Research
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Latest papers
Using digital archaeology and machine learning to determine sex in finger flutings.
Scientific reports · 2025 · senior author
An assessment of puberty status in adolescents from the European Upper Paleolithic.
Journal of human evolution · 2025 · senior author
Children at play: The role of novices in the production of Europe's earliest Upper Paleolithic ceramics.
PloS one · 2024 · senior author
Latest funding
- $97,113
The Longest Journey: Pleistocene Human-Environment Dynamics in the Azraq Basin (Jordan) and Their Implications For Early Human Dispersals Across Arid Southwest Asia
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $63,750
The Longest Journey: Pleistocene Human-Environment Dynamics in the Azraq Basin (Jordan) and Their Implications For Early Human Dispersals Across Arid Southwest Asia
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $68,897
Application of a New Portable Deep Coring System to A Long-Term Archive of Human-Environmental Dynamics near the Dead Sea, Jordan
SSHRC · 2019 · Principal investigator
10 publications.
Using digital archaeology and machine learning to determine sex in finger flutings.
Jalandoni A, Haubt R, Farrar C, Tuxworth G, Zhang Z, Walshe K, Nowell A
An assessment of puberty status in adolescents from the European Upper Paleolithic.
Lewis ME, French JC, Rossoni-Notter E, Notter O, Moussous A, Sparacello V, Boschin F, Ricci S, Nowell A
Children at play: The role of novices in the production of Europe's earliest Upper Paleolithic ceramics.
Farbstein R, Nowell A
Children and innovation: play, play objects and object play in cultural evolution.
Riede F, Walsh MJ, Nowell A, Langley MC, Johannsen NN
Care of Infants in the Past: Bridging evolutionary anthropological and bioarchaeological approaches.
Halcrow S, Warren R, Kushnick G, Nowell A
Adolescence and innovation in the European Upper Palaeolithic.
Nowell A, French JC
Children and innovation: A Wenner-Gren workshop.
Nowell A, Langley MC, Riede F
The role of play objects and object play in human cognitive evolution and innovation.
Riede F, Johannsen NN, Högberg A, Nowell A, Lombard M
The Nature of Culture: an eight-grade model for the evolution and expansion of cultural capacities in hominins and other animals.
Haidle MN, Bolus M, Collard M, Conard N, Garofoli D, Lombard M, Nowell A, Tennie C, Whiten A
A place in time: situating Chauvet within the long chronology of symbolic behavioral development.
von Petzinger G, Nowell A
The Longest Journey: Pleistocene Human-Environment Dynamics in the Azraq Basin (Jordan) and Their Implications For Early Human Dispersals Across Arid Southwest Asia
Principal investigators: Nowell, April S.
Keywords: archaeological excavation; archaeological survey
The Longest Journey: Pleistocene Human-Environment Dynamics in the Azraq Basin (Jordan) and Their Implications For Early Human Dispersals Across Arid Southwest Asia
Principal investigators: Nowell, April S.
Keywords: archaeological excavation; archaeological survey
Application of a New Portable Deep Coring System to A Long-Term Archive of Human-Environmental Dynamics near the Dead Sea, Jordan
Principal investigators: Nowell, April
Keywords: (1) Paleolithic; (2) Pleistocene; (3) Holocene; (4) Neandertal; (5) early modern humans; (6) Paleoclimate; (7) Paleoecology; (8) Faunal trap; (9) geoarchaeology; (10) coring
Entanglements: A Communities of Practice Approach to the Study of Finger flutings
Principal investigators: Nowell, April S.
Keywords: Paleolithic art; Upper Paleolithic; Europe; Australia; pleistocene; finger flutings; identity
Disentangling Lines of Identity: Upper Paleolithic Finger Flutings in Franco-Cantabrian Caves
Principal investigators: Nowell, April
Keywords: (1) Rock art; (2) Upper Paleolithic; (3) Pleistocene; (4) Archaeology of Children; (5) Archaeology of Identity; (6) modern humans; (7) Women in Prehistory
The Druze Marsh Paleolithic project: an archaeological and paleoecological study of a desert oasis in NW Jordan
Principal investigators: Nowell, April S.
Keywords: archaeology; paleolithic; neanderthals; extinction; mousterian; acheulian; refugia; water; climate change
Neandertal lifeways: an archaeological investigation from the edge of the Jordanian plateau to the Dead Sea
Principal investigators: Nowell, April S.
Keywords: paleolithic archaeology; Neandertal; mousterian; anatomically modern human; lithics
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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