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Armitage, S.J., Jasim, S.A., Marks, A.E., Parker, A.G., Usik, V.I. and Uerpmann, H-P. (2011) The southern route “out of Africa”: Evidence for an early expansion of modern humans into Arabia. Science, 331, 453-456.
Free reprint: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/rapidpdf/331/6016/453?ijkey=5KxE5EHwS1Kv6&keytype=ref&siteid=sci

Drake, N.A., Blench, R.M., Armitage, S.J., Bristow, C.S. and White, K.H. (2010) Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 458-462.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1012231108

Pawley, S.M., Toms, P., Armitage, S.J. and Rose, J. (2010) Quartz luminescence dating of Anglian Stage fluvial sediments: Comparison of SAR age estimates to the terrace chronology of the Middle Thames Valley, UK. Quaternary Geochronology, 5, 569-582.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2009.09.013

Bristow, C.S., Drake, N.A. and Armitage, S.J. (2009) Deflation in the dustiest place on Earth: The Bodélé Depression, Chad. Geomorphology, 105, 50-58.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2007.12.014

Drake, N.A., El-Hawat, A., Turner, P., Armitage, S.J., Salem, S.J., White, K. and McLaren, S.J. (2008). Palaeohydrology of the Fazzan Basin and surrounding regions: The last 7 million years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 263, 131-145.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.02.005

Botha, G.A., Armitage, S.J. and Duller G.A.T. (2008). Geological evolution and palaeoenvironments of the Bazaruto island archipelago. A natural history of the Bazaruto archipelago, Mozambique. In Everett, B.I., van der Elst, R.P. and Schleyer, M.H. (Eds.) South African Association for Marine Biological Research Special Publication 8, 12-24.

Stevens, T., Lu, H., Thomas, D.S.G. and Armitage, S.J. (2008) Optical dating of abrupt shifts in the late Pleistocene East Asian monsoon. Geology, 36, 415-418.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G24524A.1

Willerslev, E., Cappellini, E., Boomsma, W., Nielsen, R., Hebsgaard, M.B., Brand, T.B., Hofreiter, M., Bunce, M., Poinar, H.N., Dahl-Jensen, D., Johnsen, S.,  Steffensen, J.P., Benikke, O., Schwenninger, J-L., Nathan, R., Armitage, S.J., de Hoog, C-J., Alfimov, V., Christl, M., Beer, J., Muscheler, R., Barker, J., Sharp, M., Penkman, K.E.H., Haile, J., Taberlet, P., Gilbert, M.T.P., Casoli, A., Campani, E., Collins, M.J. (2007) Ancient Biomolecules from Deep Ice Cores Reveal a Forested Southern Greenland. Science, 317, 111-114.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1141758

Armitage, S.J., Drake, N.A., Stokes, S., El-Hawat, A., Salem, M.J., White, K., Turner, P. and McLaren, S.J. (2007) Multiple phases of North African humidity recorded in lacustrine sediments from the Fazzan Basin, Libyan Sahara. Quaternary Geochronology, 2, 181-186.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2006.05.019 

Stevens, T., Armitage, S.J., Lu, H. and Thomas, D. (2007) Examining the potential of high-resolution OSL dating of Chinese loess. Quaternary Geochronology, 2, 15-22.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2006.03.004

Stevens, T., Thomas, D.S.G., Armitage, S.J., Lunn, H.R. and Lu, H. (2007) Reinterpreting climate proxy records from late Quaternary Chinese loess: A detailed OSL investigation. Earth Science Reviews, 80, 111-136.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2006.09.001

Armitage, S.J., Botha, G.A., Duller, G.A.T., Wintle, A.G., Rebêlo, L.P., and Momade, F.J. (2006) The formation and evolution of the barrier islands of Bazaruto and Inhaca, Mozambique. Geomorphology, 82, 295-308.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.05.011

Fattahi, M., Walker, R., Hollingsworth, J., Bahroudi, A., Talebian, M., Armitage, S.J., and Stokes, S. (2006) Holocene slip-rate on the Sabzevar thrust fault, NE Iran, determined using Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL). Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 245, 673-684.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2006.03.027

Stevens, T., Armitage, S.J., Lu, H. and Thomas, D. (2006) Sedimentation and diagenesis of Chinese loess: Implications for the preservation of continuous, high-resolution climate records. Geology, 34, 849-852.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G22472.1

Armitage, S.J. and Bailey, R.M. (2005) The measured dependence of laboratory beta dose rates on sample grain size. Radiation Measurements, 39, 123-127.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2004.06.008

Bailey, R.M., Armitage, S.J. and Stokes, S. (2005) An investigation of pulsed-irradiation regeneration of quartz OSL and its implications for the precision and accuracy of optical dating (Paper II). Radiation Measurements, 39, 347-359.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radmeas.2004.07.004

Armitage, S.J. and Duller, G.A.T. (2004) A user defined command for pulsed-irradiation on Risø TL-OSL readers. Ancient TL, 22, 9-12.
http://www.aber.ac.uk/ancient-tl/issue22_1/armitage_atl_22%281%29_9-12.pdf

Botha, G.A., Bristow, C.S., Duller, G.A.T., Porat, N., Armitage, S.J., Roberts, H.M., Clarke, B.M., Kota, M.W. and Schoeman, P. (2003) Dune development and remobilization on the Maputaland coastal plain, South Africa: a ground penetrating radar (GPR) perspective. In Bristow, C.S. and Jol, H.M. (eds) Ground Penetrating Radar in Sediments. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 211, 29-47.
http://sp.lyellcollection.org/cgi/reprint/211/1/29.pdf

Armitage, S.J., Duller, G.A.T. and Wintle, A.G. (2000) Quartz from southern Africa: Sensitivity changes as a result of thermal pretreatment. Radiation Measurements, 32, 571-577.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1350-4487(00)00053-6