• Distal tephra reveal new MIS 5e Kos eruptions: Implications for the chronology and volcanic evolution histories in the Eastern Mediterranean region 

      Zhang, Shuang; Blockley, Simon; Armitage, Simon James; Satow, Chris; Manning, Christina; Barzilai, Omry; Boaretto, Elisabetta; White, Dustin; Timms, Rhys (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The Kos Plateau Tuff (KPT), was an enormous caldera forming eruption originating from a vent within the Kos/Nisyros/Yali volcanic complex, occurring at 161 ka. It is the largest recognised Late Quaternary eruption in the ...
    • Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years 

      Groucutt, Huw S.; White, Tom S.; Scerri, Eleanor M. L.; Andrieux, Eric; Clark-Wilson, Richard; Breeze, Paul S.; Armitage, Simon James; Stewart, Mathew; Drake, Nick; Louys, Julien; Price, Gilbert J.; Duval, Mathieu; Parton, Ash; Candy, Ian; Carleton, W. Christopher; Shipton, Ceri; Jennings, Richard P.; Zahir, Muhammad; Blinkhorn, James; Blockley, Simon; Al-Omari, Abdulaziz; Alsharekh, Abdullah M.; Petraglia, Michael D. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Pleistocene hominin dispersals out of, and back into, Africa necessarily involved traversing the diverse and often challenging environments of Southwest Asia1,2,3,4. Archaeological and palaeontological records from the ...