Michael Richards

Biographic Data

ID82916
NAMEMichael Richards
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMERichards
SIGNATURERICHARDS M
AFFILIATIONSMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
ORCID0000-0001-5274-8887
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS252
TOTAL CITATIONS4335
AUTHOR COUNT252
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX33

  • Local environmental change and fallow deer hunting at Amud Cave

    Open AccessChen Zeigen, Erella Hovers et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2026

    Neanderthal presence in the southern Levant has raised questions regarding behavioral flexibility and adaptation strategies across diverse climatic and ecological settings. The association of most Levantine Neanderthal sites with the last glacial period has led some researchers to frame their presence and subsequent disappearance from the region as climatically driven. Increasingly, the use of site-specific paleoenvironmental proxies and recognit…

  • Tracking mobility in Neolithic Scotland using strontium and sulfur isotope analysis of humans from Orkney and Caithness

    Open AccessDamon Tarrant, K Jaouen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2026References: 47

    We study the potential mobility of 15 individuals from Scottish Neolithic Funerary Monuments in Orkney and Caithness. • 87 Sr/ 86 Sr and δ 34 S modern plant random forest isoscape was generated for the United Kingdom. • Most individuals appeared local to the monuments where they were interred. • One adult may have spent the first three years of their life further South in Scotland. • Our study further demonstrates the use of triangulating isotope…

  • High‐resolution compound‐specific δ 15 N isotope dietary study of humans from the Scottish Mesolithic and Neolithic

    Open AccessMartinoia, Oliver E Craig et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2025Cited by: 1References: 63

    Numerous isotopic studies of Scottish Mesolithic and Neolithic diets suggest a shift from marine‐based to terrestrial‐based subsistence strategies. However, bulk collagen isotope analysis may overlook low‐level marine food consumption. This study combines bulk collagen stable isotope data from four Neolithic sites (Quanterness, Rattar East, Ness of Brodgar, and Knap of Howar) with nitrogen compound‐specific isotope analysis (CSIA‐AA) from one Lat…

  • From shore to land

    Open AccessMartinoia, Mario Novak et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2025References: 58

  • Anthropological, Palaeopathological, and Stable Isotope Analyses of the Early Medieval Population of Corte Romana (Cividale, NE Italy) During the Period of Langobard Rule (6th-7th centuries ad)

    Open AccessMartinoia, Paola Saccheri et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025References: 56

    This study examines the Early Medieval local population of Corte Romana (Cividale del Friuli, NE Italy) during the period of Langobard rule of the territory (6th-7th centuries ad). We conducted anthropological and palaeopathological analyses of 54 individuals from Corte Romana, including 38 subadults and 16 adults. Stable isotope analyses (δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S) were performed on 52 of these individuals to investigate their dietary patterns and mo…

  • High-resolution dietary analysis of the Late Upper Paleolithic Šandalja II (Croatia) humans confirms an aquatic food diet

    Open AccessMartinoia, Ivor Karavanić et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2024References: 29

  • Imagining Contagion

    Open AccessMichael RichardsARTICLEEuropean History Quarterly2024

    Recent accounting for disease in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War has been contained within study of hunger in the early 1940s. Historians have cited the typhus epidemic which hit Spain between 1939 and 1945 as demonstrating a causal link between widespread semi-starvation and disease. Though important, the focus on hunger risks losing sight of other vital elements in the onset and transmission of typhus, however, as well as the way the epi…

  • Affordable Housing and Urban Politics in Spain, 1924-1937

    Open AccessMichael RichardsARTICLEJournal of Urban History2024

    This article explores working-class housing schemes and urban planning to gain a new angle for viewing successive national political crises in Spain in the 1920s and 1930s. It focuses on the southern city of Málaga through a micro-study of the Ciudad Jardín development begun during the military dictatorship of the 1920s. Using a range of archival and newspaper sources, the article demonstrates how political struggle over affordable housing had be…

  • Exhuming Franco

    Michael RichardsARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2024

  • Ginnerup Revisited. New Excavations at a Key Neolithic Site on Djursland, Denmark

    Open AccessLutz Klassen, Uffe Lind Rasmussen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Neolithic Archaeology2023

    New excavations of an enclosure-related site at Ginnerup on Djursland, Denmark, in 2020 resulted in the identification of several features containing depositions of marine shells. One of these, A4, is a natural depression with a fill comprised of four consecutively deposited layers, forming an undisturbed stratigraphy, dated by several 14C dates to between c. 3150 and 2950 BC. The oldest layer contained finds from phase MN A Ib of the Funnel Beak…

  • FRUITS of the sea? A cautionary tale regarding Bayesian modelling of palaeodiets using stable isotope data

    Open AccessR J Schulting, Rebecca Macdonald et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2023

  • Rediscovering Cova de la Sarsa (València, Spain)

    Open AccessDomingo C Salazar‐garcía, Pablo García-Borja et al.ARTICLEHeritage2023References: 22

    Cova de la Sarsa (València, Spain) is one of the most important Neolithic impressed ware culture archaeological sites in the Western Mediterranean. It has been widely referenced since it was excavated in the 1920s, due partly to the relatively early excavation and publication of the site, and partly to the qualitative and quantitative importance of its archaeological remains. Unfortunately, as it was an older excavation and lacked present-day rig…

  • Early Byzantine fish consumption and trade revealed by archaeoichthyology and isotopic analysis at Sagalassos, Turkey

    Open AccessWim Van Neer, Benjamin T Fuller et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2023References: 17

  • The subsistence strategies of Qin humans in the Guanzhong Plain before the establishment of Qin Empire

    Open AccessGuowen Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2023References: 13

  • Bioarchaeological insights into the Late Helladic communities of South Kynouria, Peloponnese

    Open AccessP Tritsaroli, Grigoris Grigorakakis et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023References: 13

    This paper examines the human osteological remains unearthed from six Late Helladic (LH IIIA2‐IIIB2) (1390/70–1200/1190 BCE) tombs at Socha in the Peloponnese. It seeks to investigate the character of a Mycenaean community that though organically integrated into and highly dependent on the palatial system, manifested Mycenaean burial practices with a distinctly local character, namely, through the use of built cist‐tombs. Our analysis investigate…

  • Catholic Intellectuals and Transnational Anti-Communism

    Open AccessMichael RichardsARTICLEThe English Historical Review2023References: 1

    This article analyses the conditions and ideas motivating cross-border connectivity among young Roman Catholic intellectuals during the trans-war era of the 1930s and 1940s. It examines Pax Romana, the Swiss-based international association of Catholic students and graduates, as it navigated between fascism and resistance in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and during the global conflict of 1939–45. The organisation was headed successively b…

  • Changing human-cattle relationships in Ireland

    Open AccessEric Guiry, Fiona Beglane et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2023Cited by: 1

    Domesticated cattle were brought to Ireland during the Neolithic. By the early medieval period, 4000 years later, these animals were central to social and economic status in Irish communities and the landscape was organised around cattle husbandry to a degree unattested elsewhere in Europe. How this socio-economic importance developed is unclear. Here, using isotope data spanning six millennia, the authors identify a culturally driven shift towar…

  • A call for a digital Community Psychology

    Jenna Condie, Michael RichardsCHAPTERRoutledge International Handbook…2022

    Community Psychology has seemingly been left behind on the digital front. For one reason or another, the connections between Community Psychology, digital technologies and social media remain unplugged. We are calling for a new “Digital Community Psychology”. In this chapter, we apply a digital autoethnographic method to generate knowledge about Community Psychology, social media and digital technologies. We reflect on what “Digital Community Psy…

  • Hope

    Carolyn Kagan, Jacqueline Akhurst et al.CHAPTERRoutledge International Handbook…2022

    In this end note we will revisit the primacy of the ecological crisis as a lens through which to view changing social structures, alliances and possibilities for change. We will then go on to consider ways in which critical community psychological thought and praxis can work with others to recognise the realities of people’s lives and engender hope for the future. We recognise the playfulness of the end note. Here we utilise it as a commentary on…

  • Geographic and seasonal variation in δ13C values of C3 plant arabidopsis

    Open AccessCatherine G Cooper, Martha D Cooper et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2022Cited by: 2References: 7

  • Human diets, crop patterns, and settlement hierarchies in third millennium BC China

    Open AccessD Tao, Junjie Xu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2022Cited by: 9References: 2

  • A bioavailable baseline strontium isotope map of southwestern Turkey for mobility studies

    Open AccessMegan Wong, Vaughan Grimes et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021References: 11

  • Freshwater reservoir effects in Cis-Baikal

    Open AccessR J Schulting, Christopher B Ramsey et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Research in Asia2021Cited by: 9References: 14

  • Dietary evidence from Central Asian Neanderthals

    Open AccessDomingo C Salazar-García, Domingo C Salazar‐garcía et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2021Cited by: 16References: 97

    Neanderthals are known primarily from their habitation of Western Eurasia, but they also populated large expanses of Northern Asia for thousands of years. Owing to a sparse archaeological record, relatively little is known about these eastern Neanderthal populations. Unlike in their western range, there are limited zooarchaeological and paleobotanical studies that inform us about the nature of their subsistence. Here, we perform a combined analys…

  • Agriculturalization of the Nomad-Dominated Empires of the Northern Wei Dynasty in Pingcheng city (398-494 ad)

    Open AccessGuowen Zhang, Xiaogang Hou et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021Cited by: 1References: 29

    To investigate the agriculturalization of the Nomad-Dominated Empires of the Northern Wei Dynasty, we analysed the δ13C and δ15N values of animal and human bone/dentine collagen from the Jingmaoyuan cemetery, Datong city, China. The majority of the Jingmaoyuan humans predominately relied on a diet of C4 plants, likely millets and/or domestic animals fed on by-products of millet. Other individuals had a C3/C4 mixed diet, indicating diets with more…