Standout Papers
- Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa (2002)
- Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary Report on the 1992–1999 Excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels (2001)
- Excavations at Geduld and the Appearance of Early Domestic Stock in Namibia (1995)
- 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)
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A female figurine from the basal Aurignacian of Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany
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Inference of human population history from individual whole-genome sequences
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The gripping nature of ochre: The association of ochre with Howiesons Poort adhesives and Later Stone Age mastics from South Africa
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A multidisciplinary reconstruction of Palaeolithic nutrition that holds promise for the prevention and treatment of diseases of civilisation
2012
Biogeography and evolution of the genus Homo
2005
Optical dating of dune sand from Blombos Cave, South Africa: II—single grain data
2003
Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age
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An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa
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Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans
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Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa
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A Chronological Perspective on the Acheulian and Its Transition to the Middle Stone Age in Southern Africa: The Question of the Fauresmith
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A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa
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Approaches to dietary reconstruction in the western Cape: Are you what you have eaten?
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The Prehistoric Development of Clothing: Archaeological Implications of a Thermal Model
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Production sequences of ostrich eggshell beads and settlement dynamics in the Geelbek Dunes of the Western Cape, South Africa
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Chronology of the Later Stone Age and Food Production in East Africa
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Modification of ostrich eggs by carnivores and its bearing on the interpretation of archaeological and paleontological finds
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Distinguishing quartz and feldspar in single grain luminescence measurements
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Technological, elemental and colorimetric analysis of an engraved ochre fragment from the Middle Stone Age levels of Klasies River Cave 1, South Africa
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Variability in the Middle Stone Age Lithic Sequence, 115,000–60,000 Years Ago at Klasies River, South Africa
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Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective
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The Chronological Evidence for the Introduction of Domestic Stock into Southern Africa
1998
Identifying regional variability in Middle Stone Age bone technology: The case of Sibudu Cave
2012
Le mobilier Stillbay et Howiesons Poort de l'abri Diepkloof. La chronologie du Middle Stone Age sud-africain et ses implications
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Transitions Before the Transition
2006
Evaluation of SAR procedures for determination using single aliquots of quartz from two archaeological sites in South Africa
2006
Population Genetic Analysis of the N-Acylsphingosine Amidohydrolase Gene Associated With Mental Activity in Humans
2008
Small Things Remembered: Origins of Early Microlithic Industries in Sub‐Saharan Africa
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Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa
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Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals
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The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction
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Luminescence dating of quaternary sediments: recent advances
2004
Finding resolution for the Howiesons Poort through the microscope: micro-residue analysis of segments from Sibudu Cave, South Africa
2007
New ages for the post-Howiesons Poort, late and final Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa
2008
Le rouge et le noir: implications of early pigment use in Africa, the near East and Europe for the origin of cultural modernity
2008
Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne
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Engraved ochre from a Middle Stone Age context at Klein Kliphuis in the Western Cape of South Africa
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Sourcebook of Paleolithic Transitions
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2005
Later Stone Age ostrich eggshell bead manufacture in the Northern Cape, South Africa
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2000
The origins of lithic projectile point technology: evidence from Africa, the Levant, and Europe
2005
Two Late Pleistocene-Holocene Archaeological Depositories from the Southern Cape, South Africa
1995
Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoscape modeling along the southern coast of South Africa
2010
Homo sapiensIs asHomo sapiensWas
2011
Direct dating of Neanderthal remains from the site of Vindija Cave and implications for the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition
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Middle Paleolithic Shell Beads in Israel and Algeria
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Signs of Life: Engraved Stone Artefacts from Neolithic South India
2006
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Radiometric dating of the Earlier Stone Age sequence in Excavation I at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa: preliminary results
2008
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
The Ysterfontein 1 Middle Stone Age site, South Africa, and early human exploitation of coastal resources
2004
The social impact of pastoralism in the southwestern Cape
1986
Nets and fully recurved bows: Rock paintings and hunting methods in the Western Cape, South Africa
1985
Preliminary Results from Excavations at Steenbokfontein Cave: Implications for Past and Future Research
1996
Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa
2002 StandoutScience
Recent Holocene Archaeology in Western and Southern Lesotho
1994
TL DATING OF BURNT LITHICS FROM BLOMBOS CAVE (SOUTH AFRICA): FURTHER EVIDENCE FOR THE ANTIQUITY OF MODERN HUMAN BEHAVIOUR*
2006
Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary Report on the 1992–1999 Excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels
2001 Standout
First excavation of intact Middle Stone Age layers at Ysterfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa: implications for Middle Stone Age ecology
2003
Excavations at Geduld and the Appearance of Early Domestic Stock in Namibia
1995 Standout
Hunter-Gatherer Child Burials from the Pakhuis Mountains, Western Cape: Growth, Diet and Burial Practices in the Late Holocene
2000
Excavations in the South-Western Cape, South Africa, and the Archaeological Identity of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers within the Last 2000 Years
1991
A Unified Lithic Taxonomy Based on Patterns of Core Reduction
2004
The chronology of the introduction of pastoralism to the Cape, South Africa
1994