Prof Enrico R Crema

Rotunno, R. and Crema, E., 2025 (Accepted for publication). Bayesian analyses of radiocarbon dates suggest multiple origins of ceramic technology
in Early Holocene Africa Nature Communications,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63887-0

Cortell-Nicolau, A., Rivas, J., Crema, E., Shennan, S., García-Puchol, O., Kolář, J., Staniuk, R. and Timpson, A., 2025 (Accepted for publication). Demographic interactions between the last hunter-gatherers and the first farmers Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2416221122

Petrie, C. and Crema, E., 2025 (Accepted for publication). 100 generations of wealth equality after the Neolithic transitions Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,

Craig, O., Lundy, J., Bondetti, M., Nicholson-Lailey, S., Murakami, N., Suzuki, M., Stevens, C., Lucquin, A., Talbot, HM., Son, J-H., Shinichiro, F., Sakamoto, M., Yamashita`, Y., Kobayashi, K., Crema, E. and Shoda, S., 2025 (Accepted for publication). Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2504414122

Crema, E., 2025. Statistical Modelling in Archaeology: some recent trends and future perspectives Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 180
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106295

Crema, ER., 2025. A Bayesian alternative for aoristic analyses in archaeology Archaeometry, v. 67
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12984

Vieri, J., Crema, E., Uribe Villegas, MA., Sáenz Samper, J. and Martinon-Torres, M., 2025. Beyond baselines of performance: beta regression models of compositional variability in craft production studies Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 173
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.106106

Cortell-Nicolau, A., Carrignon, S., Rodriguez Palomo, I., Hromada, D., Kahlenberg, R., Mes, A., Priss, D., Yaworsky, P., Zhang, X., Brainerd, L., Lewis, J., Redhouse, D., Simmons, C., Coto-Sarmiento, M., Daems, D., Deb, D., Lawrence, D., O'Brien, M., Riede, F., Rubio-Campillo, X. and Crema, E., 2025. Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: the archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations. Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 177
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106179

Crema, ER., 2024 (Accepted for publication). A Bayesian alternative for Aoristic analyses in archaeology Archaeometry,

Cao, D., Crema, E. and Pomeroy, E., 2024 (Accepted for publication). Estimating Intra-Limb Proportions for Commingled Remains International Journal of Osteoarchaeology,

Crema, E., Fochesato, M., Mejía Ramón, AG., Munson, J. and Ortman, SG., 2024 (Accepted for publication). Toward multiscalar measures of inequality in archaeology Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400700121

Goodman, JR., Crema, E., Nolan, F., Cohen, R. and Foley, R., 2024 (Accepted for publication). Evidence that cultural groups differ in their abilities to detect fake accents Evolutionary Human Sciences,

Zhang, X., Zhang, Y., Lifeng, T., Crema, E., Yanguo, T. and Ze, W., 2024 (Accepted for publication). A comparative analysis of stone- and earth-wall settlement locations of the Lower Xiajiadian
Culture in Aohan Banner, China Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences,

Petrie, C., 2024 (Accepted for publication). Economic inequality is fueled by population scale, land-limited production and settlement hierarchies across the archaeological record Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,

Crema, E., Carrignon, S., Shoda, S. and Stevens, C., 2024 (Accepted for publication). Regional variations in the demographic response to the arrival of rice farming in prehistoric Japan Antiquity,

Petrie, C. and Crema, E., 2024 (Accepted for publication). Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2400694122

Riris, P., Silva, F., Crema, E., Palmisano, A., Robinson, E., Siegel, PE., French, JC., Jørgensen, EK., Maezumi, SY., Solheim, S., Bates, J., Davies, B., Oh, Y. and Ren, X., 2024. Frequent disturbances enhanced the resilience of past human populations Nature,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07354-8

Lundy, J., Bondetti, M., Lucquin, A., Talbot, HM., Murakami, N., Nakayama, S., Harada, M., Suzuki, M., Endo, E., Stevens, C., Crema, ER., Craig, OE. and Shoda, S., 2024. Culinary continuity in central Japan across the transition to agriculture Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-01992-9

Carrignon, S., Crema, E., Kandler, A. and Shennan, S., 2024. Post-marital residence rules and transmission pathways in cultural hitchhiking Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 121
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2322888121

Crema, ER., Bloxam, A., Vander Linden, M. and Stevens, C., 2024. Modelling Diffusion of Innovation Curves using Radiocarbon Data Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 165
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.105962

Bogaard, A., Ortman, S., Birch, J., Cervantes Quequezana, G., Chirikure, S., Crema, E., Cruz, P., Feinman, G., Fochesato, M., Green, AS., Gronenborn, D., Hamerow, H., Jin, G., Lawrence, D., McCoy, MD., Munson, J., Roscoe, P., Rosenstock, E., Thompson, A., Petrie, CA. and Kohler, TA., 2023 (Accepted for publication). The Global Dynamics of Inequality (GINI) project: analysing archaeological housing data Antiquity,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.188

Crema, E., Lake, M. and Bortolini, E., 2023. How cultural transmission through objects impacts inferences about cultural evolution Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-022-09599-x

Kudo, Y., Sakamoto, M., Hakozaki, M., Stevens, C. and Crema, E., 2023. An archaeological radiocarbon database of Japan Journal of Open Archaeology Data, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/joad.115

Bradford, D. and Crema, E., 2022 (Accepted for publication). Risk factors for the occurrence of sexual misconduct during archaeological and anthropological fieldwork American Anthropologist,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13763

Crema, E., 2022 (Accepted for publication). 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,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-022-09559-5

Prentiss, AM., Edinborough, K., Crema, ER., Kuijt, I., Goodale, N., Ryan, E., Edwards, A. and Foor, TA., 2022 (Accepted for publication). Divergent population dynamics in the middle to late Holocene lower Fraser valley and mid-Fraser canyon, British Columbia Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103512

Crema, E., Stevens, C. and Shoda, S., 2022. Bayesian analyses of direct radiocarbon dates reveal geographic variations in the rate of rice farming dispersal in prehistoric Japan Science Advances,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adc9171

Silva, F., Coward, F., Davies, K., Elliott, S., Jenkins, E., Newton, AC., Riris, P., Vander Linden, M., Bates, J., Cantarello, E., Contreras, DA., Crabtree, SA., Crema, ER., Edwards, M., Filatova, T., Fitzhugh, B., Fluck, H., Freeman, J., Goldewijk, KK., Krzyzanska, M., Lawrence, D., Mackay, H., Madella, M., Maezumi, SY., Marchant, R., Monsarrat, S., Morrison, KD., Rabett, R., Roberts, P., Saqalli, M., Stafford, R., Svenning, J-C., Whitehouse, NJ. and Williams, A., 2022. Developing Transdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainability Challenges: The Need to Model Socio-Environmental Systems in the Longue Durée Sustainability,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3390/su141610234

Stevens, C., Crema, ER. and 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, v. 10
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.1017909

Crema, ER. and Shoda, S., 2021 (Accepted for publication). 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, v. 16
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251695

Krzyzanska, M., Hunt, H., Crema, E. and Jones, M., 2021 (Accepted for publication). Modelling the potential niche of domesticated
buckwheat in China: archaeological evidence,
environmental constraints, and climate
change Vegetation History and Archaeobotany,

DiNapoli, RJ., Crema, ER., Lipo, CP., Rieth, TM. and Hunt, TL., 2021. Approximate Bayesian Computation of radiocarbon and paleoenvironmental record shows population resilience on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). Nat Commun, v. 12
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24252-z

Kim, H., Lee, G-A. and Crema, ER., 2021. Bayesian analyses question the role of climate in Chulmun demography. Sci Rep, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-03180-4

Crema, E. and Kobayashi, K., 2020 (Accepted for publication). 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,

Andrew, B. and Crema, E., 2020 (Accepted for publication). Modifiable reporting unit problems and time series of long-term human activity Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0726

Crema, E. and Bevan, A., 2020 (Accepted for publication). Inference from large sets of radiocarbon dates: software and methods Radiocarbon: an international journal of cosmogenic isotope research,

Lucarini, G., Wilkinson, T., Crema, ER., Palombini, A., Bevan, A. and Broodbank, C., 2020. The MedAfriCarbon Radiocarbon Database and Web Application. Archaeological Dynamics in Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–700 BC Journal of Open Archaeology Data, v. 8
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/joad.60

Brown, A. and Crema, E., 2019 (Accepted for publication). 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,
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2019.1605429

Saag, L., Laneman, M., Varul, L., Malve, M., Valk, H., Razzak, MA., Shirobokov, IG., Khartanovich, VI., Mikhaylova, ER., Kushniarevich, A., Scheib, CL., Solnik, A., Reisberg, T., Parik, J., Saag, L., Metspalu, E., Rootsi, S., Montinaro, F., Remm, M., Mägi, R., D'Atanasio, E., Crema, E., Díez-del-Molino, D., Thomas, MG., Kriiska, A., Kivisild, T., Villems, R., Lang, V., Metspalu, M. and Tambets, K., 2019 (Accepted for publication). The Arrival of Siberian Ancestry Connecting the Eastern Baltic to Uralic Speakers Further East Current Biology,

Colledge, S., Conolly, J., Crema, E. and Shennan, S., 2019. Neolithic population crash in northwest Europe associated with agricultural crisis Quaternary Research, v. 92
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2019.42

Bortolini, E., Pagani, L., Crema, ER., Sarno, S., Barbieri, C., Boattini, A., Sazzini, M., da Silva, SG., Martini, G., Metspalu, M., Pettener, D., Luiselli, D. and Tehrani, JJ., 2017. Reply to d'Huy et al.: Navigating biases and charting new ground in the cultural diffusion of folktales Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 114
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1715139114

Crema, ER., Bevan, A. and Shennan, S., 2017. Spatio-temporal approaches to archaeological radiocarbon dates Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 87
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2017.09.007

Ribéreau-Gayon, A., Rando, C., Schuliar, Y., Chapenoire, S., Crema, ER., Claes, J., Seret, B., Maleret, V. and Morgan, RM., 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. Int J Legal Med, v. 131
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-016-1449-6

Biagetti, S., Merlo, S., Adam, E., Lobo, A., Conesa, FC., Knight, J., Bekrani, H., Crema, ER., Alcaina-Mateos, J. and 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, v. 9
Doi: http://doi.org/10.3390/rs9040351

Bortolini, E., Pagani, L., Crema, ER., Sarno, S., Barbieri, C., Boattini, A., Sazzini, M., da Silva, SG., Martini, G., Metspalu, M., Pettener, D., Luiselli, D. and Tehrani, JJ., 2017. Inferring patterns of folktale diffusion using genomic data Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, v. 114
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614395114

Biagetti, S., Alcaina-Mateos, J. and Crema, E., 2016 (Published online). A matter of ephemerality: the study of Kel Tadrart Tuareg (southwest Libya) campsites via quantitative spatial analysis Ecology and Society, v. 21
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5751/es-08202-210142

Crema, ER., Habu, J., Kobayashi, K. and 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, v. 11
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154809

Crema, ER., Kandler, A. and Shennan, S., 2016. Revealing patterns of cultural transmission from frequency data: equilibrium and non-equilibrium assumptions Scientific Reports, v. 6
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1038/srep39122

Manning, K., Colledge, S., Crema, E., Shennan, S. and Timpson, A., 2016. The Cultural Evolution of Neolithic Europe. EUROEVOL Dataset 1: Sites, Phases and Radiocarbon Data Journal of Open Archaeology Data, v. 5
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/joad.40

Fort, J., Crema, ER. and Madella, M., 2015. Modeling Demic and Cultural Diffusion: An Introduction. Hum Biol, v. 87
Doi: http://doi.org/10.13110/humanbiology.87.3.0141

Manning, K., Timpson, A., Shennan, S. and Crema, E., 2015. Size Reduction in Early European Domestic Cattle Relates to Intensification of Neolithic Herding Strategies. PLoS One, v. 10
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0141873

Crema, ER. and Lake, MW., 2015. Cultural Incubators and Spread of Innovation. Hum Biol, v. 87
Doi: http://doi.org/10.13110/humanbiology.87.3.0151

Shennan, SJ., Crema, ER. and Kerig, T., 2015. Isolation-by-distance, homophily, and “core” vs. “package” cultural evolution models in Neolithic Europe Evolution and Human Behavior, v. 36
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2014.09.006

Eve, SJ. and Crema, ER., 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, v. 43
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2013.12.019

Timpson, A., Colledge, S., Crema, E., Edinborough, K., Kerig, T., Manning, K., Thomas, MG. and Shennan, S., 2014. Reconstructing regional population fluctuations in the European Neolithic using radiocarbon dates: a new case-study using an improved method Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 52
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.08.011

Bevan, A. and Crema, E., 2014. Une modélisation géographiquement explicite d’interaction culturelle. Dialectes crétois modernes, archéologie de l’âge du Bronze Les Nouvelles de l archéologie, v. 135
Doi: http://doi.org/10.4000/nda.2373

Manning, K., Timpson, A., Colledge, S., Crema, E., Edinborough, K., Kerig, T. and Shennan, S., 2014. The chronology of culture: a comparative assessment of European Neolithic dating approaches Antiquity, v. 88
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00115327

Crema, ER., Edinborough, K., Kerig, T. and Shennan, SJ., 2014. An Approximate Bayesian Computation approach for inferring patterns of cultural evolutionary change Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 50
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.07.014

Mannino, MA., Thomas, KD., Crema, ER. and Leng, MJ., 2014. A matter of taste? Mode and periodicity of marine mollusc exploitation on the Mediterranean island of Favignana (Egadi Islands, Italy) during its isolation in the early Holocene ARCHAEOFAUNA, v. 23

Crema, ER., 2014. A Simulation Model of Fission–Fusion Dynamics and Long-Term Settlement Change Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, v. 21
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-013-9185-4

Crema, ER., Kerig, T. and Shennan, S., 2014. Culture, space, and metapopulation: a simulation-based study for evaluating signals of blending and branching Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 43
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.01.002

Crema, ER., 2013. Cycles of change in Jomon settlement: a case study from eastern Tokyo Bay Antiquity, v. 87
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1017/s0003598x00049930

Crema, ER., 2012. Modelling Temporal Uncertainty in Archaeological Analysis Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, v. 19
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-011-9122-3

LAKE, MW. and CREMA, ER., 2012. THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF ADAPTIVE-TRAIT DIVERSITY WHEN RESOURCES ARE UNCERTAIN AND FINITE Advances in Complex Systems, v. 15
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1142/s0219525911003323

Crema, ER. and Nishino, M., 2012. Spatio-Temporal Distributions of Middle to Late Jomon Pithouses in Oyumino, Chiba (Japan) Journal of Open Archaeology Data, v. 1
Doi: http://doi.org/10.5334/4f8eb4078284b

Crema, ER., Bevan, A. and Lake, MW., 2010. A probabilistic framework for assessing spatio-temporal point patterns in the archaeological record Journal of Archaeological Science, v. 37
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2009.12.012

Kandler, A. and Crema, ER., 2019. Analysing cultural frequency data: neutral theory and beyond
Doi: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11117-5_5

Crema, ER., 2015. Time and probabilistic reasoning in Settlement Analysis

Edinborough, K., Crema, ER., Kerig, T. and Shennan, S., 2015. An ABC of lithic arrowheads: A case study from southeastern France

Crema, ER., 2014. Modeling settlement rank-size fluctuations

Bevan, A., Crema, ER., Li, X. and Palmisano, A., 2013. Intensities, Interactions and Uncertainties: Some New Approaches to Archaeological Distributions

Crema, ER. and Bianchi, E., 2013. Looking for patterns in the noise: non-site spatial analysis at Sebkha Kalbia (Tunisia).

Crema, ER., 2011. Aoristic approaches and voxel models for spatial analysis