370 figures, 64 plates. Paris: Société Préhistorique Française; Mémoires 19; paperback 250FF. (1990) (0)
AQY volume 80 issue 307 Cover and Front matter (2006) (0)
AQY volume 85 issue 329 Cover and Front matter (2011) (0)
AQY volume 79 issue 306 Cover and Front matter (2005) (0)
AQY volume 79 issue 303 Cover and Front matter (2005) (0)
Neanderthals in perspective (1994) (0)
Preface (1991) (0)
Landmark of early man in Britain (1982) (0)
AQY volume 78 issue 300 Cover and Front matter (2004) (0)
John Wymer. Palaeolithic sites of East Anglia . Norwich: Geo Books, 1985. 440 pp., 7 pls. 117 figs. £29.50 hardback , £19.50 paperback . (1987) (0)
AQY volume 78 issue 302 Cover and Front matter (2004) (0)
CHAPTER 2. The Environmental Background to Middle Palaeolithic Occupation (1996) (0)
AQY volume 85 issue 330 Cover and Front matter (2011) (0)
CHAPTER 12. The Neanderthal Mind (1996) (0)

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