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  1. Celebrating 50 Years of Research in Prehistoric Material Culture and Traceology in Tübingen

    Article • Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Urgeschichte, November 2025, Kerns Verlag

    Alfred Pawlik

  2. The prehistoric Bilat Cave shell assemblages in Mindoro Island, Central Philippines: A coastal environment and lifeways study

    Article • Archaeological Research in Asia, September 2025, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  3. Chronology and ecology of early islanders in the Philippines: The Mindoro Archaeology Project

    Article • Archaeological Research in Asia, June 2025, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  4. Testing the waters: Plant working and seafaring in Pleistocene Wallacea

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, April 2025, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  5. The Philippines

    Article • November 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Alfred Pawlik

  6. The Pleistocene Maritime Migration of Modern Humans in Northern Wallacea: The Cases of Topogaro in Sulawesi and Bubog in Mindoro

    Article • July 2024, IntechOpen

    Alfred Pawlik

  7. 30,000 years of fishing in the Philippines: New ichthyoarchaeological investigations in Occidental Mindoro

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, December 2023, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  8. The Goa Topogaro complex: Human migration and mortuary practice in Sulawesi during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene

    Article • L Anthropologie, July 2023, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  9. The invisible plant technology of Prehistoric Southeast Asia: Indirect evidence for basket and rope making at Tabon Cave, Philippines, 39–33,000 years ago

    Article • PLOS One, June 2023, PLOS

    Alfred Pawlik

  10. The Exploitation of Toxic Fish from the Terminal Pleistocene in Maritime Southeast Asia: A Case Study from the Mindoro Archaeological Sites, Philippines

    Article • Animals, June 2023, MDPI AG

    Alfred Pawlik

  11. Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in the Philippines—Subsistence strategies, adaptation, and behaviour in maritime environments

    Article • Frontiers in Earth Science, May 2023, Frontiers

    Alfred Pawlik

  12. Barely scratched the surface: Development and future directions of lithic use-wear analysis in Island Southeast Asia

    Article • Archaeological Research in Asia, March 2023, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  13. Traceology

    Article • January 2023, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  14. Early modern human migration into Sulawesi and Island adaptation in Wallacea

    Article • World Archaeology, March 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Alfred Pawlik

  15. Development of bone and lithic technologies by anatomically modern humans during the late Pleistocene to Holocene in Sulawesi and Wallacea

    Article • Quaternary International, September 2021, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  16. Technology, adaptation, and mobility in maritime environments in the Philippines from the Late Pleistocene to Early/Mid-Holocene

    Article • Quaternary International, September 2021, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  17. Inferring human activities from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene in Topogaro 2, Central Sulawesi through use-wear analysis

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, June 2021, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  18. Pleistocene Archaeology - Migration, Technology, and Adaptation

    Article • December 2020, IntechOpen

    Alfred Pawlik

  19. Introductory Chapter: Pleistocene Archaeology - Migration, Technology, and Adaptation

    Article • December 2020, IntechOpen

    Alfred Pawlik

  20. Island Migration, Resource Use, and Lithic Technology by Anatomically Modern Humans in Wallacea

    Article • December 2020, IntechOpen

    Alfred Pawlik

  21. Functional studies of prehistoric artefacts and their socio-economic meaning

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, October 2020, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik, Dr Andreu Ollé

  22. Plant processing experiments and use-wear analysis of Tabon Cave artefacts question the intentional character of denticulates in prehistoric Southeast Asia

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, August 2020, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  23. Island migration and foraging behaviour by anatomically modern humans during the late Pleistocene to Holocene in Wallacea: New evidence from Central Sulawesi, Indonesia

    Article • Quaternary International, July 2020, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  24. Stuck within notches: Direct evidence of plant processing during the last glacial maximum to Holocene in North Sulawesi

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, April 2020, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  25. Technological and behavioural complexity in expedient industries: The importance of use-wear analysis for understanding flake assemblages

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, December 2019, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  26. Burial traditions in early Mid-Holocene Island Southeast Asia: new evidence from Bubog-1, Ilin Island, Mindoro Occidental

    Article • Antiquity, August 2019, Antiquity Publications

    Alfred Pawlik

  27. Coastal Subsistence Strategies and Mangrove Swamp Evolution at Bubog I Rockshelter (Ilin Island, Mindoro, Philippines) from the Late Pleistocene to the mid-Holocene

    Article • The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, February 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Alfred Pawlik

  28. The Philippines from c. 14,000 to 4,000 cal. bp in Regional Context – CORRIGENDUM

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, October 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Alfred Pawlik

  29. Archaeological evidence of woody vines at Bubog 2, Ilin Island, Mindoro, Philippines

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alfred Pawlik

  30. The Philippines from c. 14,000 to 4,000 cal. bp in Regional Context

    Article • Cambridge Archaeological Journal, July 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Alfred Pawlik

  31. What plants might potentially have been used in the forests of prehistoric Southeast Asia? An insight from the resources used nowadays by local communities in the forested highlands of Palawan Island

    Article • Quaternary International, August 2017, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  32. Biometric Differentiation of Wild Philippine Pigs from Introduced Sus scrofa in Modern and Archaeological Assemblages

    Article • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, April 2017, Wiley

    Alfred Pawlik

  33. Traceological analysis of “unusual” wear traces on lithic artefacts from the Middle Palaeolithic site Inden-Altdorf and the functional context of the site

    Article • Quaternary International, January 2017, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  34. First fossil evidence of the extinct Philippine cloud ratCrateromys paulus(Muridae: Murinae: Phloeomyini) from Ilin Island, Mindoro, and insights into its Holocene abundance

    Article • Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, January 2017, The Biological Society of Washington

    Alfred Pawlik

  35. New contributions to the functional analysis of prehistoric tools

    Article • Quaternary International, January 2017, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik, Dr Andreu Ollé

  36. Use-related or contamination? Residue and use-wear mapping on stone tools used for experimental processing of plants from Southeast Asia

    Article • Quaternary International, January 2017, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  37. Characterisation of the use-wear resulting from bamboo working and its importance to address the hypothesis of the existence of a bamboo industry in prehistoric Southeast Asia

    Article • Quaternary International, September 2016, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  38. Radiocarbon-dating adhesive and wooden residues from stone tools by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS): challenges and insights encountered in a case study

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, September 2015, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  39. Mobility of early islanders in the Philippines during the Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene boundary: pXRF-analysis of obsidian artefacts

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, September 2015, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  40. Shell tool technology in Island Southeast Asia: an early Middle Holocene Tridacna adze from Ilin Island, Mindoro, Philippines

    Article • Antiquity, April 2015, Antiquity Publications

    Alfred Pawlik

  41. Adaptation and foraging from the Terminal Pleistocene to the Early Holocene: Excavation at Bubog on Ilin Island, Philippines

    Article • Journal of Field Archaeology, July 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Alfred Pawlik

  42. North of the Southern Arc – The Mindoro Archaeological Research Program: A summary of the 2010 and 2011 fieldwork activities

    Article • Australian Archaeology, December 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Alfred Pawlik

  43. Evolution of prehistoric lithic industries of the Philippines during the Pleistocene

    Article • Comptes Rendus Palevol, March 2012, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  44. Behavioural Complexity and Modern Traits in the Philippine Upper Palaeolithic

    Article • Asian Perspectives, January 2012, Project Muse

    Alfred Pawlik

  45. Pleistocene Modernity: An Exclusively Afro-European Issue? An Introduction to Session A1

    Article • Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, July 2011, University of Washington Libraries

    Alfred Pawlik

  46. Have We Overlooked Something? Hafting Traces and Indications of Modern Traits in the Philippine Palaeolithic

    Article • Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, July 2011, University of Washington Libraries

    Alfred Pawlik

  47. Hafted armatures and multi-component tool design at the Micoquian site of Inden-Altdorf, Germany

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, July 2011, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  48. The ‘Palaeolithic Prospection in the Inde Valley’ Project

    Article • E&G Quaternary Science Journal, June 2011, Copernicus GmbH

    Alfred Pawlik

  49. The lower Palaeolithic record in the Philippines

    Article • Quaternary International, September 2010, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  50. The earliest settlement of Germany: Is there anything out there?

    Article • Quaternary International, September 2010, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  51. Bladelet cores as weapon tips? Hafting residue identification and micro-wear analysis of three carinated burins from the late Aurignacian of Les Vachons, France

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, September 2009, Elsevier

    Alfred Pawlik

  52. MISSING TYPES: OVERCOMING THE TYPOLOGY DILEMMA OF LITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA.

    Article • Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, June 2009, University of Washington Libraries

    Alfred Pawlik

  53. IS THE FUNCTIONAL APPROACH HELPFUL TO OVERCOME THE TYPOLOGY DILEMMA OF LITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA?

    Article • Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, June 2009, University of Washington Libraries

    Alfred Pawlik

  54. [ARCHAEOLOGY IN ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA AND OCEANIA] The Palaeolithic site of Arubo 1 in central Luzon, Philippines

    Article • Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, January 2008, University of Washington Libraries

    Alfred Pawlik

  55. The Palaeolithic in the Philippines

    Article • Lithic Technology, September 2003, Taylor & Francis

    Alfred Pawlik

  56. Modern Humans in the Philippines

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Alfred Pawlik