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Journal Articles

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2024. Amano, N.*, Faulkner, P., Wedage, O., Clarkson, C., Amila, D., Del Val, M., Jurkenas, D., Kapukotuwa, A., López, G.I., Pares, J., Pathmalal, M.M., Smith, T., Wright, M., Roberts, P., Petraglia, M., Boivin, N. 2024. Early Sri Lankan coastal site tracks technological change and estuarine resource exploitation over the last ca. 25,000 years. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.26693. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-77504-5

2024. Roberts, P., Caetano-Andrade, V.L., Fisher, M., Hamilton, R., Rudd, R., Stokes, F., Amano, N., Antonosyan, M., Dugmore, A., Findley, D.M., Freire, V.Z., Furquim, L. P., Fletcher, M-S., Hambrecht, G., Heddell-Stevens, P., Iminjili, V., Jha, D. K., Jha, G., Kinyanjui, R. N., Maezumi, S. Y., Morrison, K. D., Renn, J., Stevenson, J., Winkelmann, R., Ziegler, M., Sacrborough, V., White, S., Degroot, D., Green, A. S., Isendahl, C.  2024.  Uncovering the Multibiome Environmental and Earth System Legacies of Past Human Societies. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 49: 23.1-23.30 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-112321-101257

2024. Findley D. M., Amano, N., Biong I., Bankoff G., Dacudao P.I., Gealogo F., Hamilton R., Pagunsan R., Roberts P. 2024. Colonial policy, ecological transformations, and agricultural “improvement”: comparing agricultural yields and expansion in the Spanish and US Philippines, 1870–1925 CE. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11, 839 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03310-z

2024. Antonosyan, M., Hill, E., Jodry, M., Amano, N., Brown, S., Rick, T.C., Boivin, N. A New Legacy: Potential of Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) in the analysis of North American megafaunal remains. Frontiers in Mammal Science 3:1399358 DOI:10.3389/fmamm.2024.1399358

2024. Frahm, E., Saribekyan, M., Mkrtchyan, S., Furquim, L., Avagyan, A., Sahakyan, L., Azatyan, K., Roberts, P., Fernandes, R., Yepiskoposyan, L., Amano, N.*, Antonosyan, M. 2024. Increasing obsidian diversity during the Chalcolithic Period at Yeghegis-1 Rockshelter (Armenia) reveals shifts in land use and social networks. Scientific Reports 14:9528 DOI:10.1038/s41598-024-59661-9

2024. Shoaee, M. J., Nasab, H. V., Storozum, M., Frenzel, P., Kharazian, A. M., Fernandes, R., Hashemi, S. M., Jayez, M., Amano, N., Abbasabadi, B. M., Aalipoor, M., Lucas, M., Marzo, S., Ilgner, J., Patalano, R., Roberts, P., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. 2024. Initial Upper Paleolithic in the Zagros Mountains. Frontiers in Earth Science 12:1352099. DOI:10.3389/feart.2024.1352099

2024. Antonosyan, M., Roberts, P., Aspaturyan, N., Mkrtchyan, S., Lucas, M., Boxleitner, K., Jabbour, F., Hovhannisyan, A., Cieslik, A., Sahakyan, L., Avagyan, A., Spengler, R., Kandel, A. W., Petraglia, M., Boivin, N., Yepiskoposyan, L., Amano, N., Multiproxy evidence for environmental stability in the Lesser Caucasus during the Late Pleistocene Quaternary Science Reviews 330: 108559. DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108559

2024. Wolf, A., Baker, J. L., Tjallingii, R., Cai, Y., Osinzev, A., Antonosyan, M., Amano, N., Johnson, K., Skiba, V., McCormack, J., Kwiecien, O., Chervyatsova, O. Y., Dublyansky, Y. V., Dbar, R. S., Cheng, H., Breitenbach, S. F. M. Western Caucasus regional hydroclimate controlled by cold-season temperature variability since the Last Glacial Maximum. Communications Earth and Environment 5, 66 DOI:10.1038/s43247-023-01151-3

2024. Antonosyan, M., Saribekyan, M., Mkrtchyan, S., Hovhannisyan, A., Frahm, E., Roberts, P., Bobokhyan, A., Azatyan, K., Yepiskoposyan, L. and Amano, N. Yeghegis-1 rockshelter site: new investigations into the late Chalcolithic of Armenia. Antiquity 1-8 DOI:10.15184/aqy.2023.201

2024. Hamilton, R., Amano, N.*, Bradshaw, C. J. A., Saltre, F., Patalano, R., Penny, D., Stevenson, J., Wolfhage, J., Roberts, P. 2024. Forest mosaics, not savanna corridors, dominated in Southeast Asia during the Last Glacial Maximum. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 121(1): e2311280120. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2311280120

2024. Roberts, P., Carleton, W. C., Amano, N., Findley, D. M., Hamilton, R., Maezumi, S. Y., Winkelmann, R., Laubichler, M. N., Renn, J. 2024. Using urban pasts to speak to urban presents in the Anthropocene. Nature Cities 1: 30-41.  DOI:10.1038/s44284-023-00014-4

2023. Gruwier, B., Amano, N. The Holocene fossil record of the slow loris (Nycticebus sp.) in Java (Indonesia). American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 1–9. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.24840

2023. Xhauflair, H., Jago-on, S. C., Vitales, T. J., Manipon, D., Amano, N., Calaldo, J. R., Tandang, D., Kerfant, C., Choa, O., Pawlik, A. The invisible plant technology of Prehistoric Southeast Asia: Indirect evidence for basket and rope making at Tabon Cave, Philippines, 39-33,000 years ago. PLOS One 18(6): e0281415. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0281415

2023. Amano, N.*, Wedage, O., Ilgner, J., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M., Roberts, P.  Of forests and grasslands: Human, primate, and ungulate palaeoecology in Late Pleistocene-Holocene Sri Lanka. Frontiers in Earth Science 11, 583 DOI:10.3389/feart.2023.1133281  

2023. Roberts, P., Kaplan, J.O., Findley, D.M., Hamilton, R., Caetano-Andrade, V.L., Amano, N., Kay, A.U., Renn, J. and Winkelmann, R., Mapping our reliance on the tropics can reveal the roots of the Anthropocene. Nature Ecology & Evolution 7,  632–636 DOI:10.1038/s41559-023-01998-x  

2022. Picin, A., Wedage, O., Blinkhorn, J., Amano, N., Deraniyagala, S., Boivin, N., Roberts, P. and Petraglia, M. Homo sapiens lithic technology and microlithization in the South Asian rainforest at Kitulgala Beli-lena (c. 45–8,000 years ago). PLOS One, 17(10) 0273450.  DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0273450

2022. Findley, D.M., Acabado, S., Amano, N., Kay, A. U., Hamilton, R., Barretto-Tesoro, G., Bankoff, G., Kaplan, J.O., Roberts, P. Land us change in a pericolonial society: intensification and diversification in Ifugao, Philippines between 1570 and 1800 CE. Frontiers in Earth Science DOI:10.3389/feart.2022.680926

2022. Antoine P-O., Reyes, M., Amano, N., Bautista, A., Chang, H-S., Claude, J., De Vos, J., Ingicco, T. A new rhinoceros clade from the Pleistocene of Asia sheds light on mammal dispersals to the Philippines. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 194 (2), 416–430  DOI:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab009  

2021. Patalano, R., Hamilton, R., Finestone, E., Amano, N., Heddell-Stevens, P., Itambu, M., Petraglia, M., and Roberts, P. Microhabitat Variability in Human Evolution. Frontiers in Earth Science DOI:10.3389/feart.2021.787669

2021. Hamilton, R., Wolfhagen, J.; Amano, N., Boivin, N., Findley, D. M., Iriarte, J., Kaplan, J. O., Stevenson, J., Roberts, P. Non-uniform tropical forest responses to the ‘Columbian Exchange’ in the Neotropics and Asia-Pacific. Nature Ecology & Evolution, s41559-021-01474-4  DOI:10.1038/s41559-021-01474-4

2021. Martinon-Torres, M., d’Errico, F., Santos, E., Alvaro Gallo, A., Amano, N., Archer, W., Armitage, S. J., Luis Arsuaga, J., Bermudez de Castro, J.M., Blinkhorn, J., Crowther, A., Douka, K., Dubertnet, S., Faulkner, P., Fernandez-Colon, P., Kourampas, N., Gonzaels Garcia, J., Larreina, D., Le Bourdennec, F.X., MacLeod, G., Martin-Frances, L., Massilani, D., Mercader, J., Miller, J.M., Ndiema, E., Notario, B., Pitarch Marti, A., Prendergast, M.E., Quefflec, A., Rigaud, S., Roberts, P., Shoaee, M. J., Shipton, C., Simpson, I., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M.D. Earliest known human burial in Africa. Nature, 593: 95-100 DOI:10.1038/s41586-021-03457-8 

2021. Vanwezer, N., Taylor, W. T. T., Bayarsaikhan, J., Breitenbach, S. F. M., Amano, N., Louys, J., del Val., M., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. Hunting, herding, and people in the rock art of Mongolia: New discoveries in the Gobi-Altai Mountains. Archaeological Research in Asia 26: 100267. DOI:10.1016/j.ara.2021.100267

2021. Amano, N.*, Wang, Y., Boivin, N., Roberts, P. ‘Emptying forests?’ A review of past human and non-human primate interactions and implications for conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36(4): 345-359. DOI:10.1016/j.tree.2020.12.004  

2021.  Ono, R., Fuentes, R., Amano, N., Sofian, H.O., Sriwigati, Aziz, N., Pawlik, A. Development of bone and lithic technologies by anatomically modern humans during the late Pleistocene to Holocene in Sulawesi and Wallacea. Quaternary International 596: 124-143. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2020.12.045

2021. Amano, N.*, Bankoff, G., Findley, D.M., Barretto-Tesoro, G. and Roberts, P. Archaeological and historical insights into the ecological impacts of pre-colonial and colonial introductions into the Philippine Archipelago. The Holocene 31(2): 313-330. DOI:10.1177/0959683620941152  

2020. Langley, M. C., Amano, N., Wedage, O., Deraniyagala, S., Pathmalal, M. M., Perera, N., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. and Roberts, P. Bows and arrows and complex symbolic displays 48,000 years ago in the South Asian tropics. Science Advances 6(24): eaba3831. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aba3831

2020. Ingicco, T., Reyes, M.C., de Vos, J., Belarmino, M., Albers, P.C.H., Lipardo, I., Gallet, X., Amano, N., van den Bergh, G. D., Cosalan, A.D. and Bautista, A. Taphonomy and chronosequence of the 709 ka Kalinga site formation (Luzon Island, Philippines). Scientific Reports 10: 11081. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-68066-3

2020. Ingicco, T., Amano, N., Setiagama, K., Moigne, A.M., Budiman, Sémah, A.M., Simanjuntak, T. and Sémah, F., From Food to Grave Good: Nonhuman Primate Exploitation in Early to Mid-Holocene Eastern Java (Indonesia). Current Anthropology 61(2): 64-277. DOI:10.1086/708186 

2020. Wedage, O., Roberts, P., Faulkner, P., Crowther, A., Douka, K., Picin, A., Blinkhorn, J., Deraniyagala, S., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M. and Amano, N.* Late Pleistocene to early-Holocene rainforest foraging in Sri Lanka: Multidisciplinary analysis at Kitulgala Beli-lena. Quaternary Science Reviews 231: 106200. DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2020.106200

2019. Wedage, O., Amano, N.*, Langley, M., Douka, K., Blinkhorn, J., Crowther, A., Deraniyagala, S., Kourampas, N., Simpson, I., Perera, N., Picin, A., Boivin, N., Petraglia, M., Roberts, P. Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago. Nature Communications 10:739.  DOI:10.1038/s41467-019-08623-1

2019. Boulanger, C., Ingicco, T., Piper, P.J., Amano, N., Grouard, S., Ono, R., Hawkins, S., Pawlik, A. Coastal Subsistence and Mangrove Swamp Evolution at Bubog I Rockshelter (Ilin Island, Mindoro, Philippines) from the Late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology DOI:10.1080/15564894.2018.1531957  

2019. Roberts, P., Amano, N. Plastic pioneers: hominin biogeography across the Movius Line during the Late Pleistocene. Archaeological Research in Asia DOI:10.1016/j.ara.2019.01.003

2018. Ingicco, T., van den Bergh, G.D., Jago-on, C., Bahain, J-J., Chacon, M.G., Amano, N., Forestier, H., King, C., Manalo, K., Nomade, S., Pereira, A., Reyes, M.C., Semah, A.M., Shao, Q., Voinchet, P., Falgueres, C., Albers, P.C.H., Lising, M., Lyras, G., Yurnaldi, D., Rochette, P., Bautista, A., de Vos, J. Earliest known hominin activity in the Philippines by 709 thousand years ago. Nature 557, 233-237.  DOI:10.1038/s41586-018-0072-8

2017. Acabado, S., Barretto-Tesoro, G., Amano, N. Status differentiation, agricultural intensification, and pottery production in precapitalist Kiyyangan, Ifugao, Philippines. Archaeological Research in Asia DOI:10.1016/j.ara.2017.10.004

2017.  Reyes, M., Ingicco, T., Piper, P., Amano, N., Pawlik, A. First fossil evidence of the extinct Philippine cloud rat Crateromys paulus (Muridae: Murinae: Phloeomyini) from Ilin Island, Mindoro, and insights into its Holocene abundance. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 130: 84-97. DOI:10.2988/17-00012

2017. Ingicco, T., Piper, P., Amano, N., Pawlik, P. Biometric differentiation of Wild Philippine Pigs from Introduced Sus scrofa in Modern and Archaeological Assemblages. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 27(5):768-784  DOI:10.1002/oa.2592

2016. Amano N.*, Rivals, F. Moigne, AM., Ingicco, T., Sémah, F., Simanjuntak, T. Paleoenvironment in East Java during the Last 25,000 years as Inferred from Bovid and Cervid Dental Wear Analyses. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 10:155-165. DOI:10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.09.012

2016. Amano, N.*, Moigne A.M., Ingicco, T., Sémah, F., Awe, R.D., Simanjuntak, T. Subsistence Strategies and Environment in Late Pleistocene- Early Holocene Eastern Java:  Evidence from Braholo Cave. Quaternary International 416: 46-63. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.09.072

2016. Xhauflair H., Pawlik A., Gaillard C., Forestier H., Vitales T.J., Callado J.R., Tandang D., Amano N., Manipon D. Dizon, E. Characterisation of the use-wear resulting from bamboo working and its importance to address the hypothesis of the existence of a bamboo industry. Quaternary International 416: 95-125. DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2015.09.072  

2016. Ingicco, T., van den Bergh, G.D., de Vos J., Castro, A., Amano N., Bautista A. A new species of Celebochoerus (Suidae, Mammalia) from the Philippines and the palaeobiogeography of the genus Celebochoerus Hooijer, 1948. Geobios 49 (4): 285-291. DOI:10.1016/j.geobios.2016.05.006 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geobios.2016.05.006

2015. Oxenham M., Piper P.J., Bellwood P., Bui C.B., Nguyen K.T.K., Nguyen Q.M., Campos F., Castillo C., Wood R., Sarjeant C., Amano N., Willis A., and Ceron J. Emergence and Diversification of the Neolithic in Southern Vietnam: Insights from Coastal Rach Nui. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 309-338. DOI:10.1080/15564894.2014.980473  

2014. Ingicco, T., Amano, N., Ochoa, J. and Detroit, F. An Allometric Study of Macaca fascicularis from Late Pleistocene Deposits from Ille Cave, Philippines: A Potential Model for Southeast Asian Dwarf Hominins. Bull Mem Soc Anthropol Paris 26 (3-4): 147-153. DOI:10.1007/s13219-014-0098-x

2014. Pawlik, A., Piper, P., Paylona, P., Padilla, S., Carlos, J., Mijares, A., Vallejo, B., Ingicco, T., Reyes, M., Amano, N. and Porr, M. Archaeological Excavations at Bubog I and II on Ilin Island, Philippines: Adaptation and foraging from the Terminal Pleistocene to the Early Holocene: Excavation at Bubog on Ilin Island, Philippines. Journal of Field Archaeology 39(3): 230-247.  DOI:10.1179/0093469014Z.00000000090

2014. Piper, P.J., Campos, F.Z., Kinh, D.N., Amano, N. and Oxenham, M. Early Evidence for Pig and Dog Husbandry in the Neolithic Site of An Son in Southern Vietnam.  International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 24: 68-78. DOI:10.1002/oa.2226

2013. Amano, N*., Piper, P., Hung, H-c. and Bellwood, P. Introduced Domestic Animals to the Neolithic and Metal Age of the Philippines: Evidence from Nagsabaran, Northern Luzon.  Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 8:317-335. DOI:10.1080/15564894.2013.781084

2011. Bellwood, P., Oxenham, M., Bui, C-H., Nguyen, T.K.D., Willis, A., Sarjeant, C., Piper, P.J., Matsumura, H., Tanaka, K., Beavan, N., Higham, T., Nguyen, Q.M., Dang, N.K., Nguyen, K.T.K., Vo, T.H., Van, N.B., Tran, T.K.Q., Nguyen, P.T., Campos, F., Sato, Y-I., Nguyen, L.C. and Amano, N. 2011. An Son and the Neolithic of Southern Vietnam. Asian Perspectives 50:  144-175. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42928788