Richard Potts

Smithsonian Institution — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

52h-index10.8kcitations174works2.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology(100), Evolution and Paleontology Studies(52), Primate Behavior and Ecology(33), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research(26), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies(25)

Publications174 total

Qualitative and Quantitative Use-Wear Analysis of Percussive Stone Tools from Nyayanga (Homa Peninsula, Kenya)
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory·2025Open Access
Selective use of distant stone resources by the earliest Oldowan toolmakers
Science Advances·2025· 5 citedOpen Access
Disruptions in ecological resources as a driver for human and mammalian evolution in the South Kenya Rift: the 1 million-year-long Olorgesailie core record
2025Open Access
New Oldowan locality Sare-Abururu (ca. 1.7 Ma) provides evidence of diverse hominin behaviors on the Homa Peninsula, Kenya
Journal of Human Evolution·2024· 8 citedOpen Access
Pleistocene vegetation dynamics of the Olorgesailie-Koora Basin in the last 1 Myr: Implications for human evolution and technological innovations 
2024Open Access
Controls on Quaternary geochemical and mineralogical variability in the Koora Basin and South Kenya Rift
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology·2023· 5 cited
Adaptability and the Continuation of Human Origins
2023· 1 cited
Expanded geographic distribution and dietary strategies of the earliest Oldowan hominins and <i>Paranthropus</i>
Science·2023· 129 citedOpen Access
Acheulean of the Olorgesailie Basin, Kenya
2023· 1 cited
Controls on Quaternary Geochemical and Mineralogical Variability in the Koora Basin and South Kenya Rift
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
10. Behavioral Response to Variable Pleistocene Landscapes
Berghahn Books·2022
Late quaternary biotic homogenization of North American mammalian faunas
Nature Communications·2022· 28 citedOpen Access
Holocene bidirectional river system along the Kenya Rift and its influence on East African faunal exchange and diversity gradients
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2022· 23 citedOpen Access
Fauna and Paleoenvironments of the Homa Peninsula, Western Kenya
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2022· 4 cited
Mammalian Fauna of the Olorgesailie Basin and Southern Kenya Rift
Cambridge University Press eBooks·2022· 5 cited
Training to Promote Empathic Communication in Graduate Medical Education: A Shared Learning Intervention in Internal Medicine and General Surgery
Palliative Medicine Reports·2022· 17 citedOpen Access
Effects of reduced mobility on trabecular bone density in captive big cats
Royal Society Open Science·2022· 12 citedOpen Access
Reconstructing the Environmental Context of Human Origins in Eastern Africa Through Scientific Drilling
Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences·2022· 31 citedOpen Access
Quaternary diatoms and palaeoenvironments of the Koora Plain, southern Kenya rift
Quaternary Science Reviews·2021· 12 cited
Exploration of apatite (U Th)/He geochronological analysis of volcanic units in fossil-bearing strata of the Homa Peninsula, southwestern Kenya
Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology·2021· 1 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Alan L. Deino(10), Anna K. Behrensmeyer(10), Peter Ditchfıeld(10), Thomas W. Plummer(7), Laura C. Bishop(7), Anne E. Russon(7), Jennifer B. Clark(5), David R. Braun(5), Rixiang Zhu(4), Yongxin Pan(4), Fritz Hertel(4), J. Tyler Faith(4), R. Bernhart Owen(4), Wei Wang(3), Alison S. Brooks(3), John E. Yellen(3), Chenglong Deng(3), Joseph V. Ferraro(3), James S. Oliver(3), Rahab N. Kinyanjui(3)