Standout Papers
Citation Impact
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Ochre crayons or waste products? Replications compared with MSA ‘crayons’ from Sibudu Cave, South Africa
2005
70 000-year old geometric backed tools from the Howiesons Poort at Klasies River, South Africa: were they used for hunting?
2007
Middle Stone Age lithic point experimentation for macro-fracture and residue analyses: the process and preliminary results with reference to Sibudu Cave points
2004
First impressions of the functions and hafting technology of Still Bay pointed artefacts from Sibudu Cave
2006
The evolutionary history of human spindle genes includes back-and-forth gene flow with Neandertals
2022 StandoutNobel
First Ancient Mitochondrial Human Genome from a Prepastoralist Southern African
2014
Pinnacle Point Cave 13B (Western Cape Province, South Africa) in context: The Cape Floral kingdom, shellfish, and modern human origins
2010 Standout
Frequency and distribution of edge damage on Middle Stone Age lithic points, Pinnacle Point 13B, South Africa
2010
Sixteen years of change in the global terrestrial human footprint and implications for biodiversity conservation
2016 Standout
Multidimensional GIS modeling of magnetic mineralogy as a proxy for fire use and spatial patterning: Evidence from the Middle Stone Age bearing sea cave of Pinnacle Point 13B (Western Cape, South Africa)
2010
Backed tools in Middle Pleistocene central Africa and their evolutionary significance
2002
Human brain evolution: transcripts, metabolites and their regulators
2013
Changes in Lipidome Composition during Brain Development in Humans, Chimpanzees, and Macaque Monkeys
2017 StandoutNobel
Taphonomic analysis of the Middle Stone Age faunal assemblage from Pinnacle Point Cave 13B, Western Cape, South Africa
2010
Tephrostratigraphy and the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya
2002
Additional evidence for bone technology in the southern African Middle Stone Age
2006 Standout
Announcing a Still Bay industry at Sibudu Cave, South Africa
2007
New ages for Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: Optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grains
2012
Direct radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis of the Darra-i-Kur (Afghanistan) human temporal bone
2017 StandoutNobel
Limb bone bilateral asymmetry: variability and commonality among modern humans
2005 Standout
Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa
2009 Standout
Evolution, development, and plasticity of the human brain: from molecules to bones
2013
An OSL chronology for the sedimentary deposits from Pinnacle Point Cave 13B—A punctuated presence
2010
Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene
2007 StandoutNature
Evidence of hunting and hafting during the Middle Stone Age at Sibidu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a multianalytical approach
2005 Standout
The stratigraphy of the Middle Stone Age sediments at Pinnacle Point Cave 13B (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa)
2010
Defining the Anthropocene
2015 StandoutNature
Putting ochre to the test: replication studies of adhesives that may have been used for hafting tools in the Middle Stone Age
2005
Distribution Patterns of Organic Residues on Middle Stone Age Points from Sibudu Cave, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
2004
Experimental Evidence Concerning Spear Use in Neandertals and Early Modern Humans
2003
Ancient Ethiopian genome reveals extensive Eurasian admixture in Eastern Africa
2015 StandoutScience
Systematic Pigment Use in the Middle Pleistocene of South‐Central Africa
2002
Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa
2008 Standout
Neandertals, competition, and the origin of modern human behavior in the Levant
2003
Ochre in hafting in Middle Stone Age southern Africa: a practical role
2004
A Segment is not a Monolith: evidence from the Howiesons Poort of Sibudu, South Africa
2008
Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal
2008 StandoutScience
Neandertals revised
2016
Recent advances and future prospects of the U–Th and U–Pb chronometers applicable to archaeology
2015
Indications of bow and stone-tipped arrow use 64 000 years ago in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
2010 Standout
Early Use of Pressure Flaking on Lithic Artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa
2010 Science
Reconstructing the DNA Methylation Maps of the Neandertal and the Denisovan
2014 StandoutScienceNobel
Negative emissions—Part 1: Research landscape and synthesis
2018 Standout
Implications for complex cognition from the hafting of tools with compound adhesives in the Middle Stone Age, South Africa
2009 Standout
Fifty millennia of catastrophic extinctions after human contact
2005
Experimental use and quantitative performance analysis of triangular flakes (Levallois points) used as arrowheads
2009
Making a point: wood-versusstone-tipped projectiles
2009
Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures?
2011
The invisible frontier. A multiple species model for the origin of behavioral modernity
2003 Standout
Paleoanthropologically significant South African sea caves dated to 1.1–1.0 million years using a combination of U–Pb, TT-OSL and palaeomagnetism
2013
The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation
2011 Standout
The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa
2017 Standout
Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa
2012 Standout
Depletion, Degradation, and Recovery Potential of Estuaries and Coastal Seas
2006 StandoutScience
The human dimension of fire regimes on Earth
2011 Standout
On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe
2011
Bedding, hearths, and site maintenance in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
2009 Standout
The Emergence of Ornaments and Art: An Archaeological Perspective on the Origins of “Behavioral Modernity”
2007 Standout
Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective
2003 Standout
Biofuels: Efficiency, Ethics, and Limits to Human Appropriation of Ecosystem Services
2009
Identifying regional variability in Middle Stone Age bone technology: The case of Sibudu Cave
2012
Blade technology and tool forms in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa: the Howiesons Poort and post-Howiesons Poort at Rose Cottage Cave
2006 Standout
Were there stone-tipped armatures in the South Asian Middle Paleolithic?
2011
The origins of lithic projectile point technology: evidence from Africa, the Levant, and Europe
2005
Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoscape modeling along the southern coast of South Africa
2010
Homo sapiensIs asHomo sapiensWas
2011
Works of Kyle S. Brown being referenced
An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa
2012 StandoutNature
Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans
2009 StandoutScience
Experimental Tests of Middle Palaeolithic Spear Points Using a Calibrated Crossbow
2001
The Twin Rivers Kopje, Zambia: Stratigraphy, Fauna, and Artefact Assemblages from the 1954 and 1956 Excavations
2001
A high resolution and continuous isotopic speleothem record of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment from 90 to 53 ka from Pinnacle Point on the south coast of South Africa
2010