Publications

Journal Articles & Conference Proceedings

2012

Beaumont, J., Geber, J., Powers, N., Wilson, A., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Montgomery, J., (2012), Victims and survivors: Stable isotopes used to identify migrants from the Great Irish Famine to 19th Century London, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 150,87 - 98

Beaumont, J., Gledhill, A., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Montgomery, J., (2012), Childhood diet: A closer examination of the evidence from dental tissues using stable isotope incremental analysis of human dentine., Archaeometry, ,Early online view: DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2012.00682.x

Codron, J., Codron, D., Sponheimer, M., Kirkman, K., Duffy, K.J., Raubenheimer, E.J., Me'lice, J-L., Grant, R., Clauss, M., Lee-Thorp, J.A., (2012), Stable isotope series from elephant ivory reveal lifetime histories of a true dietary generalist, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 279,2433-2441

Grine, F.E., Sponheimer, M., Ungar, P.S., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Teaford, M.F., (2012), Dental microwear and stable isotopes inform the palaeoecology of extinct hominins, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 148,285-317

Lee-Thorp, J.A., Likius, A., Mackaye, T.S., Vignaud, P., Sponheimer, M., Brunet, M., (2012), Isotopic evidence for an early shift to C4 resources by Pliocene hominids in Chad, Proceedings of the Nationary Academy of Science, 109 (50),20369-20372

Sandberg P., Passey, B., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Sponheimer, M., Ditchfield, P., van Gerven, D., (2012), Intra-tooth stable isotope analysis of human dental tissues: Laser ablation of enamel and serial sections of dentine collagen in permanent first molars and canines, American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 147 (S54),257-257

2011

Copeland, S.R., Sponheimer, M., de Ruiter, JD.J., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Codron, D., le Roux, P.J., Grimes, V. and Richards, M.P., (2011), Strontium isotope evidence for early hominin landscape use., Nature, 474,76-79

Lee-Thorp, J.A. , (2011), The demise of “Nutcracker man”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 108 (23),9319-9320

Mitchell P.J., I. Plug, G.B. Bailey, R. Charles, A. Esterhuysen, J.A. Lee Thorp, A.G. Parker, S. Woodborne , (2011), Fishing at the Place of the Tobacco Plants: a high-resolution open-air record of late Holocene hunter-gatherers from highland Lesotho, Antiquity, 85,1225-1242

Mitchell P.J., Plug, I., Bailey, G.B., Charles, R., Esterhuysen, A., Lee Thorp, J.A., Parker, A.G. and Woodborne, S. , (2011), Fishing at the Place of the Tobacco Plants: a high-resolution open-air record of late Holocene hunter-gatherers from highland Lesotho, Antiquity, 85,1225–42

Parker, A.G., J.A. Lee-Thorp, P.J.Mitchell, (2011), Late Holocene Neoglacial conditions from the Lesotho highlands, southern Africa: phytolith and stable carbon isotope evidence from the archaeological site of Likoaeng, Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 122,201–211

Pellegrini, M., J.A. Lee-Thorp, Donahue, R.E., (2011), Exploring the variation of the relationship in enamel increments , Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, ,310, 71 - 83

Pollard, M.P., M. Pellegrini, J.A. Lee-Thorp, (2011), Some observations on the conversion of dental enamel to determine human mobility., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 145 ,499-504

2010

Bell, L.S., Lee-Thorp, J.A. and Elkerton, A. , (2010), Sailing against the wind. Reply to Millard and Schroeder: ‘True British sailors’: A comment on the origin of the men of the Mary Rose, Journal of Archaeological Science , 37,683-686

Codron, J., Codron, D., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Sponheimer, M., Kirkman, K., Duffy, K.J. and Sealy, J.C., (2010), Landscape-scale feeding patterns of African elephant inferred from carbon isotope analysis of feces, Oecologia, 165,89-99

Copeland, S.R., Sponheimer, M., Lee-Thorp, J.A., de Ruiter, D.J., le Roux, P.J., Grimes, V., Codron, D., Codron, J., Berger, L.R. and Richards, M.P.,, (2010), Using strontium isotopes to study site accumulation processes, Journal of Taphonomy, 8 (2-3),115-127

Copeland, S.R., Sponheimer, M., Lee-Thorp, J.A., le Roux, P.J., de Ruiter, D.J. and Richards M.P., (2010), Strontium isotope ratios in fossil teeth from South Africa: assessing laser ablation MC-ICP-MS analysis and the extent of diagenesis, Journal of Archaeological Science, 37,1437–1446

De Ruiter, D.J., Copeland, S.R., Lee-Thorp, J.A. and Sponheimer, M. , (2010), Investigating the Role of Eagles as Accumulating Agents in the Dolomitic Cave Infills of South Africa, Journal of Taphonomy, 8 (1-2),129-154

Lee-Thorp, J.A., Sponheimer, M., Passey, B.H., De Ruiter, D., and Cerling, T.E. , (2010), Stable isotopes in fossil hominin tooth enamel suggest a fundamental dietary shift in the Pliocene, Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. B , 365,3389-3396

Smith, J.M., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Prevec, S., Hall, S., and Späth, A. , (2010), Pre-Colonial Herding Strategies in the Shashe-Limpopo Basin, southern Africa, based on strontium isotope analysis of domestic fauna, Journal of African Archaeology, 8,83-98

2009

Codron, D., Codron, J., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Sponheimer, M., Grant, C.C. and Brink., J.S. , (2009), Stable isotope evidence for nutritional stress, competition, and loss of functional habitat as factors limiting recovery of rare antelope in southern Africa. , Journal of Arid Environments, 73,449-457

Holzkämper, S., Holmgren, K., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Talma, S., Mangini, A. and Partridge, T.C.,, (2009), Late Pleistocene Stalagmite Growth in Wolkberg Cave, South Africa, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 282,212-221

Ségalen, L. & Lee-Thorp, J.A., (2009), Palaeoecology of late Early Miocene fauna in the Namib based on 13C/12C and 18O/16O ratios of tooth enamel and ratite eggshell carbonate, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 277,191–198

Sponheimer, M., Codron, D., Passey, B.H., de Ruiter, D.J., Cerling, T.E. and Lee-Thorp, J.A., (2009), Using carbon isotopes to track dietary change in modern, historical, and ancient primates, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 140,661–670

2008

Bell, L.S., Lee-ThorpJ.A. & Elkerton, A., (2008), The sinking of the Mary Rose warship: a medieval mystery solved?, Journal of Archaeological Science, 36,166-173

Codron, D., Brink, J.S., Rossouw, L., Clauss, M., Codron, J., Lee-Thorp, J.A., & Sponheimer, M. , (2008), Functional differentiation of African grazing ruminants: an example of specialized adaptations to very small changes in diet, Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, 94,755–764

Codron, D., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Sponheimer, M., de Ruiter, D., & Codron, J. , (2008), What insights can baboon feeding ecology provide for early hominin niche differentiation?, International Journal of Primatology, 29,757–772

Copeland, S., Sponheimer, M., le Roux, P.J., Grimes, V., Lee-Thorp, J.A., de Ruiter, D.J. & Richards, M.P., (2008), Strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) of tooth enamel: a comparison of solution and laser ablation multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry methods, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 22, 3187-3194

Copeland, S.R., Sponheimer, M., Spinage, C.A. & Lee-Thorp, J.A., (2008), Bulk and intra-tooth enamel stable isotopes of waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus from Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, African Journal of Ecology, 46,697–701

de Ruiter, D.J., Sponheimer, M and Lee-Thorp, J.A., (2008), Indications of habitat association of Australopithecus robustus in the Bloubank Valley, South Africa, Journal of Human Evolution, 55,1015–1030.

Fourie, N. H., Lee-Thorp, J. A. & Ackermann R.R. , (2008), Biogeochemical and craniometric investigation of dietary ecology, niche separation, and taxonomy of Plio-Pleistocene Cercopithecoids from the Makapansgat Limeworks, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 135,121–135

Lee-Thorp, J.A., (2008), On isotopes and old bones, Archaeometry, 50,925–950.

Pellegrini, M., Donahue, R.E., Chenery, C., Evans, J., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Montgomery J. and Mussi, M., (2008), Faunal migration in late-glacial central Italy: implications for human resource exploitation, Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 22,1714–1726

Ségalen, L., de Rafélis, M., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Maurer, A-F. & M. Renard, M., (2008), Cathodoluminescence tools provide clues to depositional history in Miocene and Pliocene mammalian teeth, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology , 266,246-253

Contributions to Edited Books

2013

Lee-Thorp J.A., Sponheimer, M., (2013), Hominin ecology from hard tissue biogeochemistry: in “Early Hominin Paleoecology”, pp , University of Colorado Press, Boulder.

2009

Sponheimer, M. and Lee-Thorp, J.A. , (2009), Biogeochemical evidence for the environments of early Homo in South Africa: in “FE Grine et al. (eds.), The First Humans: Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus Homo (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology) ”, pp 185-194, Springer Science.

2008

Pellegrini, M., Donahue, R.E., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Evans, J. Montgomery, J., Chenery, C. and Mussi, M., (2008), L’uso degli isotopi nella ricostruzione delle migrazioni delle faune nel tardiglaciale: implicazioni sulle strategie di sussistenza dei cacciatori-raccoglitori in Italia Centrale: in “Mussi, M (ed.), Il Tardiglaciale in Italia – Lavori in corso. (BAR International Series 1859)”, pp 9-20, Archaeopress, Oxford.