Standout Papers
- Problems in prehistory: North Africa and the Levant, (1975)
- Prehistory of the Nile Valley (1976)
Citation Impact
Citing Papers
Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system
2008 Standout
Quantifying the Influence of Climate on Human Conflict
2013 StandoutScience
Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians
2020 StandoutScienceNobel
Use of Radar Data to Delineate Palaeodrainage Flow Directions in the Selima Sand Sheet, Eastern Sahara
2000
Divorcing the Late Upper Palaeolithic demographic histories of mtDNA haplogroups M1 and U6 in Africa
2012
Multiple paternal origins of domestic cattle revealed by Y-specific interspersed multilocus microsatellites
2010
Amino acid cosmogeochemistry
1991
Models and realities in modern human origins: the African fossil evidence
1992
New age constraints on the Middle Stone Age occupations of Kharga Oasis, Western Desert, Egypt
2007
New ages for human occupation and climatic change at Lake Mungo, Australia
2003 StandoutNature
Tephrostratigraphy and the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
2002
An early bone tool industry from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa: implications for the origins of modern human behaviour, symbolism and language
2001 Standout
Shanidar 3 Neandertal rib puncture wound and paleolithic weaponry
2009
Genetic evidence for Near-Eastern origins of European cattle
2001 Nature
Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene
2007 StandoutNature
Insights into the Genetic History of French Cattle from Dense SNP Data on 47 Worldwide Breeds
2010 Standout
Hunters of the Ice Age: The biology of Upper Paleolithic people
2008
Neandertal DNA Sequences and the Origin of Modern Humans
1997 StandoutNobel
Lakeside Cemeteries in the Sahara: 5000 Years of Holocene Population and Environmental Change
2008
Ohalo II H2: A 19,000‐year‐old skeleton from a water‐logged site at the Sea of Galilee, Israel
1995
Combination of multiple microsatellite data sets to investigate genetic diversity and admixture of domestic cattle
2005
Nuclear DNA sequences from the Middle Pleistocene Sima de los Huesos hominins
2016 StandoutNatureNobel
Origins of the Iberomaurusian in NW Africa: New AMS radiocarbon dating of the Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Taforalt Cave, Morocco
2013
New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens
2017 StandoutNature
Catastrophic shifts in ecosystems
2001 StandoutNature
The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior
2000 Standout
The gripping nature of ochre: The association of ochre with Howiesons Poort adhesives and Later Stone Age mastics from South Africa
2007
Evolution, consequences and future of plant and animal domestication
2002 StandoutNature
An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa
2012 StandoutNature
A Redox-Driven Multicomponent Molecular Shuttle
2007 StandoutNobel
Low-latitude glacial cooling in the Southern Hemisphere from amino-acid racemization in emu eggshells
1997 Nature
Cucumber ( Cucumis sativus ) and melon ( C. melo ) have numerous wild relatives in Asia and Australia, and the sister species of melon is from Australia
2010 Standout
The Nile Corridor and the Out‐of‐Africa Model An Examination of the Archaeological Record
1998
The Genetic Legacy of Paleolithic Homo sapiens sapiens in Extant Europeans: A Y Chromosome Perspective
2000 StandoutScience
OSL dating of the Aterian levels at Dar es-Soltan I (Rabat, Morocco) and implications for the dispersal of modern Homo sapiens
2009
The archaic prehistory of the North American Southwest
1996
Subsurface Valleys and Geoarcheology of the Eastern Sahara Revealed by Shuttle Radar
1982 Science
The Wavy Line and the Dotted Wavy Line Pottery in the Prehistory of the Central Nile and the Sahara-Sahel Belt
2003
Domestication and early agriculture in the Mediterranean Basin: Origins, diffusion, and impact
2008 Standout
Ancient Ethiopian genome reveals extensive Eurasian admixture in Eastern Africa
2015 StandoutScience
Agricultural Origins and Frontiers in South Asia: A Working Synthesis
2007 Standout
Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans
2009 StandoutScience
Faunal remains from a Middle Pleistocene lacustrine marl in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt: palaeoenvironmental reconstructions
1999
Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa
2002 StandoutScience
Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal
2008 StandoutScience
The Primitive Hunter Culture, Pleistocene Extinction, and the Rise of Agriculture
1975 StandoutNobel
Estimation of Tigris-Euphrates streamflow from regional paleoenvironmental proxy data
1981
Amino Acid Racemization and the Preservation of Ancient DNA
1996 StandoutScienceNobel
Amino acid racemization of fossil bone
1991
On the Antiquity of Agriculture in Ethiopia
1979
The Neandertal type site revisited: Interdisciplinary investigations of skeletal remains from the Neander Valley, Germany
2002 StandoutNobel
Genetic Analyses from Ancient DNA
2004 StandoutNobel
Octahedral Fe(II) and Ru(II) Complexes Based on a New Bis 1,10-Phenanthroline Ligand That Imposes a Well Defined Axis
2001 StandoutNobel
Mitochondrial DNA and the origins of the domestic horse
2002 Standout
General/Specific, Local/Global: Comparing the Beginnings of Agriculture in the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia/Eritrea) and Southwest Arabia (Yemen)
2010
Mode 3 Technologies and the Evolution of Modern Humans
1997
Farmers and Their Languages: The First Expansions
2003 StandoutScience
Monsoons and the dynamics of deserts
1996
African Populations and the Evolution of Human Mitochondrial DNA
1991 StandoutScience
Vegetational and climatic changes at the northern fringe of the sahara 250,000–5000 years BP: evidence from 4 marine pollen records located between Portugal and the Canary Islands
1992
When did humans first arrive in greater Australia and why is it important to know?
1998
The Prehistoric Development of Clothing: Archaeological Implications of a Thermal Model
2010
Chronology of the Later Stone Age and Food Production in East Africa
1998 Standout
Early Allelic Selection in Maize as Revealed by Ancient DNA
2003 StandoutScienceNobel
Implications for complex cognition from the hafting of tools with compound adhesives in the Middle Stone Age, South Africa
2009 Standout
Sea Level Change Through the Last Glacial Cycle
2001 StandoutScience
The influence of continental ice sheets on the climate of an ice age
1985 StandoutNobel
African Pastoralism: Genetic Imprints of Origins and Migrations
2002 Science
DNA sequence of the mitochondrial hypervariable region II from the Neandertal type specimen
1999 StandoutNobel
A Howiesons Poort tradition of engraving ostrich eggshell containers dated to 60,000 years ago at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa
2010 Standout
Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations
2018 StandoutScienceNobel
Historical Nile Floods and Their Implications for Climatic Change
1981 Science
The Continental Record of Environmental Conditions at 18,000 yr B.P.: An Initial Evaluation
1979
The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation
2011 Standout
Transitions or turnovers? Climatically-forced extinctions of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals in the east Mediterranean Levant
2008
Nile behaviour and Late Palaeolithic humans in Upper Egypt during the Late Pleistocene
2015
Levallois Lithic Technology from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya: Acheulian Origin and Middle Stone Age Diversity
2006
Monsoons: Processes, predictability, and the prospects for prediction
1998 Standout
Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa
2012 Standout
Microsatellite diversity suggests different histories for Mediterranean and Northern European cattle populations
2005
Global Patterns of Linkage Disequilibrium at the CD4 Locus and Modern Human Origins
1996 StandoutScienceNobel
East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins
2007 Standout
Agricultural Origins and Frontiers in South Asia: A Working Synthesis
2006 Standout
Lithostratigraphy of Border Cave, KwaZulu, South Africa: a Middle Stone Age sequence beginning c. 195,000 b.p.
1978
Status of the Nile crocodile in the Sahara desert
1998
Wadi Howar: Paleoclimatic Evidence from an Extinct River System in the Southeastern Sahara
1987 StandoutScience
Climate-Controlled Holocene Occupation in the Sahara: Motor of Africa's Evolution
2006 Science
Barbed Bone Points: Tradition and Continuity in Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa
1998
Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert
2010 Standout
El Niño Modoki and its possible teleconnection
2007 Standout
The Genesis and Collapse of Third Millennium North Mesopotamian Civilization
1993 StandoutScience
Out of Africa and the evolution of human behavior
2008
Genetic Architecture of Tameness in a Rat Model of Animal Domestication
2009 StandoutNobel
The Middle Stone Age of East Africa and the beginnings of regional identity
1988 Standout
Towards a theory of modern human origins: Geography, demography, and diversity in recent human evolution
1998
The emergence of pottery in Africa during the tenth millennium cal BC: new evidence from Ounjougou (Mali)
2009
Multiple dispersals and modern human origins
1994
The archeology of modern human origins
1992
Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa
2004 StandoutScience
The application of radar topographic data to mapping of a mega-paleodrainage in the Eastern Sahara
2007
Archeology and the evolution of human behavior
2000
‘Out of Africa’ from an Egyptian point of view
2001
The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction
2015 StandoutScienceNobel
Finding resolution for the Howiesons Poort through the microscope: micro-residue analysis of segments from Sibudu Cave, South Africa
2007
Ages of Quaternary pluvial episodes determined by uranium-series and radiocarbon dating of lacustrine deposits of Eastern Sahara
1995
Pleistocene Extinction of Genyornis newtoni : Human Impact on Australian Megafauna
1999 Science
Simulation of an abrupt change in Saharan vegetation in the Mid‐Holocene
1999
Predicting protein decomposition: the case of aspartic–acid racemization kinetics
1999
The origins of lithic projectile point technology: evidence from Africa, the Levant, and Europe
2005
Holocene Forcing of the Indian Monsoon Recorded in a Stalagmite from Southern Oman
2003 StandoutScience
Homo sapiensIs asHomo sapiensWas
2011
Modern human origins
1989
Works of Fred Wendorf being referenced
The prehistory of Dakhla Oasis and adjacent desert
1977
Nabta Playa and Its Role in Northeastern African Prehistory
1998
Palaeolithic Remains in Upper Egypt
1967 Nature
A Microwear Study of a Late Pleistocene Qadan Assemblage from Southern Egypt
1993
Problems in prehistory: North Africa and the Levant,
1975 Standout
Discovery of the first Neolithic cemetery in Egypt’s western desert
2004
Megaliths and Neolithic astronomy in southern Egypt
1998 Nature
The Prehistory of Nubia.
1969
A middle stone age sequence from the central Rift Valley, Ethiopia
1974
Egyptian Prehistory: Some New Concepts
1970 Science
Dating Pleistocene Archeological Sites by Protein Diagenesis in Ostrich Eggshell
1990 Science
Prehistory of the Nile Valley
1976 Standout
Late Pleistocene and Recent Climatic Changes in the Egyptian Sahara
1977
The Prehistory of the Nile Valley
1968 Science
Dating lacustrine episodes in the eastern Sahara by the epimerization of isoleucine in ostrich eggshells
1991
The Prehistory of the Egyptian Sahara
1976 Science
Recent work on the Middle Palaeolithic of the Eastern Sahara
1987
A Last Interglacial Fauna from the Eastern Sahara
1989
Are the early holocene cattle in the eastern sahara domestic or wild?
1994
The Wadi Kubbaniya Skeleton: A Late Paleolithic Burial from Southern Egypt
1987
Dates for the Middle Stone Age of East Africa
1975 Science
Cattle-keepers of the eastern Sahara : the neolithic of Bir Kiseiba
1984
Early Man's Utilization of the Great Plains Environment
1962
Contributions to the prehistory of Nubia
1965
Early Man Sites near Concho, Arizona
1951
A Microwear Study of a Late Pleistocene Qadan Assemblage from Southern Egypt
1993