| The southern route “out of Africa”: evidence for an early expansion of modern humans into Arabia SJ Armitage, SA Jasim, AE Marks, AG Parker, VI Usik, HP Uerpmann Science 331 (6016), 453-456, 2011 | 721 | 2011 |
| Ancient biomolecules from deep ice cores reveal a forested southern Greenland E Willerslev, E Cappellini, W Boomsma, R Nielsen, MB Hebsgaard, ... Science 317 (5834), 111-114, 2007 | 558 | 2007 |
| Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert NA Drake, RM Blench, SJ Armitage, CS Bristow, KH White Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (2), 458-462, 2011 | 509 | 2011 |
| Homo sapiens in Arabia by 85,000 years ago HS Groucutt, R Grün, IAS Zalmout, NA Drake, SJ Armitage, I Candy, ... Nature ecology & evolution 2 (5), 800-809, 2018 | 202 | 2018 |
| Sedimentation and diagenesis of Chinese loess: Implications for the preservation of continuous, high-resolution climate records T Stevens, SJ Armitage, H Lu, DSG Thomas Geology 34 (10), 849-852, 2006 | 200 | 2006 |
| Klipdrift shelter, southern Cape, South Africa: preliminary report on the Howiesons Poort layers CS Henshilwood, KL van Niekerk, S Wurz, A Delagnes, SJ Armitage, ... Journal of Archaeological Science 45, 284-303, 2014 | 187 | 2014 |
| West African monsoon dynamics inferred from abrupt fluctuations of Lake Mega-Chad SJ Armitage, CS Bristow, NA Drake Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (28), 8543-8548, 2015 | 174 | 2015 |
| Reinterpreting climate proxy records from late Quaternary Chinese loess: a detailed OSL investigation T Stevens, DSG Thomas, SJ Armitage, HR Lunn, H Lu Earth-Science Reviews 80 (1-2), 111-136, 2007 | 169 | 2007 |
| Deflation in the dustiest place on Earth: the Bodélé Depression, Chad CS Bristow, N Drake, S Armitage Geomorphology 105 (1-2), 50-58, 2009 | 139 | 2009 |
| Palaeohydrology of the Fazzan Basin and surrounding regions: the last 7 million years NA Drake, AS El-Hawat, P Turner, SJ Armitage, MJ Salem, KH White, ... Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 263 (3-4), 131-145, 2008 | 138 | 2008 |
| Multiple phases of North African humidity recorded in lacustrine sediments from the Fazzan Basin, Libyan Sahara SJ Armitage, NA Drake, S Stokes, A El-Hawat, MJ Salem, K White, ... Quaternary Geochronology 2 (1-4), 181-186, 2007 | 135 | 2007 |
| Optical dating of abrupt shifts in the late Pleistocene East Asian monsoon T Stevens, H Lu, DSG Thomas, SJ Armitage Geology 36 (5), 415-418, 2008 | 129 | 2008 |
| 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest C Shipton, P Roberts, W Archer, SJ Armitage, C Bita, J Blinkhorn, ... Nature Communications 9 (1), 1832, 2018 | 128 | 2018 |
| Holocene slip-rate on the Sabzevar thrust fault, NE Iran, determined using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) M Fattahi, R Walker, J Hollingsworth, A Bahroudi, H Nazari, M Talebian, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 245 (3-4), 673-684, 2006 | 109 | 2006 |
| The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2010: the fourth season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the 2007–2009 fieldwork G Barker, A Antoniadou, S Armitage, I Brooks, I Candy, K Connell, ... Libyan Studies 41, 63-88, 2010 | 98 | 2010 |
| The measured dependence of laboratory beta dose rates on sample grain size SJ Armitage, RM Bailey Radiation Measurements 39 (2), 123-127, 2005 | 98 | 2005 |
| Quartz luminescence dating of Anglian Stage (MIS 12) fluvial sediments: Comparison of SAR age estimates to the terrace chronology of the Middle Thames valley, UK SM Pawley, P Toms, SJ Armitage, J Rose Quaternary Geochronology 5 (5), 569-582, 2010 | 91 | 2010 |
| Multiple hominin dispersals into Southwest Asia over the past 400,000 years HS Groucutt, TS White, EML Scerri, E Andrieux, R Clark-Wilson, ... Nature 597 (7876), 376-380, 2021 | 84 | 2021 |
| Earliest known human burial in Africa M Martinón-Torres, F d’Errico, E Santos, A Álvaro Gallo, N Amano, ... Nature 593 (7857), 95-100, 2021 | 83 | 2021 |
| Evidence for dune reactivation from GPR profiles on the Maputaland coastal plain, South Africa GA Botha, CS Bristow, N Porat, G Duller, SJ Armitage, HM Roberts, ... Geological Society, London, Special Publications 211 (1), 29-46, 2003 | 80 | 2003 |
Nick DrakeProfessor, Department of Geography, Kings College LondonVerified email at kcl.ac.uk
