John Parkington

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John Parkington is affiliated with the following schools: University of Cape Town, University of Johannesburg, University of Pretoria, University of Cambridge

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John Parkington's Degrees

Bachelors Archaeology University of Cape Town
PhD Archaeology University of Pretoria

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According to Wikipedia, John Parkington is an Emeritus professor in archaeology and hunter-gatherers, Paleoenvironmental reconstruction and human ecology, prehistoric art, and coastal archaeology. He has suggested that since fish provide an important nutrient for the brain, the consumption of fish led to the emergence of the first really intelligent humans in the Western Cape region of South Africa. In February 2000 South African President Thabo Mbeki mentioned the letter he had received from Parkington, regarding the protection of archaeological heritage sites, in his address at the opening of South Africa's Parliament.

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John Parkington's Published Works

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The human career (1989) (659)
Archaeology as human ecology (1982) (408)
A Howiesons Poort tradition of engraving ostrich eggshell containers dated to 60,000 years ago at Diepkloof Rock Shelter, South Africa (2010) (372)
Brain-specific lipids from marine, lacustrine, or terrestrial food resources: potential impact on early African Homo sapiens. (2002) (292)
The Later Prehistory of Eastern and Southern Africa (1979) (272)
The Ysterfontein 1 Middle Stone Age site, South Africa, and early human exploitation of coastal resources. (2004) (263)
Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure (2017) (256)
Evidence for the unique function of docosahexaenoic acid during the evolution of the modern hominid brain (2007) (253)
Background to Evolution in Africa. (1968) (238)
Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time (2016) (151)
The context, form and significance of the MSA engraved ostrich eggshell collection from Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa (2013) (149)
Isotope Assessment and the Seasonal-Mobility Hypothesis in the Southwestern Cape of South Africa [and Comments and Replies] (1986) (136)
OSL and TL dating of the Middle Stone Age sequence at Diepkloof Rock Shelter (South Africa): a clarification (2013) (122)
Fossil wood charcoal assemblages from Elands Bay Cave, South Africa: implications for Late Quaternary vegetation and climates in the winter‐rainfall fynbos biome (1999) (114)
Seasonal mobility in the late stone age (1972) (112)
Middens and moderns: Shellfishing and the Middle Stone Age of the Western Cape, South Africa (2003) (109)
A Holocene Marine Climate Record in Mollusc Shells from the Southwest African Coast (1992) (98)
Excavations at De Hangen, 1968 (1971) (98)
Coastal Settlement between the Mouths of the Berg and Olifants Rivers, Cape Province (1976) (96)
Le mobilier Stillbay et Howiesons Poort de l'abri Diepkloof. La chronologie du Middle Stone Age sud-africain et ses implications (2006) (91)
Thermoluminescence dating of a Stillbay–Howiesons Poort sequence at Diepkloof Rock Shelter (Western Cape, South Africa) (2009) (91)
The MSA sequence of Diepkloof and the history of southern African Late Pleistocene populations. (2013) (88)
Paleoenvironmental and Human Behavioral Implications of the Boegoeberg 1 Late Pleistocene Hyena Den, Northern Cape Province, South Africa (1999) (83)
First excavation of intact Middle Stone Age layers at Ysterfontein, Western Cape Province, South Africa: implications for Middle Stone Age ecology (2003) (83)
Approaches to dietary reconstruction in the western Cape: Are you what you have eaten? (1991) (79)
A unified lithic taxonomy based on patterns of core reduction (2004) (77)
Cattle, Sheep and Horses: A Review of Domestic Animals in the Rock Art of Southern Africa (1986) (75)
The social impact of pastoralism in the southwestern Cape (1986) (71)
Diagenesis of Bones from Eland's Bay Cave (1996) (64)
A previously undescribed organic residue sheds light on heat treatment in the Middle Stone Age. (2015) (63)
The Archaeology of Prehistoric Coastlines (2009) (63)
Papers in the Prehistory of the Western Cape, South Africa (1987) (62)
Coastal adaptations and the Middle Stone Age lithic assemblages from Hoedjiespunt 1 in the Western Cape, South Africa. (2013) (61)
Late Holocene environments at verlorenvlei, Western Cape Province, South Africa (1996) (60)
The palaeoecology of the micromammals from the late middle Pleistocene site of Hoedjiespunt 1 (Cape Province, South Africa). (2005) (59)
Brief communication: a new Pleistocene hominid-bearing locality at Hoedjiespunt, South Africa. (1995) (58)
Time and Place: Some Observations on Spatial and Temporal Patterning in the Later Stone Age Sequence in Southern Africa [with Comments and Reply] (1980) (58)
The Wood Charcoal Assemblages from Elands Bay Cave, Southwestern Cape: Principles, Procedures and Preliminary Interpretation (1997) (54)
Human mandibular incisors from the late Middle Pleistocene locality of Hoedjiespunt 1, South Africa. (2001) (53)
Late Holocene coastal change in the southwestern Cape, South Africa (1995) (53)
Coastal Diet, Encephalization, and Innovative Behaviors in the Late Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa (2010) (53)
Soaqua: Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers of the Olifants River Valley Western Cape (1977) (51)
Nutrition, modernity and the archaeological record: coastal resources and nutrition among Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers on the Western Cape coast of South Africa. (2014) (50)
Mussel Drying and Food Storage in the Late Holocene, SW Cape, South Africa (1994) (50)
Recent Holocene Archaeology in Western and Southern Lesotho (1994) (48)
Docosahexaenoic acid and cerebral evolution. (2001) (46)
Interpreting paintings without a commentary: meaning and motive, content and composition in the rock art of the western Cape, South Africa (1989) (46)
A shape to the microlithic Robberg from Elands Bay Cave (South Africa) (2016) (44)
Nets and fully recurved bows: Rock paintings and hunting methods in the Western Cape, South Africa (1985) (41)
Community evolution of Neogene micromammals from Langebaanweg ‘E’ Quarry and other west coast fossil sites, south-western Cape, South Africa (2007) (36)
Stone tools and resources: A case study from Southern Africa (1981) (36)
Presidential Address: Mobility, Seasonality and Southern African Hunter-Gatherers (2001) (36)
Middle and Later Stone Age shellfish exploitation strategies and coastal foraging at Hoedjiespunt and Lynch Point, Saldanha Bay, South Africa (2015) (35)
Evidence for the unique function of DHA during the evolution of the modern hominid brain (2004) (35)
Introduction to the project and excavation of Diepkloof Rock Shelter (Western Cape, South Africa): a view on the Middle Stone Age (2013) (34)
Coastal Shell Middens in the Paternoster Area, South-Western Cape (1978) (33)
Seal bones as indicators of the timing and duration of hunter-gatherer coastal visits (1995) (32)
Patterning in Recent Radiocarbon Dates from Southern Africa as a Reflection of Prehistoric Settlement and Interaction (1987) (28)
Eland and Therianthropes in Southern African Rock Art: When Is a Person an Animal? (2003) (26)
A Distributional Approach to the Interpretation of Rock Art in the South-Western Cape (1983) (26)
Stone Age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Clanwilliam, Western Cape, South Africa (2017) (26)
Marine and terrestrial foods as a source of brain-selective nutrients for early modern humans in the southwestern Cape, South Africa. (2016) (25)
MAKING SENSE OF SPACE AT DUNEFIELD MIDDEN CAMPSITE, WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA* (2012) (24)
Update on the 2011 excavation at Elands Bay Cave (South Africa) and the Verlorenvlei Stone Age (2016) (23)
Symbolism in Palaeolithic Cave Art (1969) (23)
The Neglected Alternative: Historical Narrative Rather than Cultural Labelling (1993) (21)
Pictures from the past: A history of the interpretation of rock paintings and engravings of southern Africa (1990) (21)
Western Cape landscapes (1999) (21)
The Size and Layout of Mgungundlovu 1829-1838 (1979) (21)
The ‘MSA 1’ of Elands Bay Cave (South Africa) in the context of the southern African Early MSA technologies (2016) (20)
The Taphonomy of the Micromammals from the Late Middle Pleistocene Site of Hoedjiespunt 1 (Cape Province, South Africa) (2006) (19)
Mussels and mongongo nuts: logistical visits to the Cape west coast, South Africa (2012) (19)
A TALE FROM THREE REGIONS: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE PLEISTOCENE/HOLOCENE TRANSITION IN THE WESTERN CAPE, THE CALEDON VALLEY AND THE LESOTHO HIGHLANDS, SOUTHERN AFRICA (1998) (17)
When was silcrete heat treatment invented in South Africa? (2020) (17)
Site-formation processes at Elands Bay Cave, South Africa (2016) (16)
The Appearance of Food Production in Southern Africa 1,000 to 2,000 Years Ago (2009) (16)
The Middle Stone Age human remains from Diepkloof Rock Shelter (Western Cape, South Africa) (2013) (15)
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. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 0-87365-958-9. (2003) (15)
Chronology of the Pleistocene deposits at Elands Bay Cave (South Africa) based on charcoals, burnt lithics, and sedimentary quartz and feldspar grains (2016) (14)
Limpet Gathering Strategies in the Later Stone Age Along the Cape West Coast, South Africa (2013) (14)
On Stable Carbon Isotopes and Dietary Reconstruction (1987) (14)
2. A Critique of the Consensus View on the Age of Howieson's Poort Assemblages in South Africa (1991) (13)
Colonial Era Paintings in the Rock Art of the South-Western Cape: Some Preliminary Observations (1993) (12)
Human exploitation of nocturnal felines at Diepkloof Rock Shelter provides further evidence for symbolic behaviours during the Middle Stone Age (2020) (11)
Long bone histology of Chersina angulata : Interelement variation and life history data (2019) (11)
Elands Bay Cave : keeping an eye on the past (2016) (8)
Clanwilliam Living Landscape Project (1970) (8)
Elusive Identities: Karoo |Xam Descendants and the Square Kilometre Array (2019) (8)
The wood charcoal evidence from renewed excavations at Elands Bay Cave, South Africa (2016) (7)
Holocene hunter-gatherers and adhesive manufacture in the West Coast of South Africa (2016) (7)
Field processing and transport costs in shellfish gathering along the Cape west coast (2020) (7)
Ecosystem engineering in the Quaternary of the West Coast of South Africa (2021) (7)
An analysis of the mole rats (Mammalia: Rodentia) from Langebaanweg (Mio-Pliocene, South Africa) (2006) (7)
Strandloping as a Resource-Gathering Strategy in the Cape, South African Holocene Later Stone Age: The Verloren Vlei Record (2014) (6)
Small Mammal Bones on Later Stone Age Sites from the Cape (South Africa): Consumption and Ritual Events (2008) (6)
An Introduction to the Stone Age Archaeology of the Polihali Dam Area, Mokhotlong District, Lesotho (2020) (5)
AN ARCHAEOMAGNETIC STUDY OF MGUNGUNDLOVU (1979) (5)
A Late Stone Age Burial from Clanwilliam (1971) (5)
Fire and human management of late Holocene ecosystems in southern Africa (2022) (4)
Prehistory and Palaeoenvironments at the Pleistocene-Holocene Boundary in the Western Cape (1987) (4)
Late Pleistocene and Holocene climates as viewed from Verlore Vlei (1980) (3)
Off the record (1985) (3)
On Diet and Settlement in Holocene South Africa (2007) (3)
Sub-Saharan Africa, Archaeology of (2001) (3)
At the Transition (1996) (3)
Rounded but not reworked?: Spatial patterning in the stone tool assemblage from Dunefield midden (2013) (2)
San Spirituality. Roots, Expression and Social Consequences. By J.D. Lewis-Williams & D.G. Pearce. African Archaeology Series, Altamira Press, Lanham, 2004, 296 pp. ISBN 0-7591-0432-8 (paperback), ISBN 0-7591-0431-X (cloth). Price $ 29.95 (paperback), $ 75.00 (cloth). (2005) (2)
Histological investigation of burnt bones: A case study of angulate tortoises from the archaeological site, Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa (2021) (2)
Coastal foraging and marine foods as a source of brain-specific nutrients for Middle Stone Age hunter-–gatherers along the Atlantic west coast (2016) (2)
Some Comments on the Comparison and Classification of Archaeological Specimens (1967) (2)
Forum Communication- “Reply to Antonieta Jerardino's comment on ‘Field Processing and transport costs in shellfish gathering along the Cape west coast’ by John Parkington, Ruan Brand and Taylor Niekerk” (2020) (2)
Shell Middens and Coastal Prehistory (2020) (1)
The Later Stone Age of Southern Africa (2014) (1)
Cloaks and torsos: image recognition, ethnography and male initiation events in the rock art of the Western Cape (2021) (1)
Stone Implements as Information (1972) (1)
Contemporaneity and entanglement: Archaeological site structure from a Bayesian perspective (2020) (1)
Megamiddens: A reply to A. Jerardino (2016) (1)
Ambiguïté dans la représentation des animaux et des hommes dans les peintures rupestres du Cap, Afrique du Sud (2009) (1)
From quartz curvature to late Holocene mobility at Spring Cave, Western Cape, South Africa (2022) (0)
THAN CULTURAL LABELLING (1993) (0)
Recent developments in the study of prehistory in the Cape (1977) (0)
Entangled lives, relational ontology and rock paintings: Elephant and human figures in the rock art of the Western Cape, South Africa (2022) (0)
Writing Archaeology: Telling Stories about the Past (2011) (0)
Visionary animal: rock art from southern Africa (2019) (0)
Experimentation as a driving force for innovation in the Pre- Still Bay from Southern Africa (2020) (0)
RECENT HISTORICAL CONTEXT, EXTINCT CULTURAL EXPRESSION Der Mond als Shuh: Zeichnungen der San: The Moon as Shoe: Drawings of the San. Edited by MIKLÓS SZALAY. Zurich: Scheidegger und Spiess, 2002. Pp. 311. SFr 98; €65 (ISBN 3-85881-138-6). (2004) (0)
An overview of the Howiesons Poort complex at Diepkloof rockshelter (Western Cape, South Africa) : implications of the truncated and backed pieces (2008) (0)
JOHN PARKINGTON AND MARTIN HALL THE KALAHARI BASIN Field research by a number of archaeologists in the western Kalahari (2008) (0)
Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure Graphical Abstract Highlights (2018) (0)
Building on artefacts (1983) (0)
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 (2012) (0)
Reconstructing Prehistoric African Population Structure Graphical (2018) (0)
When was silcrete heat treatment invented in South Africa? (2020) (0)
Survival of eggshell peptides over millions of years in Africa is due to mineral binding (2016) (0)
“When elephants were people” (2021) (0)
Human exploitation of nocturnal felines at Diepkloof Rock Shelter provides further evidence for symbolic behaviours during the Middle Stone Age (2020) (0)
Bone histology of Neogene angulate tortoises (Testudines: Testudinidae) from South Africa: palaeobiological and skeletochronological implications (2023) (0)
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 (2012) (0)
Conference report: “Bleek and Lloyd 1870–1991” (1991) (0)
Regional Archaeology (1980) (0)

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