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The Toba volcanic super-eruption, environmental change, and hominin occupation history in India over the last 140,000 years by Petraglia, Michael D., Ditchfield, Peter, Jones, Sacha, Korisettar, Ravi, Pal, J.N.

“…A prolonged, interdisciplinary fieldwork program was initiated in India to investigate the impact of the Toba super-eruption on terrestrial ecosystems and…”
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A high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Young Toba Tuff and dating of ultra-distal tephra: Forcing of Quaternary climate and implications for hominin occupation of India by Mark, Darren F., Petraglia, Michael, Smith, Victoria C., Morgan, Leah E., Barfod, Dan N., Ellis, Ben S., Pearce, Nick J., Pal, J.N., Korisettar, Ravi

“…A new high-precision inverse isochron 40Ar/39Ar age for the youngest Toba super-eruption is presented: 75.0 ± 0.9 ka (1 sigma, full external precision,…”
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Geochemical fingerprinting of the widespread Toba tephra using biotite compositions by Smith, Victoria C., Pearce, Nicholas J.G., Matthews, Naomi E., Westgate, John A., Petraglia, Michael D., Haslam, Michael, Lane, Christine S., Korisettar, Ravi, Pal, J.N.

“…Toba caldera, Sumatra, is one of the largest and most explosive volcanoes on Earth, erupting some of the most voluminous volcanic deposits. Chronologically…”
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Grain size distribution analysis of sediments containing Younger Toba tephra from Ghoghara, Middle Son valley, India by Lewis, Laura, Ditchfield, Peter, Pal, J.N., Petraglia, Michael

“…The Toba super-eruption in northern Sumatra ∼74 ka was the largest eruption of the Quaternary period. Terrestrial deposits of distal Toba tephra have been…”
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The Toba volcanic super-eruption of 74,000 years ago: Climate change, environments, and evolving humans by Petraglia, Michael D., Korisettar, Ravi, Pal, J.N.

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Dental morphology of early Holocene foragers of North India: non-metric trait frequencies and biological affinities by Lukacs, John R, Pal, J N

“…The biological affinities of semi-nomadic, early to mid-Holocene foragers of the mid-Ganga Plain, North India are undetermined, yet understanding their place…”
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Dhaba: An initial report on an Acheulean, Middle Palaeolithic and microlithic locality in the Middle Son Valley, north-central India by Haslam, Michael, Harris, Clair, Clarkson, Chris, Pal, J.N., Shipton, Ceri, Crowther, Alison, Koshy, Jinu, Bora, Janardhana, Ditchfield, Peter, Ram, Harindra Prasad, Price, Kathryn, Dubey, A.K., Petraglia, Michael

“…This paper presents the first report on Dhaba, a newly discovered locality in the Middle Son Valley, north-central India. The locality preserves Acheulean,…”
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Neolithic−Early historic (2500–200 BC) plant use: The archaeobotany of Ganga Plain, India by Pokharia, Anil K., Sharma, Shalini, Tripathi, Deepika, Mishra, Neelam, Pal, J.N., Vinay, Ram, Srivastava, Alka

“…We present archaeobotanical data based on plant macroremains obtained from three archaeological sites in the Ganga Plain. The paper provides insight into a…”
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Proto-Indian craniometric identity established in India by the middle Holocene by Raghavan, Pathmanathan, Bulbeck, David, Pathmanathan, Gayathiri, Pal, J.N.

“…India's largest assemblage of prehistoric hunter-gatherer burials was recovered from three related, Mesolithic sites in the Ganges Valley. Our recent…”
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Generativity, hierarchical action and recursion in the technology of the Acheulean to Middle Palaeolithic transition: A perspective from Patpara, the Son Valley, India by Shipton, C., Clarkson, C., Pal, J.N., Jones, S.C., Roberts, R.G., Harris, C., Gupta, M.C., Ditchfield, P.W., Petraglia, M.D.

“…The Acheulean to Middle Palaeolithic transition is one of the most important technological changes that occurs over the course of human evolution. Here we…”
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Stature in Holocene foragers of North India by Lukacs, John R., Pal, J.N., Nelson, Greg C.

“…The Ganga Plain of North India provides an archaeological and skeletal record of semi‐nomadic Holocene foragers in association with an aceramic Mesolithic…”
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River response to Quaternary climatic fluctuations: evidence from the Son and Belan valleys, north-central India by Williams, M.A.J., Pal, J.N., Jaiswal, M., Singhvi, A.K.

“…The last glacial period was cold and dry in peninsular India. In north-central India, the interval from 39±9 to 16±3 ka was associated with widespread and…”
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The Palaeolithic of the Middle Son valley, north-central India: Changes in hominin lithic technology and behaviour during the Upper Pleistocene by Jones, Sacha C., Pal, J.N.

“…The Middle Son valley in north-central India preserves extensive Quaternary alluvial deposits. A long history of archaeological and geological research in the…”
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Multiple interpretive errors? Indeed. Reply to: Climate effects of the 74 ka Toba super-eruption: Multiple interpretive errors in ‘A high-precision 40Ar/39Ar age for the Young Toba Tuff and dating of ultra-distal tephra’ by Michael Haslam by Mark, Darren F., Petraglia, Michael, Smith, Victoria C., Morgan, Leah E., Barfod, Dan N., Ellis, Ben S., Pearce, Nick J., Pal, J.N., Korisettar, Ravi

“…We would like to thank Michael Haslam (Haslam et al., 2013) for his interest in our recent contribution on the dating of the Young Toba Tuff/Tephra (YTT) (Mark…”
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Skeletal Variation among Mesolithic People of the Ganga Plains: New Evidence of Habitual Activity and Adaptation to Climate by LUKACS, JOHN R., PAL, J. N.

“…Rethinking new perspectives in South Asian archaeology necessitates wider appreciation for insights derived from the bioarchaeological analysis of prehistoric…”
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Prehistory of South Asia (The Lower Palaeolithic or Formative Era of Hunting-Gathering) by Pal, J.N.

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Aging studies on fingerprint residues using thin-layer and high performance liquid chromatography by Dikshitulu, Y S, Prasad, L, Pal, J N, Rao, C V

“…The chemical substances of perspiration found in latent fingerprint residue may hold the key for dating latent fingerprints. To study the chemical…”
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