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Francesco d’Errico

184 works· latest 2026· 8 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-2422-3079

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Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa2002 · 987 citations
Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age2004 · 732 citations
Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals2010 · 681 citations
Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa2009 · 637 citations
Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa2004 · 620 citations

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Palaeoproteomic investigation of archaeological sediments associated with ochre use in the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2026·12 authors·Open access

0citations

Uniendo los punto: une aproximación tecno-visual al arte mobiliar pintado más temprano de Tierra del Fuego y sus implicaciones para la caracterización de une cultura milenaria: Joining the dots: an techno-visual approach to the earliest painted portable art in Tierra del Fuego and its implications for the characterization of a deep-time visual culture

HAL·2026·9 authors·other

0citations

Scaffolding minds: human collective intelligence through space, body and material symbols

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2026·3 authors·Open access

7citations

Carved in stone: Experimental criteria for identifying Paleolithic bas-relief production techniques and sculptors’ expertise

PLoS ONE·2026·6 authors·Open access

1citations

Comprendre la technologie de la sculpture pariétale par l’expérimentation. Application à la Vénus de Laussel

HAL·2025·3 authors

·other

0citations

Joining the Dots: A Techno-visual Approach to the Earliest Painted Portable Art in Tierra del Fuego and its Implications for the Identification of a Deep-time Artistic Tradition

HAL·2025·3 authors·other

0citations

Modelling the taphonomic effects of wind erosion and marine aerosol degradation on painted images through accelerated ageing experiments: implications for the origins of rock art and the evolution of human symbolic behaviour

HAL·2025·12 authors·other

0citations

An empirically-based scenario for the evolution of cultural transmission in the human lineage during the last 3.3 million years

PLoS ONE·2025·2 authors·Open access

14citations

Multivariate analyses of Aurignacian and Gravettian personal ornaments support cultural continuity in the Early Upper Palaeolithic

PLoS ONE·2025·6 authors·Open access

9citations

Systematic bone tool production at 1.5 million years ago

Nature·2025·8 authors·Open access

33citations

De l’art à la technique : appréhender la sculpture pariétale par l’expérimentation. Application à la Vénus de Laussel (Dordogne, France)

HAL·2025·4 authors·other

0citations

A Data‐Driven Paradigm Shift for the Middle‐to‐Upper Palaeolithic Transition and the Neandertal Debate

Quaternary Environments and Humans·2024·4 authors·Open access

29citations

Paleolithic eyed needles and the evolution of dress

Science Advances·2024·5 authors·review·Open access

31citations

Evidence from personal ornaments suggest nine distinct cultural groups between 34,000 and 24,000 years ago in Europe

Nature Human Behaviour·2024·5 authors·Open access

40citations

Initial Upper Palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China

Nature Ecology & Evolution·2024·23 authors

41citations

Multiproxy analysis of Upper Palaeolithic lustrous gravels supports their anthropogenic use

PLoS ONE·2023·5 authors·Open access

4citations

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Body Modification

Oxford University Press eBooks·2023·2 authors·book·Open access

8citations

Les premiers arts premiers et leur problématique muséalisation

Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme eBooks·2023·1 author·chapter·Open access

0citations

Innovative ochre processing and tool use in China 40,000 years ago

Nature·2022·17 authors·Open access

61citations

Critical evaluation of in situ analyses for the characterisation of red pigments in rock paintings: A case study from El Castillo, Spain

PLoS ONE·2022·4 authors·Open access

17citations

San Elders Speak: Ancestral knowledge of the Kalahari San

Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)·2021·2 authors

3citations

BORDER CAVE: UNA APROXIMACIÓN A LA PRÁCTICA ARQUEOLÓGICA SUDAFRICANA

Práctica Arqueológica·2021·4 authors·Open access

0citations

Plant bedding construction between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago at Border Cave, South Africa

Quaternary Science Reviews·2021·4 authors

18citations

Zhoukoudian Upper Cave personal ornaments and ochre: Rediscovery and reevaluation

Journal of Human Evolution·2021·6 authors·Open access

30citations

The symbolic role of the underground world among Middle Paleolithic Neanderthals

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2021·8 authors·Open access

77citations

Nouveaux regards sur les arts préhistoriques

·2021·4 authors

0citations

Earliest known human burial in Africa

Nature·2021·36 authors·Open access

109citations

An ecological niche shift for Neanderthal populations in Western Europe 70,000 years ago

Scientific Reports·2021·11 authors·Open access

40citations

Bone tools from Beds II–IV, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, and implications for the origins and evolution of bone technology

Journal of Human Evolution·2020·5 authors·Open access

53citations

Quantitative methods demonstrate that environment alone is an insufficient predictor of present-day language distributions in New Guinea

PLoS ONE·2020·5 authors·Open access

65citations

Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa

Science·2020·11 authors·Open access

70citations

Last Interglacial Iberian Neandertals as fisher-hunter-gatherers

Science·2020·22 authors·Open access

182citations

Trajectories of cultural innovation from the Middle to Later Stone Age in Eastern Africa: Personal ornaments, bone artifacts, and ocher from Panga ya Saidi, Kenya

Journal of Human Evolution·2020·8 authors·Open access

81citations

Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago

Science·2020·4 authors·Open access

90citations

What processes sparked off symbolic representations? A reply to Hodgson and an alternative perspective

Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2019·7 authors·Open access

14citations

Did our species evolve in subdivided populations across Africa, and Why does it matter?

Yearbook of pediatric endocrinology·2019·23 authors

31citations

Variability in Middle Stone Age symbolic traditions: The marine shell beads from Sibudu Cave, South Africa

Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2019·3 authors·Open access

41citations

Engraved bones from the archaic hominin site of Lingjing, Henan Province

Antiquity·2019·6 authors·Open access

47citations

Neuroimaging supports the representational nature of the earliest human engravings

Royal Society Open Science·2019·9 authors·Open access

60citations

Ochre use at Panga Ya Saidi

·2019·3 authors

0citations

Ochre use at Panga Ya Saidi

HAL·2019·3 authors·other

0citations

Manganese and iron oxide use at Combe-Grenal (Dordogne, France): A proxy for cultural change in Neanderthal communities

Journal of Archaeological Science Reports·2019·13 authors·Open access

35citations

Les objets de parure

HAL·2019·5 authors·chapter·Open access

6citations

The origin and evolution of sewing technologies in Eurasia and North America

Journal of Human Evolution·2018·8 authors·Open access

78citations

Cultural Exaptation and Cultural Neural Reuse: A Mechanism for the Emergence of Modern Culture and Behavior

Biological Theory·2018·2 authors

60citations

An abstract drawing from the 73,000-year-old levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

Nature·2018·6 authors·Open access

258citations

The origin of bone tool technology and the identification of early hominid cultural traditions

Wits University Press eBooks·2018·2 authors·chapter

44citations

New Excavations at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Journal of Field Archaeology·2018·11 authors·Open access

61citations

Culture: The Driving Force of Human Cognition

Topics in Cognitive Science·2018·2 authors·Open access

110citations

Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter?

Trends in Ecology & Evolution·2018·23 authors·review·Open access

500citations

Assessing the significance of Palaeolithic engraved cortexes. A case study from the Mousterian site of Kiik-Koba, Crimea

PLoS ONE·2018·3 authors·Open access

38citations

The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave

Antiquity·2018·6 authors·Open access

88citations

Innovation in bone technology and artefact types in the late Upper Palaeolithic of China: Insights from Shuidonggou Locality 12

Journal of Archaeological Science·2018·7 authors·Open access

36citations

Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age

Science·2018·14 authors

411citations

Discovery of circa 115,000-year-old bone retouchers at Lingjing, Henan, China

PLoS ONE·2018·4 authors·Open access

60citations

From number sense to number symbols. An archaeological perspective

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2018·7 authors·Open access

104citations

Mountains® used in study on world's oldest drawing

HAL·2018·2 authors·Open access

0citations

Identifying early modern human ecological niche expansions and associated cultural dynamics in the South African Middle Stone Age

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2017·8 authors·Open access

98citations

A technological and morphological study of Late Paleolithic ostrich eggshell beads from Shuidonggou, North China

Journal of Archaeological Science·2017·6 authors

37citations

The earliest evidence of coloured ornaments in China: The ochred ostrich eggshell beads from Shuidonggou Locality 2

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology·2017·5 authors

40citations