Publications

Years: 2025・2024・2023・2022・2021・2008-2020

2025

Bogaard, A., Cruz, P., Fochesato, M., Birch, J., Cervantes Quequezana, G., Chirikure, S., et al. (2025). Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), e2400694122. [URL][pdf][code]

Cortell-Nicolau, A., Rivas, J., Crema, E. R., Shennan, S., García-Puchol, O., Kolář, J., et al. (2025). Demographic interactions between the last hunter-gatherers and the first farmers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(14), e2416221122. [URL][pdf][code]

Cortell-Nicolau, A., Carrignon, S., Rodíguez-Palomo, I., Hromada, D., Kahlenberg, R., Mes, A., et al. (2025). Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations. Journal of Archaeological Science, 177, 106179. [url][pdf][code]

Crema, E. R., Fochesato, M., Mejía Ramón, A. G., Munson, J., & Ortman, S. G. (2025). Toward multiscalar measures of inequality in archaeology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), e2400700121. [url][pdf][code]

Kerig, T., Crema, E. R., Birch, J., Feinman, G. M., Green, A. S., Gronenborn, D., et al. (2025). 100 generations of wealth equality after the Neolithic transitions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), e2400697122. [url][pdf]

Kohler, T. A., Bogaard, A., Ortman, S. G., Crema, E. R., Chirikure, S., Cruz, P., et al. (2025). Economic inequality is fueled by population scale, land-limited production, and settlement hierarchies across the archaeological record. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(16), e2400691122. [url][pdf][code]

Vieri, J., Crema, E. R., Uribe Villegas, M. A., Sáenz Samper, J., & Martinón-Torres, M. (2025). Beyond baselines of performance: Beta regression models of compositional variability in craft production studies. Journal of Archaeological Science, 173, 106106.[url][pdf] [code]

Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Tan, L., Crema, E. R., Tian, Y., & Wang, Z. (2025). A comparative analysis of stone- and earth-wall settlement locations of the Lower Xiajiadian Culture in Aohan Banner, China. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 17(1), 18. [URL][Request a copy)][code]

2024

Bogaard, A., Ortman, S., Birch, J., Quequezana, G. C., Chirikure, S., Crema, E. R., et al. (2024). The Global Dynamics of Inequality (GINI) project: analysing archaeological housing data. Antiquity, 98(397) e6. [url][pdf]

Cao, D., Crema, E.R., Pomeroy, E. (2024). Estimating intralimb proportions for commingled remains. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. [url][pdf][code]

Carrignon, S., Crema, E. R., Kandler, A., & Shennan, S. (2024). Postmarital residence rules and transmission pathways in cultural hitchhiking. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(48), e2322888121.[URL][pdf][code]

Crema, E. R. (2024). A Bayesian alternative to Aoristic analyses in archaeology. Archaeometry. [url][pdf][code]

Crema, E. R., Bortolini, E., Lake,M. (2024). How Cultural Transmission Through Objects Impacts Inferences About Cultural Evolution. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 31, 202-226. [url][pdf][code]

Crema, E.R., Bloxam, A., Stevens, C., Vander Linden, M. (2024). Modelling diffusion of innovation curves using radiocarbon data. Journal of Archaeological Science, 165, 105962. [url][pdf][code]

Crema, E.R., Carrignon, S., Shoda, S., Stevens, C. (2024). Regional variations in the demographic response to the arrival of rice farming in prehistoric Japan. Antiquity 98(401),1290-1305.[url][pdf][code]

Goodman, J. R., Crema, E.R, Nolan, F., Cohen, E., & Foley, R. A. (2024). Evidence that cultural groups differ in their abilities to detect fake accents. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6, e46. [urk][pdf][code]

Lundy et al. (2024). Culinary continuity in central Japan across the transition to agriculture. Anthropological and Archaeological Sciences,16:97. [url][pdf][code]

Riris,P., Silva F., Crema, E.R., Palmisano, A., Robinson, E., et al. (2024). Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past human populations. Nature, 629, 837–842 (2024) [url][pdf][code]

2023

Kudo, Y., Sakamoto, M. Hakozaki, M., Stevens, C, Crema, E.R. (2023). An archaeological radiocarbon database of Japan. Journal of Open Archaeology Data 11:11, pp 1-9, [url][pdf][code]

2022

Bradford, D. J., Crema, E. R. (2022). Risk factors for the occurrence of sexual misconduct during archaeological and anthropological fieldwork. American Anthropologist,124(3),548-559. [url][request copy][preprint]

Crema, E.R., (2022). Statistical Inference of Prehistoric Demography from Frequency Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates: A Review and a Guide for the Perplexed. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 29, 1387–1418 [url][pdf][code]

Crema, E. R., Stevens, C. J., & Shoda, S. (2022). Bayesian analyses of direct radiocarbon dates reveal geographic variations in the rate of rice farming dispersal in prehistoric Japan. Science Advances, 8(38), eadc9171. [url][pdf][code]

Krzyzanska, M., Hunt, V.H., Crema, E.R., Jones, M.K. (2022) Modelling the potential ecological niche of domesticated buckwheat in China: archaeological evidence, environmental constraints and climate change. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.,31,331-345 [url] [pdf][code]

Prentiss, A.M., Edinborough, K., Crema, E. R., Kuijt, I., Goodale, N., Ryan, E., et al. (2022). Divergent population dynamics in the middle to late Holocene lower Fraser valley and mid-Fraser canyon, British Columbia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 44, 103512. [url/code/pdf][request copy]

Silva, F., Coward, F., Davies, K., Elliott, S., Jenkins, E., Newton, A. C., et al. (2022). Developing Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Durée. Sustainability, 14(16), 10234. [url/pdf]

Stevens, C. J., Crema, E. R., & Shoda, S. (2022). The importance of wild resources as a reflection of the resilience and changing nature of early agricultural systems in East Asia and Europe. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10.[url] [pdf] [code]

2021

Bevan, A., Crema, E.R.(2021). Modifiable reporting unit problems and time series of long-term human activity, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1816), 20190726 [url][pdf][code]

Brown, A., Crema, E.R. (2021). Maori Population Growth in Pre-contact New Zealand: Regional Population Dynamics Inferred From Summed Probability Distributions of Radiocarbon Dates, Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology,16(2-4), 572-590 [url][pdf][code]

Crema, E.R., Bevan, A. (2021). Inference from large sets of radiocarbon dates: software and methods, Radiocarbon, 63, 23-39. [url][pdf][code]

Crema, E.R., Shoda, S. (2021). A Bayesian approach for fitting and comparing demographic growth models of radiocarbon dates: A case study on the Jomon-Yayoi transition in Kyushu (Japan), Plos One, 16(5): e0251695.[url][pdf][code]

Di Napoli, R.J., Crema, E.R., Lipo, C.P., Rieth, T.M., Hunt, T.L. (2021).Approximate Bayesian Computation of radiocarbon and paleoenvironmental record shows population resilience on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Nature Communications, 12, Article number: 3939. [url] [pdf][code]

Kim, H., Lee, G.A., Crema, E.R.. (2021). Bayesian analyses question the role of climate in Chulmun demography. Scientific Reports,11, Article number: 23797. [url][pdf][code]

2008-2019

Bell, L., Crema, E.R. , Bunting, J., Madella, M. (2018). Simulating vegetation in ancient Japan using HuMPol: a pollen-based multi-scenario modeling approach. PAGES Magazine, 26, 22-23.[url/pdf]

Bevan, A, Crema, E.R., Li, Xiuzhen, and Palmisano, A. (2013). Intensities, Interactions and Uncertainties: Some New Approaches to Archaeological Distributions. In Bevan, A. and Lake, M. (eds.) Computational Approaches to Archaeological Space. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press. 27-52.[url][request copy]

Bevan, A., Crema, E.R. (2014) Une modélisation géographiquement explicite d’interaction culturelle. Dialectes crétois modernes, archéologie de l’âge de bronze. Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 135, 45-50 [url][pdf]

Biagetti, S., Alcaina-Mateos, J., Crema, E.R. (2016). A matter of ephemerality. The study of Kel Tadrart campsites via quantitative spatial analysis. Ecology and Society 21 (1): 42 [url][pdf] [code]

Biagetti, S., Merlo, S., Adam, E., Lobo, A., Conesa, F.C., Knight, J., Bekrani, H., Crema, E.R., Alcaina-Mateos, J., Madella, M., (2017). High and Medium Resolution Satellite Imagery to Evaluate Late Holocene Human–Environment Interactions in Arid Lands: A Case Study from the Central Sahara. Remote Sensing 9, 351.[url][pdf]

Bortolini, E., Pagani, L., Crema, E.R., Sarno, S., Barbieri, C., Boattini, A., Sazzini, M., Silva, S.G. da, Martini, G., Metspalu, M., Pettener, D., Luiselli, D., Tehrani, J.J., (2017). Inferring patterns of folktale diffusion using genomic data. PNAS 201614395. [url][pdf]

Colledge, S., Conolly, J. Crema, E.R., Shennan, S. (2019) Neolithic population crash in northwest Europe associated with agricultural crisis. Quaternary Research,92(3),686-707. [url][request copy]

Crema, E.R., (2011). Aoristic approaches and voxel models for spatial analysis. In: Jerem, E.,Redo, F. & Szeverényi, V. (Eds.) On the road to reconstructing the past. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. Proceedings of the 36th International Conference, Budapest, April 2-6, 2008. Budapest: Archeolingua, pp.179-186.[url/pdf]

Crema, E.R., (2012) Modelling temporal uncertainty in archaeological analysis. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory,19, 440-461.[url][request copy]

Crema E.R. (2013). Cycles of change in Jomon settlement: a case study from Eastern Tokyo Bay. Antiquity, 87, 1169-1181 [url][request copy]

Crema E.R. (2014). A simulation model of fission-fusion dynamics and long-term settlement change. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory , 21, 385-404.[url][code][request copy]

Crema E.R. (2015). Modeling settlement rank-size fluctuations. In Wurzer, G. Kowarik, K. and Reschreiter, H. (eds.) Agent-based modeling and Simulation in Archaeology. Advances in Geographic Information Science, Springer, pp.161-181.[url][request copy]

Crema, E.R. (2015). Time and probabilistic reasoning in Settlement Analysis. In Barceló, J.A., Bogdanovic, I. (Eds.) Mathematics in Archaeology, CRC Press, pp. 314-334.[url][request copy]

Crema, E.R., Bevan, A., Shennan, S.(2017). Spatio-temporal approaches to archaeological radiocarbon dates. Journal of Archaeological Science 87, 1-9. [url][request copy][code]

Crema, E.R. (2018). Statistical Inference and Archaeological Simulations, The SAA Archaeological Record,18(2), 20-23.[url][pdf]

Crema, E.R. (2020). Non-Stationarity and Local Spatial Analysis. In Archaeological Spatial Analysis: A Methodological Guide, M. Gillings, P. Hacıgüzeller and G. Lock (Eds.), Springer, pp 155-168.[url][request copy]

Crema, E.R., Bevan, A. and Lake, M. (2010). A probabilistic framework for assessing spatiotemporal point patterns in the archaeological record. Journal of Archaeological Science, 37, 1118-1130.[url][request copy]

Crema, E.R., Bianchi, E. (2013). Looking for patterns in the noise: non-site spatial analysis at Sebkha Kalbia (Tunisia). In Mulazzani, S. (Ed.) Le Capsien de hergla (Tunisie). Culture, environnement et économie. Frankfurt: Africa Magna Verlag, pp. 385-395.[url][request copy]

Crema, E.R., Edinborough, K., Kerig, T., Shennan, S. (2014) An Approximate Bayesian Computation approach for inferring patterns of cultural evolutionary change. Journal of Archaeological Science, 50, 160-170.[url/code][pdf]

Crema, E.R. ,Habu, J., Kobayashi, K., Madella, M. (2016). Summed Probability Distribution of 14C Dates Suggests Regional Divergences in the Population Dynamics of the Jomon Period in Eastern Japan. PloS ONE 11(4): e0154809[url][pdf)][code]

Crema, E.R., Kandler, A., Shennan, S., (2016) Revealing patterns of cultural transmission from frequency data: equilibrium and non-equilibrium assumptions. Scientific Reports 6, 39122. [url][pdf][code]

Crema, E.R., Kerig, T., Shennan, S. (2014). Culture, Space, and Metapopulation: a simulation-based study for evaluating signals of blending and branching in archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science, 43, 289-298.[url][pdf]

Crema, E.R., Kobayashi, K., (2020). A multi-proxy inference of Jōmon population dynamics using bayesian phase models, residential data, and summed probability distribution of 14C dates. Journal of Archaeological Science, 117, 105136. [url][request copy][code]

Crema, E.R., Lake, M. (2015) Cultural Incubators and Spread of Innovation (2015), Human Biology, 87 (3), 151-168. [url][code]

Crema, E.R. and Nishino M. (2012). Spatio-temporal distributions of Middle to Late Jomon pithouses in Oyumino, Chiba (Japan). Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 1 (2) [url][data][pdf]

Edinborough, K., Crema, E.R., Kerig, T., Shennan, S. (2015) An ABC of lithic arrowheads: A case study from southeastern France. In Brink, K., Hydén, S., Jennbert, K., Larsson,L., Olausson, D. (Eds.) Neolithic Diversities. Perspectives from a conference in Lund, Sweden, Acta Archaeologica Lundensia, Series in 8o, No. 65. Lund, pp. 213-223 [url][pdf]

Eve, S., Crema, E.R. (2014). A House with a View? Multi-model inference, visibility fields, and point process analysis of a Bronze Age settlement on Leskernick Hill (Cornwall, UK). Journal of Archaeological Science, 43, 267-277.[url][pdf]

Fort, J., Crema, E.R. Madella, M. (2015) Modeling Demic and Cultural Diffusion: An Introduction, Human Biology, 87 (3), 141-149.[url]

Kandler, A., Crema, E.R. (2019). Analysing Cultural Frequency Data: Neutral Theory and Beyond. In Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology, A. Prentiss (Eds.), Springer, pp 83-108.[url][preprint][request copy][code]

Lake, M. and Crema E.R. (2012). The cultural evolution of adaptive-trait diversity when resources are uncertain and finite, Advances in Complex Systems, 15, 1150013.[url][request copy]

Lucarini, G., Wilkinson, T., Crema, E.R., Palombini, A., Bevan, A., Broodbank, C., (2020). The MedAfriCarbon Radiocarbon Database and Web Application. Archaeological Dynamics in Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–700 BC. Journal of Open Archaeology Data 8, 1. [url][pdf]

Manning, K., College S., Crema, E.R., Shennan, S., Timpson, A. (2016). The Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe. EUROEVOL Dataset 1: Sites, Phases and Radiocarbon Data, Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 5: e2. [url][pdf][data]

Manning, K, Timpson, A., College, S. Crema, E.R., Edinborough, K., Kerig, T., Shennan, S. (2014). The chronology of culture. A comparative assessment of European Neolithic dating methods. Antiquity, 88. 1065-1080.[url][pdf]

Manning, K, Timpson, A., Shennan, S., Crema, E.R. (2015) Size Reduction in Early European Domestic Cattle Relates to Intensification of Neolithic Herding Strategies. PLOS ONE 10(12): e0141873.[url/pdf]

Mannino, M. A., Thomas, K.D., Crema E.R., and Leng, M.J. (2014). A matter of taste? Mode and periodicity of marine mollusc exploitation on the Mediterranean island of Favignana (Ègadi Islands, Italy) during its isolation in the early Holocene, Archaeofauna: International Journal of Archaeozoology, 23, 133-147.[url][pdf]

Mulazzani, S., Boussoffara, R., Aouadi, N., Azzarà, V., Belhouchet, L., Boujekben, A., Crema, E.R., Curci, A., Del Grande, C., Maini, E., Mannino, M., Mazzanti, C., Scaruffi, S. (2008). Entre Sahara et Méditterranée. Le peuplement de Sebkhet Halk el menjel (Tunisie Orientale) penadant l’Holocène (Campagnes 2002-2005). Africa, XXI, 189-212. [request copy]

Mulazzani, S., Boussoffara, R., Azzarà, V., Belhouchet, L., Boldrin, M. Boujekben, A., Crema, E.R., Mannino, M.A., Del Grande C., Mazzanti C., Scaruffi, S. (2008). Between the Sahara and the Mediterranean: a study of the Middle Holocene communities of the Sebkhet Halk al Menzel (Tunisia). The first three Campaigns 2002-2004, In Menozzi O., Di Marzio M. L., Fossataro D. (Eds.) SOMA 2005 Proceedings of the IX Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology, Chieti (Italy), 24- 26 February 2005. BAR International Series, n. 1793, Oxford: Archaeopress, pp 383-390.[request copy]

Ribéreau-Gayon, A., Rando, C., Schuliar, Y., Chapenoire, S., Crema, E.R., Claes, J., Seret, B., Maleret, V., Morgan, R.M., (2017). Extensive unusual lesions on a large number of immersed human victims found to be from cookiecutter sharks (Isistius spp.): an examination of the Yemenia plane crash. International Journal of Legal Medicine 131, 423-432.[url][Request copy]

Saag, L., et al. (2019). The Arrival of Siberian Ancestry Connecting the Eastern Baltic to Uralic Speakers further East. Current Biology 29, 1701–1711 [url][request copy]

Shennan, S., Crema, E.R., Kerig, T. (2015). Isolation-by-distance, homophily, and “core” vs. “package” cultural evolution models in Neolithic Europe. Evolution and Human Behaviour. 36 (2), 103-109.[url/code][pdf]

Timpson, A., Colledge, S., Crema, E.R., Edinborough, K., Kerig, T., Manning, K., Thomas, M.G., Shennan, S. (2014). Reconstructing regional demographies of the European Neolithic using ‘dates as data’: a new case-study using an improved method. Journal of Archaeological Science, 52, 549–557.[url][pdf]