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Single-grain OSL chronologies for Middle Palaeolithic deposits at El Mnasra and El Harhoura 2, Morocco: implications for Late Pleistocene human-environment interactions along the Atlantic coast of northwest AfricaZenobia Jacobs
Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
J Hum Evol 62:377-94. 2012..We propose that these climatic conditions can be correlated with events in the North Atlantic Ocean that exert a major control on abrupt, millennial-scale fluctuations between wet and dry periods in northwest and central North Africa...
Extending the chronology of deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa, back to 140 ka using optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartzZenobia Jacobs
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
J Hum Evol 51:255-73. 2006....- An OSL chronology for the sedimentary deposits from Pinnacle Point Cave 13B--a punctuated presenceZenobia Jacobs
Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
J Hum Evol 59:289-305. 2010.... - Ages for the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa: implications for human behavior and dispersalZenobia Jacobs
GeoQuEST Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia
Science 322:733-5. 2008..Comparison with climatic records shows that these bursts of innovative behavior cannot be explained by environmental factors alone... - New ages for Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grainsLuke A Gliganic
Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia
J Hum Evol 62:533-47. 2012..4 ka. We compare the luminescence ages with the previous chronologies for Mumba, and briefly discuss how the revised chronology fits in the context of existing archaeological records and palaeoclimatic reconstructions for East Africa... 
Late-surviving megafauna in Tasmania, Australia, implicate human involvement in their extinctionChris S M Turney
GeoQuEST Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong NSW 2522, Australia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:12150-3. 2008....- Archaeology: progress and pitfalls in radiocarbon datingChris S M Turney
GeoQuEST Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia
Nature 443:E3; discussion E4. 2006 - Emergence of modern human behavior: Middle Stone Age engravings from South AfricaChristopher S Henshilwood
Iziko Museums of Cape Town, South African Museum, Post Office Box 61, Cape Town, 8000, South Africa
Science 295:1278-80. 2002..These engravings support the emergence of modern human behavior in Africa at least 35,000 years before the start of the Upper Paleolithic... - Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle PleistoceneCurtis W Marean
Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287 2402, USA
Nature 449:905-8. 2007..Shellfish may have been crucial to the survival of these early humans as they expanded their home ranges to include coastlines and followed the shifting position of the coast when sea level fluctuated over the length of MIS6... - Middle Stone Age shell beads from South AfricaChristopher Henshilwood
Centre for Development Studies, University of Bergen, Norway
Science 304:404. 2004