James Denbow

1.9k total citations
31 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

James Denbow is a scholar working on Anthropology, Archeology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, James Denbow has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Anthropology, 23 papers in Archeology and 5 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in James Denbow's work include Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (23 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (11 papers). James Denbow is often cited by papers focused on Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (23 papers), Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (11 papers). James Denbow collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Netherlands. James Denbow's co-authors include Edwin Ν. Wilmsen, Duncan Miller, Thomas N. Huffman, Paul Lane, Gilbert Pwiti, Martin Hall, Michael Bourdillon, Innocent Pikirayi, D. N. Beach and Robert B. Gordon and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Archaeological Science and Current Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

James Denbow

30 papers receiving 771 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James Denbow United States 16 733 680 301 166 100 31 1.0k
Mathias Guenther Canada 13 565 0.8× 450 0.7× 231 0.8× 186 1.1× 126 1.3× 46 851
Tim Maggs South Africa 20 872 1.2× 884 1.3× 451 1.5× 178 1.1× 56 0.6× 62 1.1k
Karim Sadr South Africa 18 806 1.1× 669 1.0× 627 2.1× 50 0.3× 163 1.6× 46 1.2k
Nicholas David Canada 17 702 1.0× 385 0.6× 571 1.9× 121 0.7× 51 0.5× 39 1.3k
Innocent Pikirayi South Africa 15 491 0.7× 454 0.7× 201 0.7× 119 0.7× 36 0.4× 59 735
Michael S. Bisson Canada 15 668 0.9× 368 0.5× 495 1.6× 55 0.3× 47 0.5× 34 935
Carmel Schrire United States 15 544 0.7× 265 0.4× 517 1.7× 68 0.4× 64 0.6× 38 945
Chapurukha M. Kusimba United States 13 475 0.6× 159 0.2× 223 0.7× 50 0.3× 43 0.4× 37 799
James Deetz United States 14 727 1.0× 160 0.2× 436 1.4× 98 0.6× 80 0.8× 23 1.0k
Simon Hall United Kingdom 13 335 0.5× 324 0.5× 195 0.6× 162 1.0× 23 0.2× 52 572

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Fields of papers citing papers by James Denbow

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Denbow

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All Works

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Clist, Bernard, et al.. (2023). Using the radiocarbon dates of Central Africa for studying long-term demographic trends of the last 50,000 years: potential and pitfalls. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa. 58(2). 235–293. 7 indexed citations
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Wilmsen, Edwin Ν. & James Denbow. (2023). Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 3: Lotshitshi, a Later Stone Age/Bambata/Recent site on the Delta margin. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa. 58(1). 104–113. 2 indexed citations
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Denbow, James & Edwin Ν. Wilmsen. (2023). Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 1: the southern Delta sites Mat82 and Matlapaneng plus Qogana on the region’s eastern margin. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa. 58(1). 34–73. 4 indexed citations
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Wilmsen, Edwin Ν. & James Denbow. (2023). Iron Age sites in northern Botswana’s Okavango Delta 2: the Xaro sites in the Panhandle of the river-delta system. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa. 58(1). 74–103. 1 indexed citations
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Wilmsen, Edwin Ν., et al.. (2019). Keeping up alliances: multifaceted values of pottery in eighth- to seventeenth-century eastern Botswana as reconstructed by optical petrography. Azania Archaeological Research in Africa. 54(3). 369–408. 4 indexed citations
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Wilmsen, Edwin Ν. & James Denbow. (2017). The Middens at Tora Nju and Their Adjacent Stone Enclosure. Journal of African Archaeology. 15(1). 104–128. 1 indexed citations
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Denbow, James. (2016). Analogy and the danger of over-simplifying the past. Antiquity. 90(352). 1086–1086. 2 indexed citations
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Denbow, James, Carla Klehm, & Laure Dussubieux. (2015). The glass beads of Kaitshàa and early Indian Ocean trade into the far interior of southern Africa. Antiquity. 89(344). 361–377. 36 indexed citations
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Badenhorst, Shaw, et al.. (2013). The Archaeofauna from Xaro on the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana. UpSpace Institutional Repository (University of Pretoria). 3(1). 49–58. 8 indexed citations
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Denbow, James. (2013). The Archaeology and Ethnography of Central Africa. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 25 indexed citations
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Wilmsen, Edwin Ν., et al.. (2009). The social geography of pottery in Botswana as reconstructed by optical petrography. Journal of African Archaeology. 7(1). 3–39. 35 indexed citations
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Denbow, James, et al.. (2008). Finding Bosutswe: Archeological Encounters with the Past. History in Africa. 35. 145–190. 4 indexed citations
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Denbow, James, et al.. (2007). Archaeological excavations at Bosutswe, Botswana: cultural chronology, paleo-ecology and economy. Journal of Archaeological Science. 35(2). 459–480. 57 indexed citations
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Denbow, James, et al.. (2006). Culture and Customs of Botswana. 61 indexed citations
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Denbow, James. (1999). Heart and Soul: Glimpses of Ideology and Cosmology in the Iconography of Tombstones from the Loango Coast of Central Africa. Journal of American Folklore. 112(445). 404–423. 16 indexed citations
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Denbow, James, et al.. (1996). The Archaeology of Africa: Food, Metals and Towns. Journal of Field Archaeology. 23(2). 256–256. 12 indexed citations
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Denbow, James. (1990). Congo to Kalahari: data and hypotheses about the political economy of the western stream of the Early Iron Age. African Archaeological Review. 8(1). 139–175. 104 indexed citations
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Wilmsen, Edwin Ν., James Denbow, M. G. Bicchieri, et al.. (1990). Paradigmatic History of San-Speaking Peoples and Current Attempts at Revision [and Comments and Replies]. Current Anthropology. 31(5). 489–524. 165 indexed citations
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Denbow, James & Edwin Ν. Wilmsen. (1986). Advent and Course of Pastoralism in the Kalahari. Science. 234(4783). 1509–1515. 89 indexed citations
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Denbow, James. (1979). Cenchrus ciliaris: an ecological indicator of Iron Age middens using aerial photography in eastern Botswana.. South African Journal of Science. 75(9). 405–408. 39 indexed citations

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