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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Tomos Proffitt

Citation names

  • Proffitt, Tomos

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7E1B-38E4-1DBC
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1428-2013
Education
Degree Classification
2016/01/09
Concluded
 Palaeolithic Archaeology (Doktor (PhD))
University College London, United Kingdom
2011/09/01
Concluded
 MSc Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology (Master)
University College London, United Kingdom
2009/09/01
Concluded
 BSc Archaeology (Bachelor)
University College London, United Kingdom
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/06/15 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Christopher J. Dunmore; Fotios Alexandros Karakostis; Timo van Leeuwen; Szu-Ching Lu; Tomos Proffitt. "Tool use and the hand". 2023.
    10.1016/b978-0-12-821383-4.00011-5
Journal article
  1. Eren, Metin I.; Lycett, Stephen J.; Bebber, Michelle R.; Key, Alastair; Buchanan, Briggs; Finestone, Emma; Benson, Joseph; et al. "What can lithics tell us about hominin technology's ‘primordial soup’? An origin of stone knapping via the emulation of Mother Nature". Archaeometry (2025): https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.13075.
    Published • 10.1111/arcm.13075
  2. Proffitt, Tomos; de Sousa Medeiros, Paula; Martins, Waldney Pereira; Luncz, Lydia. V.. "Flake production: A universal by-product of primate stone percussion". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122 7 (2025): https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420067122.
    Published • 10.1073/pnas.2420067122
  3. Proffitt, Tomos; Pacome, Serge Soiret; Reeves, Jonathan S.; Wittig, Roman M.; Luncz, Lydia V.. "The archaeological visibility of chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) nut-cracking". Journal of Human Evolution 195 (2024): 103582. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103582.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jhevol.2024.103582
  4. Reeves, Jonathan S.; Proffitt, Tomos; Pacome, Soiret Serge; Luncz, Lydia V.. "Searching for the earliest archaeological record: insights from chimpanzee material landscapes". Journal of The Royal Society Interface 21 217 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0101.
    Published • 10.1098/rsif.2024.0101
  5. Luncz, Lydia V.; Slania, Nora E.; Almeida-Warren, Katarina; Carvalho, Susana; Falótico, Tiago; Malaivijitnond, Suchinda; Arroyo, Adrián; de la Torre, Ignacio; Proffitt, Tomos. "Tool skill impacts the archaeological evidence across technological primates". Scientific Reports 14 1 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-67048-z.
    Published • 10.1038/s41598-024-67048-z
  6. Key, Alastair; Eren, Metin I.; Bebber, Michelle R.; Buchanan, Briggs; Cortell-Nicolau, Alfredo; Martín-Ramos, Carmen; de la Peña, Paloma; et al. "Identifying accurate artefact morphological ranges using optimal linear estimation: Method validation, case studies, and code". Journal of Archaeological Science 162 (2024): 105921. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105921.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jas.2023.105921
  7. Alastair Key; Tomos Proffitt. "Revising the oldest Oldowan: Updated optimal linear estimation models and the impact of Nyayanga (Kenya)". Journal of Human Evolution (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103468.
    10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103468
  8. Jonathan S. Reeves; Tomos Proffitt; Katarina Almeida-Warren; Lydia V. Luncz. "Modeling Oldowan tool transport from a primate perspective". Journal of Human Evolution (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103399.
    10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103399
  9. Jonathan S. Reeves; Tomos Proffitt; Suchinda Malaivijitnond; Lydia V. Luncz. "Emergent technological variation in archaeological landscapes: a primate perspective". Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2023.0118.
    10.1098/rsif.2023.0118
  10. Tomos Proffitt; Jonathan S. Reeves; Tiago Falótico; Adrián Arroyo; Ignacio de la Torre; Eduardo B. Ottoni; Lydia V. Luncz. "Identifying intentional flake production at the dawn of technology: A technological and 3D geometric morphometric study". Journal of Archaeological Science (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2023.105740.
    10.1016/j.jas.2023.105740
  11. Tomos Proffitt; Jonathan S. Reeves; David Braun; Suchinda Malaivijitnond; Lydia Luncz. "Wild macaques challenge the origin of intentional tool production". Science Advances (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ade8159.
    10.1126/sciadv.ade8159
  12. Lydia V. Luncz; Adrián Arroyo; Falótico, T.; Patrick Quinn; Tomos Proffitt. "A primate model for the origin of flake technology". Journal of Human Evolution (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103250.
    10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103250
  13. Tomos Proffitt; Jonathan S. Reeves; Soiret Serge Pacome; Lydia. V. Luncz. "Identifying functional and regional differences in chimpanzee stone tool technology". Royal Society Open Science (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220826.
    10.1098/rsos.220826
  14. Alastair Key; Tobias Lauer; Matthew Skinner; Matthew Pope; David R. Bridgland; Laurie Noble; Tomos Proffitt. "On the earliest Acheulean in Britain: first dates and in-situ artefacts from the MIS 15 site of Fordwich (Kent, UK)". Royal Society Open Science (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211904.
    10.1098/rsos.211904
  15. T. Proffitt; Amèlia Bargalló; de la Torre, I.. "The Effect of Raw Material on the Identification of Knapping Skill: a Case Study from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania". Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10816-021-09511-z.
    10.1007/s10816-021-09511-z
  16. Jonathan S. Reeves; Tomos Proffitt; Lydia V. Luncz. "Modeling a primate technological niche". Scientific Reports (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-01849-4.
    10.1038/s41598-021-01849-4
  17. Tomos Proffitt; Jonathan S. Reeves; Alfonso Benito-Calvo; Laura Sánchez-Romero; Adrián Arroyo; Suchinda Malaivijitnond; Lydia V. Luncz. "Three-dimensional surface morphometry differentiates behaviour on primate percussive stone tools". Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2021.0576.
    10.1098/rsif.2021.0576
  18. Adrián Arroyo; Tiago Falótico; Aitor Burguet-Coca; Isabel Expósito; Patrick Quinn; Tomos Proffitt. "Use-wear and residue analysis of pounding tools used by wild capuchin monkeys (Sapajus libidinosus) from Serra da Capivara (Piauí, Brazil)". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102690.
    10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102690
  19. Alastair Key; Tomos Proffitt; de la Torre, I.. "Raw material optimization and stone tool engineering in the Early Stone Age of Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)". Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2019.0377.
    10.1098/rsif.2019.0377
  20. Lydia Luncz; Mike Gill; Tomos Proffitt; Magdalena S Svensson; Lars Kulik; Suchinda Malaivijitnond. "Group-specific archaeological signatures of stone tool use in wild macaques". eLife (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.46961.
    10.7554/elife.46961
  21. Adrián Arroyo; Tomos Proffitt; Alastair Key. "Morphometric and technological analysis of Acheulean large cutting tools from Porzuna (Ciudad Real, Spain) and questions of African affinities". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101992.
    10.1016/j.jasrep.2019.101992
  22. Ignacio de la Torre; Nils Vanwezer; Alfonso Benito-Calvo; Tomos Proffitt; Rafael Mora. "Spatial and orientation patterns of experimental stone tool refits". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0701-z.
    10.1007/s12520-018-0701-z
  23. Falótico, T.; Tomos Proffitt; Eduardo Ottoni; Richard Staff; Michael Haslam. "Three thousand years of wild capuchin stone tool use". Nature Ecology & Evolution (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0904-4.
    10.1038/s41559-019-0904-4
  24. Nuria Castañeda. "Apprenticeship in Early Neolithic Societies: The Transmission of Technological Knowledge at the Flint Mine of Casa Montero (Madrid, Spain), ca. 5300–5200 cal BC". Current Anthropology (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/700837.
    10.1086/700837
  25. T. Proffitt; Michael Haslam; J.F. Mercader; C. Boesch; Lydia Luncz. "Revisiting Panda 100, the first archaeological chimpanzee nut-cracking site". Journal of Human Evolution (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.04.016.
    10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.04.016
  26. Tomos Proffitt. "Is there a Developed Oldowan A at Olduvai Gorge? A diachronic analysis of the Oldowan in Bed I and Lower-Middle Bed II at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania". Journal of Human Evolution (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.01.006.
    10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.01.006
  27. de la Torre, I.; Alfonso Benito-Calvo; Tomos Proffitt. "The impact of hydraulic processes in Olduvai Beds I and II, Tanzania, through a particle dimension analysis of stone tool assemblages". Geoarchaeology (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gea.21629.
    10.1002/gea.21629
  28. Tomos Proffitt; V. L. Luncz; Suchinda Malaivijitnond; M. Gumert; M. S. Svensson; M. Haslam. "Analysis of wild macaque stone tools used to crack oil palm nuts". Royal Society Open Science (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171904.
    10.1098/rsos.171904
  29. Lydia Luncz; Magdalena S. Svensson; Michael Haslam; Suchinda Malaivijitnond; Tomos Proffitt; Michael Gumert. "Technological Response of Wild Macaques (Macaca fascicularis) to Anthropogenic Change". International Journal of Primatology (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10764-017-9985-6.
    10.1007/s10764-017-9985-6
  30. Michael Haslam; R. Adriana Hernandez-Aguilar; Tomos Proffitt; Adrian Arroyo; Falótico, T.; Dorothy Fragaszy; Michael Gumert; et al. "Primate archaeology evolves". Nature Ecology & Evolution (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0286-4.
    10.1038/s41559-017-0286-4
  31. Lydia Luncz; Amanda Tan; Michael Haslam; Lars Kulik; Tomos Proffitt; Suchinda Malaivijitnond; Michael Gumert. "Resource depletion through primate stone technology". eLife (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.23647.
    10.7554/elife.23647
  32. Tomos Proffitt; Adrian Arroyo; Michael Haslam. "Primate Archeology: International Workshop, University of Oxford, June 2016". Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evan.21510.
    10.1002/evan.21510
  33. Lydia Luncz; Tomos Proffitt; Lars Kulik; Michael Haslam; Roman M. Wittig. "Distance-decay effect in stone tool transport by wild chimpanzees". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2016.1607.
    10.1098/rspb.2016.1607
  34. Alastair J.M. Key; Tomos Proffitt; Elena Stefani; Stephen J. Lycett. "Looking at handaxes from another angle: Assessing the ergonomic and functional importance of edge form in Acheulean bifaces". Journal of Anthropological Archaeology (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2016.08.002.
    10.1016/j.jaa.2016.08.002
  35. Fergus Byrne; Tomos Proffitt; Adrian Arroyo; Ignacio de la Torre. "A comparative analysis of bipolar and freehand experimental knapping products from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania". Quaternary International (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.018.
    10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.018
  36. Tomos Proffitt; Lydia V. Luncz; Tiago Falótico; Eduardo B. Ottoni; Ignacio de la Torre; Michael Haslam. "Wild monkeys flake stone tools". Nature (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature20112.
    10.1038/nature20112
  37. Alastair J. M. Key; W. James Stemp; Mikhail Morozov; Tomos Proffitt; Ignacio de la Torre. "Is Loading a Significantly Influential Factor in the Development of Lithic Microwear? An Experimental Test Using LSCM on Basalt from Olduvai Gorge". Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10816-014-9224-9.
    10.1007/s10816-014-9224-9
  38. Ignacio De la Torre; Adrián Arroyo; Tomos Proffitt; Carmen Martín Ramos; Angeliki Theodoropoulou. "Técnicas de excavación en yacimientos paleolíticos. Algunos casos de estudio". Treballs d'Arqueologia (2015): http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/tda.51.
    10.5565/rev/tda.51
  39. Tomos Proffitt; Ignacio de la Torre. "The effect of raw material on inter-analyst variation and analyst accuracy for lithic analysis: a case study from Olduvai Gorge". Journal of Archaeological Science (2014): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.02.028.
    10.1016/j.jas.2014.02.028
  40. Ignacio de la Torre; Alfonso Benito-Calvo; Adrian Arroyo; Andrea Zupancich; Tomos Proffitt. "Experimental protocols for the study of battered stone anvils from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)". Journal of Archaeological Science (2013): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2012.08.007.
    10.1016/j.jas.2012.08.007
Preprint
  1. O’Malley, Theo D. R.; Reeves, Jonathan S.; Slania, Nora E.; Falótico, Tiago; Proffitt, Tomos; de la Torre, Ignacio; Luncz, Lydia V.. "Material matters: raw material influences stone tool performance in capuchin monkeys". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.12.628091.
    10.1101/2024.12.12.628091
  2. Henke-von der Malsburg, J; Reeves, J; Proffitt, T; Falótico, T; Rufo, HP; Luncz, LV. "Social cues on stone tools outweigh raw material properties in wild primates". 2024. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.10.598233.
    10.1101/2024.06.10.598233

Other

Other output
  1. Oldowan/Acheulean Succession at Olduvai Gorge. 2019. Tomos Proffitt; Carmen Martín-Ramos. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470015902.a0028492.
    10.1002/9780470015902.a0028492
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/10/01 - Current Investigating the Significance of Bipolar Technology in the Evolution of Stone Tools: A Comprehensive Exploration
Supervisor