Dr Alex Wilshaw
School of Biological and Environmental Sciences

Faculty: Faculty of Science
Email address: A.Wilshaw@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 904 6482
Languages
French
Degrees
2012, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, PhD Palaeoanthropology
Journal article
Mounier A, Van Baelen A, Crivellaro F, Rivera F, Wilshaw A, Grün R, Foley R, Mirazón Lahr M. 2022. A new Upper Pleistocene hominin calvarium from West-Turkana (Kenya) Bulletins et mémoires de la société d'anthropologie de Paris, 33 DOI Publisher Url
Van Baelen A, Wilshaw A, Griffith P, Noens G, Maíllo-Fernández J-M, Foley RA, Mirazón Lahr M. 2019. Prospect Farm and the Middle and Later Stone Age Occupation of Mt. Eburru (Central Rift, Kenya) in an East African Context African Archaeological Review, 36 :397-417 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Mounier A, Correia M, Rivera F, Crivellaro F, Power R, Jeffery J, Wilshaw A, Foley RA, Lahr MM. 2018. Who were the Nataruk people? Mandibular morphology among late Pleistocene and early Holocene fisher-forager populations of West Turkana (Kenya) JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION, 121 :235-253 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Wilshaw A, Muwonge H, Rivera F, Mirazon Lahr M. 2016. Aliel: A mid-Holocene stone platform with cairn and single pillar in West Turkana, Kenya Nyame Akuma, :51-59 Public Url
Wilshaw A. 2016. The Current Status of the Kenya Capsian. African Archaeological Review, 33 :13-27 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Mirazón Lahr M, Rivera F, Power RK, Mounier A, Copsey B, Crivellaro F, Edung JE, Maillo Fernandez JM, Kiarie C, Lawrence J, Leakey A, Mbua E, Miller H, Muigai A, Mukhongo DM, Van Baelen A, Wood R, Schwenninger J-L, Grün R, Achyuthan H, Wilshaw A, Foley RA. 2016. Inter-group violence among early Holocene hunter-gatherers of West Turkana, Kenya. Nature, 529 :394-398 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Wilshaw A. 2012. Updated provenance information for 7 LSA sites from the Central Rift Valley, Kenya Nyame Akuma, 78 Publisher Url Public Url
Lahr MM, Foley R, Crivellaro F, Fernandez JM, Wilshaw A, Copsey B, Rivera F, Mattingly D. 2011. DMP XIV: Prehistoric sites in the Wadi Barjuj, Fazzan, Libyan Sahara Libyan Studies, 42 :117-138 DOI Publisher Url
Lahr MM, Foley R, Crivellaro F, Fernandez JM, Wilshaw A, Purdon A, Halladay-Garrett C, Veldhuis D, Mattingly D. 2010. DMP XI: Preliminary results from 2010 fieldwork on the human prehistory in the Libyan Sahara Libyan Studies, 41 :133-154 DOI Publisher Url
Lahr MM, Foley R, Crivellaro F, Okumura M, Maher L, Davies T, Veldhuis D, Wilshaw A, Mattingly D. 2009. DMP VI: Preliminary results from 2009 fieldwork on the human prehistory of the Libyan Sahara Libyan Studies, 40 :133-153 DOI Publisher Url
Chapters
Wilshaw A. 2018. The Out of Africa Hypothesis Trevathon W. The International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology, 3 Volume Set Wiley-Blackwell 9781118584422
Wilshaw A. 2018. Modern Humans, The Origins of The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 12 Volume Set Wiley-Blackwell 9780470657225
Wilshaw A, Mirazon Lahr M. 2018. 4. The Later Prehistory of the Turkana Basin The River Peoples and Histories of the Omo-Turkana Area :22-31 Archaeopress Archaeology 9781789690330
Wilshaw A. 2018. Hominins and First Humans in the Lower Omo Valley Clack T, Britten M. The River Peoples and Histories of the Omo-Turkana Area Archaeopress Archaeology 9781789690330
Wilshaw A, Lahr MM. 2018. The later prehistory of the turkana basin The River: Peoples and Histories of the Omo-Turkana Area :22-32 9781789690347
Editorial/letter to the editor
Lahr MM, Rivera F, Power RK, Moonier A, Copsey B, Crivellaro F, Edung JE, Maillo Fernandez JM, Kiarie C, Lawrence J, Leakey A, Mbuas E, Miller H, Muigai A, Mukhongo DM, Van Baelen A, Wood R, Schwenninger J-L, Grun R, Achyuthan H, Wilshaw A, Foley RA. 2016. Contesting the massacre at Nataruk Reply NATURE, 539 :E10-E11 DOI Author Url Publisher Url
Thesis/Dissertation
Wilshaw A. An Investigation into the LSA of the Nakuru-Naivasha Basin and surround, Central Rift Valley, Kenya: Technological Classifications and Population Considerations Mirazon Lahr M.