Standout Papers
- Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa (2002)
- Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal (2008)
- Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene (2007)
- Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans (2009)
- Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa (2004)
- An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa (2012)
- Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave (2021)
Citation Impact
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2006 StandoutScienceNobel
Denisovan ancestry and population history of early East Asians
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Additional evidence on the use of personal ornaments in the Middle Paleolithic of North Africa
2009
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2005
First impressions of the functions and hafting technology of Still Bay pointed artefacts from Sibudu Cave
2006
Assessing the error on equivalent dose estimates derived from single aliquot regenerative dose measurements
2007
The history of the North African mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6 gene flow into the African, Eurasian and American continents
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2010
The Origin of Modern Human Behavior
2003
Chronic inflammation in the etiology of disease across the life span
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Denisova Admixture and the First Modern Human Dispersals into Southeast Asia and Oceania
2011 StandoutNobel
Additional evidence for bone technology in the southern African Middle Stone Age
2006 Standout
Neanderthals and the modern human colonization of Europe
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The Archaeogenetics of Europe
2010
Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa
2009 Standout
The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia
2010 StandoutNatureNobel
Anterior tooth root morphology and size in Neanderthals: Taxonomic and functional implications
2012
Evolution, development, and plasticity of the human brain: from molecules to bones
2013
Disruption of an Evolutionarily Novel Synaptic Expression Pattern in Autism
2016 StandoutNobel
New flutes document the earliest musical tradition in southwestern Germany
2009 StandoutNature
Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France
2016 Nature
The Asian monsoon over the past 640,000 years and ice age terminations
2016 StandoutNature
A female figurine from the basal Aurignacian of Hohle Fels Cave in southwestern Germany
2009 Nature
The Expansion of mtDNA Haplogroup L3 within and out of Africa
2011
The Reality of Neandertal Symbolic Behavior at the Grotte du Renne, Arcy-sur-Cure, France
2011
The Châtelperronian conundrum: Blade and bladelet lithic technologies from Quinçay, France
2016
Hunters of the Ice Age: The biology of Upper Paleolithic people
2008
Geochronology of cave deposits at Liang Bua and of adjacent river terraces in the Wae Racang valley, western Flores, Indonesia: a synthesis of age estimates for the type locality of Homo floresiensis
2009
Evidence of hunting and hafting during the Middle Stone Age at Sibidu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a multianalytical approach
2005 Standout
The major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 is inherited from Neanderthals
2020 StandoutNatureNobel
Palaeomagnetic analysis of the Sterkfontein palaeocave deposits: Implications for the age of the hominin fossils and stone tool industries
2011
An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor
2015 StandoutNatureNobel
On the local Mousterian origin of the Châtelperronian: Integrating typo-technological, chronostratigraphic and contextual data
2015
The earliest Denisovans and their cultural adaptation
2021 StandoutNobel
Origins of the Iberomaurusian in NW Africa: New AMS radiocarbon dating of the Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Taforalt Cave, Morocco
2013
The Inflammasomes
2010 Standout
Neandertals
2006 StandoutNobel
Spread of an Inactive Form of Caspase-12 in Humans Is Due to Recent Positive Selection
2006
New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens
2017 StandoutNature
A working model of the deep relationships of diverse modern human genetic lineages outside of Africa
2016
Inference of human population history from individual whole-genome sequences
2011 StandoutNature
Defining the Anthropocene
2015 StandoutNature
The gripping nature of ochre: The association of ochre with Howiesons Poort adhesives and Later Stone Age mastics from South Africa
2007
A multidisciplinary reconstruction of Palaeolithic nutrition that holds promise for the prevention and treatment of diseases of civilisation
2012
Nassarius kraussianus shell beads from Blombos Cave: evidence for symbolic behaviour in the Middle Stone Age
2004
The Human Condition—A Molecular Approach
2014 StandoutNobel
On the emergence of modern humans
2006
40,000-Year-Old Individual from Asia Provides Insight into Early Population Structure in Eurasia
2017 StandoutNobel
A new chronostratigraphic framework for the Upper Palaeolithic of Riparo Mochi (Italy)
2011
Evidence for Neandertal Jewelry: Modified White-Tailed Eagle Claws at Krapina
2015
Putting ochre to the test: replication studies of adhesives that may have been used for hafting tools in the Middle Stone Age
2005
The Howiesons Poort and MSA III at Klasies River main site, Cave 1A
2009
OSL dating of the Aterian levels at Dar es-Soltan I (Rabat, Morocco) and implications for the dispersal of modern Homo sapiens
2009
Going underground: experimental carbonization of fruiting structures under hearths
2008
DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China
2013 StandoutNobel
Ancient Ethiopian genome reveals extensive Eurasian admixture in Eastern Africa
2015 StandoutScience
Neanderthal ancestry drives evolution of lipid catabolism in contemporary Europeans
2014 StandoutNobel
Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa
2008 Standout
The North African Middle Stone Age and its place in recent human evolution
2017
In the eye of the beholder: contextual issues for Bayesian modelling at the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition
2015
New radiocarbon dates for the earliest Later Stone Age microlithic technology in Northwest Africa
2016
A multi-disciplinary seriation of early Homo and Paranthropus bearing palaeocaves in southern Africa
2008
The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit
2019
Border Cave and the beginning of the Later Stone Age in South Africa
2012
Recent advances and future prospects of the U–Th and U–Pb chronometers applicable to archaeology
2015
HUNTING WEAPONS OF NEANDERTHALS AND EARLY MODERN HUMANS IN SOUTH AFRICA: Similarities and Differences
2010
Late Pleistocene Demography and the Appearance of Modern Human Behavior
2009 Science
Ice Ages and the mitochondrial DNA chronology of human dispersals: a review
2004
Human origins: Out of Africa
2009
Early Use of Pressure Flaking on Lithic Artifacts at Blombos Cave, South Africa
2010 Science
A rock engraving made by Neanderthals in Gibraltar
2014
Reconstructing the DNA Methylation Maps of the Neandertal and the Denisovan
2014 StandoutScienceNobel
Quartz-tipped arrows older than 60 ka: further use-trace evidence from Sibudu, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
2011
The role of cryptotephra in refining the chronology of Late Pleistocene human evolution and cultural change in North Africa
2014
The Prehistoric Development of Clothing: Archaeological Implications of a Thermal Model
2010
Distinguishing quartz and feldspar in single grain luminescence measurements
2003 Standout
The emergence of human uniqueness: Characters underlying behavioral modernity
2009
Implications for complex cognition from the hafting of tools with compound adhesives in the Middle Stone Age, South Africa
2009 Standout
Palaeomagnetic and synchrotron analysis of >1.95 Ma fossil-bearing palaeokarst at Haasgat, South Africa
2014
Symbolic use of marine shells and mineral pigments by Iberian Neandertals 115,000 years ago
2018
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
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
Why did modern human populations disperse from Africa ca. 60,000 years ago? A new model
2006
Human TKTL1 implies greater neurogenesis in frontal neocortex of modern humans than Neanderthals
2022 StandoutScienceNobel
The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation
2011 Standout
Going East: New Genetic and Archaeological Perspectives on the Modern Human Colonization of Eurasia
2006 Science
The age of Homo naledi and associated sediments in the Rising Star Cave, South Africa
2017 Standout
Nile behaviour and Late Palaeolithic humans in Upper Egypt during the Late Pleistocene
2015
Triangulating Neanderthal cognition: A tale of not seeing the forest for the trees
2020
An Early Case of Color Symbolism
2003 Standout
Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa
2012 Standout
The Inflammasomes: Guardians of the Body
2009 Standout
Thermoluminescence dating of a Stillbay–Howiesons Poort sequence at Diepkloof Rock Shelter (Western Cape, South Africa)
2008
East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins
2007 Standout
Marine Isotope Stage 11: Palaeoclimates, palaeoenvironments and its role as an analogue for the current interglacial
2013
82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior
2007
Single‐grain optical dating of Quaternary sediments: why aliquot size matters in luminescence dating
2008
Human occupation of Northwest Africa: A review of Middle Palaeolithic to Epipalaeolithic sites in Morocco
2012
A substitution in the glutathione reductase lowers electron leakage and inflammation in modern humans
2022 StandoutNobel
A review of quartz optically stimulated luminescence characteristics and their relevance in single-aliquot regeneration dating protocols
2005 Standout
Defining the onset of the Anthropocene
2022 StandoutScience
Ancient watercourses and biogeography of the Sahara explain the peopling of the desert
2010 Standout
A genetic analysis of the Gibraltar Neanderthals
2019 StandoutNobel
The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability
2007 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
Out of Africa and the evolution of human behavior
2008
Technological, elemental and colorimetric analysis of an engraved ochre fragment from the Middle Stone Age levels of Klasies River Cave 1, South Africa
2011
Archaeological Evidence for the Emergence of Language, Symbolism, and Music–An Alternative Multidisciplinary Perspective
2003 Standout
Late Neandertals and the intentional removal of feathers as evidenced from bird bone taphonomy at Fumane Cave 44 ky B.P., Italy
2011
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
2006
Bears in the scene: Pleistocene complex interactions with implications concerning the study of Neanderthal behavior
2015
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
The modern human colonization of western Eurasia: when and where?
2014
Bantu expansion shows that habitat alters the route and pace of human dispersals
2015 Standout
Laser ablation U-series analysis of fossil bones and teeth
2014
A high-coverage Neandertal genome from Chagyrskaya Cave
2020 StandoutNobel
Preindustrial Human Impacts on Global and Regional Environment
2013
The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction
2015 StandoutScienceNobel
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
Reconsidering the MSA to LSA transition at Taforalt Cave (Morocco) in the light of new multi-proxy dating evidence
2016
Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne
2016 StandoutNobel
Engraved ochre from a Middle Stone Age context at Klein Kliphuis in the Western Cape of South Africa
2008
The impossible coincidence. A single-species model for the origins of modern human behavior in Europe
2005
Increasing human dominance of tropical forests
2015 StandoutScience
Use of red ochre by early Neandertals
2012
Gene-culture coevolution in the age of genomics
2010
Error variation in OSL palaeodose estimates from single aliquots of quartz: a factorial experiment
2004
Using ZooMS to identify fragmentary bone from the Late Middle/Early Upper Palaeolithic sequence of Les Cottés, France
2014
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
2017 StandoutNobel
Works of Zenobia Jacobs being referenced
Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal: Background to the excavations of Middle Stone Age and Iron Age occupations
2004
Sibudu Cave: background to the excavations, stratigraphy and dating
2006
Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave
2021 StandoutNatureNobel
Timing of archaic hominin occupation of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia
2019 Nature
Hafting of Middle Paleolithic tools in Latium (central Italy): New data from Fossellone and Sant’Agostino caves
2019
Optical dating of dune sand from Blombos Cave, South Africa: I—multiple grain data
2003
Single-grain OSL chronologies for Middle Palaeolithic deposits at El Mnasra and El Harhoura 2, Morocco: Implications for Late Pleistocene human–environment interactions along the Atlantic coast of northwest Africa
2012
New ages for Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: Optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grains
2012
Single-grain OSL chronologies for the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries and the transition between them: Further analyses and statistical modelling
2017
On the industrial attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb
2013
The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation
2015
An OSL chronology for the sedimentary deposits from Pinnacle Point Cave 13B—A punctuated presence
2010
Extending the chronology of deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa, back to 140ka using optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartz
2006
Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene
2007 StandoutNature
The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya)
2013
Optical dating of dune sand from Blombos Cave, South Africa: II—single grain data
2003
An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa
2012 StandoutNature
Multidisciplinary Studies of Chagyrskaya Cave – A Middle Paleolithic Site in Altai
2018
Equivalent dose distributions from single grains of quartz at Sibudu, South Africa: context, causes and consequences for optical dating of archaeological deposits
2008
Melting ice sheets 400,000 yr ago raised sea level by 13 m: Past analogue for future trends
2012
Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans
2009 StandoutScience
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
Interpretation of single grain distributions and calculation of
2005
Still Bay and serrated points from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
2010
New Excavations of Middle Stone Age Deposits at Apollo 11 Rockshelter, Namibia: Stratigraphy, Archaeology, Chronology and Past Environments
2010
A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa
2011 Science
Testing of a single grain OSL chronology across the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Les Cottés (France)
2014
Optical dating of sediment samples from Chagyrskaya Cave
2018
Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating of individual grains of quartz from archeological deposits
2007
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
Testing Times: old and new chronologies for the Howieson's poort and still bay industries in environmental context
2008
Luminescence chronologies for coastal and marine sediments
2008
Single-grain OSL dating at La Grotte des Contrebandiers (‘Smugglers’ Cave’), Morocco: improved age constraints for the Middle Paleolithic levels
2011
Human History Written in Stone and Blood
2009
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
Timing and dynamics of Late Pleistocene mammal extinctions in southwestern Australia
2010
Archaeological evidence for two separate dispersals of Neanderthals into southern Siberia
2020
Evaluation of SAR procedures for determination using single aliquots of quartz from two archaeological sites in South Africa
2006
Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa
2004 StandoutScience
Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe
2013
New ages for the post-Howiesons Poort, late and final Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa
2008
An improved OSL chronology for the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa: further tests of single-grain dating procedures and a re-evaluation of the timing of the Still Bay industry across southern Africa
2012