Publications in collaboration with researchers from University of the Witwatersrand (42)

2024

  1. Identifying accurate artefact morphological ranges using optimal linear estimation: Method validation, case studies, and code

    Journal of Archaeological Science, Vol. 162

2023

  1. Ochre use at Olieboomspoort, South Africa: insights into specular hematite use and collection during the Middle Stone Age

    Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Vol. 15, Núm. 11

  2. Plants, people and fire: Phytolith and FTIR analyses of the post-Howiesons Poort occupations at Border Cave (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

    Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 300

2022

  1. Border Cave: A 227,000-year-old archive from the southern African interior

    Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 291

  2. Geoarchaeology and zooarchaeology of Border Cave, South Africa: Initial multiproxy considerations of stratigraphy and site formation processes from the Backwell et al. excavations

    Quaternary Science Reviews, Vol. 291

  3. How to deal with an elephant in the room? Understanding “non-flint” raw materials: characterisation and technological organisation

    ArkeoGazte: Revista de arqueología - Arkelogia aldizkaria, Núm. 12, pp. 73-89

  4. Howiesons Poort backed artifacts provide evidence for social connectivity across southern Africa during the Final Pleistocene

    Scientific Reports, Vol. 12, Núm. 1

  5. Palynological investigations in the Orce Archaeological Zone, Early Pleistocene of Southern Spain

    Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Vol. 304

  6. Particle size distribution: An experimental study using southern African reduction methods and raw materials

    PLoS ONE, Vol. 17, Núm. 12 December

2021

  1. Phytolith analyses from Khil and Kaf Taht el-Ghar (Western Maghreb): Plant use trajectories in a long-term perspective

    Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Vol. 37

  2. The place beyond the trees: renewed excavations of the Middle Stone Age deposits at Olieboomspoort in the Waterberg Mountains of the South African Savanna Biome

    Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Vol. 13, Núm. 7

2020

  1. 'Project Piedemonte': Between the Maloti-Drakensberg and the Great Escarpment in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa

    Antiquity, Vol. 94, Núm. 376

  2. Detailed palaeomagnetic record at Rose Cottage Cave, South Africa: Implications for the Holocene geomagnetic field behaviour and chronostratigraphy

    South African Journal of Science, Vol. 116, Núm. 1-2

  3. Exploring complexity in luminescence dating of quartz and feldspars at the middle stone age site of mwulu's cave (Limpopo, South Africa)

    Quaternary Geochronology, Vol. 59

  4. Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa

    Science, Vol. 369, Núm. 6505, pp. 863-866

  5. Palynology and chronology of hyaena coprolites from the Piñar karstic Caves Las Ventanas and Carihuela, southern Spain

    Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, Vol. 552

  6. Plant taphonomy, flora exploitation and palaeoenvironments at the Middle Stone Age site of Mwulu’s Cave (Limpopo, South Africa): an archaeobotanical and mineralogical approach

    Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Vol. 12, Núm. 9

2019

  1. Assessing raw material’s role in bipolar and freehand miniaturized flake shape, technological structure, and fragmentation rates

    Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Vol. 11, Núm. 11, pp. 5893-5907

  2. Dating on its own cannot resolve hominin occupation patterns

    Nature Ecology and Evolution

  3. Revisiting Mwulu’s Cave: new insights into the Middle Stone Age in the southern African savanna biome

    Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Vol. 11, Núm. 7, pp. 3239-3266