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Prof Chris Stringer

Professor Chris Stringer
  • Merit Researcher
  • Palaeontology department
  • Palaeontology Research Division
Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London
SW7 5BD

  • Tel: +44 (0)20 7942 5539
  • Fax: +44 (0)20 7942 5546

Biography

Employment history

Natural History Museum, London.

2005 - present               Research Leader in Human Origins

1999 - 2005                    Head of Human Origins Programme
1990 - 1993

1989 - 1990                    Head of Anthropology

1973 - present               Individual Merit Promotions
                                          Principal Scientific Officer
                                          Senior Scientific Officer
                                          Senior Research Fellow                                      

Education

1966 - 1969     B.Sc. (Hons) Anthropology.University College London

1970 - 1974     Ph.D. University of Bristol (Anatomy Department)

1990                  D.Sc.University of Bristol (Anatomy Department)

Professional Roles

Offices, appointments, honours:

  • Honorary Doctor of Science University of Kent 2009
  • Fellow of the Royal Society (from 2004)
  • Frink Medal Zoological Society of London 2009
  • Author Best Archaeology Book Award 2008 (Homo britannicus)
  • Author Kistler Book Award 2008 (Homo britannicus)
  • Director, Ancient Human Occupation of Britain projects 1 and 2 (funded Leverhulme Trust: total £2.2M)
  • Visiting Professor, Royal Holloway, University of London
  • Research Associate, Centre for Ecology and Evolution, University College, London
  • Corresponding Member, UCSD/Salk Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)
  • Rivers Memorial Medal 2004, Roy.Anthrop.Institute
  • Pfizer Annual Science Forum Lecturer 2003, NHM
  • Darwin Lecturer 2003, Centre for Ecology and Evolution London
  • Mulvaney Lectureship 2001, ANU Canberra
  • Dalrymple Lectureship 2001, University of Glasgow
  • Millennium Distinguished Lecturer 2000, Amer.Anthrop.Association
  • The Henry Stopes Medal of the Geologists’ Association 2000
  • Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Bristol 2000
  • The Osman Hill Medal, Primate Society of Great Britain 1998
  • Radcliffe Lectureship, Green College Oxford 1996
  • Co-author Archaeology Book of the Year 1994 (In search of the Neanderthals)
  • Lyell Lectureship, British Association, 1988
  • Associate Editor Journal of Human Evolution 1984-2003
  • Editorial Advisory Board Anthropological Science
  • British Nat. Rep. Int. Assoc. for Human Palaeontology
  • Trustee L.S.B. Leakey Trust
  • Joint organiser “Culture Evolves” Roy.Soc. (2010)
  • Joint organiser “The first four million years of human evolution” Roy.Soc. (2009)
  • Joint organiser “The Human Revolution revisited” Cambridge (September 2005)
  • Joint organiser of Cold Spring Harbor meeting “Human Evolution and Disease” (2002)
  • Joint organiser of international conference “Neanderthals and modern humans in Late Pleistocene Eurasia” (Gibraltar 2001)
  • Joint organiser of Cold Spring Harbor meeting “Human Origins” (2000)
  • Joint organiser of British Academy conference “The speciation of Homo sapiens” (2000)
  • Joint organiser of international conference “Gibraltar and the Neanderthals 1848-1998” (Gibraltar 1998)
  • Joint organiser of CIBA conference "Exploring modern human origins: caveats and prospects" (1992)
  • Joint organiser of Royal Society conference "The origin of Homo sapiens and the impact of science based dating" (1992)
  • Joint organiser of international conference "The origins and dispersal of modern humans" (Cambridge, 1987)
  • Conference organiser, Society for the Study of Human Biology: "Aspects of Human Evolution" (London, 1980)
  • Conference organiser, Pengelly Cave Studies Trust: "Sea Caves" (London, 1977)
  • Conference organiser, The cultural and physical evolution of Homo sapiens (Oxford,1975)

Research

Recent Research Grants

  • RESET. 
    NERC Consortium Award £3.4M. C. Stringer Consortium Member (start date January 2008).
  • The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain and Europe.
    The Leverhulme Trust, £999,000. Project Director C. Stringer (start date October 2006).
  • Environmental factors in human evolution and dispersals in the Upper Pleistocene of the western Mediterranean.
    EFCHED/NERC £129,655. PI Prof. RNE Barton Oxford, Co-Investigator C. Stringer (December 2002)
  • Chronology, adaptation and environment of the Middle Palaeolithic in Northern Africa: implications for the dispersal of anatomically modern humans.
    EFCHED/NERC £111,206. PI Dr S Stokes Oxford, Co-Investigator C. Stringer (November 2002)
  • The evolution of hominid dietary adaptations linked with environmental changes: extending the record beyond 100,000 years.
    EFCHED/NERC £121,973. PI.Dr M P Richards Bradford/Leipzig, Collaborator C. Stringer (November 2002).
  • Human migration and evolution along the Indian Ocean Rim: genetics, morphometrics, and paleoenvironment.
    EFCHED/NERC £67,449. PI Prof A Cooper Oxford, Co-Investigator C. Stringer (December 2002)
  • The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain.
    The Leverhulme Trust, £1.20 million. Project Director C. Stringer (October 2001).

Publications

2008
  • (2008) Early Man in Britain. Ravensbourne Review Summer 2008: 19-21.
  • Finlayson, C., Fa, D., Jiménez Espejo, F., Carrión, J.S., Finlayson, G., Giles Pacheco, F., Rodríguez Vidal, J., Stringer, C. & Martínez Ruiz, F. (2008) Cave, Gibraltar – the persistence of a Neanderthal population Quaternary International 181: 64–71. 10.1016/j.quaint.2007.11.016
  • Grün,R., Joannes-Boyau, R. & Stringer, C. (2008) Two types of CO2 radicals threaten
    the fundamentals of ESR dating of tooth enamel Quaternary Geochronology 3: 150–172. 10.1016/j.quageo.2007.09.004
  • Stringer, C. & Barton, R.N. (2008) Putting North Africa on the Map of Modern
    Human Origins Evolutionary Anthropology 17: 5–7. 10.1002/evan.20152
  • Stringer, C., Finlayson, J.C., Barton, R.N.E., Fernández-Jalvo, Y., Cáceres, I. (2008) Reply to Klein and Steele: Neanderthals and their South African contemporaries December 16, 2008 PNAS 105: E115. 10.1073/pnas.0810756106
  • Stringer, C., Finlayson, J.C., Barton, R.N.E., Fernández-Jalvo, Y., Cáceres, I., Sabin, R., Rhodes, E., Currant, A. P., Rodríguez-Vidal, J, Giles Pacheco F & Riquelme Cantal, J.A. (2008) Neanderthal exploitation of marine mammals in Gibraltar Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA 105: 14319–14324. 10.1073/pnas.0805474105
  • Weaver T.D., Charles C. Roseman, C.C. & Stringer, C.B. (2008) Close correspondence between quantitative- and molecular-genetic divergence times for Neandertals and modern humans Proceedings National Academy Sciences USA 105: 4645–4649. 10.1073/pnas.0709079105
  • Zollikofer, C., Ponce de León, M., Schmitz, R. & Stringer, C. (2008) New insights into Mid-Late Pleistocene fossil hominin paranasal sinus morphology Anatomical Record 291: 1506–1516. 10.1002/ar.20779
2007
  • Barker G., Barton H., Bird M., Daly P., Datan I., Dykes A., Farr L., Gilbertson D., Harrisson B., Hunt C., Higham T., Kealhofer L., Krigbaum J., Lewis H., McLaren S., Paz V., Pike A., Piper P., Pyatt B., Rabett R., Reynolds T., Rose J., Rushworth G., Stephens M., Stringer C., Thompson J. & Turney C. (2007) The 'human revolution' in lowland tropical Southeast Asia: the antiquity and behavior of anatomically modern humans at Niah Cave (Sarawak, Borneo) Journal of Human Evolution 52: 243-261. 10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.08.011
  • Barton, R.N., Bouzouggar, A., Bronk-Ramsey, C., Collcutt, S., Higham, T., Humphrey, L., Parfitt, S., Rhodes, E., Schwenninger, J.L., Stringer, C. & Ward, S. (2007) Abrupt climatic change and chronology of the Upper Palaeolithic in northern and eastern Morocco. In P. Mellars, K. Boyle, O. Bar-Yosef & C. Stringer (eds), In: Rethinking the Human Revolution. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Monograph series: Cambridge, 177-186.
  • Bouzouggar, A., Barton, N., Vanhaeren, M., d'Errico, F., Collcutt, S., Higham, T., Hodge, E., Parfitt, S., Rhodes, E., Schwenninger, J.-L., Stringer, C., Turner, E., Ward, S., Moutmir, A. & Stambouli A. (2007) 82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior Proceedings National Academy Sciences USA 104: 9964–9969. 10.1073/pnas.0703877104
  • Coppa A., Manni F., Stringer C., Vargiu R. & Vecchi F. (2007) Evidence for new Neanderthal teeth in Tabun Cave (Israel) by the application of self-organizing maps (SOMs) Journal of Human Evolution 52: 601-613. 10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.11.009
  • Endicott, P., Metspalu, M., Stringer, C., Macaulay, V., Cooper, A. & Sanchez, J. (2007) Multiplexed SNP Typing of Ancient DNA Clarifies the Origin of Andaman mtDNA Haplogroups amongst South Asian Tribal Populations PLoS ONE 1 (1): 1e81. 10.1371/journal.pone.0000081
  • Gilmour, M., Currant, A., Jacobi, R. & Stringer, C. (2007) Recent TIMS dating results from British Late Pleistocene vertebrate faunal localities: context and interpretation Journal of Quaternary Science 22: 793-800. 10.1002/jqs.1112
  • McBrearty, S. & Stringer, C. (2007) The Coast in Colour Nature 449: 793-794. 10.1038/449793a
  • Mellars, P., Boyle, K., Bar-Yosef, O. & Stringer, C. (eds) (2007) Rethinking the Human Revolution. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Monograph series: Cambridge,.
  • Stringer C. and Bello S. (eds) (2007) First Workshop of AHOB2: Ancient Human Occupation of Britain and its European Context. AHOB: London,.
  • Stringer, C. (2007) Out of Africa. In B. Regal (ed.), In: Icons of Evolution: An Encyclopedia of People, Evidence, and Controversies. Greenwood Publishing Group: Westwood, 601-10.
  • Stringer, C. (2007) The origin and dispersal of Homo sapiens: our current state of knowledge. In P. Mellars, K. Boyle, O. Bar-Yosef & C. Stringer (eds), In: Rethinking the Human Revolution.. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Monograph series: Cambridge, 15-20.
  • Stringer, C. (2007) Origin of Modern Humans. In J. Middleton & J. Miller (eds), In: New Encyclopedia of Africa. Charles Scribner’s Sons: Detroit, 613-620.
  • Stringer, C. (2007) the mystery of the skulls from Dmanisi, Georgia. The first Europeans and the Pit of the bones at Atapuerca, Spain. Boxgrove: the oldest human fossils in Britain. The 'Hobbit': an unknown human relative?, In: Discovery! Unearthing the new treasures of archaeology. Thames & Hudson: London, 24-35.
  • Stringer, C., Jacobi, R. & Higham,T. (2007) New research on the Kent's Cavern 4 maxilla, its context and dating. In C. Stringer and S. Bello (eds), In: First Workshop of AHOB2: Ancient Human Occupation of Britain and its European Context. AHOB: London, 25-27.
  • Vita-Finzi C. & Stringer, C. (2007) The setting of the Mt. Carmel caves reassessed Quaternary Science Reviews 26: 436-440. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.11.015
  • Vita-Finzi, C. & Stringer, C. (2007) Reply to Ronen et al Quaternary Science Reviews 26: 2685-2686. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.06.004
  • Weaver, T., Roseman, C. & Stringer, C (2007) Were Neanderthal and modern human cranial differences produced by natural selection or genetic drift? Journal of Human Evolution 53: 135-145 . 10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.03.001
2006
  • Ashton, N., Lewis, S. & Stringer, C. (2006) Introduction: The Palaeolithic occupation of Europe. A tribute to John J. Wymer, 1928–2006 Journal of Quaternary Science 21: 421–424. 10.1002/jqs.1046
  • Bräuer, G., Broeg, H. & Stringer, C. (2006) Earliest Upper Palaeolithic crania from Mladeč, Czech Republic, and the question of Neanderthal-modern continuity: metrical evidence from the fronto-facial region. In Harvati, K and Harrison, T. (eds), In: Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives. Springer: New York, 269-279.
  • Finlayson C., Giles Pacheco, F., Rodriguez-Vidal, J., Fa, D.A., Maria Gutierrez Lopez,
    J., Santiago Perez, A., Finlayson, G., Allue, E., Baena Preysler, J., Caceres, I.,
    Carrion, J.S., Fernandez Jalvo, Y., Gleed-Owen, C.P., Jimenez Espejo, F.J.,
    Lopez, P., Antonio Lopez Saez, J., Antonio Riquelme Cantal, J., Sanchez
    Marco, A., Giles Guzman,F., Brown,K., Fuentes, N., Valarino, C.A.,
    Villalpando, A., Stringer, C.B., Martinez Ruiz F. & Sakamoto T. (2006) Late survival of Neanderthals at the southernmost extreme of Europe Nature 443: 850-853. 10.1038/nature05195
  • Grün, R., Maroto, J., Eggins, S., Stringer, C., Robertson, S., Taylor, L., Mortimer G. & McCulloch, M. (2006) ESR and U-series analyses of enamel and dentine fragments of the Banyoles mandible Journal of Human Evolution 50: 347-358. 10.1016/j.jhevol.2005.10.001
  • Richards, M., Jacobi R., Stringer, C., Pettitt P. & Cook J. (2006) Marine diets in the European late Upper Paleolithic: A reply to Bocherens and Drucker Journal of Human Evolution 51: 443-444. 10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.04.009
  • Stringer, C. (2006) The Neanderthal - H. sapiens interface in Eurasia. In Harvati, K and Harrison, T. (eds), In: Neanderthals Revisited: New Approaches and Perspectives. Springer: New York, 315-323.
  • Stringer, C. (2006) Homo britannicus. Allen Lane: London,.
  • Stringer, C. (2006) The origins of modern humans 1984-2004. In H. Soodyall (ed.), In: The Prehistory of Africa. Jonathan Ball: Johannesburg, 10-20.
  • Stringer, C. (2006) The first humans North of the Alps British Archaeology 86: 25.
  • Vanhaeren, M., d’Errico, F., Stringer, C., James, S., Todd, J. & Mienis, H. (2006) Middle Paleolithic Shell Beads in Israel and Algeria Science 312: 1785-1788. 10.1126/science.1128139
2005
  • Barton, N., Bouzouggar, A., Bronk-Ramsey, C., Collcutt, S., Higham, T., Humphrey, L., Parfitt, S., Rhodes, E., Schwenninger, J., Stringer, C., & Ward, S. (2005) Climate and chronology of the Late Palaeolithic in Northern and Eastern Morocco Primate Eye 87: 27-28.
  • Barton, N., Bouzzougar, J., Collcutt, S., Gale, R., Higham, T., Humphrey, L., Parfitt, S., Rhodes, E., Stringer, C. & Malek, F. (2005) The Late Upper Palaeolithic occupation of the Moroccan northwest Maghreb during the Last Glacial Maximum African Archaeological Review 22: 77-100. 10.1007/s10437-005-4190-y
  • Coppa, A., Grün, R., Stringer, C., Eggins, S. & Vargiu, R. (2005) Newly recognized Pleistocene human teeth from Tabun Cave, Israel Journal of Human Evolution 49: 301-315. 10.1016/j.jhevol.2005.04.005
  • Grün, R., Stringer, C., McDermott, F., Nathan, R., Porat, N., Robertson, S., Taylor, L., Mortimer, G., Eggins, S. & McCulloch, M. (2005) U-series and ESR analyses of bones and teeth relating to the human burials from Skhul Journal of Human Evoution 49: 316-334. 10.1016/j.jhevol.2005.04.006
  • Onac, B., Viehmann, I, Lundberg, J., Lauritzen, S.-E., Stringer, C. & Popiţǎ V. (2005) U-Th ages constraining the Neanderthal footprint at Vârtop Cave, Romania Quaternary Science Reviews 24: 1151-1157. 10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.12.001
  • Parfitt, S., Barendregt, R., Breda, M., Candy, I., Collins, M., Coope, G.R., Durbidge, P., Field, M., Lee, J., Lister, A., Mutch, R., Penkman, K., Preece, R., Rose, J., Stringer, C., Symmons, R., Whittaker, J., Wymer, J. & Stuart, A. (2005) The earliest record of human activity in Northern Europe Nature 438: 1008-1012. 10.1038/nature04227
  • Richards, M., Jacobi, R., Cook, J., Pettitt P. and Stringer, C. (2005) Isotope evidence for the intensive use of marine foods by Late Upper Palaeolithic humans Journal of Human Evoution 49: 390-394. 10.1016/j.jhevol.2005.05.002
  • Soligo, C. & Stringer, C. (2005) Our place in evolution: past, present and future. Set in Stone 3 (3): 6-8.
  • Strand Vidarsdottir, U., Buck, T., Cooper, A., Endicott, P. & Stringer, C. (2005) Morphology and molecules: a study of diversity and dispersal in the island populations of South Asia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology Meetings Volume 126, Supplement 40: 200..
  • Stringer, C. (2005) The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) Project Transactions of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society 99: 29-32.
  • Stringer, C. (2005) The complete world of human evolution: our past in perspective Naturefirst 40: 23-26.
  • Stringer, C. (2005) Episodic early human occupation of Britain Primate Eye 87: 26-27.
  • Stringer, C. (2005) The ancient human occupation of Britain. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Meetings Volume 126, S40: 200-201..
  • Stringer, C. (2005) The little people of Flores. Rockwatch 39: 12-13..
  • Stringer, C. (2005) Omo Kibish: the earliest modern humans? Set in Stone 3 (2): 7.
  • Stringer, C. (2005) Der Zwergmensch von Flores. Spektrum January 2005: 14-15.
  • Stringer, C. (2005) Homo floresiensis. Set in Stone 2 (4): 9-10..
  • Stringer, C. (2005) The Neanderthal - H.sapiens interface in Eurasia. Abstracts New York University Conference Neanderthals revisited: new approaches and perspectives: 59-61..
  • Stringer, C. (2005) New dating uncovers oldest modern human fossils.
  • Stringer, C. (2005) Major gaps in the early human occupation of Britain.
  • Stringer, C. & Andrews, P. (2005) The complete world of human evolution, In: Thames & Hudson. London.
2004
  • Bräuer, G., Collard, M. & Stringer C. (2004) On the reliability of recent tests of the Out of Africa hypothesis for modern human origins Anatomical Record 279A: 701-707. Anatomical Record
  • Stringer, C. (2004) A stranger from Flores.
  • Stringer, C. (2004) Three foot tall “human” discovered on the Indonesian island of Flores.
  • Stringer, C. (2004) Piltdown 2003.
2003
  • Endicott, P., Gilbert, M.T.P., Stringer, C., Lalueza-Fox, C., Willerslev, E., Hansen A.J., Cooper, A. (2003) The Genetic Origins of the Andaman Islanders American Journal of Human Genetics 72: 178-184. 10.1086/345487
  • Endicott, P., Macaulay, V., Kivisild, T., Stringer, C. & Cooper, A. (2003) The genetic origins of the Andaman Islanders: reply to Cordaux and Stoneking American Journal of Human Genetics 72: 1590-1592. 10.1086/345487
  • Prossinger, H., Seidler, H., Wicke, L., Weaver, D. Recheis, W., Stringer, C. & Müller, G. (2003) Electronic removal of encrustations inside the Steinheim cranium reveals paranasal sinus features and deformations, and provides a revised endocranial volume estimate Anatomical Record 273B: 132-142. 10.1002/ar.b.10022
  • Smith, C., Chamberlain, A., Riley, M., Stringer, C. & Collins, M. (2003) The thermal history of human fossils and the likelihood of successful DNA amplification Journal of Human Evolution 45: 203-217. 10.1016/S0047-2484(03)00106-4
  • Stringer, C. (2003) Human Evolution: Out of Ethiopia Nature 423: 692-695. 10.1038/423692a
  • Stringer, C. (2003) Piltdown 2003. Set in Stone 1(4): 1-3.
  • Stringer, C. & AHOB Project Members (2003) The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) Project. Quaternary Newsletter 99: 55-58.
  • Stringer, C., Pälike, H., van Andel, T., Huntley, B., Valdes P. & Allen, J. (2003) Climatic stress and the extinction of the Neanderthals. In T. van Andel & W. Davies (eds), In: Neanderthals and modern humans in the European landscape during the last glaciation. McDonald Institute Monographs: Cambridge, 233-240.
  • Trinkaus, E., Humphrey, L., Stringer, C., Churchill, S. & Tague, R. (2003) Gough's Cave 1 (Somerset, England): an assessment of the sex and age at death. Bulletin of The Natural History Museum, Geology Series 58 (supp): 45-50.
  • Weiner, J. & Stringer, C. (2003) The Piltdown Forgery (50th anniversary edition). Oxford University Press: Oxford,.
2002
  • Barham, L., Pinto Llona, A. & Stringer, C. (2002) Bone tools from Broken Hill (Kabwe) cave, Zambia, and their evolutionary significance. Before Farming 2002/2.
  • Hennessy, R. & Stringer, C (2002) Geometric morphometric study of the regional variation of modern human craniofacial form American Journal of Physical Anthropology 117: 37- 48. 10.1002/ajpa.10005
  • Humphrey, L. & Stringer, C. (2002) The human cranial remains from Gough's Cave (Somerset, England) Bulletin of The British and Natural History Museum, Geology Series 58: 153-168. 10.1017/S0968046202000049
  • Pettitt, P., Barton, R.N., Stringer, C. & Finlayson, C.J. (2002) Radiocarbon dates from Gibraltar Caves. Archaeometry 44(3) Supplement 1: 25-27..
  • Stringer C. (2002) Modern human origins - progress and prospects Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society, London (B) 357: 563-579. 10.1098/rstb.2001.1057
  • Stringer, C. (2002) Early Man. In A. Salked (ed.) Kilimanjaro. National Geographic: Washington, pp. 246-247..
  • Stringer, C. (2002) A fossil history. In K. Dobney & T. O’Connor (eds), In: Bones and the Man: Studies in honour of Don Brothwell. Oxbow Books: Oxford, 1-4.
  • Stringer, C. (2002) The morphological and behavioural origins of modern humans Proceedings of the British Academy 106: 23-30.
  • Stringer, C. (2002) The fate of the Neanderthals Open University Geological Society Journal 23: 10-11.
  • Stringer, C. (2002) New perspectives on the Neanderthals Evolutionary Anthropology 11 (S1): 58-59. 10.1002/evan.10057
  • Stringer, C. (2002) Hominids. In G. Tornaritis & D. Pierides (eds), In: The Tonaritis-Pierides Marine Life Foundation. Nereus Publications: Athens, 42-45.
  • Stringer, C. & AHOB Project Members (2002) The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) Project. Before Farming 2002/1.
  • Viðarsdóttir, U., O'Higgins P. & Stringer, C. (2002) A geometric morphometric study of regional differences in the ontogeny of the modern human facial skeleton Journal of Anatomy 211: 211-230. 10.1046/j.1469-7580.2002.00092.x
2001
  • Barton, R.N.E., Bouzzougar, A. & Stringer, C. (2001) Bridging the gap: new fieldwork in northern Morocco Antiquity 75: 489- 490. Antiquity
  • Cooper, A., Rambaut, A., Macaulay, V., Willerslev, E., Hansen, A. & Stringer, C. (2001) Human origins and ancient human DNA Science 292: 1655-1656. 10.1126/science.292.5522.1655
  • Dean, C., Leakey, M., Reid, D., Schrenk, F., Schwartz, G., Stringer, C. & Walker, A. (2001) Growth processes in teeth distinguish modern humans from Homo erectus and earlier hominins Nature 414: 628-631. 10.1038/414628a
  • Finlayson, J.C., Barton, R.N.E. & Stringer, C. (2001) The Gibraltar Neanderthals and their extinction Trabalhos de Arqueologia 17: 117- 122.
  • Smith, C., Chamberlain, A., Riley, M., Cooper, A., Stringer, C. & Collins, M. (2001) Neanderthal DNA; not just old but old and cold Nature 410: 771-772. 10.1038/35071177
  • Streeter, M., Stout, S., Trinkaus, E., Stringer, C., Roberts, M. & Parfitt, S. (2001) Histomorphometric age assessment of the Boxgrove 1 tibial diaphysis Journal of Human Evolution 40: 331-338. 10.1006/jhev.2001.0460
  • Stringer, C. (2001) The evolution of modern humans: where are we now? General Anthropology 7 (2): 1-5.
  • Stringer, C. (2001) What happened to the Neanderthals? General Anthropology 7 (2): 10-11.
  • Stringer, C. (2001) Dating the origin of modern humans. In C. Lewis & S. Knell (eds), In: The Age of the Earth: from 4004 BC to AD 2002. Geological Society: London, 265-274.
  • Stringer, C. (2001) Modern human origins – distinguishing the models African Archaeological Review 18: 67- 75. 10.1023/A:1011079908461
  • Stringer, C. (2001) The long walk to humanity (Dalrymple Lectures 2001) Scottish Archaeological Journal 23: v-vi.
  • Stringer, C. & Davies, W. (2001) Those elusive Neanderthals Nature 410: 791-792. 10.1038/35101688
2000
  • Finlayson, J.C., Barton, R.N.E., Giles Pacheco F., Finlayson, G., Fa, D., Currant, A., & Stringer, C. (2000) Human Occupation of Gibraltar during Oxygen Isotope Stages 2 and 3 and a comment on the late survival of Neanderthals in the southern Iberian Peninsula Actos do 3o Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular 2: 277-286.
  • Grün, R. & Stringer, C. (2000) Tabun revisited: revised ESR chronology and new ESR and U-series analyses of dental material from Tabun C1 Journal of Human Evolution 39: 601-612. 10.1006/jhev.2000.0443
  • Pearson, O., Grine, F., Barham, L. & Stringer, C. (2000) Human remains from the Middle and Later Stone Age site of Mumbwa Caves. In L. Barham (ed.), In: The Middle Stone Age of Zambia, South Central Africa. Western Academic and Specialist Press: Bristol, 149-164.
  • Ponce de Leon, M., Zollikofer, C., Martin, R. & Stringer, C. (2000) Investigation of Neanderthal morphology with computer-assisted methods. In Stringer, C., Barton, R.N. & Finlayson, C. (eds), In: Neanderthals on the edge: 150th anniversary conference of the Forbes' Quarry discovery, Gibraltar. Oxbow Books: Oxford, 237-248.
  • Rhodes, E., Stringer, C., Grün, R., Barton, R.N.E., Currant, A. & Finlayson, J.C. (2000) Preliminary ESR dates from Ibex cave, Gibraltar. In Finlayson,C.J., Finlayson, G. & Fa, D. (eds), In: Gibraltar during the Quaternary: the southernmost part of Europe in the last two million years. Gibraltar Government Heritage Publications: Gibraltar, 109-112.
  • Richards, M., Hedges, R., Jacobi, R., Currant, A. & Stringer, C. (2000) Gough's Cave and Sun Hole Cave human stable isotope values indicate a high animal protein diet in the British Upper Palaeolithic Journal of Archaeological Science 27: 1-3. 10.1006/jasc.1999.0520
  • Stringer, C. (2000) Coasting out of Africa Nature 405: 24-27. Nature
  • Stringer, C. (2000) Digging the Rock. In P. Whybrow (ed.), In: Travels with the Fossil Hunters. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 42-59.
  • Stringer, C. (2000) Human evolution: how an African primate became global. In S. Culver & P. Rawson (eds), In: Biotic response to global change: the last 145 million years. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 379-390.
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1999
  • Andrews, P, Cook, J., Currant, A. & Stringer, C. (1999) Westbury Cave – The Natural History Museum excavations 1976-1984. Western Academic and Specialist Press: Bristol,.
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  • Stringer, C. (1999) The Middle Pleistocene hominid record. In M. Roberts & S. Parfitt (eds), In: Boxgrove: a Middle Pleistocene hominid site at Eartham Quarry, Boxgrove, West Sussex. English Heritage Archaeological Report 17: London, 415-419.
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  • Stringer, C. (1999) The origin of modern humans and their regional diversity. Newsetter Interdisciplinary.Study Origins Japanese Peoples Cultures 9: 3-5..
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  • Stringer, C., Barton, R.N.E., Currant, A.P., Finlayson, J.C., Goldberg, P., Macphail, R. & Pettitt, P. (1999) The Gibraltar Palaeolithic revisited: new excavations at Gorham's and Vanguard caves 1995-7. In Davis, W & Charles, R. (eds), In: Dorothy Garrod and the progress of the Palaeolithic. Oxbow Books: Oxford, 84-96.
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1998
  • d’Errico, F., Williams, C.T., & Stringer, C. (1998) AMS dating and microscopic analysis of the Sherborne bone Journal of Archaeolical Sciences 25: 777-787. 10.1006/jasc.1997.0221
  • Grün, R., Huang, P.-H., Huang, W., McDermott, F., Stringer, C., Thorne, A. & Yan, G. (1998) ESR and U-series analyses of teeth from the palaeoanthropological site of Hexian, Anhui Province, China Journal of Human Evolution 34: 555-564. 10.1006/jhev.1997.0211
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  • Spoor, F. & Stringer, C. (1998) Rare temporal bone pathology of the Singa calvaria from Sudan American Journal of Physical Anthropology 107: 41-50. 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199809)107:1<41::AID-AJPA4>3.0.CO;2-G
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1997
  • Barton, J. & Stringer, C. (1997) An attempt at dating the Swanscombe skull bones using non-destructive counting Archaeometry 39: 205-216. 10.1111/j.1475-4754.1997.tb00799.x
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1996
  • Aldhouse-Green S., Pettitt, P. & Stringer, C.B. (1996) Holocene humans at Pontnewydd and Cae Gronw caves Antiquity 70: 444-447. Antiquity
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  • Stringer, C.B., Andrews, P. and Currant, A.P. (1996) Palaeoclimatic significance of mammalian faunas from Westbury cave, Somerset, England. In C. Turner (ed.), In: The early Middle Pleistocene in Europe. Balkema:Rotterdam 135-143.
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1995
  • Stringer, C.B. (1995) A comment on Lieberman: Testing hypotheses about recent human evolution from skulls Current Anthropology 36: 183.
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1994
  • Montgomery, P.Q., Williams, H.O.L., Reading, N. and Stringer, C.B. (1994) An Assessment of the Temporal Bone Lesions of the Broken Hill Cranium Journal of Archaeological Science 21: 331-337.
  • Roberts, M.B., Stringer, C.B. and Parfitt, S.A. (1994) A hominid tibia from Middle Pleistocene sediments at Boxgrove, UK Nature 369: 311-313. 10.1038/369311a0
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  • Stringer, C.B. (1994) Storia dei figli dell’Africa. Sapere Novembre1994: 41-46.
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1993
  • Aitken, M., Stringer, C.B. and Mellars, P. (1993) The origin of modern humans and the impact of chronometric dating. Princeton University Press: Princeton, 288.
  • Andrews, P. and Stringer, C.B. (1993) The Primates' Progress. In S.J. Gould (ed.), In: Book of Life. Ebury/Hutchinson: London, 219-251.
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1992
  • Mellars, P., Aitken, M.J. and Stringer, C.B. (1992) The origin of modern humans: outlining the problem Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society, London (B) 337: 127-130.
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1991
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1990
  • Bergman, C. and Stringer, C.B. (1990) Fifty years after:Egbert, an early Upper Palaeolithic juvenile from Ksar Akil, Lebanon. Paléorient 15: 99-112.
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1989
  • Andrews, P. and Stringer, C.B. (1989) Human Evolution: an illustrated guide. British Museum (Natural History), 48 pp..
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1988
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1987
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1986
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1985
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1984
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  • Stringer, C.B. (1984) The hominid remains. In H. S. Green (ed.), In: Pontnewydd Cave: A Lower Palaeolithic Hominid Site in Wales. National Museum of Wales: Cardiff, 159-170.
  • Stringer, C.B. (1984) Human evolution and biological adaptation in the Pleistocene. In R. Foley (ed.), In: Hominid evolution and community ecology. Academic Press: London, 55-83.
  • Stringer, C.B. (1984) The definition of Homo erectus and the existence of the species in Africa and Europe Courier Forschungsunstitut Senckenberg 69: 131-144.
  • Stringer, C.B., Hublin, J.-J. and Vandermeersch, B. (1984) The origin of anatomically modern humans in western Europe. In F. Smith and F. Spencer (eds), In: origins of modern humans. Liss: New York, 51-135.
1983
  • Stringer, C.B. (1983) A note on the Guadeloupe skeleton Ex Nihilo 2: 31-32.
  • Stringer, C.B. (1983) Some further notes on the morphology and dating of the Petralona hominid Journal of Human Evolution 12: 731-742.
  • Stringer, C.B. and Gray, A. (1983) Our fossil relatives. British Museum (Nat. Hist.): London.
  • Stringer, C.B., Shotton, F. et al. (1983) Interglacials after the Hoxnian in Britain. IGCP project 24. Quaternary Newsletters 39: 19 25.
1982
  • Cook, J., Stringer, C.B., Currant, A., Schwarcz, H. and Wintle, A. (1982) A review of the chronology of the European Middle Pleistocene hominid record Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 25: 19-65. 10.1002/ajpa.1330250504
  • Stringer, C.B (1982) Towards a solution to the Neanderthal problem Journal of Human Evolution 11: 431-438.
  • Stringer, C.B (1982) A comment on Upper Pleistocene hominid evolution in South Central Europe Current Anthropology 23: 690-691.
  • Stringer, C.B. (1982) The evolution of Man New Scientist 94: 152-155.
  • Stringer, C.B. (1982) The evolution of Man (reprinted with minor changes). In J. Cherfas (ed.), In: Darwin up to date. New Scientist Publications: London, 11-14.
  • Stringer, C.B. and Day, M. 1982 (1982) A reconsideration of the Omo Kibish remains and the erectus sapiens transition. Prétirage First Intérnational Congress of Human Palaeontology (Nice), pp. 814 846.
1981
  • Boaz, N., Cronin, J., Stringer, C.B. and Rak, Y. (1981) Tempo and mode in hominid evolution Nature 292: 113-122. 10.1038/292113a0
  • Green, H.S., Stringer, C.B. et al. (1981) Pontnewydd cave in Wales a new Middle Pleistocene hominid site Nature 294: 707-713. 10.1038/294707a0
  • Stringer, C.B. (1981) The dating of Middle Pleistocene hominids and the existence of Homo erectus in Europe Anthropologie (Brno) 19: 3-14.
  • Stringer, C.B. (Editor) (1981) Aspects of human evolution. Taylor and Francis: London,.
  • Stringer, C.B. and Burleigh, R. (1981) The Neanderthal problem and the prospects for direct dating of Neanderthal remains. Bulletin of The British and Natural History Museum, Geology Series 35: 225-241.
  • Stringer, C.B. and Currant, A. (1981) Comment on "Ipswichian mammal faunas" Turner (1981). Quaternary Newsletter 34: 27 29..
  • Stringer, C.B. and Trinkaus, E. (1981) The Shanidar Neanderthal crania. In C. Stringer (ed.), In: Aspects of human evolution. Taylor and Francis: London, 129-165.
  • Stringer, C.B., Jacobi, R. and Kruszynski, R. (1981) Allez Neanderthal Nature 289: 823-824. 10.1038/289823c0
1980
  • Andrews, P., Whybrow, P.J. and Stringer, C.B. (1980) Stratigraphy and palaeontology of Miocene deposits at Yeni Eskihisar, Turkey. Newsletter Stratigraphy 9: 49 57.
  • Stringer, C.B. (1980) The phylogenetic position of the Petralona cranium Anthropos (Athens) 7: 81-95.
  • Stringer, C.B. (1980) "Sapientization and speech": a comment Current Anthropology 21: 788.
1979
  • Stringer, C.B. (1979) A re evaluation of the fossil human calvaria from Singa, Sudan. Bulletin of The British and Natural History Museum, Geology Series 32: 77 83.
  • Stringer, C.B. and Sandiford, P. (1979) The human remains. In G. Wainwright (ed.), In: Mount Pleasant, Dorset: Excavations 1970 1971. Society of Antiquaries: London, 247-252.
  • Stringer, C.B., Andrews, P. and Currant, A. (1979) The search for early man at Westbury. Royal Anthropological Institute Newsletter 30: 4 7.
  • Stringer, C.B., Howell, F.C. and Melentis, J.K. (1979) The significance of the fossil hominid skull from Petralona, Greece Journal of Archaeological Sciences 6: 235-253.
1978
  • Stringer, C.B. (1978) The evolution of Man. In J. Pope (ed.), In: The Encyclopaedia of Natural History. Sundial Books: London, 38-39.
  • Stringer, C.B. (1978) Some problems in Middle and Upper Pleistocene hominid relationships. In D. Chivers and K. Joysey (eds), In: Recent advances in Primatology, 3, Evolution.. Academic Press: London, 395-418.
  • Stringer, C.B. and Powers, R. (1978) A late Pleistocene human tooth from Tornewton Cave, Devonshire, England. Transactions British Cave Research Association 5: 221 224.
1977
  • Stringer, C.B. (1977) Evidence of climatic change and human occupation during the last interglacial at Bacon Hole, Gower. Gower 28: 36-44.
1976
  • Stringer, C.B. (1976) Time Chart; Before Adam; The First True Men; Man's Migrations. In F. Clapham (ed.), In: The Rise of Man. Sampson Low: London, 52-79.
1975
  • Powers, R. & Stringer (1975) Palaeolithic cave art fauna. Studies in Speleology 2: 266-298.
  • Stringer, C.B. (1975) A preliminary report on new excavations at Bacon Hole cave. Gower 26: 32-37.
1974
  • Stringer, C.B (1974) A multivariate study of the Petralona skull Journal of Human Evolution 3: 397-404.
  • Stringer, C.B. (1974) Population relationships of later Pleistocene hominids: a multivariate study of available crania, In: Journal of Archaeological Sciences. 1: 317-342,.
1970
  • Stringer, C.B. (1970) The spread of Man. In D. Williams (ed.), In: Book of Life. Marshall Cavendish: London, 2344-2348.
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