丁香园AV

PUBLICATIONS

Aldeias, V. D Cabanes, A Carrancho, A B Coca, R Connolly, L Leierer, C Mallol, C Miller, S Mentzer, P Goldberg, D Sandgathe, M Stahlschmidt, I Thery, M Vaquero.
Submitted  Fire Among Neanderthals. Chapter in 鈥�Updating the Neanderthals: Understanding Behavioral Complexity in the Late Middle Paleolithic鈥�. Romagnoli, F., Rivals, F., Benazzi, S. (Eds.)

Pederzani, Sarah, V Aldeias, H Dibble, P Goldberg, J-J Hublin, S Madelaine, S McPherron, D Sandgathe, T Steele, A Turq, K. Britton.
2021     Reconstructing Late Pleistocene Paleoclimate at the Scale of Human Behavior: An example from the Neandertal occupation of La Ferrassie. Nature Scientific Reports

Talamo, S., V Aldeias, P Goldberg, L Chiotti, H Dibble, G Gu茅rin, J-J Hublin, S Madelaine, R Maria, D Sandgathe, T Steele, A Turq, S McPherron.
2020     The new 14C chronology for the renowned Palaeolithic site of La Ferrassie, France. The disappearance of Neandertals and the arrival of Homo sapiens in France (France). Journal of Quaternary Science

Pomeroy, Hunt, Reynolds, Abdulmutalb, Asouti, Bennett, Bosch, Burke, Farr, Foley, French, Frumkin, Goldberg, Hill, Kabukcu, Lahr, Lane, Marean, Maureille, Mutri, Miller, Ali Mustafa, Nymark, Pettitt, Sala, Sandgathe, Stringer, Tilby, Barker.
2020     Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: a view from Shanidar Cave. Evolutionary Anthropology

McCauley, B, M Collard, and D Sandgathe
2020     A cross-cultural survey of on-site fire use by recent hunter-gatherers: implications for research on Palaeolithic pyrotechnology. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology

Rezek, Z, S Holdaway, D Olszewski, S Lin, M Douglass, S McPherron, R Iovita, D Braun , D Sandgathe
2020    Aggregates, Formational Emergence, and the Focus on Practice in Stone Artifact Archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Reeves, J S, S P McPherron, V Aldeias, P Goldberg, D Sandgathe, A Turq
2019     Measuring Spatial Structure in Time-Averaged Deposits: Insights from Roc de Marsal, France. Archaeological and Anthropological Science. 1-20

Wroth, K., D Cabanes, J Marston, V Aldeias, D Sandgathe, A Turq, P Goldberg, H Dibble.
2019     Neanderthal Plant Use and Pyrotechnology: Phytolith Analysis from Roc de Marsal, France. Archaeological and Anthropological Science

Lin, S, D Sandgathe, A Turq, and HL Dibble
2018     Assessing the Integrity of Older Archaeological Collections:  An Example from La Ferrassie. Journal of Palaeolithic Archaeology.

Dibble, HL, D Sandgathe, P Goldberg, S McPherron, V Aldeias.
2018     Were Western European Neandertals Able to Make Fire? Journal of Palaeolithic Archaeology.

Richter, D., S. McPherron, H. Dibble, P. Goldberg, D. Sandgathe, A Turq.
2017     Additional chronometric data for the small flake assemblages (鈥楢sinipodian鈥�) from Pech de l鈥橝z茅 IV and a comparison with similar assemblages at the nearby site of Roc de Marsal. in Vocation Pr茅histoire: hommage 脿 Jean-Marie Le Tensorer. 脡tudes et R茅cherches arch茅ologiques de l Universit茅 de Li猫ge 148, Eds: Wojtczak, Al Najiar, Jagher, Elsuede, Wegm眉ller, Otte, pp.323-335

Dibble, H. L., S. P. McPherron, P. Goldberg, and D. Sandgathe.
2017     Excavations at Pech de l鈥橝z茅 IV.  Monograph. Cave and Karst Systems of the World series. Springer.

Sandgathe, D. and F. Berna
2017     Introduction to the Volume 鈥�Fire and the Genus Homo鈥�. Current Anthropology Supplement 58, S165-S174.

Sandgathe, D. 
2017     Identifying and Describing Pattern and Process in the Evolution of Hominin Use of Fire. Current Anthropology Supplement 58, S360-S370.

Dibble, H, V. Aldeias, P. Goldberg, S.P. McPherron, D. Sandgathe.
2017     How did Hominins Adapt to Ice Age Europe without Fire? Current Anthropology Volume 58, Supplement 16: S278鈥揝287.

Dibble, H, S Holdaway, S Lin, D Braun, M Douglass, R Iovita, S McPherron, D Olszewski, D Sandgathe
2017     Major Fallacies Surrounding Stone Artifacts and Assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Frouin, Marine, G Guerin, C Lahaye, N Mercier, S Huot, V Aldeias, L Bruxelles, L Chiotti, H Dibble, P Goldberg, S Madelaine, S McPherron, D Sandgathe, T E. Steele, A Turq
2017     New luminescence dating results based on polymineral fine grains from the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic site of La Ferrassie (Dordogne, SW France). Quaternary Geochronology

Collard, Mark, L Tarle, D Sandgathe, and A Allan
2016     Faunal evidence for a Difference in Thermal Effectiveness of Early Modern Human and Neanderthal Clothing. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. Pp 235-246.

Castel, J-C, E. Discamps, M-C Soulier, D Sandgathe, H Dibble, S McPherron, P Goldberg, A Turq
2016     Neandertal subsistence strategies during the Quina Mousterian at Roc de Marsal (France). Quaternary International Feb 2016

Gu茅rin, G., M Frouin, J Tuquoi, K Thomsen, P Goldberg, V Aldeias, C Lahaye, N Mercier, P Guibert, L Jain, D Sandgathe, S McPherron, A Turq and H Dibble,
2016     The complimentarity of luminescence dating methods illustrated on the Mousterian sequence of the Roc de Marsal: A series of reindeer-dominated Quina Mousterian layers dated to MIS 3. Quaternary International.

Hodgkins, Jamie, C Marean, A.  Turq, D Sandgathe, S McPherron, H Dibble.
2016     Climate-mediated shifts in Neandertal subsistence behaviors at Pech de l'Az茅 IV and Roc de Marsal (Dordogne Valley, France). Journal of Human Evolution

Aldeias, V, H Dibble, P Goldberg, S McPherron, D Sandgathe,
2016     How heat alters underlying deposits and implications for archaeological fire features: a controlled experiment. Journal of Archaeological Science.

Jacobs, Z, N Jankowski, H Dibble, P Goldberg, S McPherron, D Sandgathe, and M Soressi.
2016     The age of three Middle Palaeolithic sites: single-grain optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) chronologies for Pech de l'Az茅 I, II, and IV (France). Journal of Human Evolution.

Gu茅rin, G., M Frouin, Talamo, Aldeias, Bruxelles, Chiotti, Dibble, Goldberg, Hublin, Jain, Lahaye, Madelaine, Maureille, McPherron, Mercier, Murray, D Sandgathe, Steele, Thomsen, Turq
2015     Multi-method Luminescence Dating of the Palaeolithic Sequence of La Ferrassie Based on New Excavations Adjacent to La Ferrassie 1 and 2 Skeletons. J of Human Evolution.

Sandgathe, D. 
2015     Comment on Scherjon, F., et al鈥檚 Burning the land: an ethnographic study of off-site fire use by current and historically documented foragers and implications for the interpretation of past fire practices in the landscape. Current Anthropology, 56(3), pp.299-326.

Dibble, H, V Aldeias, P Goldberg, S McPherron, D Sandgathe, and T Steele
2014     A Critical Look at Evidence from La Chapelle-aux-Saints Supporting an Intentional Neandertal Burial. Journal of Archaeological Science.

Goldberg, P., V Aldeias, H Dibble, S McPherron, D Sandgathe, A Turq
2013     Testing the Roc de Marsal Neandertal "Burial" with Geoarchaology. Archaeological and Anthropological Science.

Richter, D., H Dibble, P Goldberg, S McPherron, L Niven, D Sandgathe, S Talamo, A Turq
2013     The Late Middle Palaeolithic in Southwest France: New TL dates for the sequence of Pech de l鈥橝z茅 IV (France). Quaternary International Vol 294: 160鈥�167

Turq, A. H Dibble, P Goldberg, S McPherron, D Sandgathe, Mercier, L Bruxelles, Laville, S Madelaine
2012     Reprise des fouilles dans la partie ouest du gisement de la Ferrassie, Savignac-de-Miremont, Dordogne: probl茅matique et premiers r茅sultats. Quaternaire continental d鈥橝quitaine: un point sur les travaux r茅cents, edited by Bertran and Lenoble. Excursion AFEQ - ASF 2012: 78-87.

Dibble, H., V Aldeias, E Alvarez-Fern谩ndez, E Hallett-Desguez, Z Jacobs, D Olszewski, D Reed, K Reed, T Steele, D Richter, D Sandgathe, U Schurmans, M El-Hajraoui
2012     New Excavations at Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco. PaleoAnthropology 2012: 145-201.

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McPherron, S., S Talamo, P Goldberg, L Niven, D Sandgathe, M Richards, D Richter, A Turq, H Dibble
2012   Radiocarbon Dates for the Late Middle Palaeolithic at Pech de l鈥橝z茅 IV, France. Journal of Archaeological Science 39 (2012): 3436-3442

Aldeias, V., P Goldberg, D Sandgathe, F Berna, H Dibble, S McPherron, R Zeljko
2012    Evidence for Neandertal Use of Fire at Roc de Marsal (France). Journal of Archaeological Science Vol 39(7): 2414鈥�2423.

Goldberg, P., H Dibble, F Berna, D Sandgathe, S McPherron, A Turq
2012     New Evidence on Neandertal Use of Fire: Examples from Roc de Marsal and Pech de l鈥橝z茅 IV. Quaternary International Vol 247: 325-340.

McPherron, S., H Dibble, P Goldberg, D Sandgathe, A Turq
2011     De Combe Grenal 脿 Pech de l鈥橝z茅 IV: l鈥櫭﹙olution des m茅thodes de fouilles de Fran莽ois Bordes. In 鈥淔ran莽ois Bordes et la Pr茅histoire鈥� (colloque de Bordeaux en 2009) pp 117-124.

Sandgathe, D., H Dibble, P Goldberg, S McPherron, A Turq, L Niven, J Hodgkins
2011     On the Role of Fire in Neandertal Adaptations in Western Europe: Evidence from Pech de l鈥橝z茅 IV and Roc de Marsal, France. PaleoAnthropology 2011:216-242.

Sandgathe, D., H Dibble, P Goldberg, S McPherron, A Turq, L Niven, J Hodgkins
2011     Timing of the Appearance of Habitual Fire Use. Letter, PNAS 108(29): E298.

Sandgathe, D., H Dibble, P Goldberg, S McPherron
2011    The Roc de Marsal Neandertal Child: A Reassessment of its Status as a Deliberate Burial. Journal of Human Evolution 61:243-253.

Turq, A., McPherron, Dibble, Goldberg, D Sandgathe, Jones, Maddison, Maureille, Mentzer, Rink, Steenhuyse
2011     Les Fouilles Recentes du Pech de l鈥橝z茅 IV (Dordogne). Gallia Pr茅histoire 53:1-58.

Dibble, H., Berna, P Goldberg, S McPherron, Mentzer, Niven, Richter, D Sandgathe, Thery-Parisot, Turq
2009     A Preliminary Report on Pech de l鈥橝z茅 IV, Layer 8 (France). PaleoAnthropology 2009:182-219

Dibble, H., S McPherron, D Sandgathe, P Goldberg, A Turq, M Lenoir
     2009     Context, Curation, and Bias: an evaluation of the Middle Paleolithic collections of Combe Grenal (France). Journal of Archaeological Science 36:2540-2550.

Turq, A., H Dibble, J-P Faivre, P Goldberg, S McPherron, D Sandgathe
2008     Le Mousterien W眉rmien du Perigord Noir: Quoi de Neuf ?  Journ茅es Soci茅t茅 Pr茅historique Fran莽ais, Universit茅 Bordeaux 1, 2006 M茅moire de la Soci茅t茅 Pr茅historique Fran莽aise.

Sandgathe, D.
2005     Examining the Levallois Reduction Strategy from a Design Theory Point of View. John and Erica Hedges (eds), Oxford, British Archaeological Reports, International Series S1417.

Sandgathe, D.
2004     An Alternative Interpretation of the Levallois Reduction Strategy. Lithic Technology                               29(2):147-159.

Symposia and Workshops

• One of 20 scholars invited to a Wenner-Gren Foundation workshop to review findings from recent re-excavations at Shanidar Cave (Iraq) in the context of the debate about Neanderthal burial. Held at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, U of Cambridge, UK. Jan. 24-28, 2019.
• Co-organizer (with Dr. Francesco Berna) of a Wenner-Gren Foundation sponsored symposium 鈥�Fire and the Genus Homo鈥� held at Sintra, Portugal, Oct. 2015. A special issue of Current Anthropology resulting from this symposium was published June 2017.

Selected Conference Presentations

• An Interdisciplinary Micro-Contextual Laboratory Excavation of Fire Residues from Pech de l鈥橝z茅 IV (Dordogne, France). V Aldeias, D Cabanes, A Carrancho Alonso, G Gallo, P Goldberg, S Heinrich, Li Li, C Mallol, S P McPherron, D Olszewski, D Sandgathe, M Stahlschmidt, T Steele. Poster presented (online) at the Sept., 2020 European Society for the Study of Human Evolution.
• Revisiting the evolutionary significance of stone tools. Iovita, R., D. Braun, S. Holdaway, S. Lin, S. McPherron, Deborah Olszewski, Z. Rezek, D. Sandgathe. Paper presented at the 2019 Society for American Archaeology meetings in Albuqurque, New Mexico.
• Could (Western European) Neandertals make fire? D. Sandgathe. Presentation by invitation at McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK. Jan. 30, 2019
• A Case for a Natural History of the Neanderthals. D. Sandgathe and M. Collard. Paper presented at the 2017 Palaeoanthropology Society meetings in Vancouver.
• How do we Interpret Elevated Neanderthal 未¹⁵N Values? A. Allan, J. Harding, D. Sandgathe and M. Collard. Poster presented at the 2017 Palaeoanthropology Society meetings in Vancouver.
• Investigating the Modeling of Neanderthal Population Size. M. Hvidberg and D. Sandgathe. Poster presented at the 2017 Society for American Archaeology meetings in Vancouver.
• A Most Interesting Career: Paul Goldberg's Other Contribution to Life and Science. D. Sandgathe. Paper presented at the 2015 Society for American Archaeologists meeting in San Francisco.
• Insights into Site Formation Processes of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic Layers in the Western Section of La Ferrassie (Dordogne). Presented by V. Aldeias. ESHE meetings, 2014, Florence, Italy.
• Further Elements on the Chronology of the Roc de Marsal (SW France) Middle Palaeolithic Sequence. Presented by G. Guerin. UISPP Meetings 2014, Burgos, Spain.
• 丁香园AV Human Evolutionary Studies Program 3rd Annual Symposium (2014) 'Heat and Human Evolution'. Symposium organized by M. Collard, D. Sandgathe and F. Berna. Burnaby, BC.
• Human evolution: Canadian perspectives on the last million years. Symposium organized by M. Collard, D. Sandgathe and L. Tarle. 2013 Canadian Archaeological Association meeting, Whistler, BC.
• Habitual' and 'Controlled' use of Fire in the Late Pleistocene of Western Europe? First author Dennis Sandgathe. Paper presented at the 2013 Canadian Archaeological Association annual meeting, Whistler.

• Faunal evidence for differential usage of clothing in the Mousterian and Aurignacian. First author Lia Tarle. Poster presented at The International Symposium "Aurignacian Genius: Art, Technology and Society of the First Modern Humans in Europe". New York University April, 2013.
• Geoarchaeological Perspectives on the Purported Roc de Marsal Child Burial. First author Paul Goldberg. Paper presented at the 2012 Society for American Archaeologists Meeting, Memphis.
• The role of climate in Neanderthal fire use. Presented at first 丁香园AV Human Evolutionary Studies Program Annual Symposium (Feb. 2012) in 鈥淓nvironmental influences on human genetic and cultural evolution鈥�, chaired by B. Wood, Burnaby, British Columbia.
• Recent Excavations and the Nature of Fire Use at Roc de Marsal. Presentation for the 鈥�50 ann茅es de fouilles au Roc de Marsal鈥� conference, National Museum of Prehistory, Les Eyzies, France, 2011.
• De Combe Grenal 脿 Pech de l鈥橝ze IV: l鈥櫭﹙olution des m茅thodes de fouilles de Fran莽ois Bordes. Presented by S. P. McPherron at 2009 Congress in Honour of Fran莽ois Bordes held in Bordeaux, France.
• The Quina Mousterian Occupations of Roc de Marsal (Dordogne, France). First author Dennis Sandgathe.  Poster presented at the 2008 Palaeoanthropology Society Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Humans, Climate and Fire at the Mousterian Site of Roc de Marsal, France. First author H. Dibble. Paper presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Community Contributions

• 2021 鈥�Do Neanderthals have to be just like us? The perpetual debate about Neanderthal and early modern human behaviour鈥� Invitational lecture series organized jointly by the Alberta Archaeological Association and Calgary Public Library.
• 2020 鈥淪kype with a Scientist鈥�. Invited online presentations to grade school classes as an expert in a field of scientific research. Organized in response to the COVID 19 pandemic.
• 2017- ongoing. Annual 鈥楶alaeoOlympic Games鈥�. Competitive events inspired by prehistory and put on by the Department of Archaeology at 丁香园AV and open to all members of the university and consulting archaeology communities.
• 2017. 鈥�Who Started the First Fire鈥� article written for Sapiens.org.
• 2016. 鈥�Old and New Data on the Dating and Context of Four of the La Ferrassie Skeletons鈥�. Public talk hosted by the Department of Anthropology, U of California Davis.
• 2015. 鈥�Current Debates about Neandertal Behaviour鈥�. Public talk hosted by the Association for Portuguese Archaeologists, Igreja de S茫o Domingos, Lisbon.
• 2013. 鈥�Current debates about Neandertals鈥�. Royal Alberta Museum鈥檚 "Time Travellers" invitational lecture series.

National and International Media Interviews and Profiles of Research

• 2020. 鈥楴ew cave fossils have revived the debate over Neandertal burial鈥�. Science News.
• 2019. 鈥�Did Inbreeding Kill the Neanderthals?鈥�. Inverse Science.
• 2018. 鈥�The Mystery of How Neanderthals Got Fire鈥�. The Atlantic.
• 2018. 鈥�Neanderthals could start fires with their stone tools, new study suggests鈥�. Washington Post
• 2018. 鈥�The Mystery of How Neanderthals Got Fire鈥�. El Pa铆s.
• 2017. Caf茅 Neandertal, by Beebe Bahrami. Counterpoint press.
• 2017. 鈥�Quest for Clues to Humanity鈥檚 First Fire鈥�. Sapiens.org (picked up by Scientific American).
• 2017. NPR blog interview: 鈥�What Are Our Best Clues to The Evolution of Fire-Making?鈥�
• 2017. 鈥�Who Started the First Fire鈥� for Sapiens.org (picked up by The Atlantic).
• 2013. 鈥�Prehistory of fire and cooking鈥�. The Archaeology of Food encyclopedia.
• 2013. 鈥�Palaeolithic use of fire鈥�. Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution.
• 2012. 鈥�Did Neandertals Truly Bury their Dead?鈥� Science News 337: 1443-1444.
• 2012. 鈥�Who Mastered Fire?鈥� Slate Magazine, October 2012.
• 2011. 鈥�Sleeping with the Enemy鈥�, New Yorker Magazine, August 2011
• 2010. National Geographic television special, 鈥�The World鈥檚 Oldest Child鈥�.
• 2009. PBS TV 鈥�The Human Spark鈥� about the emergence of modern human behaviour.
• 2002. 鈥�Neanderthals on Trial鈥� NOVA (produced by WGBH TV, Boston, for PBS).