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Hominin glacial-stage occupation 712,000 to 424,000 years ago at Fordwich Pit, Old Park (Canterbury, UK).
Alastair Key, James Clark, Tobias Lauer, Jennifer Bates, Mark-Jan Sier

Nat Ecol Evol· October 2025

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Elliptical Fourier analysis of bullet ricochet impact site plan-view shape in concrete.
Jonathan Paige, Robert S Walker, Briggs Buchanan, Alastair Key, Jay Romans

Forensic Sci Res· September 2025

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Assessing geometric microliths as cultural markers through an analysis of shape variation and projectile performance.
Alfredo Cortell-Nicolau, Alastair Key, Antoni Palomo

Sci Rep· April 2025

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Regional extinction(s) but continental persistence in European Acheulean culture.
Alastair Key

Camb Prism Extinct· May 2024

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Captive bonobos (Pan paniscus) apply precision grips when using flaked stone tools.
Adela Cebeiro, Alastair Key

Am J Biol Anthropol· March 2024

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Bullet ricochet mark plan-view morphology in concrete: an experimental assessment of five bullet types and two distances using machine learning.
Metin I Eren, Jay Romans, Robert S Walker, Briggs Buchanan, Alastair Key

Forensic Sci Res· March 2024

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Revising the oldest Oldowan: Updated optimal linear estimation models and the impact of Nyayanga (Kenya).
Alastair Key, Tomos Proffitt

J Hum Evol· January 2024

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Hafted technologies likely reduced stone tool-related selective pressures acting on the hominin hand.
Anna Mika, Julie Lierenz, Andrew Smith, Briggs Buchanan, Robert S Walker, Alastair Key

Sci Rep· September 2023

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Hominins likely occupied northern Europe before one million years ago.
Alastair Key, Nick Ashton

Evol Anthropol· February 2023

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Optimal linear estimation models predict 1400-2900 years of overlap between Homo sapiens and Neandertals prior to their disappearance from France and northern Spain.
Igor Djakovic, Alastair Key, Marie Soressi

Sci Rep· October 2022

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On the earliest Acheulean in Britain: first dates and artefacts from the MIS 15 site of Fordwich (Kent, UK).
Alastair Key, Tobias Lauer, Matthew M Skinner, Matthew Pope, David R Bridgland

R Soc Open Sci· June 2022

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Statistical inference of earlier origins for the first flaked stone technologies.
Alastair J M Key, David L Roberts, Ivan Jarić

J Hum Evol· May 2021

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Kinetics of stone tool production among novice and expert tool makers.
Erin Marie Williams-Hatala, Kevin G Hatala, Alastair Key, Christopher J Dunmore, Margaret Kasper

Am J Phys Anthropol· April 2021

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Muscle recruitment and stone tool use ergonomics across three million years of Palaeolithic technological transitions.
Alastair J M Key, Ian Farr, Robert Hunter, Samantha L Winter

J Hum Evol· July 2020

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Miniaturization optimized weapon killing power during the social stress of late pre-contact North America (AD 600-1600).
Anna Mika, Kat Flood, James D Norris, Michael Wilson, Alastair Key

PLoS One· June 2020

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Raw material optimization and stone tool engineering in the Early Stone Age of Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania).
Alastair Key, Tomos Proffitt, Ignacio de la Torre

J R Soc Interface· January 2020

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The unexpected importance of the fifth digit during stone tool production.
Alastair J M Key, Christopher J Dunmore, Mary W Marzke

Sci Rep· November 2019

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The exceptional abandonment of metal tools by North American hunter-gatherers, 3000 B.P.
Michelle R Bebber, Alastair J M Key, Michael Fisch, Richard S Meindl, Metin I Eren

Sci Rep· April 2019

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Hand grip diversity and frequency during the use of Lower Palaeolithic stone cutting-tools.
Alastair Key, Stephen R Merritt, Tracy L Kivell

J Hum Evol· December 2018

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Manual restrictions on Palaeolithic technological behaviours.
Alastair J M Key, Christopher J Dunmore

PeerJ· August 2018

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The manual pressures of stone tool behaviors and their implications for the evolution of the human hand.
Erin Marie Williams-Hatala, Kevin G Hatala, McKenzie Gordon, Alastair Key, Margaret Kasper

J Hum Evol· June 2018

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Form and function in the Lower Palaeolithic: history, progress, and continued relevance.
Alastair Key, Lycett Stephen

J Anthropol Sci· December 2017

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Manual Loading Distribution During Carrying Behaviors: Implications for the Evolution of the Hominin Hand.
Alastair J M Key

PLoS One· June 2017

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The evolution of the hominin thumb and the influence exerted by the non-dominant hand during stone tool production.
Alastair J M Key, Christopher J Dunmore

J Hum Evol· January 2015

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