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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Robin W. Dennell is a British prehistoric archaeologist specialising in early hominin expansions out of Africa and the Palaeolithic of Pakistan and China. He is Professor Emeritus of Human Origins of the University of Sheffield, and an honorary professor at the University of Exeter.
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- An Asian perspective on early human dispersal from Africa (2005) (344)
- Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter? (2018) (276)
- Hominid Use of Fire in the Lower and Middle Pleistocene: A Review of the Evidence [and Comments and Replies] (1989) (256)
- Dispersal and colonisation, long and short chronologies: how continuous is the Early Pleistocene record for hominids outside East Africa? (2003) (251)
- Hominin variability, climatic instability and population demography in Middle Pleistocene Europe (2011) (250)
- The origins of agriculture : an international perspective (1993) (227)
- Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene (2013) (203)
- The paleolithic settlement of Asia (2008) (186)
- Dense Forests, Cold Steppes, and the Palaeolithic Settlement of Northern Europe [and Comments and Replies] (1992) (170)
- The Economic Importance of Plant Resources Represented on Archaeological Sites (1976) (124)
- The earliest colonization of Europe: the short chronology revisited (1996) (121)
- European Economic Prehistory: A New Approach (1983) (116)
- Hominin occupation of the Chinese Loess Plateau since about 2.1 million years ago (2018) (112)
- Recent Excavations at Nahal Oren, Israel (1973) (104)
- Early tool-making in Asia: two-million-year-old artefacts in Pakistan (1988) (95)
- Discontinuity in the record for hominin occupation in south-western Europe: Implications for occupation of the middle latitudes of Europe (2012) (87)
- New dating of the Homo erectus cranium from Lantian (Gongwangling), China. (2015) (87)
- THE PALAEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT OF ASIA (2009) (86)
- The dispersal of Homo sapiens across southern Asia: how early, how often, how complex? (2012) (83)
- Book reviewPlants and ancient man: Edited by W. van Zeist and W. A. Casparie. 1984. viii + 344 pp., figures., tables, maps. Rotterdam: Balkema (Proceedings 6th Symposium of International Work Group for Paleoethnobotany, Groningen). £18.00. ISBN 90 6191 528 7 (1985) (82)
- The biostratigraphy and magnetic polarity zonation of the Pabbi Hills, northern Pakistan: An Upper Siwalik (Pinjor Stage) Upper Pliocene–Lower Pleistocene fluvial sequence (2006) (80)
- Hominid evolution and community ecology: Edited by R. Foley. 1984. 296 pp., tables, figures. New York: Academic Press (Studies in Archaeology Series). $37.50. ISBN 0 12 261920 X (1985) (77)
- Taphonomy of Some Articulated Skeletal Remains: Transport Potential in an Artificial Environment (1995) (77)
- The Hunter–Gatherer/Agricultural Frontier in Prehistoric Temperate Europe (1985) (72)
- Dated Lower Palaeolithic Artefacts From Northern Pakistan (1985) (68)
- Iberia before the Iberians: The Stone Age Prehistory of Cantabrian Spain@@@Perspectives on the Past: Theoretical Biases in Mediterranean Hunter-Gatherer Research (1992) (68)
- In search of Neanderthals (1995) (67)
- Hominid Dispersals and Asian Biogeography during the Lower and Early Middle Pleistocene, c. 2.0-0.5 Mya (2004) (65)
- The world's oldest spears (1997) (62)
- The origins and persistence of Homo floresiensis on Flores: biogeographical and ecological perspectives (2014) (62)
- Predators and scavengers in Early Pleistocene southern Asia (2008) (60)
- Botanical evidence for prehistoric crop processing activities (1974) (59)
- Late Pliocene Artefacts from Northern Pakistan (1988) (59)
- Pleistocene and Palaeolithic Investigations in the Soan Valley, Northern Pakistan (1989) (55)
- The Nihewan Basin of North China in the Early Pleistocene: Continuous and flourishing, or discontinuous, infrequent and ephemeral occupation? (2013) (53)
- Harvesting the sea, farming the forest : the emergence of Neolithic societies in the Balitic Region (1998) (52)
- The Origins of Agriculture (1970) (49)
- Early Hominin Landscapes in Northern Pakistan: Investigations in the Pabbi Hills (2004) (47)
- Early farming in South Bulgaria from the VI to the III millennia B.C. (1978) (43)
- The Denisova hominin need not be an out of Africa story. (2011) (43)
- Pontnewydd cave: A lower palaeolithic hominid site in Wales. The first report (1985) (39)
- Prehistoric diet and nutrition: some food for thought. (1979) (38)
- Palaeoanthropology: Early Homo sapiens in China (2010) (38)
- Out of Asia: The initial colonisation of Europe in the Early and Middle Pleistocene (2010) (36)
- The Colonization of “Savannahstan”: Issues of Timing(s) and Patterns of Dispersal Across Asia in the Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene (2011) (34)
- Magnetic polarity stratigraphy of Upper Siwalik Sub-Group, Soan Valley, Pakistan: implications for early human occupance of Asia (1987) (34)
- The taphonomic record of Upper Siwalik (Pinjor stage) landscapes in the Pabbi Hills, northern Pakistan, with consideration regarding the preservation of hominin remains (2008) (34)
- Alluvial Sequence in Central West Iran and Implications for Archaeological Survey (1982) (33)
- “Resource-rich, stone-poor”: Early hominin land use in large river systems of northern India and Pakistan (2007) (32)
- Zooarchaeological perspectives on the Chinese Early and Late Paleolithic from the Ma’anshan site (Guizhou, South China) (2010) (32)
- A 45,000-YEAR-OLD OPEN-AIR PALEOLITHIC SITE AT RIWAT, NORTHERN PAKISTAN (1992) (29)
- Life without the Movius Line: The structure of the East and Southeast Asian Early Palaeolithic (2016) (28)
- European Economic Prehistory. A New Approach (1984) (27)
- Hominins, deserts, and the colonisation and settlement of continental Asia (2013) (27)
- Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene (2017) (27)
- Piltdown: An Appraisal of the Case against Sir Arthur Keith [and Comments and Reply] (1992) (24)
- Progressive gradualism, imperialism and academic fashion: Lower Palaeolithic archaeology in the 20th century (1990) (21)
- Quarternary extinctions: A prehistoric revolution (1985) (20)
- "Out of Africa I": Current Problems and Future Prospects (2010) (19)
- A demographic history of Late Pleistocene China (2020) (18)
- Human Migration and Occupation of Eurasia (2008) (17)
- Thermoluminescence dating of an upper pleistocene site, Northern Pakistan (1987) (16)
- The Purity of Prehistoric Crops (1974) (15)
- Hominin distribution in glacial-interglacial environmental changes in the Qinling Mountains range, central China (2018) (15)
- Early Artefacts from Pakistan? Some Questions for the Excavators (1989) (15)
- Palaeoanthropology: Homo sapiens in China 80,000 years ago (2015) (14)
- An Earlier Acheulian Arrival in South Asia (2011) (13)
- The Solo (Ngandong) Homo Erectus Assemblage: A Taphonomic Assessment (2005) (12)
- From Arabia to the Pacific (2020) (12)
- The Jaramillo Subchron, a geochronological marker horizon in the palaeoanthropological record of China (2015) (12)
- Lithic assemblage from the Jingshuiwan Paleolithic site of the early Late Pleistocene in the Three Gorges, China (2010) (12)
- Siberian Paleolithic Archaeology: Approaches and Analytic Methods [and Comments and Replies] (1985) (11)
- Comment on Pedra Furada (1995) (11)
- Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins: Contents (2014) (11)
- Prehistoric Crop Cultivation in Southern England: A Reconsideration (1976) (10)
- The nature of reversion of a dominant gene of Drosophila melanogaster (1972) (9)
- The Acheulean Assemblages of Asia: A Review (2018) (9)
- Epicuticle of Blow-fly Larvæ (1950) (8)
- Ortho-Tyrosine in an Insect Cuticle (1956) (8)
- Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins: Smoke and Mirrors (2014) (8)
- Early man: A new chronology for the Mousterian (1983) (7)
- On the problems of studying prehistoric climate and crop agriculture (1977) (7)
- Non-specific Hydroxylation of Aromatic Amino-Acids by an Insect Cuticle (1957) (7)
- Neanderthals as fiction in archaeological narrative (2003) (6)
- Late Pleistocene and Palaeolithic studies in Northeast Asia (2014) (6)
- Advances in archaeological method and theory, vol. 8: Edited by M. B. Schiffer. 1985. xiv+306 pp., figs., tables. London: Academic Press. £4950. ISBN 0 12 003108 6 (1985) (5)
- The last of Asia conquered by Homo sapiens (2018) (4)
- Archaeobotany and Early Farming in Europe (1978) (3)
- Seeds from a medieval sewer in Woolster Street, Plymouth (1970) (3)
- Neolithic advances: the neolithic transition and the genetics of populations in europe. (1985) (3)
- Dating of hominin discoveries at Denisova (2019) (3)
- Growth and Form in an Insect (1960) (3)
- Report of the British Archaeological Mission's Potwar Project for the Year 1989–90 (1991) (3)
- Pleistocene hominin dispersals, naïve faunas and social networks (2017) (3)
- DISCUSSION 2: Transitions: Behavioral Change in the Early Pleistocene (2009) (2)
- The Past and Present of Human Origins in Southern Asia and Australia (2014) (2)
- Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins: East Asia and Human Evolution (2014) (2)
- Peking man and related studies (2016) (2)
- 300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China (2021) (2)
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS | Global Expansion 300,000-8000 years ago, Asia (2006) (2)
- On Lower Palaeolithic Artefacts From Pakistan (1986) (2)
- The Asian ancestry of the first hominins in Europe: the state of the art (2010) (2)
- Accelerator dating: the first years reviewed (1987) (2)
- Persistent places, resident predators and vigilant faunas (2017) (2)
- 2.7 MYR-300,000 years ago in Asia (2013) (2)
- New progress in the geochronology of hominin relics in loess strata of the Chinese Loess Plateau (2019) (2)
- Asian axe 2 million years old (1987) (2)
- The Hominin colonisation of Europe in the Early and Middle Pleistocene: a review (2010) (1)
- The Early Upper Paleolithic beyond Western Europe. By P. J. Brantingham, S. L. Kuhn, and K. W. Kerry. (2006) (1)
- British Archaeological Mission to Pakistan Pot war Project Report for 1988 (1989) (1)
- The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia: Bibliography (2008) (1)
- Southwest Asia (2020) (1)
- The Far West from the Far East (2019) (1)
- Geoarchaeology in India in the 21st Century: an Outsider's Perspective (2021) (1)
- Evidence on Human Origins A Rediscovered Source in the Upper Siwaliks of Northern Pakistan (1993) (1)
- Traces of a series of human dispersals through Arabia (2021) (1)
- Asian Palaeolithic dispersals (2015) (1)
- Book reviewAncestors: The hard evidence: Edited by E. Delson. 1985. xii + 366 pp., tables, figures, 16 plates. New York: Alan Liss Inc. £38.00. ISBN 0 8451 0249 4 (1986) (0)
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS | 2.7 Myr–300 000 Years Ago in Asia (2013) (0)
- Paleonematology: some recent evidence from neolithic Bulgaria (1978) (0)
- Wallacea and Sahul (2020) (0)
- Palaeoethnobotany: The Prehistoric Food Plants of the Near East and Europe. By Renfrew J. M.. 248 pages, 48 plates. Methuen, London, 1973. Price £6.50. (1974) (0)
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS | Global Expansion 300000–8000 Years Ago, Asia (2013) (0)
- English Names of Various Mammals Recorded in Asia (2008) (0)
- Origins and Revolutions: Human Identity in Earliest Prehistory, Clive Gamble. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2007), 352 pp., Hardback, ISBN: 978 0 521 86002 4, UK £45.00; Paperback, ISBN: 978 0 521 67749 3, UK £15.99 (2008) (0)
- Work Supported by the South Asian Society 1987 Report of the British Archaeological Mission to Pakistan Palaeolithic Project. (1988) (0)
- Neolithic Advances: The Neolithic Transition and the Genetics of Populations in Europe . Albert J. Ammerman and L. L. Cavalli-Cforza. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1984. xvi, 176 pp., illus. $25. (1985) (0)
- Arabia to the Thar Desert (2020) (0)
- The phylogenesis ofTriticum dicoccum a reconsideration (1973) (0)
- Geographical Coordinates of Geological Sections and Cores (2008) (0)
- The Earliest Inhabitants of South and Southeast Asia and China (2008) (0)
- West and Central Asia: Early Homo Fossil Records (2020) (0)
- Humans on the edge of Asia (2020) (0)
- Report of the 1989 Field Season of the British Archaeological Mission to Pakistan (1990) (0)
- Eric Higgs (1976) (0)
- Epicuticle of blow-fly larvar. (1950) (0)
- Dating of hominin discoveries at Denisova (2019) (0)
- Prof. H. Graham Cannon, F.R.S. (1963) (0)
- Bridget Allchin, Andrew Goudie & Karunarkara Hegde: The prehistory and palaeography of the Great Indian Desert. London: Academic Press, 1978. 389 pp., 87 figs., 85 tables. £25.00; $48.90. (1980) (0)
- Book Review: Prehistoric Farming in Europe. (1986) (0)
- The African Background to the Colonisation of Asia (2008) (0)
- From hunters to farmers: The causes and consequences of food production in Africa: Edited by J. D. Clark and S. A. Brandt. 1984. xi+433 pp., figures. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. £44.00. ISBN 0 520 04574 2 (1986) (0)
- Book Reviews January 2006 (2006) (0)
- M. D. Leakey & D. A. Roe. Olduvai Gorge 5: Excavations in Beds III, IV and the Masek Beds, 1968–1971 . xiv + 327 pages, 26 plates, 116 figures, 89 tables. 1994. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 0-521-33403-9 hardback £100 (1995) (0)
- The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia: Geographical Coordinates of Principal Early Palaeolithic Sites in Asia (2008) (0)
- Central Asia, southern Siberia and Mongolia (2020) (0)
- A. K. Behrensmeyer & A. Hill (eds): Fossils in the making. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. 338 pp. £4.70 (paperback). (1981) (0)
- Hominin occupation of the Chinese Loess Plateau since about 2.1 million years ago (2018) (0)
- Palaeo-demography, climatic instability and hominin variability in Middle Pleistocene China and Europe (2010) (0)
- David J. Meltzer . The Great Paleolithic War: how science forged an understanding of America's ice age past. 2015. xix+670 pages, 18 bw 978-0-226-29322-6 hardback $55 & £38.50. (2016) (0)
- Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins: References (2014) (0)
- Asia and Its Place in Palaeoanthropology (2008) (0)
- Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic: Hominin Dispersal and Behaviour during the Late Quaternary , by Ryan J. Rabett, 2012. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; ISBN 978-1-107-01829-7 hardback £65.00 & US$99.00; xii + 372 pp., 73 figs., 10 tables (2013) (0)
- Dennis J. Stanford & Bruce A. Bradley. Across Atlantic ice: the origins of America's Clovis culture . xv+319 pages, 80 bw 978-0-520-22783-5 hardback $34.95 & £ 24.95. (2013) (0)
- The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia: The Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record for Southwest and Central Asia (2008) (0)
- The Climatic and Environmental Background to Hominin Settlement in Asia between ca. 1 Ma and the Last Interglacial (2008) (0)
- Invasion biology and the colonisation of Asia (2020) (0)
- The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia: The Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record of China and Southeast Asia (2008) (0)
- The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia: The Earliest Inhabitants of Southwest Asia (2008) (0)
- The Climatic and Environmental Background to Hominin Settlement in Asia before 1 MA (2008) (0)
- The Oriental Realm of South Asia (2020) (0)
- The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia: “Out of Africa 1” Reconsidered and the Earliest Colonisation of Asia (2008) (0)
- The origins of modern humans: A world survey of the fossil evidence: Edited by F. H. Smith and F. Spencer. 1984. xxii+590 pp., figs, tables, plates. New York: Alan Liss, Inc. $65.00, £5300. ISBN 0 8451 0223 8 (1986) (0)
- Book reviews (2009) (0)
- China (2020) (0)
- A brief note on the Chinese multi-regional model as restated by Wu and Cui (2010) (0)
- Book reviews (2010) (0)
- The Sizes of Countries and Regions in Asia, with Comparative Examples (2008) (0)
- Human Evolution in Asia during the Middle Pleistocene (2008) (0)
- How, when and why did our species succeed in colonising Asia? (2020) (0)
- The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia: The Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record of the Indian Subcontinent (2008) (0)
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDS | 2.7 MYR-300,000 years ago in Asia (2007) (0)
- Sunda and mainland Southeast Asia (2020) (0)
- Opinion Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa , and Why Does It Matter ? (0)
- The climatic and environmental background to the human colonisation of Asia (2020) (0)
- The African background (2020) (0)
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