Penny Spikins

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• 2023

  Burials and engravings in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene: contexts and evolutionary implications

  Fuentes, A., Kissel, M., Spikins, P., Molopyane, K., Hawks, J. & Berger, L., 6 Jun 2023, In: eLife.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• 2022

  Autism and engagement with material culture

  Wright, B., Pearson, H., Spikins, P., Scott, C. & Schofield, J., 2022, In: Interdisciplinary science reviews. 47, p. 18-39 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Hidden Depths: The origins of human connection

  Spikins, P., 23 Aug 2022, White Rose University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

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• In the Company of Wolves: compensatory attachments and the human-dog bond

  Spikins, P., 23 Aug 2022, Hidden Depths: The origins of human connection. White Rose University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Material evidence: caring for adult vulnerabilities

  Spikins, P., 23 Aug 2022, Hidden Depths: The origins of human connection. White Rose University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Social comfort and security, from the Palaeolithic to the present

  Spikins, P., 23 Aug 2022, Hidden Depths: The origins of human connection. White Rose University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Evolutionary Basis for Human Empathy, Compassion and Generosity

  Spikins, P., 23 Aug 2022, Hidden Depths: The origins of human connection. White Rose University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Evolutionary Basis for Human Tolerance: Physiological Responses

  Spikins, P., 23 Aug 2022, Hidden Depths: The origins of human connection. White Rose University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Evolutionary Basis for Human Tolerance: human ‘self-domestication’?

  Spikins, P., 23 Aug 2022, Hidden Depths: The origins of human connection. White Rose University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Roots of Gratitude (Epilogue)

  Spikins, P., 5 Oct 2022, In: Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences. 9, p. 136-139 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

• Trust, emotional commitments and reputation

  Spikins, P., 23 Aug 2022, Hidden Depths: The origins of human connection. White Rose University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• What If: The evolutionary basis for different pathways

  Spikins, P., 23 Aug 2022, Hidden Depths: The origins of human connection. White Rose University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
• 2021

  Theoretical and methodological approaches to ecological changes, social behaviour and human intergroup tolerance 300,000 to 30,0000bp

  Spikins, P., Dytham, C., French, J. & John Wood, S., 3 Feb 2021, In: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• 2020

  A Major Change in Rate of Climate Niche Envelope Evolution during Hominid History

  Mondanaro, A., Melchionna, M., Di Febbraro, M., Castiglione, S., Holden, P. B., Edwards, N. R., Carotenuto, F., Maiorano, L., Modafferi, M., Serio, C., Diniz-Filho, J. A. F., Rangel, T., Rook, L., O'Higgins, P., Spikins, P., Profico, A. & Raia, P., 20 Nov 2020, In: iScience. 23, 11, 29 p., 101693.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Autism Spectrum Condition and the Built Environment: Perspectives on Place Attachment and Cultural Heritage

  Schofield, A. J., Spikins, P., Wright, B. & Scott, C., 1 Aug 2020, In: The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice. 11, 2-3, p. 307-334 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Not just a virtue: The evolution of self control

  Spikins, P. & Green, J., 3 Apr 2020, In: Time and Mind.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Should Autism Spectrum Conditions Be Characterised in a More Positive Way in Our Modern World?

  Wright, B. J. D., Spikins, P. & Pearson, H., 13 May 2020, Medicina, 56, 5 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Editorial

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• 2019

  Conversations with the deep past: Different ways of knowing

  Spikins, P., 11 Apr 2019, Sustainable Wisdom: Indigenous Knowhow for Global Flourishing. Narvaez, D. (ed.). Peter Lang

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Living to fight another day: The ecological and evolutionary significance of Neanderthal healthcare

  Spikins, P., Needham, A., Wright, B. J. D., Dytham, C., Gatta, M. & Hitchens, G. E., 1 Aug 2019, In: Quaternary Science Reviews. 217, p. 98-118 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Sharing and inclusion: Generosity, trust and response to vulnerability in the distant past

  Spikins, P., 19 Dec 2019, Towards a Broader View of Hunter-Gatherer Sharing. Lavi, N. & Friesem, D. (eds.). Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, p. 57 66 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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• 2018

  An emotional challenge: What can we infer about capacities for social emotions in archaic humans?

  Spikins, P. & Hitchens, G. E., 14 Apr 2018.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review

• Autism spectrum conditions affect preferences in valued personal possessions

  Spikins, P., Wright, B. J. D. & Scott, C., Apr 2018, In: Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. 12, 2, p. 99-112 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Calculated or caring? Neanderthal healthcare in social context

  Spikins, P., Needham, A., Tilley, L. & Hitchens, G. E., 22 Feb 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: World Archaeology . 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Healthcare provisioning in evolutionary context

  Spikins, P., Needham, A., Wright, B. J. D., Dytham, C. & Hitchens, G. E., 15 Sept 2018.

  Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review

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• How Do We Explain ‛Autistic Traits’ in European Upper Palaeolithic Art?

  Spikins, P., Scott, C. & Wright, B. J. D., 2018, In: Open Archaeology. 4, 1, p. 263-279 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Supraorbital morphology and social dynamics in human evolution

  Godinho, R. M., Spikins, P. & O'Higgins, P., 1 Jun 2018, In: Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2, 6, p. 956-961 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• The object of my affection: Attachment security and material culture

  Bell, T. & Spikins, P., 2 Mar 2018, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Time and Mind. 11, 1, p. 23-39 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• 2017

  Prehistoric origins: The compassion of far distant strangers

  Spikins, P., 12 May 2017, Compassion: Concepts, Research and Applications. Gilbert, P. (ed.). Taylor & Francis

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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• Strangers in a Strange Land? Intimate sociality and emergent creativity in Middle Palaeolithic Europe

  Spikins, P., Hitchens, G. & Needham, A. P., 1 May 2017, The diversity of Hunter-gatherer pasts. Warren, G. & Finlayson, B. (eds.). Oxbow Books, p. 1-17 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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• 2016

  Are there alternative adaptive strategies to human pro-sociality? The role of collaborative morality in the emergence of personality variation and autistic traits

  Spikins, P., Wright, B. J. D. & Hodgson, D., 2016, In: Time and Mind. 9, 4, p. 289-313 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Pollen from Late Pleistocene hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) coprolites: an interdisciplinary approach from two Italian sites

  Gatta, M., Sinopoli, G., Giardini, M., Giaccio, B., Hadjas, I., Pandolfi, L., Bailey, G., Spikins, P., Rolfo, M. & Sadori, L., Oct 2016, In: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology. 233, p. 56-66 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• The Prehistory of Autism

  Spikins, P. & Wright, B., 15 Nov 2016, Rounded Globe.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

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• 2015

  How Compassion Made Us Human

  Spikins, P., 7 May 2015, Pen and Sword. 278 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• The Geography of Trust and Betrayal: Moral disputes and Late Pleistocene dispersal

  Spikins, P., 25 Nov 2015, In: Open Quaternary. 1, 10, 12 p.

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• 2014

  The Cradle of Thought: Growth, Learning, Play and Attachment in Neanderthal children

  Spikins, P., Hitchens, G., Rutherford, H. & Needham, A., May 2014, In: Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 33, 2, p. 111-134 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• 2012

  Goodwill Hunting? Debates on the 'meaning' of lower palaeolithic handaxe form revisited

  Spikins, P., 2012, In: World Archaeology . 44, 3, p. 378-392 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• 2010

  From Homininity to Humanity: Compassion from the Earliest Archaics to Modern Humans

  Spikins, P., Rutherford, H. & Needham, A., Nov 2010, In: Time & mind-The journal of archaeology consciousness and culture. 3, 3, p. 303-325 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Research Agenda for Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites in West Yorkshire

  Spikins, P., 2010, West Yorkshire Archaeology and Archives Service.

  Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

• The Prehistory of Compassion

  Spikins, P., Rutherford, H. E. & Needham, A. P., 17 Nov 2010, Blurb Publishing. 106 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• “When the last fires were put out”: ethnographic analogy and the symbolic use of fire in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic

  Spikins, P., Kelly, R. & Manzi, L., 2010, In: XXXII Convegno Internazionale di Americanistica.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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• 2009

  Autism, the Integrations of 'Difference' and the Origins of Modern Human Behaviour

  Spikins, P., Jun 2009, In: Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 19, 2, p. 179-201 23 p.

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• 'Durable Residues': addressing the use of microwear, a case study from March Hill

  Briz y Godino, I., Alvarez, M., Spikins, P. & Needham, A., 2009, In: Internet Archaeology. 26

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• 2008

  El fuego en las altas latitudes: Los Selk’nam de Tierra del Fuego como referente etnográfico para el Mesolítico europeo

  Translated title of the contribution: Fire in high altitudes: The Selk'nam of Tierra del Fuego as an ethnographic analogy for Mesoltihic EuropeManzi, L. & Spikins, P., Jan 2008, In: Complutum. 19 , 1, p. 79-96

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Mesolithic Europe

  Bailey, G. (ed.) & Spikins, P. (ed.), 2008, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Mesolithic Europe : glimpses of another world

  Spikins, P., Bailey, G. (ed.) & Spikins, P. (ed.), 2008, Mesolithic Europe. New York: Cambridge University Press, p. 1-17 16 p.

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• The bashful and the boastful: prestigious leaders and social change in Mesolithic Societies

  Spikins, P., Dec 2008, In: Journal of World Prehistory. 21, 3-4, p. 173-193 20 p.

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• 2007

  ‘A Needle in a Haystack’?: Perspectives on prospection for submerged Mesolithic sites

  Engen, M. & Spikins, P., 2007, Mesolithic Studies in the North Sea basin and beyond. Waddington, C. & Pedersen, K. (eds.). Oxford: Oxbow Books

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• 2006

  The secret history of emotion: From Aristotle rhetoric to modern brain science.

  Spikins, P., Dec 2006, In: Antiquity. 80, 310, p. 1008-1009 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• 2005

  Submarine prehistoric archaeology of the North Sea: Research priorities and collaboration with industry

  Spikins, P., Sept 2005, In: Antiquity. 79, 305, p. 714-715 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• 2003

  Prehistoric People of the Pennines: Reconstructing the Lifestyles of Mesolithic Hunter-gatherers on Marsden Moor

  Spikins, P., 2003, West Yorkshire Archaeology Service and English Heritage.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

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