Nicholas C Vella (Michael Petraglia, Michael D Petraglia)

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2018-2024
Publications (10 Years): 35

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Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

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Affiliation History

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History Jul 01 2016

Germany

Professor :: Department of Archaeology

Publications

Jun-Yi Ge, Song Xing, Rainer Grün, Chenglong Deng, Yuanjin Jiang, Tingyun Jiang, Shi-Xia Yang, Ke-Liang Zhao, Xing Gao, Huili Yang, Zhengtang Guo, Nicholas C Vella, Qingfeng Shao
New Late Pleistocene age for the Homo sapiens skeleton from Liujiang southern China. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Shi-Xia Yang, Jia-Fu Zhang, Jian-Ping Yue, Rachel Wood, Yu-Jie Guo, Han Wang, Wu-Gan Luo, Yue Zhang, Emeline Raguin, Ke-Liang Zhao, Yu-Xiu Zhang, Fa-Xiang Huan, Ya-Mei Hou, Wei-Wen Huang, Yi-Ren Wang, Jin-Ming Shi, Bao-Yin Yuan, Andreu Ollé, Alain Queffelec, Li-Ping Zhou, Cheng-Long Deng, Francesco d'Errico, Nicholas C Vella
Initial Upper Palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China. Nature ecology & evolution 8 (3) (2024)
Shi-Xia Yang, Jia-Fu Zhang, Jian-Ping Yue, Rachel Wood, Yu-Jie Guo, Han Wang, Wu-Gan Luo, Yue Zhang, Emeline Raguin, Ke-Liang Zhao, Yu-Xiu Zhang, Fa-Xiang Huan, Ya-Mei Hou, Wei-Wen Huang, Yi-Ren Wang, Jin-Ming Shi, Bao-Yin Yuan, Andreu Ollé, Alain Queffelec, Li-Ping Zhou, Cheng-Long Deng, Francesco d'Errico, Nicholas C Vella
Initial Upper Palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China. Nature ecology & evolution 8 (3) (2024)
Shi-Xia Yang, Jia-Fu Zhang, Jian-Ping Yue, Rachel Wood, Yu-Jie Guo, Han Wang, Wu-Gan Luo, Yue Zhang, Emeline Raguin, Ke-Liang Zhao, Yu-Xiu Zhang, Fa-Xiang Huan, Ya-Mei Hou, Wei-Wen Huang, Yi-Ren Wang, Jin-Ming Shi, Bao-Yin Yuan, Andreu Ollé, Alain Queffelec, Li-Ping Zhou, Cheng-Long Deng, Francesco d'Errico, Nicholas C Vella
Initial Upper Palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China. Nature ecology & evolution 8 (3) (2024)
Shi-Xia Yang, Jia-Fu Zhang, Jian-Ping Yue, Rachel Wood, Yu-Jie Guo, Han Wang, Wu-Gan Luo, Yue Zhang, Emeline Raguin, Ke-Liang Zhao, Yu-Xiu Zhang, Fa-Xiang Huan, Ya-Mei Hou, Wei-Wen Huang, Yi-Ren Wang, Jin-Ming Shi, Bao-Yin Yuan, Andreu Ollé, Alain Queffelec, Li-Ping Zhou, Cheng-Long Deng, Francesco d'Errico, Nicholas C Vella
Initial Upper Palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China. Nature ecology & evolution 8 (3) (2024)
Leonardo Vallini, Carlo Zampieri, Mohamed Javad Shoaee, Eugenio Bortolini, Giulia Marciani, Serena Aneli, Telmo Pievani, Stefano Benazzi, Alberto Barausse, Massimo Mezzavilla, Nicholas C Vella, Luca Pagani
The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Shi-Xia Yang, Jia-Fu Zhang, Jian-Ping Yue, Rachel Wood, Yu-Jie Guo, Han Wang, Wu-Gan Luo, Yue Zhang, Emeline Raguin, Ke-Liang Zhao, Yu-Xiu Zhang, Fa-Xiang Huan, Ya-Mei Hou, Wei-Wen Huang, Yi-Ren Wang, Jin-Ming Shi, Bao-Yin Yuan, Andreu Ollé, Alain Queffelec, Li-Ping Zhou, Cheng-Long Deng, Francesco d'Errico, Nicholas C Vella
Initial Upper Palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China. Nature ecology & evolution (2024)
Jun-Yi Ge, Song Xing, Rainer Grün, Chenglong Deng, Yuanjin Jiang, Tingyun Jiang, Shi-Xia Yang, Ke-Liang Zhao, Xing Gao, Huili Yang, Zhengtang Guo, Nicholas C Vella, Qingfeng Shao
New Late Pleistocene age for the Homo sapiens skeleton from Liujiang southern China. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Leonardo Vallini, Carlo Zampieri, Mohamed Javad Shoaee, Eugenio Bortolini, Giulia Marciani, Serena Aneli, Telmo Pievani, Stefano Benazzi, Alberto Barausse, Massimo Mezzavilla, Nicholas C Vella, Luca Pagani
The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Leonardo Vallini, Carlo Zampieri, Mohamed Javad Shoaee, Eugenio Bortolini, Giulia Marciani, Serena Aneli, Telmo Pievani, Stefano Benazzi, Alberto Barausse, Massimo Mezzavilla, Nicholas C Vella, Luca Pagani
The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal. Nature communications 15 (1) (2024)
Mohammad Javad Shoaee, Paul S Breeze, Nick A Drake, Seyyed Milad Hashemi, Hamed Vahdati Nasab, Sebastian F M Breitenbach, Thomas Stevens, Nicole Boivin, Nicholas C Vella
Defining paleoclimatic routes and opportunities for hominin dispersals across Iran. PloS one 18 (3) (2023)
Li Tang, Shevan Wilkin, Kristine Korzow Richter, Madeleine Bleasdale, Ricardo Fernandes, Yuanhong He, Shuai Li, Nicholas C Vella, Ashley Scott, Fallen K Y Teoh, Yan Tong, Tinlei Tsering, Yang Tsho, Lin Xi, Feng Yang, Haibing Yuan, Zujun Chen, Patrick Roberts, Wei He, Robert Nicholas Spengler, Hongliang Lu, Shargan Wangdue, Nicole Boivin
Paleoproteomic evidence reveals dairying supported prehistoric occupation of the highland Tibetan Plateau. Science advances 9 (15) (2023)
Mahmoud Abbas, Zhongping Lai, John D Jansen, Hua Tu, Mohammad Alqudah, Xiaolin Xu, Bety S Al-Saqarat, Mu'ayyad Al Hseinat, Xianjiao Ou, Nicholas C Vella, Paul A Carling
Human dispersals out of Africa via the Levant. Science advances 9 (40) (2023)
Mohammad Javad Shoaee, Paul S Breeze, Nick A Drake, Seyyed Milad Hashemi, Hamed Vahdati Nasab, Sebastian F M Breitenbach, Thomas Stevens, Nicole Boivin, Nicholas C Vella
Defining paleoclimatic routes and opportunities for hominin dispersals across Iran. PloS one 18 (3) (2023)
Mohammad Javad Shoaee, Paul S Breeze, Nick A Drake, Seyyed Milad Hashemi, Hamed Vahdati Nasab, Sebastian F M Breitenbach, Thomas Stevens, Nicole Boivin, Nicholas C Vella
Defining paleoclimatic routes and opportunities for hominin dispersals across Iran. PloS one 18 (3) (2023)
Fa-Gang Wang, Shi-Xia Yang, Jun-Yi Ge, Andreu Ollé, Ke-Liang Zhao, Jian-Ping Yue, Daniela Eugenia Rosso, Katerina Douka, Ying Guan, Wen-Yan Li, Hai-Yong Yang, Lian-Qiang Liu, Fei Xie, Zheng-Tang Guo, Ri-Xiang Zhu, Cheng-Long Deng, Francesco d'Errico, Nicholas C Vella
Innovative ochre processing and tool use in China 40,000 years ago. Nature 603 (7900) (2022)
James Blinkhorn, Clément Zanolli, Tim Compton, Huw S Groucutt, Eleanor M L Scerri, Lucile Crete, Chris B Stringer, Nicholas C Vella, Simon Blockley
Reply to: 'No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave'. Scientific reports 12 (1) (2022)
Robert Patalano, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin, Nicholas C Vella, Julio Mercader
Plant wax biomarkers in human evolutionary studies. Evolutionary anthropology (2021)
Madeleine Bleasdale, Kristine K Richter, Anneke Janzen, Samantha Brown, Ashley Scott, Jana Zech, Shevan Wilkin, Ke Wang, Stephan Schiffels, Jocelyne Desideri, Marie Besse, Jacques Reinold, Mohamed Saad, Hiba Babiker, Robert C Power, Emmanuel Ndiema, Christine Ogola, Fredrick K Manthi, Muhammad Zahir, Nicholas C Vella, Christian Trachsel, Paolo Nanni, Jonas Grossmann, Jessica Hendy, Alison Crowther, Patrick Roberts, Steven T Goldstein, Nicole Boivin
Ancient proteins provide evidence of dairy consumption in eastern Africa. Nature communications 12 (1) (2021)
María Martinón-Torres, Francesco d'Errico, Elena Santos, Ana Álvaro Gallo, Noel Amano, William Archer, Simon J Armitage, Juan Luis Arsuaga, José María Bermúdez de Castro, James Blinkhorn, Alison Crowther, Katerina Douka, Stéphan Dubernet, Patrick Faulkner, Pilar Fernández-Colón, Nikos Kourampas, Jorge González García, David Larreina, François-Xavier Le Bourdonnec, George MacLeod, Laura Martín-Francés, Diyendo Massilani, Julio Mercader, Jennifer M Miller, Emmanuel Ndiema, Belén Notario, Africa Pitarch Martí, Mary E Prendergast, Alain Queffelec, Solange Rigaud, Patrick Roberts, Mohammad Javad Shoaee, Ceri Shipton, Ian Simpson, Nicole Boivin, Nicholas C Vella
Earliest known human burial in Africa. Nature 593 (7857) (2021)
Huw S Groucutt, Tom S White, Eleanor M L Scerri, Eric Andrieux, Richard Clark-Wilson, Paul S Breeze, Simon J Armitage, Mathew Stewart, Nick Drake, Julien Louys, Gilbert J Price, Mathieu Duval, Ash Parton, Ian Candy, W Christopher Carleton, Ceri Shipton, Richard P Jennings, Muhammad Zahir, James Blinkhorn, Simon Blockley, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Abdullah M Alsharekh, Nicholas C Vella
Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years. Nature 597 (7876) (2021)
Julio Mercader, Pam Akuku, Nicole Boivin, Revocatus Bugumba, Pastory Bushozi, Alfredo Camacho, Tristan Carter, Siobhán Clarke, Arturo Cueva-Temprana, Paul Durkin, Julien Favreau, Kelvin Fella, Simon Graeme Haberle, Stephen M Hubbard, Jamie Inwood, Makarius Itambu, Samson Koromo, Patrick Lee, Abdallah Mohammed, Aloyce Mwambwiga, Lucas Olesilau, Robert Patalano, Patrick Roberts, Susan Rule, Palmira Saladie, Gunnar Siljedal, María Soto, Jonathan Umbsaar, Nicholas C Vella
Earliest Olduvai hominins exploited unstable environments ~ 2 million years ago. Nature communications 12 (1) (2021)
Mathew Stewart, Richard Clark-Wilson, Paul S Breeze, Klint Janulis, Ian Candy, Simon J Armitage, David B Ryves, Julien Louys, Mathieu Duval, Gilbert J Price, Patrick Cuthbertson, Marco A Bernal, Nick A Drake, Abdullah M Alsharekh, Badr Zahrani, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Patrick Roberts, Huw S Groucutt, Nicholas C Vella
Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior. Science advances 6 (38) (2020)
Michelle C Langley, Noel Amano, Oshan Wedage, Siran Deraniyagala, M M Pathmalal, Nimal Perera, Nicole Boivin, Nicholas C Vella, Patrick Roberts
Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics. Science advances 6 (24) (2020)
Ke Wang, Steven T Goldstein, Madeleine Bleasdale, Bernard Clist, Koen Bostoen, Paul Bakwa-Lufu, Laura T Buck, Alison Crowther, Alioune Dème, Roderick J McIntosh, Julio Mercader, Christine Ogola, Robert C Power, Elizabeth A Sawchuk, Peter Robertshaw, Edwin N Wilmsen, Nicholas C Vella, Emmanuel Ndiema, Fredrick K Manthi, Johannes Krause, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin, Stephan Schiffels
Ancient genomes reveal complex patterns of population movement, interaction, and replacement in sub-Saharan Africa. Science advances 6 (24) (2020)
Chris Clarkson, Clair Harris, Bo Li, Christina M Neudorf, Richard G Roberts, Christine Lane, Kasih Norman, Jagannath Pal, Sacha Jones, Ceri Shipton, Jinu Koshy, M C Gupta, D P Mishra, A K Dubey, Nicole Boivin, Nicholas C Vella
Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago. Nature communications 11 (1) (2020)
Nicholas C Vella, Huw S Groucutt, Maria Guagnin, Paul S Breeze, Nicole Boivin
Human responses to climate and ecosystem change in ancient Arabia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 117 (15) (2020)
Eleanor M L Scerri, Denise Kühnert, James Blinkhorn, Huw S Groucutt, Patrick Roberts, Kathleen Nicoll, Andrea Zerboni, Emuobosa Akpo Orijemie, Huw Barton, Ian Candy, Steven T Goldstein, John Hawks, Khady Niang, Didier N'Dah, Michael D Petraglia, Nicholas C Vella
Field-based sciences must transform in response to COVID-19. Nature ecology & evolution 4 (12) (2020)
Oshan Wedage, Noel Amano, Michelle C Langley, Katerina Douka, James Blinkhorn, Alison Crowther, Siran Deraniyagala, Nikos Kourampas, Ian Simpson, Nimal Perera, Andrea Picin, Nicole Boivin, Nicholas C Vella, Patrick Roberts
Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago. Nature communications 10 (1) (2019)
Shi-Xia Yang, Cheng-Long Deng, Ri-Xiang Zhu, Nicholas C Vella
The Paleolithic in the Nihewan Basin, China: Evolutionary history of an Early to Late Pleistocene record in Eastern Asia. Evolutionary anthropology 29 (3) (2019)
Patrick Roberts, Mathew Stewart, Abdulaziz N Alagaili, Paul Breeze, Ian Candy, Nick Drake, Huw S Groucutt, Eleanor M L Scerri, Julia Lee-Thorp, Julien Louys, Iyad S Zalmout, Yahya S A Al-Mufarreh, Jana Zech, Abdullah M Alsharekh, Abdulaziz Al Omari, Nicole Boivin, Nicholas C Vella
Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in 'Green Arabia'. Nature ecology & evolution 2 (12) (2018)
Ceri Shipton, Patrick Roberts, Will Archer, Simon J Armitage, Caesar Bita, James Blinkhorn, Colin Courtney-Mustaphi, Alison Crowther, Richard Curtis, Francesco d' Errico, Katerina Douka, Patrick Faulkner, Huw S Groucutt, Richard Helm, Andy I R Herries, Severinus Jembe, Nikos Kourampas, Julia Lee-Thorp, Rob Marchant, Julio Mercader, Africa Pitarch Marti, Mary E Prendergast, Ben Rowson, Amini Tengeza, Ruth Tibesasa, Tom S White, Nicholas C Vella, Nicole Boivin
78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest. Nature communications 9 (1) (2018)
Ceri Shipton, Patrick Roberts, Will Archer, Simon J Armitage, Caesar Bita, James Blinkhorn, Colin Courtney-Mustaphi, Alison Crowther, Richard Curtis, Francesco d' Errico, Katerina Douka, Patrick Faulkner, Huw S Groucutt, Richard Helm, Andy I R Herries, Severinus Jembe, Nikos Kourampas, Julia Lee-Thorp, Rob Marchant, Julio Mercader, Africa Pitarch Marti, Mary E Prendergast, Ben Rowson, Amini Tengeza, Ruth Tibesasa, Tom S White, Nicholas C Vella, Nicole Boivin
Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest. Nature communications 9 (1) (2018)
Huw S Groucutt, Rainer Grün, Iyad A S Zalmout, Nick A Drake, Simon J Armitage, Ian Candy, Richard Clark-Wilson, Julien Louys, Paul S Breeze, Mathieu Duval, Laura T Buck, Tracy L Kivell, Emma Pomeroy, Nicholas B Stephens, Jay T Stock, Mathew Stewart, Gilbert J Price, Leslie Kinsley, Wing Wai Sung, Abdullah Alsharekh, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Muhammad Zahir, Abdullah M Memesh, Ammar J Abdulshakoor, Abdu M Al-Masari, Ahmed A Bahameem, Khaled M S Al Murayyi, Badr Zahrani, Eleanor L M Scerri, Nicholas C Vella
Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago. Nature ecology & evolution 2 (5) (2018)
Eleanor M L Scerri, Ceri Shipton, Laine Clark-Balzan, Marine Frouin, Jean-Luc Schwenninger, Huw S Groucutt, Paul S Breeze, Ash Parton, James Blinkhorn, Nick A Drake, Richard Jennings, Patrick Cuthbertson, Abdulaziz Al Omari, Abdullah M Alsharekh, Nicholas C Vella
The expansion of later Acheulean hominins into the Arabian Peninsula. Scientific reports 8 (1) (2018)

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Nicholas C Vella (Michael Petraglia, Michael D Petraglia)