Scientific Articles
Talks, Seminars & Conferences
Scientific Publications of the Desert Pasts Projects
Foley RA, Maillo Fernandez JM & Mirazón Lahr M (2015) The Middle Stone Age of the Central Sahara: Biogeographical opportunities and technological strategies in later human evolution. Quaternary International 300: 153-170.
Foley RA & Mirazón Lahr M (2015) Lithic landscapes: early human impact from stone tool production on the Central Saharan environment. PLoS ONE 10(3): e0116482.
Mattingly D, Mirazón Lahr M, Armitage S, Barton H, Dore J, Drake N, Foley RA, Merlo S, Salem M, Stock J & White K (2007) Desert migrations: people, environment and culture in the Libyan Sahara. Libyan Studies 38: 1-42.
Mattingly D, Dore J & Mirazón Lahr M (2008) DMP II: 2008 Fieldwork on Burials and Identity in the Wadi al-Ajal. Libyan Studies 39: 223-262.
Mattingly D, Mirazón Lahr M & Wilson A (2009) DMP V: Investigations in 2009 of Cemeteries and Related Sites on the West Side of the Taqallit Promontory. Libyan Studies 40: 95-131.
Mattingly D, Abduli H, Aburgheba H, Ahmed M, Ahmed Esmaia MA, Baker S, Cole F, Fenwick C, Gonzalez Rodriguez M, Hobson M, Khalaf N, Mirazón Lahr M, Leitch V, Moussa F, Nikita E, Parker D, Radini A, Ray N, Savage T, Sterry M & Schörle K (2010) DMP IX: Summary report on the fourth season of excavations of the burials and identity team. Libyan Studies 41: 89-104.
Mattingly D, Abduli H, Ahmed M, Cole F, Fenwick C, Fothergill BT, González Rodriguez M, Hobson M, Khalaf N, Mirazón Lahr M, Moussa F, Nikita E, Nikolaus J, Radini A, Ray N, Savage T, Sterry M & Wilson A (2011) DMP XII: Excavations and Survey of the so-called Garamantian Royal Cemetery (GSC030-031). Libyan Studies 42: 89-102.
Mirazón Lahr M (2010) Saharan Corridors and Their Role in the Evolutionary Geography of ‘Out of Africa I’. In: JJ Fleagle, JJ Shea, FE Grine, AL Baden & RE Leakey (Eds.) Out of Africa I: The First Hominin Colonization of Eurasia, pp. 27-46. New York: Springer.
Mirazón Lahr M, Foley RA Armitage S, Barton H, Crivellaro F, Drake N, Hounslow M, Maher L, Mattingly D, Salem M, Stock J & White K (2008) DMP III: Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoenvironments and prehistoric occupation of Fazzan, Libyan Sahara. Libyan Studies 39: 263-294.
Mirazón Lahr M, Foley RA, Crivellaro F, Okumura M, Maher L, Davies T, Veldhuis D, Wilshaw A & Mattingly D (2009) DMP VI: Preliminary results from 2009 fieldwork on the human prehistory of the Libyan Sahara. Libyan Studies 40: 143-162.
Mirazón Lahr M, Foley RA, Crivellaro F, Maillo Fernandez J, Wilshaw A, Purdon A, Halladay-Garrett C, Veldhuis D & Mattingly D (2010) DMP XI: Preliminary results from 2010 fieldwork on the human prehistory of the Libyan Sahara. Libyan Studies 41: 137-158.
Mirazón Lahr M, Foley RA, Crivellaro F, Maillo Fernandez J, Wilshaw A, Copsey B, Rivera F & Mattingly D (2011) DMP XIV: Prehistoric sites in the Wadi Barjuj, Fazzan, Libyan Sahara. Libyan Studies 42: 117-138.
Nikita E, Crivellaro F, Stock J, Foley RA & Mirazón Lahr M (2010) Human Skeletal Remains. In: D.J. Mattingly (Ed.) Archaeology of Fazzan III, pp. 375-408. London: Society for Libyan Studies.
Nikita E, Mattingly D & Mirazón Lahr M (2012) Three-dimensional cranial shape analyses and gene flow in North Africa during the Middle to Late Holocene. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 31(4): 564-572.
Nikita E, Mattingly D & Mirazón Lahr M (2012) Sahara: Barrier or corridor? Nonmetric cranial traits and biological affinities of North African Late Holocene populations. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 147: 180-292.
Nikita E, Mattingly D & Mirazón Lahr M (2013) Methodological considerations in the statistical analysis of degenerative joint and disc disease. International Journal of Paleopathology 3(2): 105-112.
Nikita E, Mattingly D & Mirazón Lahr M (2013) Late Holocene desert-induced stress and human migrations through the Sahara: the case of the Garamantes. In: B. Kotlia (ed) Holocene: Perspectives, Environmental Dynamics and Impact Events, pp. 219-260. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Nikita E, Mattingly D & Mirazón Lahr M (2014) Dental indicators of adaptation in the Saharan Desert during the late Holocene. Homo: Journal of Comparative Human Biology 65 (5): 381-399.
Nikita E, Mirazón Lahr M & Mattingly D (2013) Evidence of trephinations among the Garamantes, a late Holocene Saharan population. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 23: 370-377.
Nikita E, Siew YS, Stock J, Mattingly D & Mirazón Lahr M (2011) Activity patterns in the Sahara Desert: An interpretation based on cross-sectional geometry. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 146(3): 423-434.
Power RK, Nikita E, Mattingly D, Mirazón Lahr M & O’Connell TC (2019) Human mobility and identity: Variation, Diet and Migration in relation to the Garamantes of Fazzan. In: MC Gatto, DJ Mattingly, N Ray & M Sterry (Eds) Trans-Saharans: Burials, Migration and Identity, pp 134-161. Cambridge: CUP. DOI: 10.1017/9781108634311.
Presentations of the Desert Pasts Projects at seminars & conferences
2012 AARD, Southampton – The African MSA: emerging perspectives on technology and human evolution. Marta Mirazon Lahr, Jose Manuel Maillo Fernandez & Robert Foley (PDF: 2012 AARD Mirazon Lahr et al)
2012 Dept. of Archaeology, Univ. of Southampton – The complexities of modern human origins in Africa. Marta Mirazon Lahr & Robert Foley (PDF: 2012 Southampton, Mirazon Lahr & Foley)
2012 Oxford ‘Middle Palaeolithic in the Desert’ Conference – Technological strategies, lithic variation and the context for the MSA in the Libyan Central Sahara. Robert Foley, Jose Manuel Maillo Fernandez & Marta Mirazon Lahr (PDF: 2012 Middle Pal in the Desert, Oxford, Foley et al)
2012 ‘Libya Matters’ Conference, London – A sand bridge across Africa – prehistory of the Libyan Sahara. Marta Mirazon Lahr & Robert Foley (PDF: 2012 Libya Matters)
2011 AARD, London – Diversity of grinding implements in late hunter-gathering and early Pastoral communities of Fazzan, Libyan Sahara. Federica Crivellaro, Anita Radini, Robert Foley, David Mattingly & Marta Mirazon Lahr (PDF: 2011 AARD Crivellaro et al)
2011 AARD, London – Three-dimensional cranial shape analyses and gene flow in North Africa during the late Holocene. Efthymia Nikita, David Mattingly & Marta Mirazon Lahr (PDF: 2011 AARD Nikita et al)
2011 AARD, London – The Aterian of the Central Sahara. Jose Manuel Maillo Fernandez, Robert Foley & Marta Mirazon Lahr
2011 CAHO, Southampton – Extreme evolution: the role of the Sahara in early prehistory. Robert Foley & Marta Mirazon Lahr (PDF: 2011 CAHO Foley & Mirazon Lahr)
2011 Clare College, Cambridge – Alumni Day. Between lakes and deserts: climate change, dispersals and the evolution of man. Marta Mirazon Lahr (PDF: 2011 Clare College Mirazon Lahr)
2010 AARD, Cambridge – Evidence for Mode 1 hominin occupation in the Central Sahara. Robert Foley & Marta Mirazon Lahr (PDF: 2010 AARD Foley & Mirazon Lahr)
2010 Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge, Seminar to ‘The Friends of the Sedgwick Museum’ – Across Africa: the role of the Sahara in human dispersal. Marta Mirazon Lahr (PDF: 2010 Friends of the Sedgwick Museum)
2009 Department of Anthropology, Stony Brook, USA – Stone islands in a sand sea: recent work on the Messak Plateau and Erg Awbari in Fazzan, southern Libya. Marta Mirazon Lahr (PDF: 2009 Stony Brook Mirazon Lahr)
2009 AARD, Liverpool – Recent research on the prehistory of the Messak Plateau, Southern Libya. Marta Mirazon Lahr, Robert Foley & David Mattingly (PDF: 2009 AARD Mirazon Lahr et al)
2009 Dept of Antiquities, Tripoli, Libya – Area 131, Jarma, Fazzan: Archaeological Mitigation of Seismic Acquisition 2006-2008. Marta Mirazon Lahr, Robert Foley, David Mattingly & Charles Le Quesne (PDF: 2009 Tripoli Mirazon Lahr et al)
2009 CALPE, Gibraltar – Evolutionary geography of African Pleistocene hominins – Saharan corridors and barriers. Robert Foley & Marta Mirazon Lahr (PDF: 2009 CALPE Foley & Mirazon Lahr)
2008 AARD, York – 5th African Archaeology Research Day – Corridors and barriers: the Libyan Sahara in the Quaternary and its role in prehistoric dispersals in Africa. Marta Mirazon Lahr & Robert Foley (PDF: 2008 AARD Mirazon Lahr & Foley)
2008 Society for Libyan Studies, British Academy, London – Stone islands in a sand sea: recent work on the Messak Plateau in southern Libya. Marta Mirazon Lahr (PDF: 2008 SLS Mirazon lahr)
2008 OXY Western GECO Camp Block 131 – Prehistory of Fezzan, Libya. Marta Mirazon Lahr, Robert Foley & David Mattingly (PDF: 2008 OXY presentation, Mirazon Lahr et al)
2007 Cagliari, XVII Congress of Italian Anthropologists – Major Issues on the modern human occupation of North Africa: Chronology, dispersal routes and the palaeoanthropological record. Marta Mirazon Lahr, Jay Stock & Federica Crivellaro (PDF: 2007 Cagliari Mirazon Lahr et al)
2007 Oxford – Out of Africa: some thoughts about hominin dispersals. Marta Mirazon Lahr, Robert Foley & Michael Petraglia (PDF: 2007 African Pumps, Oxford)