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We Are Not Alone: William King and the Naming of the Neanderthals (2021)
Journal Article
Walker, J., Clinnick, D., & White, M. (2021). We Are Not Alone: William King and the Naming of the Neanderthals. American Anthropologist, 123(4), 805-818. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13654

The story of human history was changed forever in 1863 with William King's proposal that we had not always been the sole members of the Homo genus. Yet, more than 150 years after Homo neanderthalensis was first named and then summarized in the pages... Read More about We Are Not Alone: William King and the Naming of the Neanderthals.

The value of English geoconservation sites in understanding historical collections of lower and middle palaeolithic artefacts (2021)
Journal Article
Dale, L., Rawlinson, A., Bridgland, D., & White, M. (2023). The value of English geoconservation sites in understanding historical collections of lower and middle palaeolithic artefacts. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association, 134(4), 388-402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2021.06.008

Lower and Middle Paleolithic archaeological sites in England risk falling through the cracks between different types of heritage conservation, since they lack recognisable structures; these sites have often benefitted from protection under geoconserv... Read More about The value of English geoconservation sites in understanding historical collections of lower and middle palaeolithic artefacts.

A mitochondrial genetic divergence proxy predicts the reproductive compatibility of mammalian hybrids (2020)
Journal Article
Allen, R., Ryan, H., Davis, B. W., King, C., Frantz, L., Irving-Pease, E., Barnett, R., Linderholm, A., Loog, L., Haile, J., Lebrasseur, O., White, M., Kitchener, A. C., Murphy, W. J., & Larson, G. (2020). A mitochondrial genetic divergence proxy predicts the reproductive compatibility of mammalian hybrids. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1928), Article 20200690. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.0690

Numerous pairs of evolutionarily divergent mammalian species have been shown to produce hybrid offspring. In some cases, F1 hybrids are able to produce F2s through matings with F1s. In other instances, the hybrids are only able to produce offspring t... Read More about A mitochondrial genetic divergence proxy predicts the reproductive compatibility of mammalian hybrids.

Handaxe types, colonization waves, and social norms in the British Acheulean (2020)
Journal Article
Shipton, C., & White, M. (2020). Handaxe types, colonization waves, and social norms in the British Acheulean. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 31, Article 102352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102352

The handaxes of north-western Europe are some of the most varied in the Acheulean world, with the meanings of that variation debated since the late nineteenth century. To reassess handaxe form in this region, we performed a 3D morphometric analysis o... Read More about Handaxe types, colonization waves, and social norms in the British Acheulean.

Twisted handaxes in Middle Pleistocene Britain and their implications for regional-scale cultural variation and the deep history of Acheulean hominin groups (2019)
Journal Article
White, M., Ashton, N., & Bridgland, D. (2019). Twisted handaxes in Middle Pleistocene Britain and their implications for regional-scale cultural variation and the deep history of Acheulean hominin groups. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 85, 61-81. https://doi.org/10.1017/ppr.2019.1

A better understood chronological framework for the Middle Pleistocene of Britain has enabled archaeologists to detect a number of temporally-restricted assemblage-types, based not on ‘culture historical’ schemes of typological progression but on ind... Read More about Twisted handaxes in Middle Pleistocene Britain and their implications for regional-scale cultural variation and the deep history of Acheulean hominin groups.

Symmetry is its own reward: on the character and significance of Acheulean handaxe symmetry in the Middle Pleistocene (2018)
Journal Article
White, M., & Foulds, F. (2018). Symmetry is its own reward: on the character and significance of Acheulean handaxe symmetry in the Middle Pleistocene. Antiquity, 92(362), 304-319. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.35

Bilateral symmetry in handaxes has significant implications for hominin cognitive and socio-behavioural evolution. Here the authors show that high levels of symmetry occur in the British Late Middle Pleistocene Acheulean, which they consider to be a... Read More about Symmetry is its own reward: on the character and significance of Acheulean handaxe symmetry in the Middle Pleistocene.

Thresholds in lithic technology and human behaviour in MIS 9 Britain. (2017)
Book Chapter
White, M., & Bridgland, D. (2018). Thresholds in lithic technology and human behaviour in MIS 9 Britain. In M. Pope, J. McNabb, & C. Gamble (Eds.), Crossing the Human Threshold: Dynamic Transformation and Persistent Places during the Middle Pleistocene (165-192). Routledge

Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity: progress during the 20 years of the Fluvial Archives Group (2017)
Journal Article
Chauhan, P., Bridgland, D., Moncel, M., Antoine, P., Bahain, J., Briant, R., …White, T. (2017). Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity: progress during the 20 years of the Fluvial Archives Group. Quaternary Science Reviews, 166, 114-149. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.03.016

Fluvial sedimentary archives are important repositories for Lower and Middle Palaeolithic artefacts throughout the ‘Old World’, especially in Europe, where the beginning of their study coincided with the realisation that early humans were of great an... Read More about Fluvial deposits as an archive of early human activity: progress during the 20 years of the Fluvial Archives Group.

Well-dated fluvial sequences as templates for patterns of handaxe distribution: understanding the record of Acheulean activity in the Thames and its correlatives (2017)
Journal Article
White, M., Bridgland, D., Schreve, D., White, T., & Penkman, K. (2018). Well-dated fluvial sequences as templates for patterns of handaxe distribution: understanding the record of Acheulean activity in the Thames and its correlatives. Quaternary International, 480, 118-131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2017.03.049

The use of Acheulean (handaxe) typology as a cultural and temporal marker has been a topic of controversy in recent decades, with many archaeologists continuing to reject such an approach out of hand. Much of the controversy stems, however, from diff... Read More about Well-dated fluvial sequences as templates for patterns of handaxe distribution: understanding the record of Acheulean activity in the Thames and its correlatives.