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Monograph
2021. French, J.C. Palaeolithic Europe: A Demographic and Social Prehistory. Cambridge University Press (World Archaeology Series)
Journal articles
2025. Lewis, M.E., French, J.C., Rossoni-Notter, E., Notter, O., Moussous, A., Sparacello, V., Boschin, F., Ricci, S., & Nowell, A. An assessment of puberty status in adolescents from the European Upper Palaeolithic. Journal of Human Evolution 198. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103577 (Open Access)
2025. Dinnis, R., Boulton, J., Chandler, B., Davies, J., French, J.C., Higham, T., Jáuregui, L., Lewis, M., Meyer, M., Schreve, D., Stringer, C., Proctor, C. A Middle and Late Devensian sequence from the northern part of Kents Cavern (Devon, UK). Journal of Quaternary Science DOI: doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3705.
2025. Cole, J., Overall, A., French, J.C., Grove, M., Rattray, N.J.W., Stewart, N.A & Faragher, R.G.A. Ageing, Metabolomics and Palaeoanthropology: What can the fields learn from each other? Mechanisms of Ageing and Development 225 (112057). DOI: 10.1016/j.mad.2025.112057.
2024. Riris, P., Silva, F., Crema, E., Palmisano, A., Robinson, E., Siegel, P., French, J.C., Jørgensen, E.K., Yoshi Maezumi, S., Solheim, S., Bates, J., Davies, B., Oh, Y., Ren, X. Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past populations. Nature 629 :837–842. DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07354-8 (Open Access).
2024. Page, A. E., Ringen, E. J., Koster, J., Borgerhoff Mulder, M., Kramer, K., Shenk, M., Stieglitz, J., Starkweather, K., Ziker, J., Lew-Levy, S., Boyette, A., Colleran, H., Moya, C., Du, J., Greaves, R., Sum, C., Lui, R., Kiabiya Ntamboudila, F., Prall, S., Towner, M., Blumenfield, T., Migliano, A B., Major-Smith, D., Dyble, M, Salali, G.D., Chaudhary, N., Derkx, I., Ross, C., Scelza, B., Gurven, M., Winterhalder, B., Cortez, C., Pacheco-Cobo, L., Schacht, R., Macfarlan, S. J., Leonetti, D., French, J.C. & Sear, R. Women’s subsistence strategy predicts fertility across cultures, but context matters. PNAS 121(9): e2318181121 (Open Access)
2023. Grove, M., Hall, H., Timbrell, L., Benton, A., & French, J. C. (2023). Moving far or moving often? A neglected axis of variation in hunter-gatherer mobility. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 52, 104266. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104266 (Open Access)
2023. Dinnis, R., Boulton, J., Bates, M., Chamberlain, A.T., Davies, J., Hopkins, R., Jimenez, E.-L., Masson-MacLean, E., Mogg, J., Parfitt, S., Payne, N., Pickard, C., Stringer, C., Walker, E.A., Williams, D., & French, J.C. Report on the 2022 excavations at Wogan Cavern (Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, UK). Cave and Karst Science 50 (2): 83-91.
2022. Dinnis, R., J.Boulton, J.C. French, M. Buckley, J. Davies, J. Gunn, M. Hervé, S. Howells, E. Laure-Jimenez, E. Masson-Maclean, J. Mogg, C. Pickard, E. Walker, D. Williams, A.T. Chamberlain & C. Stringer. The archaeological potential of Wogan Cavern (Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, UK): results of the first fieldwork season. Cave and Karst Science 49 (2): 65-72.
2022. French, J.C., A. Nowell. Growing up Gravettian. Bioarchaeological perspectives on adolescence in the European Mid-Upper Palaeolithic. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 67. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101430 (Open Access)
2021. Spikins, P., J.C. French, S. John-Wood & C. Dytham. Theoretical and methodological approaches to environmental changes, social behaviour and human intergroup tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 28: 53-75. DOI: 10.1007/s10816-020-09503-5. (Open Access)
2021. French, J.C., P. Riris, J. Fernández López de Pablo, S. Lozano & F. Silva. A manifesto for Palaeodemography in the 21st century. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0707
2021. French, J.C. & A. Chamberlain. Demographic uniformitarianism: the theoretical basis of prehistoric demographic research and its cross-disciplinary challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0720
2020. Page, A.E & J.C. French. Reconstructing prehistoric demography: what role for extant hunter-gatherers? Evolutionary Anthropology 29 (6): 332-345. DOI: 10.1002/evan.21869 (Open Access)
2020. Nowell, A & J.C. French. Adolescence and innovation in the European Upper Palaeolithic. Evolutionary Human Sciences 2. DOI: doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.37(Open Access)
2019. French, J.C. The use of ethnographic data in Neanderthal archaeological research: recent trends and their interpretative implications. Hunter Gatherer Research 4.1: 25-49. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3828/hgr.2018.3(Open Access)
2019. French, J.C. Archaeological demography as a tool for the study of women and gender in the past. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 29 (1): 141-157. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774318000380 Open access version available here
2016. French, J.C. Demography and the Palaeolithic Archaeological Record. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 23 (1): 150-199. DOI: 10.1007/s10816-014-9237-4. Open access version available here
2015. French, J.C. The demography of the Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers of Southwestern France: A multi-proxy approach using archaeological data. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 39: 193-209. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2015.04.005 (Open Access)
2015. French, J.C. & C.M. Collins. Upper Palaeolithic population histories of Southwestern France: A comparison of the demographic signatures of 14C date distributions and archaeological site counts. Journal of Archaeological Science 55: 122-134. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2015.01.001 (Open Access)
2013. Mellars, P. & J.C. French. Population changes across the Neanderthal-to-Modern-Human transition in Western France: A reply to Dogandžić and McPherron (2013). Journal of Human Evolution 65 (3): 330-330. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.03.006
2011. Mellars, P. & J.C. French. Tenfold population increase in Western Europe at the Neanderthal-to-Modern Human transition. Science 333: 623-627. DOI: 10.1126/science.1206930
2010. French, J.C. Double standards and ‘boundary bias’ at the European Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic Transition? An examination of the treatment of evidence for Palaeolithic habitation structures. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 25 (2): 9-28.
Edited volumes
2021. French, J.C., P. Riris, J. Fernández López de Pablo, S. Lozano & F. Silva. (eds.). Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Prehistoric Demography. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 376.
Book chapters
2024. French, J.C. Sex, gender, and the division of labour in the European Middle and Upper Palaeolithic. In. M. Moen and U. Pedersen (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Gender Archaeology. Routledge, London, pg. 161-174.
2018. French, J.C. The Palaeolithic archaeological record and the materiality of imagination: a response to J. Wentzel van Huyssteen. In, A. Fuentes & C. Deane-Drummond (eds.) Evolution of Wisdom: Major and Minor Keys. Press Books: Center for Theology, Science, and Human Flourishing, University of Notre Dame, pg. 57-63 (https://ctshf.pressbooks.com/)
Encyclopedia entries
2024. French, J.C. Latest perspectives on the palaeodemography of the Upper Palaeolithic in Europe. International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology DOI: 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2528.
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