Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles (*corresponding author)
Cerasoni, J.N.*, Hallett, E.Y.*, Orijemie, E., Ashastina, K., Lucas, M., Farr, L., Höhn, A., Kiahtipes, C., Blinkhorn, J., Roberts, P., Manica, A., Scerri, E.M.L.* (in review) Human interactions with tropical environments over the last 14,000 years at Iho Eleru, Nigeria. iScience.
Cerasoni*, J.N., N’Dah, D., Candy, I., Hallett, E.Y., Blinkhorn, J., Armitage, S., Scerri, E.M.L. (in review) Newly discovered Middle Stone sites in Tannongou Valley, Atakora Region, Benin. Open Quaternary.
Hallett, E.Y.*, Leonardi, M.*, Cerasoni, J.N., Will, M., Beyer, R., Krapp, M., Kandel, A.W., Manica, A.*, Scerri, E.M.L.* (in review) Major expansion in the human niche preceded out of Africa dispersal. Nature.
Ranhorn, K.L.*, Tryon, C.A., Sharp, W., Quinn, R., Porter, S., Patania, I., Ogutu, J., Niespolo, E., McNeil, J., Mollel, S., Mashaka, H., Marean, C.W., Lewis, J.E., Laird, M.F., Hallett, E.Y., Colarossi, D. (in revision) Late Pleistocene-Holocene archaeology and paleoenvironments of the Kondoa region, Tanzania. Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Française.
Thompson, J.C., Bertacchi, A., Keller, H.M., Hallett, E.Y., & Pobiner, B. (in press) The Zooarchaeology of Pleistocene Africa. In A. Beyin, D.K. Wright, J. Wilkins, A. Bouzouggar & D.I. Olszewski (Eds.), Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa: Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology. Springer.
Olszewski, D.I., Aldeias, V., Álvarez-Fernández, E., Blackwell, B., El-Hajraoui, M.A., Hallett, E.Y., Jacobs, Z., Rezek, Z., Richter, D., Skinner, A., Steele, T.E., Talamo, S. (in press) The Middle and Later Stone Age at Contrebandiers Cave in Rabat-Témara, Morocco. In A. Beyin, D.K. Wright, J. Wilkins, A. Bouzouggar & D.I. Olszewski (Eds.), Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa: Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology. Springer.
Cerasoni, J.N.*, do Nascimento Rodrigues, F., Tang, Y., Hallett, E.Y. (in press) Do-It-Yourself Digital Archaeology: Introduction and Practical Applications of Photography and Photogrammetry for the 2D and 3D Representation of Small Objects and Artefacts. PLOS One.
Cerasoni, J.N.*, Hallett, E.Y., Ben Arous, E., Beyer, R., Krapp, M., Manica, A., Scerri, E.M.L. (in press) Archaeological sites and palaeoenvironments of Pleistocene West Africa. In F. Henselowsky, C. Willmes, and M. Smith (Eds.), “PaleoMaps: representations of Quaternary paleoenvironments, human–environment interaction and human dispersal” special issue. Journal of Maps.
Cerasoni, J.N., Hallett, E.Y., Farr, L., Orijemie, E. A. & Scerri, E. M. L. (in press) Iho Eleru. In A. Beyin, D.K. Wright, J. Wilkins, A. Bouzouggar & D.I. Olszewski (Eds.), Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa: Hominin behavior, geography, and chronology. Springer.
Hallett, E.Y.*, Marean, C.W., Steele, T.E., Alvarez-Fernández, E., Jacobs, Z., Cerasoni, J.N., Aldeias, V., Scerri, E.M.L., Olszewski, D.I., El-Hajraoui, M., & Dibble, H.L. A worked bone assemblage from 120,000-90,000 year old deposits at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco. iScience, 24(9), p. 102988. DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102988.
Steele, T.E., Álvarez-Fernández, E., & Hallett-Desguez, E. (2019). Special Issue: Early Personal Ornaments --- A Review of Shells as Personal Ornamentation during the African Middle Stone Age. PaleoAnthropology, 2019, 24-51.
Dibble, H.L., Aldeias, V., Jacobs, Z., Olszewski, D.I., Rezek, Z., Lin, S.C., Alvarez-Fernández, E., Barshay-Szmidt, C., Hallett-Desguez, E., Reed, D., Reed, K., Richter, D., Steele, T.E., Skinner, A., Blackwell, B., Doronicheva, E., El-Hajraoui, M. (2013). On the Industrial Attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb. Journal of Human Evolution, 64, 194-210.
Dibble, H.L., Aldeias, V., Alvarez-Fernández, E., Blackwell, B.A., Hallett-Desguez, E., Jacobs, Z., Goldberg, P., Lin, S.C., Morala, A., Meyer, M.C., Olzsewski, D.I., Reed, K., Reed, D., Rezek, Z., Richter, D., Roberts, R.G., Sandgathe, D., Schurmans, U., Skinner, A.R., Steele, T.E. and El-Hajraoui, M. (2012). New Excavations at the Site of Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco. PaleoAnthropology, 2012, 145-201.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Hallett-Desguez, E. (2012). Analyse Archéozoologie de la Macrofaune. In Préhistoire de la région de Rabat-Témara, ed. M.A. El Hajraoui, A. Debénath, R. Nespoulet, and H. Dibble. Villes et Sites Archéologiques du Maroc (VESAM) Volume III. pp. 239-248.
Amani, F., Reed, K., Hallett-Desguez, E., Bougariane, B., & Reed, D. (2012). Faunes et Paléoenvironnements. In Préhistoire de la région de Rabat-Témara, ed. M.A. El Hajraoui, A. Debénath, R. Nespoulet, and H. Dibble. Villes et Sites Archéologiques du Maroc (VESAM) Volume III. pp. 211-222.
Published abstracts of oral presentations at professional meetings
Cerasoni, J.N., Orijemie, E., Hallett, E.Y., Lucas, M., Ashastina, K., Farr, L., Hoehn, A., Kiahtipes, C., Roberts, P., Manica, A., Blinkhorn, J., Scerri, E.M.L. “Late Pleistocene to Holocene palaeoenvironmental reconstruction and human behaviour at Iho Eleru rock shelter, Nigeria.” European Society for the study of Human Evolution, 22-24 September, 2021, Worldwide.
Steele, T.E., Álvarez-Fernández, E., Hallett, E.Y., Aldeias, V. Boudad, L., Chakround, A., Grote, M., Olszewski, D.I., El Hajraoui, M.A. “The Late Pleistocene mollusk sample from Contrebandiers Cave (Temara, Morocco): marine resource exploitation and personal ornaments.” Presented in session “Marine resources: food and beads,” organized by E. Álvarez-Fernández. 19th World Congress of UISPP, 2-7 September, 2021, Meknes, Morocco.
Hallett, E.Y. “Archéozoologie et taphonomie des ensembles osseux des occupations Middle et Later Stone Age de la grotte des Contrebandiers, côte atlantique, Maroc/ Zooarchaeology and taphonomy of the vertebrate faunal assemblage from the Middle and Later Stone Age occupations at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco.” Paper presented in session “utilisation des resources animales et végétales,” organized by Human societies and environments in the circum-Mediterranean area, from the Pleistocene to the early Holocene, Colloque en hommage à Emilie Campmas, 8-9 March 2021, Toulouse, France.
Tryon, C.A., Lewis, J., Ranhorn, K.L., Marean, C.W., Hallett, E., Patania, I., Mashaka, H., Ogutu, J., Porter, S., Colarossi, D., Quinn, R., Niespolo, E.M., Sharp, W.D. Les séquences de la fin du Quaternaire du centre-nord de la Tanzanie: Archives et fouilles archéologiques de l’abri Kisese II. Cultural dynamics and landscape transformation in a rapidly changing continent: From the Big Dry to the Holocene in East Africa. 25-28 September 2019, Toulouse, France.
Hallett, E. Taphonomy and zooarchaeology of the vertebrate faunal remains from Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco. Paleoanthropology Society 2019 Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 9 and 10, 2019.
Hallett-Desguez, E., & Marean, C.W. “Comparing MSA subsistence strategies and technologies: Pinnacle Point, South Africa and Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco.” Paper presented in panel, “Diversity of hominin subsistence strategies during the Middle and Late Pleistocene across the African continent,” organized by Aurore Val and Emilie Campmas. 15th Congress of the PanAfrican Archaeological Association of Prehistory and Related Studies, Rabat, Morocco, September 10-14, 2018.
Hallett-Desguez, E. “The MSA and LSA vertebrate faunal record at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco.” Paper presented in panel, “Diversity of hominin subsistence strategies during the Middle and Late Pleistocene across the African continent,” organized by Aurore Val and Emilie Campmas. 15th Congress of the PanAfrican Archaeological Association of Prehistory and Related Studies, Rabat, Morocco, September 10-14, 2018.
Steele, T.E., Álvarez-Fernández, E., Hallett-Desguez, E., Aldeias, V., El Hajraoui, M. and Dibble, H.L. “Tick shells, personal ornamentation, and marine resource exploitation during the Late Pleistocene at Contrebandiers Cave (Temara, Morocco).” Paper presented at Paleoanthropology Society 2018 Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas, April 10 and 11, 2018.
Steele, T.E., Álvarez-Fernández, E., Hallett-Desguez, E., Aldeias, V., El Hajraoui, M. and Dibble, H.L. “Nassarius shells and marine resource exploitation during the Late Pleistocene at Contrebandiers Cave (Temara, Morocco).” Paper presented at “Workshop on Humans’ Earliest Personal Ornaments.” Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University, Israel, March 6-8, 2017.
Steele, T.E., Álvarez-Fernández, E., Hallett-Desguez, E., Aldeias, V., El Hajraoui, M. and Dibble, H.L. “Coastal marine resource exploitation during the Late Pleistocene at Contrebandiers Cave (Témara, Morocco) / Exploitation des ressources marines côtières durant la fin du Pléistocène à la Grotte des Contrebandiers (Témara, Maroc).” Paper presented in session, “The role of North Africa in the emergence and development of modern behaviours: Integrated Approach,” organized by Campmas, E., Stoetzel, E., Oujaa, A. and Scerri, E. 23rd Biennial Meeting of the SAfA (Society of Africanist Archaeologists), University of Toulouse, France, June 26-July 2, 2016.
Steele, T.E., Álvarez-Fernández, E., Hallett-Desguez, E., El Hajraoui, M. and Dibble, H.L. “Coastal marine resource exploitation during the Late Pleistocene at Contrebandiers Cave (Témara, Morocco).” Paper presented in sponsored symposium, “Fire, Food, Farms, and Fortifications: Recent Advances in the Archaeology of Africa.” SAA Annual Meeting 2016, Orlando, Florida, April 6- 10, 2016.
Hallett-Desguez, E. and Marean, C.W. “A comparison of two African Mediterranean MSA adaptations: the Cape Floral Region and the Maghreb.” Paper presented in the symposium, “Building the Hunter-gatherer’s Paleoscape on the South African Coast: The Archaeological Record,” organized by Naomi Cleghorn and Curtis W. Marean. SAA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, April 15-19, 2015.
Hallett-Desguez, E., Dibble, H.L., Marean, C.W. and Steele, T.E. “A large and varied bone tool assemblage from Contrebandiers Cave (Atlantic coast of Morocco) dated between ca. 122 ka – 96 ka.” Paper presented at Paleoanthropology Society 2014 Annual Meeting, Calgary, Canada, April 8 and 9, 2014.
Hallett-Desguez, E. and Reed, K.E. “The Faunal Record at Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco.” Paper presented in the symposium, “The Emergence of Modern Humans: New Evidence from Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco,” organized by H. L. Dibble and V. Aldeias. SAA Annual Meeting, Memphis, Tennessee, April 18-22, 2012.
Dibble, H. V. Aldeias, E. Hallett-Desguez, J.J. Hublin, Z. Jacobs, D. Richter, K. Reed, D. Reed, R. Roberts, D. Sandgathe, T. Steele & M. A. el Hajraoui. “New Excavations at the Grotte des Contrebandiers, Morocco.” Paper presented at inaugural meeting of the European Society for the study of Human Evolution, Leipzig, Germany, September 24, 2011.
Invited Book Reviews
Hallett, E.Y. (2019) Review of the book Modern Human Origins and Dispersal edited by Yonathan Sahle, Hugo Reyes-Centeno and Christian Bentz. Tübingen, Kerns Verlag, Words, Bones, Genes, Tools, Volume 2, 2019, 360 pp. Published in Azania https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2019.1676053