Sileshi Semaw

3.9k total citations
34 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Sileshi Semaw is a scholar working on Anthropology, Paleontology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sileshi Semaw has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Anthropology, 18 papers in Paleontology and 16 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sileshi Semaw's work include Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (23 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (16 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (13 papers). Sileshi Semaw is often cited by papers focused on Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (23 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (16 papers) and Evolution and Paleontology Studies (13 papers). Sileshi Semaw collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Japan. Sileshi Semaw's co-authors include Michael Rogers, Jay Quade, Scott W. Simpson, Dietrich Stout, Naomi E. Levin, Paul R. Renne, Manuel Domínguez‐Rodrigo, Robert F. Butler, John Harris and Kenneth Mowbray and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sileshi Semaw

31 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Peers

Sileshi Semaw

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Yonas Beyene Japan

John Harris United States

Michael Haslam United Kingdom

Kathy Schick United States

J. A. J. Gowlett United Kingdom

Ignacio de la Torre United Kingdom

Yoel Rak Israel

Scott W. Simpson United States

Naama Goren‐Inbar Israel

Thomas W. Plummer United States

Yonas Beyene Japan

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300 ×1.0

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sileshi Semaw

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20 of 20 papers shown

Stinchcomb, Gary E., Michael Rogers, & Sileshi Semaw. (2025). Long-term hominin preference for the gallery forest edge: Insights from the Gona paleosols, Afar, Ethiopia. Quaternary Science Reviews. 352. 109207–109207.

Bruner, Emiliano, Ralph Holloway, Karen L. Baab, Michael Rogers, & Sileshi Semaw. (2023). The endocast from Dana Aoule North (DAN5/P1): A 1.5 million year‐old human braincase from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 181(2). 206–215. 3 indexed citations

Suwa, Gen, Sileshi Semaw, Michael Rogers, et al.. (2021). Canine sexual dimorphism inArdipithecus ramiduswas nearly human-like. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(49). 9 indexed citations

Semaw, Sileshi, Michael Rogers, Scott W. Simpson, et al.. (2021). Estimating sexual size dimorphism in fossil species from posterior probability densities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(44). 5 indexed citations

Semaw, Sileshi, Michael Rogers, Scott W. Simpson, et al.. (2020). Co-occurrence of Acheulian and Oldowan artifacts with Homo erectus cranial fossils from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia. Science Advances. 6(10). eaaw4694–eaaw4694. 45 indexed citations

Frost, Stephen R., Scott W. Simpson, Naomi E. Levin, et al.. (2020). Fossil Cercopithecidae from the Early Pliocene Sagantole Formation at Gona, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution. 144. 102789–102789. 6 indexed citations

Simpson, Scott W., Naomi E. Levin, Jay Quade, Michael Rogers, & Sileshi Semaw. (2019). Ardipithecus ramidus postcrania from the Gona Project area, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution. 129. 1–45. 27 indexed citations

Simpson, Scott W., Naomi E. Levin, J. Quade, Michael Rogers, & Sileshi Semaw. (2018). Postcranial fossils of Ardipithecus ramidus from Gona, Ethiopia. 2 indexed citations

Lumley, Henry de, Déborah Barsky, Eudald Carbonell, et al.. (2018). The first technical sequences in human evolution from East Gona, Afar region, Ethiopia. Antiquity. 92(365). 1151–1164. 7 indexed citations

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Simpson, Scott W., Jay Quade, Naomi E. Levin, et al.. (2015). Late Miocene hominin teeth from the Gona Paleoanthropological Research Project area, Afar, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution. 81. 68–82. 16 indexed citations

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Simpson, Scott W., Jay Quade, Naomi E. Levin, & Sileshi Semaw. (2014). The female Homo pelvis from Gona: Response to Ruff (2010). Journal of Human Evolution. 68. 32–35. 21 indexed citations

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Sahnouni, Mohamed, Sileshi Semaw, & Michael Rogers. (2013). The African Acheulean. Oxford University Press eBooks. 13 indexed citations

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Stout, Dietrich, Sileshi Semaw, Michael Rogers, & Dominique Cauche. (2010). Technological variation in the earliest Oldowan from Gona, Afar, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution. 58(6). 474–491. 138 indexed citations

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Stout, Dietrich, Jay Quade, Sileshi Semaw, Michael Rogers, & Naomi E. Levin. (2005). Raw material selectivity of the earliest stone toolmakers at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution. 48(4). 365–380. 131 indexed citations

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Domínguez‐Rodrigo, Manuel, et al.. (2005). Cutmarked bones from Pliocene archaeological sites at Gona, Afar, Ethiopia: implications for the function of the world's oldest stone tools. Journal of Human Evolution. 48(2). 109–121. 192 indexed citations

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Semaw, Sileshi, Scott W. Simpson, Jay Quade, et al.. (2005). Early Pliocene hominids from Gona, Ethiopia. Nature. 433(7023). 301–305. 109 indexed citations

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Levin, Naomi E., Jay Quade, Scott W. Simpson, Sileshi Semaw, & Michael Rogers. (2004). Isotopic evidence for Plio–Pleistocene environmental change at Gona, Ethiopia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 219(1-2). 93–110. 140 indexed citations

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Semaw, Sileshi, Michael Rogers, Jay Quade, et al.. (2003). 2.6-Million-year-old stone tools and associated bones from OGS-6 and OGS-7, Gona, Afar, Ethiopia. Journal of Human Evolution. 45(2). 169–177. 295 indexed citations

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Semaw, Sileshi, et al.. (1997). 2.5-million-year-old stone tools from Gona, Ethiopia. Nature. 385(6614). 333–336. 381 indexed citations

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Asfaw, Berhane, Yonas Beyene, Sileshi Semaw, et al.. (1993). Tephra from Fejej, Ethiopia—A reply. Journal of Human Evolution. 25(6). 519–521. 4 indexed citations

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