List of works by Zenobia Jacobs

A 100,000-year-old ochre-processing workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa

scientific article published in October 2011

A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul's Quaternary vertebrates

scientific article

A high resolution and continuous isotopic speleothem record of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment from 90 to 53 ka from Pinnacle Point on the south coast of South Africa

scholarly article

A late Quaternary vertebrate deposit in Kudjal Yolgah Cave, south-western Australia: refining regional late Pleistocene extinctions

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A re-examination of a human femur found at the Blind River Site, East London, South Africa: Its age, morphology, and breakage pattern

A single-aliquot luminescence dating procedure for K-feldspar based on the dose-dependent MET-pIRIR signal sensitivity

Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating of individual grains of quartz from archeological deposits

Afromontane foragers of the Late Pleistocene: Site formation, chronology and occupational pulsing at Melikane Rockshelter, Lesotho

scholarly article

Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave

scientific article published in Nature

Ages for the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa: implications for human behavior and dispersal

scientific article

An OSL chronology for the sedimentary deposits from Pinnacle Point Cave 13B—A punctuated presence ⬇️

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa

scientific article

An improved OSL chronology for the Still Bay layers at Blombos Cave, South Africa: further tests of single-grain dating procedures and a re-evaluation of the timing of the Still Bay industry across southern Africa

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An improved single grain OSL chronology for the sedimentary deposits from Diepkloof Rockshelter, Western Cape, South Africa

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Archaeological evidence for two separate dispersals of Neanderthals into southern Siberia

scientific article published on 27 January 2020

Archaeology: progress and pitfalls in radiocarbon dating

scientific article published in September 2006

Assessing the time of final deposition of Youngest Toba Tuff deposits in the Middle Son Valley, northern India

scientific article published in 2014

Beta dose variability and its spatial contextualisation in samples used for optical dating: An empirical approach to examining beta microdosimetry

Beyond the Levant: first evidence of a pre-pottery Neolithic incursion into the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia

scientific article

Catalysts for Stone Age innovations

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Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia

scientific article

Construction of a ‘global standardised growth curve’ (gSGC) for infrared stimulated luminescence dating of K-feldspar

article by Bo Li et al published April 2015 in Quaternary Geochronology

Continental aridification and the vanishing of Australia's megalakes

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Continuity of mammalian fauna over the last 200,000 y in the Indian subcontinent

scientific article

Controls On the Genesis, Sedimentary Architecture, and Preservation Potential of Dryland Alluvial Successions In Stable Continental Interiors: Insights from the Incising Modder River, South Africa

Corrigendum to “On the industrial attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb” [J. H. Evol. 64 (2013) 194–210]

scholarly article published in Journal of Human Evolution

Criteria for assessing the quality of Middle Pleistocene to Holocene vertebrate fossil ages

Dating, Paleoenvironments, and Archaeology: A Progress Report on the Sunnyside 1 Site, Clarens, South Africa

article

Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Depositional and sea-level history from MIS 6 (Termination II) to MIS 3 on the southern continental shelf of South Africa

scholarly article

Development of the SAR TT-OSL procedure for dating Middle Pleistocene dune and shallow marine deposits along the southern Cape coast of South Africa

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Distal tephras of the eastern Lake Victoria basin, equatorial East Africa: correlations, chronology and a context for early modern humans

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Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene

scientific article published on 18 October 2007

Emergence of modern human behavior: Middle Stone Age engravings from South Africa.

scientific article

Environmental implications of micromammals accumulated close to the MIS 6 to MIS 5 transition at Pinnacle Point Cave 9 (Mossel Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa)

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Equivalent dose distributions from single grains of quartz at Sibudu, South Africa: context, causes and consequences for optical dating of archaeological deposits

Evaluation of SAR procedures for determination using single aliquots of quartz from two archaeological sites in South Africa

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Extending the age limit of luminescence dating using the dose-dependent sensitivity of MET-pIRIR signals from K-feldspar

Extending the chronology of deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa, back to 140 ka using optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartz.

scientific article published on 22 April 2006

Fire as an engineering tool of early modern humans.

scientific article

Human History Written in Stone and Blood

Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago.

scientific article

Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago.

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

Interpretation of single grain distributions and calculation of

Interpreting human behavior from depositional rates and combustion features through the study of sedimentary microfacies at site Pinnacle Point 5-6, South Africa

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

Investigation of the applicability of standardised growth curves for OSL dating of quartz from Haua Fteah cave, Libya

Last Interglacial Age for aeolian and marine deposits and the Nahoon fossil human footprints, Southeast Coast of South Africa

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Late Pleistocene emergence of an anthropogenic fire regime in Australia’s tropical savannahs

scientific article published in 2024

Late Quaternary mega-lakes fed by the northern and southern river systems of central Australia: Varying moisture sources and increased continental aridity

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Late-surviving megafauna in Tasmania, Australia, implicate human involvement in their extinction

scientific article

Luminescence characteristics and dose distributions for quartz and feldspar grains from Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania

Luminescence chronologies for coastal and marine sediments

Melting ice sheets 400,000 yr ago raised sea level by 13m: Past analogue for future trends

scholarly article by David L. Roberts et al published December 2012 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Middle Stone Age shell beads from South Africa

scientific article published in April 2004

Natural variations in the properties of TL and IRSL emissions from metamorphic and volcanic K-feldspars from East Africa: Assessing their reliability for dating

Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments.

scientific article

Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe

scientific article

New Excavations of Middle Stone Age Deposits at Apollo 11 Rockshelter, Namibia: Stratigraphy, Archaeology, Chronology and Past Environments

scholarly article by Ralf Vogelsang published in December 2010

New ages for Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grains

scientific article

New ages for the post-Howiesons Poort, late and final Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa

Nouvelles données morpho-stratigraphiques et géochronologiques sur le cordon littoral externe (SIM 5-c) de Rabat–Témara, Maroc

On the dose dependency of the bleachable and non-bleachable components of IRSL from K-feldspar: Improved procedures for luminescence dating of Quaternary sediments

On the industrial attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb

scientific article

Optical dating and soil micromorphology at MacCauley's Beach, New South Wales, Australia

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Optical dating in archaeology: thirty years in retrospect and grand challenges for the future

scholarly article by Richard G. Roberts published in April 2015

Optical dating of K-feldspar grains from Middle Pleistocene lacustrine sediment at Marathousa 1 (Greece)

scholarly article

Optical dating of dune sand from Blombos Cave, South Africa: II--single grain data.

scientific article

Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Dating

scientific article

Paleoanthropologically significant South African sea caves dated to 1.1–1.0 million years using a combination of U–Pb, TT-OSL and palaeomagnetism

scholarly article by Robyn Pickering et al published April 2013 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Pleistocene Archaeology and Chronology of Putslaagte 8 (PL8) Rockshelter, Western Cape, South Africa

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Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave

scientific article published in 2021

Potential of establishing a ‘global standardised growth curve’ (gSGC) for optical dating of quartz from sediments

article by Bo Li et al published April 2015 in Quaternary Geochronology

Putslaagte 1 (PL1), the Doring River, and the later Middle Stone Age in southern Africa's Winter Rainfall Zone

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Reply to comments on Clarkson et al. (2017) ‘Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago’

article

Review and assessment of the potential of post-IR IRSL dating methods to circumvent the problem of anomalous fading in feldspar luminescence

Revisiting an arid LGM using fluvial archives: a luminescence chronology for palaeochannels of the Murrumbidgee River, south-eastern Australia

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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 Africa.

scientific article published on 13 January 2012

Single-grain OSL chronologies for the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries and the transition between them: Further analyses and statistical modelling

scientific article

Single-grain OSL dating at La Grotte des Contrebandiers (‘Smugglers’ Cave’), Morocco: improved age constraints for the Middle Paleolithic levels

Single-grain dating of potassium-rich feldspar grains: Towards a global standardised growth curve for the post-IR IRSL signal

article by Bo Li et al published April 2018 in Quaternary Geochronology

Sources of overdispersion in a K-rich feldspar sample from north-central India: Insights from De, K content and IRSL age distributions for individual grains

Still Bay and serrated points from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

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Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul

scientific article published in 2021

Stone tools and foraging in northern Madagascar challenge Holocene extinction models

scientific article

Technical considerations and methodology for creating high-resolution, color-corrected, and georectified photomosaics of stratigraphic sections at archaeological sites

scholarly article by Erich C. Fisher published in May 2015

Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeology and stratigraphy of the southern Nejd, Oman

scholarly article by Y.H. Hilbert published in September 2015

Testing a model of alluvial deposition in the Middle Son Valley, Madhya Pradesh, India — IRSL dating of terraced alluvial sediments and implications for archaeological surveys and palaeoclimatic reconstructions

scholarly article

Testing of a single grain OSL chronology across the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Les Cottés (France)

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The age of three Middle Palaeolithic sites: Single-grain optically stimulated luminescence chronologies for Pech de l'Azé I, II and IV in France

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation

scientific article (publication date: June 2015)

The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya) - Optical dating of early human occupation during Marine Isotope Stages 4, 5 and 6.

scientific article

The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya).

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The last interglacial sea-level high stand on the southern Cape coastline of South Africa

The origin and development of the Nyl River floodplain wetland, Limpopo Province, South Africa: trunk–tributary river interactions in a dryland setting

Timelines for Human Evolution and Dispersals

scientific article published in 2018

Timing and dynamics of Late Pleistocene mammal extinctions in southwestern Australia

scientific article (publication date: 21 December 2010)

Timing of archaic hominin occupation of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia

scientific article published in Nature

Towards an Accurate and Precise Chronology for the Colonization of Australia: The Example of Riwi, Kimberley, Western Australia

scientific article

Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments

scientific article published in 2021

Unexpected Convergent Evolution of Nasal Domes between Pleistocene Bovids and Cretaceous Hadrosaur Dinosaurs.

scientific article

Variability in quartz OSL signals caused by measurement uncertainties: Problems and solutions

article published in 2017

What caused extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Sahul?

scientific article

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