Emma Loftus

854 total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 571 citations indexed

About

Emma Loftus is a scholar working on Paleontology, Anthropology and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Emma Loftus has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 571 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Paleontology, 18 papers in Anthropology and 10 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Emma Loftus's work include Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (19 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (18 papers) and Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (10 papers). Emma Loftus is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (19 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (18 papers) and Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (10 papers). Emma Loftus collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, South Africa and United States. Emma Loftus's co-authors include Julia A. Lee‐Thorp, Judith Sealy, Peter Mitchell, Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Justin Pargeter, Keith D. Rogers, Brian A. Stewart, Curtis W. Marean, Alex Mackay and Genevieve Dewar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Emma Loftus

22 papers receiving 555 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Emma Loftus United Kingdom	14	346	320	207	128	111	24	571
Ximena S. Villagrán Brazil	18	412 1.2×	391 1.2×	210 1.0×	142 1.1×	24 0.2×	36	775
Anita Quilès France	16	510 1.5×	364 1.1×	232 1.1×	56 0.4×	66 0.6×	39	795
Irene Esteban South Africa	16	327 0.9×	371 1.2×	227 1.1×	43 0.3×	116 1.0×	30	563
Chantal Conneller United Kingdom	16	411 1.2×	373 1.2×	170 0.8×	64 0.5×	57 0.5×	46	656
Nancy E. Sikes United States	10	387 1.1×	437 1.4×	290 1.4×	189 1.5×	32 0.3×	14	718
Susan M. Mentzer Germany	14	596 1.7×	555 1.7×	238 1.1×	95 0.7×	75 0.7×	34	834
Matthew Meredith‐Williams United Kingdom	10	306 0.9×	297 0.9×	212 1.0×	104 0.8×	21 0.2×	20	678
Nicola Stern Australia	14	453 1.3×	526 1.6×	235 1.1×	140 1.1×	90 0.8×	30	722
Gary Huckleberry United States	16	284 0.8×	210 0.7×	232 1.1×	166 1.3×	23 0.2×	52	532
Norma Ratto Argentina	14	352 1.0×	237 0.7×	159 0.8×	100 0.8×	21 0.2×	80	680

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Loftus, Emma, Maryna Steyn, Marlize Lombard, & Brian Chase. (2025). Human burials indicate climate-mediated shifts in South African agriculturalist demography after 2000 years ago. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 22233–22233.

Parkington, John, et al.. (2024). The Faraoskop event: a significant moment in the history of foraging in the western cape, South Africa?. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 17(1). 1 indexed citations

Mitchell, Peter, et al.. (2024). Archaeological science in Africa: Twenty-one papers for the twenty-first century. Journal of Archaeological Science. 163. 105933–105933.

Loftus, Emma, Marlize Lombard, & Maryna Steyn. (2024). DATED HOLOCENE HUMAN REMAINS FROM SOUTH AFRICA: RECALIBRATION AND BROAD CONTEXTUALIZATION. Radiocarbon. 66(1). 118–133. 2 indexed citations

Loftus, Emma & Susan Pfeiffer. (2023). Cultural Disruption Suggested by Dates of Late Holocene Burials, Southwestern Cape, South Africa. Current Anthropology. 64(4). 454–463. 7 indexed citations

Vaiglova, Petra, Nicole A. Lazar, Elizabeth Stroud, Emma Loftus, & Cheryl A. Makarewicz. (2022). Best practices for selecting samples, analyzing data, and publishing results in isotope archaeology. Quaternary International. 650. 86–100. 31 indexed citations

Wilkins, Jayne, Benjamin J. Schoville, Kyle S. Brown, et al.. (2020). Fabric Analysis and Chronology at Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter, Southern Kalahari Basin: Evidence for In Situ, Stratified Middle and Later Stone Age Deposits. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. 3(3). 336–361. 16 indexed citations

Pfeiffer, Susan, et al.. (2020). A Late Holocene community burial area: Evidence of diverse mortuary practices in the Western Cape, South Africa. PLoS ONE. 15(4). e0230391–e0230391. 11 indexed citations

Loftus, Emma, Julia A. Lee‐Thorp, Melanie J. Leng, Curtis W. Marean, & Judith Sealy. (2019). Seasonal scheduling of shellfish collection in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of southern Africa. Journal of Human Evolution. 128. 1–16. 18 indexed citations

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Loftus, Emma, et al.. (2018). Atmospheric CO2 effect on stable carbon isotope composition of terrestrial fossil archives. Nature Communications. 9(1). 252–252. 91 indexed citations

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Loftus, Emma, Judith Sealy, Melanie J. Leng, & Julia A. Lee‐Thorp. (2017). A late Quaternary record of seasonal sea surface temperatures off southern Africa. Quaternary Science Reviews. 171. 73–84. 9 indexed citations

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Pargeter, Justin, Emma Loftus, & Peter Mitchell. (2017). New ages from Sehonghong rock shelter: Implications for the late Pleistocene occupation of highland Lesotho. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports. 12. 307–315. 43 indexed citations

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Sealy, Judith, Julia A. Lee‐Thorp, Emma Loftus, J. Tyler Faith, & Curtis W. Marean. (2016). Late Quaternary environmental change in the Southern Cape, South Africa, from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in faunal tooth enamel from Boomplaas Cave. Journal of Quaternary Science. 31(8). 919–927. 37 indexed citations

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Loftus, Emma, et al.. (2016). Investigating δ18O of Turbo sarmaticus (L. 1758) as an indicator of sea surface temperatures. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology. 484. 62–69. 7 indexed citations

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Loftus, Emma, Patrick Roberts, & Julia A. Lee‐Thorp. (2016). An isotopic generation: four decades of stable isotope analysis in African archaeology. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa. 51(1). 88–114. 9 indexed citations

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Loftus, Emma, Julia A. Lee‐Thorp, & Judith Sealy. (2016). A record of Holocene sea surface temperatures from archaeological shell middens along the southern coast of Africa. Quaternary International. 404. 183–184. 1 indexed citations

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Loftus, Emma, Judith Sealy, & Julia A. Lee‐Thorp. (2016). New Radiocarbon Dates and Bayesian Models for Nelson Bay Cave and Byneskranskop 1: Implications for the South African Later Stone Age Sequence. Radiocarbon. 58(2). 365–381. 37 indexed citations

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Loftus, Emma, Brian A. Stewart, Genevieve Dewar, & Julia A. Lee‐Thorp. (2015). Stable isotope evidence of late MIS 3 to middle Holocene palaeoenvironments from Sehonghong Rockshelter, eastern Lesotho. Journal of Quaternary Science. 30(8). 805–816. 29 indexed citations

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Loftus, Emma, Keith D. Rogers, & Julia A. Lee‐Thorp. (2015). A simple method to establish calcite:aragonite ratios in archaeological mollusc shells. Journal of Quaternary Science. 30(8). 731–735. 50 indexed citations

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Loftus, Emma & Judith Sealy. (2012). Technical note: Interpreting stable carbon isotopes in human tooth enamel: An examination of tissue spacings from South Africa. American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 147(3). 499–507. 39 indexed citations

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