Peter Beaumont

4.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
93 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Peter Beaumont is a scholar working on Anthropology, Archeology and Paleontology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Beaumont has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Anthropology, 25 papers in Archeology and 23 papers in Paleontology. Recurrent topics in Peter Beaumont's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (32 papers), Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (25 papers) and Transboundary Water Resource Management (19 papers). Peter Beaumont is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (32 papers), Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (25 papers) and Transboundary Water Resource Management (19 papers). Peter Beaumont collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, South Africa and United States. Peter Beaumont's co-authors include J. C. Vogel, J. J. Wymer, Ronald Singer, Rainer Grün, Maria Perla Colombini, Paola Villa, Jeannette Jacqueline Łucejko, Ilaria Degano, Francesco d’Errico and Thomas Higham and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Peter Beaumont

87 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Middle Stone Age at Klasies River Mouth in South Africa

1984 351 citations Peter Beaumont, J. J. Wymer et al. The South African Archaeological Bulletin profile →
Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa

2012 290 citations Peter Beaumont et al. profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Beaumont

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	TRACING THE EMERGENCE OF PALAEOART IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 2013 ·Peter Beaumont, Robert G. Bednarik	23
2	A Report on the Archaeological Assemblages from Excavations by Peter Beaumont at Canteen Koppie, Northern Cape, South Africa 2011 ·BAR Publishing eBooks ·John McNabb, Peter Beaumont	16
3	On a timescale for the past million years of human history in central South Africa 2006 ·South African Journal of Science ·Peter Beaumont, J. C. Vogel	127
4	Geographic information portals––a UK perspective 2004 ·Computers Environment and Urban Systems ·Peter Beaumont, Paul Longley, David Maguire	34
5	On the age of Border Cave 5 human mandible 2003 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Rainer Grün, Peter Beaumont, Phillip V. Tobias, Stephen M. Eggins	81
6	Border Cave revisited: a revised ESR chronology 2001 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Rainer Grün, Peter Beaumont	136
7	Water for peace in the Middle East: the sacrifice of irrigated agriculture in Israel? 2000 ·Arab world geographer ·Peter Beaumont	1
8	A calibration of the lamb airflow classification model to predict past precipitation in Wales 1997 ·International Journal of Climatology ·Peter Beaumont, (unknown)	4
9	Climate and hydrology 1993 ·Peter Beaumont	4
10	Pleistocene geochronology and palaeothermometry from protein diagenesis in ostrich eggshells: implications for the evolution of modern humans 1992 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·Gifford H. Miller, Peter Beaumont, A. J. T. Jull, Beverly J. Johnson	55
11	ESR dating evidence for early modern humans at Border Cave in South Africa 1990 ·Nature ·Rainer Grün, Peter Beaumont, Christopher B. Stringer	77
12	Khattara and other forms of gravity-fed irrigation in Morocco. 1989 ·Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters ·(unknown), Peter Beaumont, Michael E. Bonine, KD McLachlan	2
13	Aflaj renewal in Araqi: a village case study from Oman. 1989 ·(unknown), Peter Beaumont, Michael E. Bonine, KD McLachlan	9
14	The kariz in the Herat basin, Afghanistan. 1989 ·KD McLachlan, Peter Beaumont, Michael E. Bonine	2
15	Palaeolithic Archaeology in the Central Namib Desert 1986 ·The South African Archaeological Bulletin ·Peter Beaumont, M. Steven Shackley	13
16	Implications of Border Cave Skeletal Remains for Later Pleistocene Human Evolution [and Comments and Reply] 1979 ·Current Anthropology ·G. Philip Rightmire, Peter Beaumont, Alan Bilsborough, Karl W. Butzer, Oliver Davies, Isaac Gilead, Colin P. Groves, W. W. Howells, (unknown), (unknown), Harry V. Merrick, (unknown), (unknown), Susan R. Wilson, J. J. Wymer	54
17	Water in Kuwait 1977 ·Geography ·Peter Beaumont	2
18	THE DOCTOR'S WIFE 1976 ·The Medical Journal of Australia ·Gordon Parker, Peter Beaumont, (unknown), (unknown), Mary M. Prendergast, (unknown)	2
19	Revised Radiocarbon Chronology for the Stone Age in South Africa 1972 ·Nature ·J. C. Vogel, Peter Beaumont	47
20	The forests of Jordan 1971 ·Economic Botany ·(unknown), Peter Beaumont	11

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