Alexander Marshack

1.7k total citations
44 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Alexander Marshack is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Marshack has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Anthropology, 14 papers in Paleontology and 13 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Alexander Marshack's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (14 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (4 papers). Alexander Marshack is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (14 papers), Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (4 papers). Alexander Marshack collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and France. Alexander Marshack's co-authors include Francesco d'Errico, Harold L. Dibble, Iain Davidson, William Noble, Andrée Rosenfeld, Garry W. Trompf, Mary Aiken Littauer, F. D. McCarthy, Alexander Gallus and Joel D. Gunn and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Marshack

39 papers receiving 884 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander Marshack United States 18 456 354 334 245 230 44 1.1k
Whitney Davis United States 18 589 1.3× 199 0.6× 470 1.4× 221 0.9× 140 0.6× 75 1.5k
Philip G. Chase United States 15 745 1.6× 226 0.6× 597 1.8× 377 1.5× 159 0.7× 28 1.1k
John Halverson United States 10 338 0.7× 125 0.4× 193 0.6× 62 0.3× 98 0.4× 28 751
April Nowell Canada 19 838 1.8× 217 0.6× 662 2.0× 406 1.7× 234 1.0× 66 1.4k
Brian Boyd New Zealand 13 321 0.7× 252 0.7× 223 0.7× 124 0.5× 150 0.7× 54 1.0k
André Leroi‐Gourhan France 19 793 1.7× 81 0.2× 610 1.8× 420 1.7× 109 0.5× 80 1.6k
Miriam Noël Haidle Germany 15 410 0.9× 144 0.4× 403 1.2× 326 1.3× 187 0.8× 40 965
Valentine Roux France 21 616 1.4× 198 0.6× 833 2.5× 638 2.6× 309 1.3× 58 1.7k
Robert G. Bednarik China 23 1.3k 2.8× 195 0.6× 921 2.8× 412 1.7× 305 1.3× 147 2.0k
Gordon W. Hewes United States 17 199 0.4× 458 1.3× 143 0.4× 57 0.2× 620 2.7× 41 1.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Marshack, Alexander. (1996). A Middle Paleolithic Symbolic Composition From the Golan Heights: The Earliest Known Depictive Image. Current Anthropology. 37(2). 357–365. 54 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1991). Roots of Civilization. 4 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1989). Ice Age Art Analysis. Science. 244(4908). 1029–1029. 2 indexed citations
4.
Dibble, Harold L., Alexander Marshack, Andrée Rosenfeld, et al.. (1989). On Depiction and Language. Current Anthropology. 30(3). 330–342. 61 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1989). North American Indian calendar sticks: the evidence for a widely distributed tradition.. 308. 2 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1988). An Ice Age ancestor. National geographic/˜The œcomplete National geographic/˜The œNational geographic magazine. 174(4). 478–481. 3 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1985). Hierarchical evolution of the human capacity : the Paleolithic evidence (James Arthur lecture on the evolution of the human brain, no. 54, 1984).. American Museum Novitates. 2 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1985). A Lunar-Solar Year Calendar Stick from North America. American Antiquity. 50(1). 27–51. 17 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1984). Hierarchical evolution of the human capacity : the Paleolithic evidence. Biodiversity Heritage Library (Smithsonian Institution). 87 indexed citations
10.
Marshack, Alexander. (1983). Nineteenth-century Siberian and American Indian calendar sticks.. 6. 42. 1 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1976). Implications of the Paleolithic Symbolic Evidence for the Origin of Language. American Scientist. 64(2). 136–145. 14 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander, et al.. (1976). The Roots of Civilization. Leonardo. 9(1). 72–72. 148 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1975). Exploring the mind of Ice Age man. National geographic/˜The œcomplete National geographic/˜The œNational geographic magazine. 147(1). 64–89. 16 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1975). Olmec mosaic pendant.. 341. 1 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1974). General, Applied and Theoretical: The Thread of Ariadne: The Labyrinth of the Calendar of Minos. CHARLES F. HERBERGER. American Anthropologist. 76(2). 403–405. 1 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1974). Marshack's Critique of THE ROOTS OF CIVILIZATION and of Its Review by Arden R. King. American Anthropologist. 76(4). 845–847. 1 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1972). Cognitive Aspects of Upper Paleolithic Engraving. Current Anthropology. 13(3/4). 445–477. 67 indexed citations
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Dupree, Louis, J. Lawrence Angel, Robert H. Brill, et al.. (1972). Prehistoric Research in Afghanistan (1959-1966). Transactions of the American Philosophical Society. 62(4). 1–1. 34 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1971). Upper Palaeolithic Engraved Pieces in the British Museum: A Comparative Analysis of Two Fragments by New Methods. The British Museum Quarterly. 35(1/4). 137–137. 3 indexed citations
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Marshack, Alexander. (1970). Notation dans les gravures du paléolithique supérieur : nouvelles méthodes d'analyse. 11 indexed citations

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