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- Bachelors Botany University of Zimbabwe
- Masters Paleobotany University of Cape Town
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Marion Kathaleen Bamford is a Zimbabwean paleobotanist, and is a professor at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Early life and education Marion was born in Zimbabwe. She received her PhD, MSc, and BSc at University of the Witwatersrand.
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- Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa (2012) (453)
- Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa (2012) (315)
- Early hominin diet included diverse terrestrial and aquatic animals 1.95 Ma in East Turkana, Kenya (2010) (247)
- A key to morphogenera used for Mesozoic conifer-like woods (2008) (223)
- Middle Stone Age Bedding Construction and Settlement Patterns at Sibudu, South Africa (2011) (219)
- Isotopic evidence for contrasting diets of early hominins Homo habilis and Australopithecus boisei of Tanzania (2008) (177)
- The diet of Australopithecus sediba (2012) (155)
- Patterns of Gondwana plant colonisation anddiversification (1999) (144)
- Portrait of a Gondwanan ecosystem: A new late Permian fossil locality from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (2009) (135)
- Taphonomy of phytoliths and macroplants in different soils from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) and the application to Plio-Pleistocene palaeoanthropological samples (2006) (133)
- Jurassic-Early Cretaceous Gondwanan homoxylous woods: a nomenclatural revision of the genera with taxonomic notes. (2001) (126)
- Plio–Pleistocene macroplant fossil remains and phytoliths from Lowermost Bed II in the eastern palaeolake margin of Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2006) (108)
- Is the vertebrate-defined Permian-Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin, South Africa, the terrestrial expression of the end-Permian marine event? (2015) (104)
- Taphonomic Trends of Macrofloral Assemblages Across the Permian–Triassic Boundary, Karoo Basin, South Africa (2005) (102)
- Environments and hominin activities across the FLK Peninsula during Zinjanthropus times (1.84 Ma), Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. (2012) (93)
- Palaeoecological significance of palms at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, based on phytolith remains (2009) (93)
- Biogeographic analysis of Jurassic-Early Cretaceous wood assemblages from Gondwana (2004) (85)
- The burning of Gondwana: Permian fires on the southern continent—A palaeobotanical approach (2013) (79)
- PLIOCENE FOSSIL WOODS FROM AN EARLY HOMINID CAVE DEPOSIT, STERKFONTEIN, SOUTH AFRICA (1999) (72)
- The Oldowan horizon in Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa): archaeological, geological, paleontological and paleoclimatic evidence. (2012) (66)
- Landscape distribution of Oldowan stone artifact assemblages across the fault compartments of the eastern Olduvai Lake Basin during early lowermost Bed II times. (2012) (65)
- Multiproxy record of late Quaternary climate change and Middle Stone Age human occupation at Wonderkrater, South Africa (2014) (59)
- Late Pliocene grassland from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2008) (57)
- Late Quaternary vegetation dynamics and hydro-climate in the Drakensberg, South Africa (2014) (54)
- Diversity of the Woody Vegetation of Gondwanan Southern Africa (2004) (52)
- Past and present vegetation ecology of Laetoli, Tanzania. (2008) (49)
- Shaping of modern southern African biomes: Neogene vegetation and climate changes (2015) (48)
- Climate change and human disturbance of fynbos vegetation during the late Holocene at Princess Vlei, Western Cape, South Africa (2011) (46)
- A reassessment of the wooden fragment from Florisbad, South Africa (2003) (43)
- Reconstruction of ancient palm vegetation landscapes using a phytolith approach (2015) (36)
- PERMO-TRIASSIC FOSSIL WOODS FROM THE SOUTH AFRICAN KAROO BASIN (1999) (35)
- Taphonomy and palaeoecology of plant remains from the oldest African Early Cretaceous amber locality (2002) (34)
- Early Pleistocene fossil wood from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2005) (34)
- Taphonomy of the early Miocene flora, Hiwegi Formation, Rusinga Island, Kenya. (2009) (33)
- Holocene palynology and palaeoenvironments in the Savanna Biome at Tswaing Crater, central South Africa (2014) (33)
- Vegetation during UMBI and deposition of Tuff IF at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (ca. 1.8 Ma) based on phytoliths and plant remains. (2012) (33)
- Advances in Nonmarine Karoo Biostratigraphy: Significance for Understanding Basin Development (2016) (31)
- Results of a preliminary palynological analysis at Sibudu Cave (2006) (30)
- Fossil sedges, macroplants, and roots from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. (2012) (30)
- Is southern Africa different? An investigation of the relationship between leaf physiognomy and climate in southern African mesic vegetation (2010) (30)
- PALEONTOLOGY OF THE BLAAUWATER 67 AND 65 FARMS, SOUTH AFRICA: TESTING THE DAPTOCEPHALUS/LYSTROSAURUS BIOZONE BOUNDARY IN A STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK (2017) (29)
- Fossil woods of Karoo age deposits in South Africa and Namibia as an aid to biostratigraphical correlation (2000) (29)
- The discovery of lower and middle Miocene vertebrates at Auchas, southern Namibia (1996) (27)
- Botanical remains from a coprolite from the Pleistocene hominin site of Malapa, Sterkfontein Valley, South Africa (2010) (26)
- A multi-disciplinary review of late Quaternary palaeoclimates and environments for Lesotho (2016) (25)
- Holocene climatic variability indicated by a multi-proxy record from southern Africa’s highest wetland (2017) (25)
- Vegetation landscape at DK locality, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2015) (25)
- Phytoliths in modern plants and soils from Klasies River, Cape Region (South Africa) (2017) (24)
- Radiometric dating demonstrates that Permian spore‐pollen zones of Australia and South Africa are diachronous (2016) (24)
- The palaeoxylological record of Metapodocarpoxylon libanoticum (Edwards) Dupéron‐Laudoueneix et Pons and the Gondwana Late Jurassic–Early Cretaceous continental biogeography (2003) (23)
- Phytoliths in plants from the south coast of the Greater Cape Floristic Region (South Africa) (2017) (22)
- Late Pliocene woody vegetation of Area 41, Koobi Fora, East Turkana Basin, Kenya (2011) (22)
- Miocene fluvial systems and palynofloras at the southwestern tip of Africa: Implications for regional and global fluctuations in climate and ecosystems (2013) (22)
- Lahar inundated, modified, and preserved 1.88 Ma early hominin (OH24 and OH56) Olduvai DK site. (2018) (21)
- Palaeoenvironments during a terminal Oligocene or early Miocene transgression in a fluvial system at the southwestern tip of Africa (2017) (21)
- Fossil wood of Cretaceous age from the Namaqualand continental shelf, South Africa (1994) (21)
- Fossil Leaves, Fruits and Seeds (2011) (20)
- A new approach to biostratigraphy in the Karoo retroarc foreland system: Utilising restricted-range palynomorphs and their first appearance datums for correlation (2017) (20)
- A morphotype catalog and paleoenvironmental interpretations of early Miocene fossil leaves from the Hiwegi Formation, Rusinga Island, Lake Victoria, Kenya (2013) (20)
- Novel double wing morphology revealed in a South African ovuliferous glossopterid fructification: Bifariala intermittens (Plumstead 1958) comb. nov. (2008) (19)
- Cretaceous fossils from the Orapa Diamond Mine (1997) (19)
- Macrobotanical Remains from Wonderwerk Cave (Excavation 1), Oldowan to Late Pleistocene (2 Ma to 14 ka bp), South Africa (2015) (19)
- A multi‐proxy analysis of late Quaternary palaeoenvironments, Sekhokong Range, eastern Lesotho (2016) (18)
- Lower Cretaceous plant cuticles and amber (Kirkwood Formation, South Africa) (2002) (18)
- Late Quaternary research in southern Africa: progress, challenges and future trajectories (2017) (17)
- A Review of Stratigraphic, Geochemical, and Paleontologic Data of the Terrestrial End-Permian Record in the Karoo Basin, South Africa (2016) (17)
- The validity of the Asteraceae: Poaceae fossil pollen ratio in discrimination of the southern African summer- and winter-rainfall zones (2017) (16)
- Permo-Triassic palynology and palaeobotany of Zambia: a review (2016) (16)
- In situ ∼2.0 Ma trees discovered as fossil rooted stumps, lowermost Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. (2016) (16)
- (1530) Proposal to conserve the name Protopodocarpoxylon (fossil Gymnospermae, Coniferales) with a conserved type (2002) (16)
- The upper limb of Paranthropus boisei from Ileret, Kenya. (2020) (15)
- An extensive deposit of fossil conifer wood from the Mesozoic of Mali, southern Sahara (2002) (15)
- Fossil leaves from Lukeino, a 6-million-year-old Formation in the Baringo Basin, Kenya (2013) (15)
- River-fed wetland palaeovegetation and palaeoecology at the HWK W site, Bed I, Olduvai Gorge (2018) (14)
- Taxonomic description of fossil wood from Cainozoic Sak River terraces, near Brandvlei, Bushmanland, South Africa (1993) (14)
- A missing piece of the Papio puzzle: Gorongosa baboon phenostructure and intrageneric relationships. (2019) (13)
- (1529) Proposal to conserve the name Cupressinoxylon against Retinodendron (fossil Gymnospermae, Coniferales), with a conserved type (2002) (13)
- Fluctuations in Miocene climate and sea levels along the southwestern South African coast: inferences from biogeochemistry, palynology and sedimentology (2013) (13)
- X-rays and virtual taphonomy resolve the first Cissus (Vitaceae) macrofossils from Africa as early-diverging members of the genus. (2016) (13)
- A new genus of ovuliferous glossopterid fructifications from South Africa (2002) (13)
- Use of wood anatomy to identify poisonous plants: charcoal of Spirostachys africana (2015) (12)
- Promoting a standardized description of fossil tracheidoxyls (2021) (12)
- THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CRETACEOUS DIAMONDIFEROUS GRAVEL DEPOSIT AT MAHURA MUTHLA, NORTHERN CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA (2009) (12)
- Liknopetalon: a review of a rare Gondwanan, Permian pteridophyte (2003) (11)
- The nonglacial diamictite of Toutswemogala Hill (lower Karoo Supergroup, central Botswana): Implications on the extent of the late Paleozoic ice age in the Kalahari–Karoo Basin (2019) (11)
- More fossil wood from the Namaqualand coast, South Africa; onshore material. (1995) (11)
- Palynology of an Early Permian coal seam from the Karoo Supergroup of Botswana (2014) (11)
- Long overdue extinction of the Protopinaceae (2016) (11)
- Olduvai's oldest Oldowan. (2020) (11)
- A submerged Late Cretaceous podocarpaceous forest, west coast, South Africa (2002) (11)
- Umkomasia (megasporophyll): part 1 of a reassessment of Gondwana Triassic plant genera and a reclassification of some previously attributed (2019) (11)
- Coastal palaeoenvironments and hunter-gatherer plant-use at Waterfall Bluff rock shelter in Mpondoland (South Africa) from MIS 3 to the Early Holocene (2020) (10)
- Identifying Asteraceae, particularly Tarchonanthus parvicapitulatus, in archaeological charcoal from the Middle Stone Age (2017) (10)
- Gorongosa by the sea: First Miocene fossil sites from the Urema Rift, central Mozambique, and their coastal paleoenvironmental and paleoecological contexts (2019) (9)
- Chrysocoma ciliata L. (Asteraceae) in the Lesotho Highlands: an anthropogenically introduced invasive or a niche coloniser? (2017) (9)
- Dicroidium (foliage) and affiliated wood Part 3 of a reassessment of Gondwana Triassic plant genera and a reclassification of some previously attributed (2020) (9)
- Early Eocene fossil plants from the Mwadui kimberlite pipe, Tanzania (2013) (9)
- The Ecology and Biogeography of the Endulen-Laetoli Area in Northern Tanzania (2011) (9)
- Carboniferous pycnoxylic woods from the Dwyka Group of southern Namibia (2001) (8)
- A late quaternary palaeoenvironmental record from Ntsikeni Wetland, KwaZulu-Natal Maloti-Drakensberg, South Africa (2020) (8)
- Structure of corystospermaceous ovules from the Upper Triassic of Zimbabwe (2009) (8)
- Pteruchus (microsporophyll): part 2 of a reassessment of Gondwana Triassic plant genera and a reclassification of some previously attributed (2019) (8)
- Reply to Evans: Use of poison remains the most parsimonious explanation for Border Cave castor bean extract (2012) (8)
- Fossil wood from the Brandvlei area, Bushmanland as an indication of palaeoenvironmental changes during the Cainozoic (1993) (8)
- A fossil peat deposit from the Late Triassic (Carnian) of Zimbabwe with preserved cuticle of Pteridospermopsida and Ginkgoales, and its geological setting. (2005) (8)
- Revised taxonomic interpretations of Cyperaceae phytoliths for (paleo)botanical studies with some notes on terminology (2020) (7)
- Wood Charcoal from Border Cave’s Member 1RGBS: Evidence for the Environment and Plant Use During MIS 5 (2021) (7)
- Graphic correlation: A powerful tool for biostratigraphic correlation of petroleum exploration and production in the Cenozoic deep offshore Niger Delta, Nigeria (2017) (7)
- Palynology: A useful tool in understanding palaeoclimatic changes through the Pliocene-Pleistocene from the deep offshore Niger Delta, Nigeria (2016) (7)
- Charcoal analysis from 49 000-year-old hearths at Sibudu: Implications for wood uses and the KwaZulu-Natal environment (2015) (7)
- Pleistocene fossil woods from the Okote Member, site FwJj 14 in the Ileret region, Koobi Fora Formation, northern Kenya. (2017) (7)
- Houlbert's types for fossil wood: lectotypification and taxonomic reappraisal of Abietoxylon, Ambaroxylon and Taxoxylon (2009) (6)
- Tertiary fossil woods from Vredendal, southwestern Cape, South Africa. (1999) (6)
- Permo-Triassic macro-plant fossils in the Fort Grey silcrete, East London (1997) (6)
- Middle Stone Age wood use 58 000 years ago in KwaZulu-Natal: charcoal analysis from two Sibudu occupation layers (2017) (6)
- Petroleum of the Deep: Palynological proxies for palaeoenvironment of deep offshore upper Miocene-Pliocene sediments from Niger Delta, Nigeria (2016) (6)
- A reconstruction of woody vegetation, environment and wood use at Sibudu Cave, South Africa, based on charcoal that is dated between 73 and 72 ka (2020) (6)
- Cainozoic euphorbiacean wood from the Canning Basin, Western Australia (2000) (5)
- Pollen, charcoal and plant macrofossil evidence of Neogene and Quaternary environments in southern Africa (2016) (5)
- Palynostratigraphic correlation of the Springbok Flats coalfield to other coal-bearing successions in the Karoo basins of southern Africa (2019) (5)
- Fossil Woods from the Upper Carboniferous to Lower Jurassic Karoo Basin and Their Environmental Interpretation (2016) (5)
- Charcoal from Holocene deposits at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa: A source of palaeoclimate information (2020) (5)
- The first Loranthaceae fossils from Africa (2018) (5)
- Submersible-based observations of in-situ fossil tree trunks in Late Cretaceous seafloor outcrops, Orange Basin, western offshore, South Africa (2003) (5)
- The Coal Farms of the Late Paleozoic (2020) (5)
- Pleistocene Bovidae (Mammalia) from Malapa, Gauteng Province, South Africa (2016) (4)
- PIXE micro-mapping of minor elements in Hypatia, a diamond bearing carbonaceous stone from the Libyan Desert Glass area, Egypt: Inheritance from a cold molecular cloud? (2015) (4)
- The carnivore guild circa 1.98 million years: biodiversity and implications for the palaeoenvironment at Malapa, South Africa (2016) (4)
- The Non-analog Vegetation of the Late Paleozoic Icehouse–Hothouse and Their Coal-Forming Forested Environments (2020) (3)
- Charcoalified wood from the cenomanian of gard (Southern France): An insight into early angiosperm palaeoecology (2020) (3)
- Macrobotanical Remains from Wonderwerk Cave (Excavation 1), Oldowan to Late Pleistocene (2 Ma to 14 ka bp), South Africa (2015) (3)
- A new hominin upper limb skeleton from Ileret, Kenya (2009) (3)
- Fossil wood from the upper Miocene Mpesida Beds at Cheparain (Baringo District, Kenya): Botanical affinities and palaeoenvironmental implications (2016) (3)
- Genomic variation in baboons from central Mozambique unveils complex evolutionary relationships with other Papio species (2022) (3)
- Palaeovegetation changes recorded in Palaeolake Olduvai OGCP Core 2A (2.09–2.12 Ma) Naibor Soit Formation Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2020) (3)
- Pollen, charcoal and phytolith records from the Late Quaternary of southern Africa: vegetation and climate interpretations (2021) (2)
- Reconstructing vegetation history of the Olorgesailie Basin during the Middle to Late Pleistocene using phytolith data (2021) (2)
- Evaluating sampling methods in charcoal-rich layers and high diversity environment: A case study from the Later Stone Age of Bushman Rock Shelter, South Africa (2020) (2)
- The first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift (2021) (2)
- The Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoenvironmental context of Wonderwerk Cave in the southern Kalahari, South Africa (2014) (2)
- Silicified fossil woods from the Late Permian Middleton Formation, Beaufort Group, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa and their palaeoenvironmental significance (2020) (2)
- Polymetallic and Carbonaceous Debris in Palaeosol from the Libyan Desert Glass Strewn Field, SW Egypt: Evidence of a Cometary Impact (2017) (2)
- Investigating the utilisation of woody plant species at an Early Iron Age site in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, by means of identifying archaeological charcoal (2019) (2)
- Fossil trees from the basal Triassic Lebung Group at the Makgaba site, west of Mokubilo, Botswana (2018) (2)
- Carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen stable isotopes in modern tooth enamel: A case study from Gorongosa National Park, central Mozambique (2022) (2)
- Gorongosa National Park and the biogeography of human origins in the Mio-Pliocene (2017) (1)
- Fossil wood from the Upper Cretaceous crater sediments of the Salpeterkop volcano, North West Province, South Africa (2021) (1)
- A fresh look on the morphology of Azaniadendron Rayner: a ligulate lycopsid from the Permian of Gondwana (2022) (1)
- Relevance of aerobiological studies in Nigeria: a two-year aerospora record of Lagos (2021) (1)
- Early Holocene charcoals from Stratum 4d of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape (2016) (1)
- A Late Devonian refugium for Colpodexylon (Lycopsida) at high latitude (2021) (1)
- Floral composition and diversity of the lagos coastal environment, South‐Western , Nigeria (2022) (1)
- Fossil Wood from the Boteti River and Tshaitshe, Botswana (1997) (1)
- Valley-scale controls and hydrogeomorphic processes driving channel breakdown in a dynamic floodplain wetland system: The Mara River, Tanzania (2023) (1)
- Toward an improved Holocene palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction for eastern Lesotho (2016) (0)
- Coprolites in Cemented Pleistocene Deposits on the Cape South Coast of South Africa (2022) (0)
- NEOGENE COASTAL-PLAIN ESTUARINE RECORD IN THE GORONGOSA AREA, CENTRAL MOZAMBIQUE: PALEOENVIRONMENTAL AND PALEOECOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ANCIENT EAST AFRICAN MARGIN AND ITS PRIMATE LAND USE POTENTIAL (2017) (0)
- A preliminary phytolith analysis of terrace soils from Buffelskloof, Mpumalanga, South Africa (2022) (0)
- Chrysocoma ciliata L. (Asteraceae) in the Lesotho Highlands: an anthropogenically introduced invasive or a niche coloniser? (2017) (0)
- VARIABILITY IN THE LATE PERMIAN LANDSCAPE OF THE UPPER BALFOUR FORMATION (BEAUFORT GROUP STRATA, KAROO BASIN, SOUTH AFRICA) (2016) (0)
- New species of Protaxodioxylon (conifer wood) from the Middle Permian of the Metangula Graben (Niassa Province, Mozambique) and their implications (2021) (0)
- Highlights of Quaternary research in Southern Africa, and proceeding forwards (2005) (0)
- Comparing the Quaternary palaeoenvironments of two major Hominin sites: the Olorgesailie and Koobi Fora Basins, Kenya (2016) (0)
- Syntopy and co-utilization of a “roosting area” by the barn owl (Tyto alba) and spotted eagle owl (Bubo africanus) in Tanzania (2018) (0)
- Chimpanzee wooden tool analysis advances the identification of percussive technology (2022) (0)
- Proceedings of the 2017 biennial conference of the South African Society of Quaternary Research (2017) (0)
- Carbon-14 dating when there's no ring on it: Age of four Pondoland grassland geoxyles and lessons learned (2020) (0)
- A missing piece of the Papio puzzle : Gorongosa baboon phenostructure and their 1 relationships with Papio species 2 (2018) (0)
- 016 An early Eocene macrofossil flora from the Mwadui kimberlite pipe, Tanzania (2012) (0)
- A Southern African Perspective on the Contribution of Charcoal Analyses to Archaeology (2021) (0)
- Inter-disciplinary Discussion Discussion on the Last Glacial Maximum in southern Africa (2017) (0)
- Genomic variation in baboons from central Mozambique unveils complex evolutionary relationships with other Papio species (2022) (0)
- Plio-Pleistocene hominin tool use and its context in the Koobi Fora formation (2020) (0)
- Discussion regarding an effective sampling method in charcoal-rich layers: a case study from the Later Stone Age of Bushman Rock Shelter, Limpopo Province, South Africa. (2019) (0)
- Pre- and post-depositional alteration of botanical macro-remains: A case study from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania (2012) (0)
- X-rays and virtual taphonomy resolve the fi rst Cissus ( Vitaceae ) macrofossils from Africa as early-diverging members of the genus 1 (2016) (0)
- Stratigraphy, chronology and palaeontology of the Tertiary rocks of the Cheringoma Plateau, Mozambique (2021) (0)
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