Dr Peter Ditchfield

Publications

Contributions to Edited Books

2011

Ditchfield, P. and Harrison, T., (2011), Sedimentology, Lithostratoigraphy and Depositional History of the Laetoli area: in “Harrison, T. (ed), Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context: Volume 1”, pp 47-76, New York, Springer.

One of the many contributing editors, (2011), : in “Wood, B (ed), The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution”, pp , Wiley-Blackwell.

2010

Haslam, M., Clarkson, C., Petraglia, M., Korisettar, R., Bora, J., Boivin, N., Ditchfield, P., Jones, S., and Mackay, A. , (2010), Indian lithic technology prior to the 74,000 BP Toba super-eruption: searching for an early modern human signature: in “Boyle, C. Gamble and Bar-Yosef, O. (eds.), Upper Palaeolithic Revolution in Global Perspective: Essays in honour of Paul Mellars”, pp 73-84, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge..

2002

Behrensmeyer, A. K., Potts, R., Deino, A. & Ditchfield, P.W., (2002), Olorgesailie, Kenya: A million years in the life of a rift basin. Sedimentation in continental rifts: in “ R. W. Renaut and G. M. Ashley. Tulsa, Society of Economic Petrologists and Mineralogists. Special publication 73”, pp 97-106.

Journal Articles & Conference Proceedings

In press

Haslam, M., Harris, C., Clarkson, C., Pal, J.N., Shipton, C., Crowther, A., Koshy, J., Bora, J., Ditchfield, P., Prasad Ram, H., Price, K., Dubey, A.K., Petraglia, M.,, Dhaba: an initial report on an Acheulean, Middle Palaeolithic and microlithic locality in the Middle Son Valley, north-central India, Quaternary International,

2012

Pollard, A.M.; Ditchfield, P.; Piva, E.; Wallis, S.; Falys, C.; and Ford, S., (2012), "Sprouting like Cockle Amongst the Wheat": the St. Brice's Day Massacre and the isotopic analysis of human bones from St, John's College, Oxford., Oxford Journal of Archaeology, 31,83-102

2011

Louys, J., Meloro, C., Elton, S., Ditchfield, P. and Bishop, .C., (2011), Mammal community structure correlates with arboreal heterogeneity in faunally and geographically diverse habits: implications for community convergence, Global Ecology and Biogeography, ,DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00643.x

Haslam, M., Roberts, R.G., Shipton, C., Pal, J.N., Fenwick, J., Ditchfield, P., Boivin, N., Dubey, A.K., Gupta, M.C., and Petraglia, M., (2011), Late Acheulean hominins at the Marine Isotope Stage 6/5e transition in north-central India, Quaternary Research, 75,670-682

Higham, T.F.G., Bronk Ramsey, C., Brock, F., Baker, D. and Ditchfield, P. , (2011), Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry datelist 34, Archaeometry, 53 (5) ,1067-1084

Lane, C.S., Haslam, M., Petraglia, M., Ditchfield, P., Smith, V.C. and Korisettar, R., (2011), Cryptotephra from the 74 kyr BP Toba super-eruption in the Billa Surgam caves, southern India, Quaternary Science Reviews, 30,1819-1824

Louys, J., C. Meloro, S. Elton, P. Ditchfield and Bishop , L.C., (2011), Mesowear as a means of determining diets in African antelopes, Journal of Archaeological Science, 38 (7),1485-1495

Pollard, A.M., Ditchfield, P., Allen, T., Gibson, M., Boston, C., Clough, S. Marquez-Grant, N.and Nicholson, R.A, (2011), ‘These boots were made for walking’: the isotopic analysis of a C4 Roman inhumation from Gravesend, Kent, UK, American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 146,446-456

2010

Brock, F., Higham, T.F.G., Ditchfield, P. & Bronk Ramsey, C., (2010), Current pretreatment methods for AMS radiocarbon dating at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU), Radiocarbon, 52 (1),103-112

Haslam, M., Clarkson, C., Petraglia, M., Korisettar, R., Jones, S., Shipton, C., Ditchfield, P. and Ambrose, S.H. , (2010), The 74,000 BP Toba super-eruption and southern Indian hominins: archaeology, lithic technology and environments at Jwalapuram Locality 3, Journal of Archaeological Science, 37,3370-3384

Haslam, M., Korisettar, R., Petraglia, M., Smith, T., Shipton, C. and Ditchfield, P., (2010), Foote’s steps: the history, significance and recent archaeological investigation of the Billa Surgam caves in southern India., South Asian Studies, 26,1-19

2009

Blockley, S.P.E., Lane, C.S., Oh, A., Ditchfield, P. et al., (2009), Quaternary abstracts: the human dimension in rapid environmental change, Abstracts from the Quaternary Research Association's annual discussion meeting, January 2009, University of Oxford , ISSN: 1759-0507

Bronk Ramsey, C., Higham, T.F.G., Brock, F., Baker, D. & Ditchfield, P., (2009), Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry Datelist 33, Archaeometry, 51(2),323-349

Clarkson, C., Petraglia, M., Korisettar, R., Haslam, M., Boivin, N., Crowther, A., Ditchfield, P., Fuller, D., Miracle, P., Harris, C., Connell, K., James, H. &Koshy, J., (2009), The longest enduring microlithic sequence in India: 35 000 years of modern human occupation and change at the Jwalapuram Locality 9 rockshelter, Antiquity, 83(320),326-348

Clarkson, C., Petraglia, M., Korisettar, R., Haslam. M., Boivin, N., Crowther, A., Ditchfield, P., Fuller, D., Miracle, P., Harris, C., Connell, K., James, H. & Koshy, J., (2009), The oldest and longest enduring microlithic sequence in India: 35000 years of modern human occupation and change at the Jwalapuram Locality 9 rockshelter, Antiquity, 83,326-348

Petraglia, M.D., Clarkson, C., Boivin, N., Haslam, M., Korisettar, R., Chaubey, G., Ditchfield, P., Fuller, D., James, H., Jones, S., Kivisild, T., Koshy, J., Lahr, M.M., Metspalu, M., Roberts, R. & Arnold, L., (2009), Population increase and environmental deterioration correspond with microlithic innovations in South Asia ca. 35,000 years ago, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106,12261-12266

Petraglia, M.D., Korisettar, R., Bai, M.K., Boivin, N., Janardhana, B., Clarkson, C., Cunningham, K., Ditchfield, P., Fuller, D., Hampson, J., Haslam, M., Jones, S., Koshy, J., Miracle, P., Oppenheimer, C., Roberts, R. & White, K., (2009), Pleistocene and Holocene occupations of the Kurnool District India: Cave and rockshelter records, the Toba super-eruption and forager-farmer interactions, Journal of Eurasian Prehistory, 6(1-2),119-166

2007

Higham, T.F.G., Bronk Ramsey, C., Brock, F., Baker, D. & Ditchfield, P., (2007), Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: Archaeometry Datelist 32, Archaeometry, 49,S1-S60

Petraglia, M., Korisettar, R., Boivin, N., Clarkson, C., Ditchfield, P., Jones, S., Koshy, J., Mirazón Lahr, M., Oppenheimer, C., Pyle, D., Roberts, R., Schwenninger, J-L., Arnold, L. & White, K., (2007), Middle Palaeolithic assemblages from the Indian subcontinent before and after the Toba super-eruption, Science, 317,114-116

Wang, W. , Potts, R., , Baoyin, Y., Huang, W. , Chenge, H., Edwards, L.R., & Ditchfield, P., (2007), Sequence of mammalian fossils, including hominoid teeth, from the Bubing Basin caves, South China, Journal of Human Evolution, 4,370-379

Wang, W., Potts, R., Baoyin, Y., Huang, W., Cheng, H., Edwards, R.L. & Ditchfield, P., (2007), Sequence of mammalian fossils, including hominoid teeth, from the Bubing Basin caves, South China, Journal of Human Evolution, 52,370-379

2006

Bishop, L. C., Plummer, T.W.,Ferraro, J.V., Braun, D., Ditchfield, P.W., Hertel, F., Kingston, J.D., Hicks,J., & Potts, R.P., (2006), Recent research into Oldowan hominin activities at Kanjera South, Western Kenya, African Archaeological Review, 23(1),31-40

Ferguson, J.E. , Fa, D.A., Atkinson, T.C. , Barton, R.N.E., Ditchfield, P., Henderson, G.M. & Finlayson, J.C., (2006), High resolution climate records from stable isotopes and trace metals in mollusc shells from Gibraltar, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 70(18 suppl 1),A170

2005

Jeans, C.V., Wray, D.S., Mitchell, J.G. & Ditchfield,P., (2005), Corellation between the basal part of the Lower Cretaceous Speeton Clay Formation, Yorkshire and the Purbeck Limestone Group, Dorset, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, 55(3),183-197

2004

Bronk Ramsey, C., Ditchfield, P., Humm, M., (2004), Using a Gas ion source for radiocarbon AMS and GC-AMS, Radiocarbon, 46 1,25-32

Potts, R, Behrensmeyer, A. K., Deino, A., Ditchfield, P. Clark, J., (2004), Small Mid-Pleistocene Hominin associated with East African Acheulean technology, Science, 305,75-78

Stewart, D.R.M., Pearson, P.N., Ditchfield, P. W. & Singano, J.M., (2004), Miocene tropical Indian Ocean temperatures: evidence from three exceptionally preserved foraminiferal assemblages in Tanzania, Joournal of African Earth Sciences, 40,173-190

2003

Bishop, L. C., Plummer, T.W., Ferraro, J., Ditchfield, P.W., Hertel, F., Kingston, J.D., Braun, D., Hicks, J. & Potts, R.B., (2003), The paleoenvironmental setting of hominin activities at Kanjera South, western Kenya., American Journal of Physical Anthropology, S36,67

Cheney, H., Higham, T., Ditchfield, P., Barton, N., Stringer, C., Finlayson, C., Rhodes, E., & Ramsey, C.B., (2003), : Proceedings of 18th International Radiocarbon Conference, Wellington, New Zealand

Fernandez-Jalvo, Y., King, T., Andrews, P., Yepiskoposan, L., Saffarian, V., Ditchfield, P., Moloney, N., Nieto-Diaz, M. & Melkonyan, A., (2003), : Proceedings of XVI INQUA Congress, Reno

Frost, S. R., Plummer, T., Bishop, L.C., Ditchfield, P. Ferraro, J. &Hicks, J., (2003), Partial cranium of Cercopithecoides kimeui Leakey, 1982 from Rawi Gully, Southwestern Kenya, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 122,191-199

Frost, S. R., Plummer, T., Bishop, L. C., Ditchfield, P., Ferraro, J. and Hicks, J., (2003), Partial cranium of Cercopithecoides kimeui Leakey, 1982 from Rawi Gully, Southwestern Kenya, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 122,191-199

2001

Ditchfield, P., Ferraro, J., Plummer, T., Bishop, L. & Potts, R., (2001), An early secondary grassland with hominid activities at Kanjera South, Kenya, Journal of Human Evolution, 40(3),A7

Pearson, P. N., Ditchfield, P.W., Singano, J., Harcourt-Brown, K.G., . Nicholas, C.J., Olsson, R.K., Shackleton, N.J. & Hall, M.A., (2001), Warm tropical sea surface temperatures in the Late Cretaceous and Eocene epochs, Nature, 413(6855),481-487