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List of works by John Parkington

A History of American Archaeology

scientific article published in December 1981

A Late Stone Age Burial from Clanwilliam

scientific article published in August 1971

A Unified Lithic Taxonomy Based on Patterns of Core Reduction

article

A previously undescribed organic residue sheds light on heat treatment in the Middle Stone Age.

scientific article published on 12 June 2015

An Introduction to the Stone Age Archaeology of the Polihali Dam Area, Mokhotlong District, Lesotho

scientific article published on 5 February 2020

Analytical Archaeology

scientific article published in August 1971

Approaches to dietary reconstruction in the western Cape: Are you what you have eaten?

scientific article published in May 1991

Archaeology as Human Ecology

Atlas of Ancient Archaeology

book review published in 1978

Bone histology of Neogene angulate tortoises (Testudines: Testudinidae) from South Africa: palaeobiological and skeletochronological implications

scientific article published in 2023

Brain-specific lipids from marine, lacustrine, or terrestrial food resources: potential impact on early African Homo sapiens

scientific article

Cloaks and torsos: image recognition, ethnography and male initiation events in the rock art of the Western Cape

journal article from 'Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa' published in 2021

Coastal Settlement between the Mouths of the Berg and Olifants Rivers, Cape Province

scientific article published in December 1976

Coastal Shell Middens in the Paternoster Area, South-Western Cape

article published in 1978

Coastal adaptations and the Middle Stone Age lithic assemblages from Hoedjiespunt 1 in the Western Cape, South Africa

scientific article published on April 28, 2013

Diagenesis of Bones from Eland's Bay Cave

scientific article published in July 1996

Elusive Identities: Karoo |Xam Descendants and the Square Kilometre Array

journal article from 'Journal of Southern African Studies' published in 2019

Evidence for the unique function of docosahexaenoic acid during the evolution of the modern hominid brain

scientific article (publication date: 1999)

Excavations at De Hangen, 1968

scientific article published in August 1971

First excavation of intact Middle Stone Age layers at Ysterfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa: implications for Middle Stone Age ecology

scientific article published in August 2003

From quartz curvature to late Holocene mobility at Spring Cave, Western Cape, South Africa

From the Cover: A Howiesons Poort tradition of engraving ostrich eggshell containers dated to 60,000 years ago at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa

scientific article

Human exploitation of nocturnal felines at Diepkloof Rock Shelter provides further evidence for symbolic behaviours during the Middle Stone Age

scientific article published on 14 April 2020

Human mandibular incisors from the late Middle Pleistocene locality of Hoedjiespunt 1, South Africa

scientific article (publication date: November 2001)

In Pursuit of the Past

J.-L. Le Quellec, F.-X. Fauvelle-Aymar, and F. Bon, Vols de Vaches à Christol Cave: Histoire Critique d’une Image Rupestre d’Afrique du Sud

Late Holocene coastal change in the southwestern Cape, South Africa

scholarly article

Late Holocene environments at verlorenvlei, Western Cape Province, South Africa

article

Le mobilier Stillbay et Howiesons Poort de l'abri Diepkloof. La chronologie du Middle Stone Age sud-africain et ses implications

scientific article (publication date: September 2006)

Limpet Gathering Strategies in the Later Stone Age Along the Cape West Coast, South Africa

scientific article published in January 2013

Long bone histology of Chersina angulata : Interelement variation and life history data

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Man Discovers His Past

Marine and terrestrial foods as a source of brain-selective nutrients for early modern humans in the southwestern Cape, South Africa.

scientific article published on 23 June 2016

Mathematics in Archaeology

Middle and Later Stone Age shellfish exploitation strategies and coastal foraging at Hoedjiespunt and Lynch Point, Saldanha Bay, South Africa

Mussel Drying and Food Storage in the Late Holocene, SW Cape, South Africa

article

Mussels and mongongo nuts: logistical visits to the Cape west coast, South Africa

scientific article published in May 2012

Nets and fully recurved bows: Rock paintings and hunting methods in the Western Cape, South Africa

article

Nutrition, modernity and the archaeological record: coastal resources and nutrition among Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers on the Western Cape coast of South Africa

scientific article

Our Gendered Past: Archaeological Studies of Gender in Southern Africa

scientific article published in June 1999

Pictures from the Past. A History of the Interpretation of Rock Paintings and Engravings of Southern Africa

scientific article published in December 1990

Presidential Address: Mobility, Seasonality and Southern African Hunter-Gatherers

Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time

scientific article

Recent Holocene Archaeology in Western and Southern Lesotho

Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure

scientific article published on September 2017

Review of J.D. Lewis-Williams & D.G. Pearce. San Spirituality. Roots, Expression and Social Consequences

scientific article published in June 2005

Seasonal mobility in the late stone age

article

Soaqua: Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers of the Olifants River Valley Western Cape

scientific article published in December 1977

Some Comments on the Comparison and Classification of Archaeological Specimens

scientific article published in November 1967

Spatial Analysis in Archaeology

book review published in 1979

Stone Age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Clanwilliam, Western Cape, South Africa

Stone tools and resources: A case study from Southern Africa

article

Strandloping as a Resource-Gathering Strategy in the Cape, South African Holocene Later Stone Age: The Verloren Vlei Record

scientific article published on 4 May 2014

Symbolism in Palaeolithic Cave Art

scientific article published in April 1969

The Archaeology of Early Man

scientific article published in August 1971

The Geography of Neandertals and Modern Humans in Europe and the Greater Mediterranean. Ofer Baryosef and David Pilbeam, editors. Peabody Museum Bulletin 8. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, x + 197 pp. $25.0

scholarly article by John Parkington published in July 2003

The Human Career

scientific article published in 1992

The Later Prehistory of Eastern and Southern Africa

The MSA sequence of Diepkloof and the history of southern African Late Pleistocene populations

article

The Neglected Alternative: Historical Narrative Rather than Cultural Labelling

scientific article published in December 1993

The Wood Charcoal Assemblages from Elands Bay Cave, Southwestern Cape: Principles, Procedures and Preliminary Interpretation

scientific article published in June 1997

The World of Ancient Man

The Ysterfontein 1 Middle Stone Age site, South Africa, and early human exploitation of coastal resources

scientific article (publication date: 20 April 2004)

Thermoluminescence dating of a Stillbay–Howiesons Poort sequence at Diepkloof Rock Shelter (Western Cape, South Africa)

scientific article published in March 2009

Time and Place: Some Observations on Spatial and Temporal Patterning in the Later Stone Age Sequence in Southern Africa [with Comments and Reply]

scientific article published in December 1980

Version 2 (History and Archaeology) of Essentials of Statistical Methods

Visionary animal: rock art from southern Africa

scientific article published on 2 October 2019

Writing Archaeology: Telling Stories about the Past

scientific article published in December 2011