2022
Dinnis, R., Boulton, J., French, J., Buckley, M., Davies, J., Herve, M., . . . Stringer, C. (2022). The archaeological potential of Wogan Cavern (Pembroke, UK): results of the first fieldwork season. Cave and Karst Science, 49(2), 65-72.
French, J. C., & Nowell, A. (2022). Growing up Gravettian: Bioarchaeological perspectives on adolescence in the European Mid-Upper Paleolithic. JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 67. doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101430DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2022.101430
2021
Palaeolithic Europe A Demographic and Social Prehistory (Book)
French, J. C. (2021). Palaeolithic Europe. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781108590891DOI: 10.1017/9781108590891
Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Ecological Changes, Social Behaviour and Human Intergroup Tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP (Journal article)
Spikins, P., French, J. C., John-Wood, S., & Dytham, C. (2021). Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Ecological Changes, Social Behaviour and Human Intergroup Tolerance 300,000 to 30,000 BP. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY, 28(1), 53-75. doi:10.1007/s10816-020-09503-5DOI: 10.1007/s10816-020-09503-5
French, J. C., Riris, P., Fernandez-Lopez de Pablo, J., Lozano, S., & Silva, F. (2021). A manifesto for palaeodemography in the twenty-first century. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 376(1816). doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0707DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0707
French, J. C., & Chamberlain, A. T. (2021). Demographic uniformitarianism: the theoretical basis of prehistoric demographic research and its cross-disciplinary challenges. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 376(1816). doi:10.1098/rstb.2019.0720DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0720
2020
Page, A. E., & French, J. C. (2020). Reconstructing prehistoric demography: What role for extant hunter-gatherers?. EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY, 29(6), 332-345. doi:10.1002/evan.21869DOI: 10.1002/evan.21869
Adolescence and innovation in the European Upper Palaeolithic (Journal article)
Nowell, A., & French, J. C. (2020). Adolescence and innovation in the European Upper Palaeolithic. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.37DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2020.37
2019
The use of ethnographic data in Neanderthal archaeological research (Journal article)
French, J. C. (2018). The use of ethnographic data in Neanderthal archaeological research. Hunter Gatherer Research, 4(1), 25-49. doi:10.3828/hgr.2018.3DOI: 10.3828/hgr.2018.3
Archaeological Demography as a Tool for the Study of Women and Gender in the Past (Journal article)
French, J. C. (2019). Archaeological Demography as a Tool for the Study of Women and Gender in the Past. CAMBRIDGE ARCHAEOLOGICAL JOURNAL, 29(1), 141-157. doi:10.1017/S0959774318000380DOI: 10.1017/S0959774318000380
2018
The Palaeolithic archaeological record and the materiality of imagination: a Response to J. Wentzel van Huyssteen (Chapter)
French, J. (2018). The Palaeolithic archaeological record and the materiality of imagination: a Response to J. Wentzel van Huyssteen. In A. Fuentes, & C. Deane-Drummond (Eds.), Evolution of Wisdom: Major and Minor Keys (pp. 57-63). Press Books.
2016
Demography and the Palaeolithic Archaeological Record (Journal article)
French, J. C. (2016). Demography and the Palaeolithic Archaeological Record. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL METHOD AND THEORY, 23(1), 150-199. doi:10.1007/s10816-014-9237-4DOI: 10.1007/s10816-014-9237-4
2015
The demography of the Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers of Southwestern France: A multi-proxy approach using archaeological data (Journal article)
French, J. C. (2015). The demography of the Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers of Southwestern France: A multi-proxy approach using archaeological data. JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, 39, 193-209. doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2015.04.005DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2015.04.005
Upper Palaeolithic population histories of Southwestern France: a comparison of the demographic signatures of C-14 date distributions and archaeological site counts (Journal article)
French, J. C., & Collins, C. (2015). Upper Palaeolithic population histories of Southwestern France: a comparison of the demographic signatures of C-14 date distributions and archaeological site counts. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE, 55, 122-134. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2015.01.001DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2015.01.001
2013
Population changes across the Neanderthal-to-modern-human transition in western France: A reply to Dogandzic and McPherron (2013) (Journal article)
Mellars, P., & French, J. C. (2013). Population changes across the Neanderthal-to-modern-human transition in western France: A reply to Dogandzic and McPherron (2013). JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION, 65(3), 330-333. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.03.006DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.03.006
2011
Tenfold Population Increase in Western Europe at the Neandertal-to-Modern Human Transition (Journal article)
Mellars, P., & French, J. C. (2011). Tenfold Population Increase in Western Europe at the Neandertal-to-Modern Human Transition. SCIENCE, 333(6042), 623-627. doi:10.1126/science.1206930DOI: 10.1126/science.1206930
2010
Double Standards and 'Boundary Bias' at the European Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic Transition? An Examination of the Treatment of Evidence for Palaeolithic Habitation Structures (Journal article)
French, J. (2010). Double Standards and 'Boundary Bias' at the European Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic Transition? An Examination of the Treatment of Evidence for Palaeolithic Habitation Structures. Archaeological Review From Cambridge.