Michael D. Petraglia

14.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
235 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Michael D. Petraglia is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael D. Petraglia has authored 235 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 171 papers in Anthropology, 140 papers in Paleontology and 116 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Michael D. Petraglia's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (162 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (111 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (97 papers). Michael D. Petraglia is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (162 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (111 papers) and Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (97 papers). Michael D. Petraglia collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Michael D. Petraglia's co-authors include Huw S. Groucutt, Nicole Boivin, Ceri Shipton, Abdullah Alsharekh, Dorian Q. Fuller, Paul S. Breeze, Richard P. Jennings, Ash Parton, Patrick Roberts and James Blinkhorn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael D. Petraglia

223 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions

2016 498 citations Nicole Boivin, Dorian Q. Fuller et al. profile →
On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives

2017 215 citations Katerina Douka, Michael D. Petraglia et al. profile →
Rethinking the dispersal of Homo sapiens out of Africa

2015 209 citations Huw S. Groucutt, Michael D. Petraglia et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Selective use of distant stone resources by the earliest Oldowan toolmakers 2025 ·Science Advances ·(unknown), Thomas W. Plummer, Peter Ditchfıeld, Jonathan S. Reeves, David R. Braun, (unknown), (unknown), Laura C. Bishop, James S. Oliver, Rahab N. Kinyanjui, Michael D. Petraglia, Paul S. Breeze, Cristina Lemorini, Isabella Caricola, (unknown), Richard Potts	0
2	Monsoonal imprint on late Quaternary landscapes of the Rub’ al Khali Desert 2025 ·Communications Earth & Environment ·(unknown), (unknown), Guillaume Baby, Negar Haghipour, Cécile Blanchet, Anne Dallmeyer, Pietro Sternai, (unknown), Omar Wani, (unknown), Mathieu Schuster, Michael D. Petraglia, Florence Sylvestre, (unknown), Mohamed R. Ali, (unknown), Abdulkader M. Afifi, Sébastien Castelltort	0
3	Mid-Pleistocene aridity and landscape shifts promoted Palearctic hominin dispersals 2024 ·Nature Communications ·Jinbo Zan, Julien Louys, Robin Dennell, Michael D. Petraglia, (unknown), Xiaomin Fang, Weilin Zhang, Zhe Hu	7
4	The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal 2024 ·Nature Communications ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Eugenio Bortolini, Giulia Marciani, Serena Aneli, Telmo Pievani, Stefano Benazzi, Alberto Barausse, Massimo Mezzavilla, Michael D. Petraglia, Luca Pagani	11
5	Bearing Fruit: Miocene Apes and Rosaceous Fruit Evolution 2023 ·Biological Theory ·Robert N. Spengler, Frank Kienast, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin, David R. Begun, (unknown), Michael D. Petraglia	1
6	Small game forgotten: Late Pleistocene foraging strategies in eastern Africa, and remote capture at Panga ya Saidi, Kenya 2023 ·Quaternary Science Reviews ·Mary E. Prendergast, Jennifer M. Miller, Ogeto Mwebi, Emmanuel Ndiema, Ceri Shipton, Nicole Boivin, Michael D. Petraglia	4
7	Uniformity and Diversity in Handaxe Shape at the End of the Acheulean in Southwest Asia 2023 ·Lithic Technology ·Ceri Shipton, Huw S. Groucutt, Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Michael D. Petraglia	3
8	Before the Holocene humid period: Life-sized camel engravings and early occupations on the southern edge of the Nefud desert 2023 ·Archaeological Research in Asia ·Maria Guagnin, Ceri Shipton, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Paul S. Breeze, Mathew Stewart, (unknown), Nick Drake, Deepak Kumar Jha, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Andrea Kay, Huw S. Groucutt, Abdullah Alsharekh, Michael D. Petraglia	2
9	Innovative ochre processing and tool use in China 40,000 years ago 2022 ·Nature ·Fagang Wang, Shi‐Xia Yang, Junyi Ge, Andreu Ollé, Keliang Zhao, Jian‐Ping Yue, (unknown), Katerina Douka, Ying Guan, Wenyan Li, (unknown), (unknown), Fei Xie, Zhengtang Guo, Rixiang Zhu, Chenglong Deng, Francesco d’Errico, Michael D. Petraglia	31
10	Coring, profiling, and trenching: Archaeological field strategies for investigating the Pleistocene-Holocene-Anthropocene continuum 2022 ·Quaternary International ·Torben C. Rick, Abdullah Alsharekh, Todd J. Braje, Alison Crowther, Jon M. Erlandson, Dorian Q. Fuller, Kristina M. Gill, Huw S. Groucutt, Maria Guagnin, Richard Helm, Courtney A. Hofman, Mark Horton, Andrea Kay, Ravi Korisettar, Chantal Radimilahy, Leslie Reeder-Myers, Ceri Shipton, Henry T. Wright, Michael D. Petraglia, Nicole Boivin	8
11	Early Holocene Human Burials from Fa Hien-lena and Kuragala, Sri Lanka 2022 ·Apollo (University of Cambridge) ·Jay T. Stock, Emma Pomeroy, Oshan Wedage, (unknown), Siran Deraniyagala, Nimal Perera, Patrick Roberts, Nicole Boivin, Michael D. Petraglia	4
12	From Forests to the Coast - Multidisciplinary Investigation of Human Adaptations at the Mini-athiliya Shell Midden, Sri Lanka 2022 ·Patrick Roberts, Jay T. Stock, (unknown), Nicole Boivin, Michael D. Petraglia, Siran Deraniyagala, Nimal Perera	3
13	High altitude hunting, climate change, and pastoral resilience in eastern Eurasia 2021 ·Scientific Reports ·William Taylor, (unknown), (unknown), Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, James D. Murdoch, Gino Caspari, Michael Klinge, (unknown), (unknown), Светлана Шнайдер, Aida Abdykanova, (unknown), Muhammad Zahir, (unknown), Mark Williams, (unknown), Michael D. Petraglia, Craig M. Lee, E. James Dixon, Nicole Boivin	17
14	Archaeological and environmental cave records in the Gobi-Altai Mountains, Mongolia 2021 ·Quaternary International ·(unknown), Sebastian F. M. Breitenbach, Fernando Gázquez, Julien Louys, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Andrea Picin, (unknown), (unknown), William Taylor, Nicole Boivin, Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, Michael D. Petraglia	5
15	Field-based sciences must transform in response to COVID-19 2020 ·Nature Ecology & Evolution ·Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Denise Kühnert, James Blinkhorn, Huw S. Groucutt, Patrick Roberts, Kathleen Nicoll, Andrea Zerboni, (unknown), Huw Barton, Ian Candy, Steven T. Goldstein, John Hawks, Khady Niang, (unknown), Michael D. Petraglia, (unknown)	22
16	Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior 2020 ·Science Advances ·Mathew Stewart, Richard Clark‐Wilson, Paul S. Breeze, (unknown), Ian Candy, Simon J. Armitage, David B. Ryves, Julien Louys, Mathieu Duval, Gilbert J. Price, (unknown), Marco Antonio Bernal, Nick Drake, Abdullah Alsharekh, (unknown), Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Patrick Roberts, Huw S. Groucutt, Michael D. Petraglia	33
17	A taxonomic and taphonomic study of Pleistocene fossil deposits from the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia 2020 ·Quaternary Research ·Mathew Stewart, Julien Louys, Paul S. Breeze, Richard Clark‐Wilson, Nick Drake, Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Iyad S. Zalmout, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Abdullah Alsharekh, Huw S. Groucutt, Michael D. Petraglia	10
18	A transect of environmental variability across South Asia and its influence on Late Pleistocene human innovation and occupation 2017 ·Journal of Quaternary Science ·Patrick Roberts, James Blinkhorn, Michael D. Petraglia	12
19	Prehistory and palaeoenvironments of the western Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia 2017 ·Archaeological Research in Asia ·Paul S. Breeze, Huw S. Groucutt, Nick Drake, Julien Louys, Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Simon J. Armitage, Iyad S. Zalmout, Abdullah Memesh, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Muhammad Zahir, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Abdullah Alsharekh, Michael D. Petraglia	26
20	Anuradhapura: The British-Sri Lankan Excavations at Anuradhapura Salgaha Watta 2006 ·Iran ·Robin Coningham, Christopher P. Thornton, Michael D. Petraglia, (unknown), (unknown), Ravi Bhushan, (unknown), (unknown)	7

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