Sally McBrearty

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

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Sally McBrearty is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sally McBrearty has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Anthropology, 12 papers in Paleontology and 8 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sally McBrearty's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (8 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (8 papers). Sally McBrearty is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (19 papers), Evolution and Paleontology Studies (8 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (8 papers). Sally McBrearty collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Sally McBrearty's co-authors include Alison S. Brooks, Christian A. Tryon, Nina G. Jablonski, Alan L. Deino, Pierre-Jean Texier, Laura C. Bishop, Robert E. Dewar, Nicholas J. Conard, Thomas W. Plummer and John D. Kingston and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology and Journal of Archaeological Science.

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Sally McBrearty

24 papers receiving 2.7k citations

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The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior

2000 1.6k citations Sally McBrearty, Alison S. Brooks Journal of Human Evolution profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	A new tephrochronology for early diverse stone tool technologies and long-distance raw material transport in the Middle to Late Pleistocene Kapthurin Formation, East Africa 2018 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Nick Blegen, Brian R. Jicha, Sally McBrearty	24
2	A Middle Pleistocene intense monsoonal episode from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya: Stable isotopic evidence from bovid teeth and pedogenic carbonates 2016 ·Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology ·David E. Leslie, Sally McBrearty, Gideon Hartman	5
3	Advances in the Study of the Origin of Humanness 2013 ·Journal of Anthropological Research ·Sally McBrearty	13
4	Archaeology of middle Pleistocene lacustrine and spring paleoenvironments in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya 2012 ·Journal of Anthropological Archaeology ·(unknown), Sally McBrearty	16
5	500,000 year old blades from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya 2009 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·(unknown), Sally McBrearty	87
6	Tufa as a record of perennial fresh water in a semi‐arid rift basin, Kapthurin Formation, Kenya 2009 ·Sedimentology ·(unknown), Gail M. Ashley, (unknown), (unknown), Lisa Park Boush, Victoria C. Hover, R. Bernhart Owen, Sally McBrearty	25
7	Tephrostratigraphy of the Bedded Tuff Member (Kapthurin Formation, Kenya) and the nature of archaeological change in the later middle Pleistocene 2006 ·Quaternary Research ·Christian A. Tryon, Sally McBrearty	52
8	Levallois Lithic Technology from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya: Acheulian Origin and Middle Stone Age Diversity 2006 ·African Archaeological Review ·Christian A. Tryon, Sally McBrearty, Pierre-Jean Texier	152
9	First fossil chimpanzee 2005 ·Nature ·Sally McBrearty, Nina G. Jablonski	112
10	Patterns of technological change at the origin of Homo sapiens 2003 ·Sally McBrearty	23
11	40Ar/39Ar dating of the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya 2002 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Alan L. Deino, Sally McBrearty	103
12	Tephrostratigraphy and the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya 2002 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Christian A. Tryon, Sally McBrearty	102
13	Boxgrove: A Middle Pleistocene Hominid site at Eartham Quarry, Boxgrove, West Sussex 2000 ·Geoarchaeology ·Sally McBrearty	184
14	The revolution that wasn't: a new interpretation of the origin of modern human behavior breakdown → 2000 ·Journal of Human Evolution ·Sally McBrearty, Alison S. Brooks	1634
15	Tools Underfoot: Human Trampling as an Agent of Lithic Artifact Edge Modification 1998 ·American Antiquity ·Sally McBrearty, Laura C. Bishop, Thomas W. Plummer, Robert E. Dewar, Nicholas J. Conard	171
16	The Structure of the Lower Pleistocene Archaeological Record: A Case Study From the Koobi Fora Formation [and Comments and Reply] 1993 ·Current Anthropology ·Nicola Stern, Henry T. Bunn, Ellen M. Kroll, Gary Haynes, Sally McBrearty, (unknown), Pamela R. Willoughby	88
17	The Origin of Modern Humans 1990 ·Man ·Sally McBrearty	5
18	Consider the humble termite: Termites as agents of post-depositional disturbance at african archaeological sites 1990 ·Journal of Archaeological Science ·Sally McBrearty	68
19	Archaeology and the Archdemon 1984 ·Sally McBrearty	2
20	Mbeya Region Archaeological Survey 1981 ·Sally McBrearty, (unknown), Thomas Wynn	4

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