Zenobia Jacobs

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Zenobia Jacobs is affiliated with the following schools: Stellenbosch University, University of Cape Town, University College London, University of Wollongong, University of Wales, Aberystwyth University, Australian National University

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PhD Geology University of Cape Town
Masters Geology University of Cape Town
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According to Wikipedia, Zenobia Jacobs is a South African-born archaeologist and earth scientist specialising in geochronology. She is a professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Education and career Jacobs graduated from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, in 1998, studying archaeology and geography, and received her PhD from Aberystwyth University, Wales, in 2004. She joined the University of Wollongong as a research fellow in 2006 and is currently a professor in the Centre for Archaeological Science and the School of Earth of Environmental Sciences. She is also an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and chief investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. She was awarded the International Union for Quaternary Research's Sir Nick Shackleton Medal in 2009.

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Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene (2007) (802)
Emergence of Modern Human Behavior: Middle Stone Age Engravings from South Africa (2002) (778)
Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago (2017) (563)
Middle Stone Age Shell Beads from South Africa (2004) (559)
Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal (2008) (494)
Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans (2009) (491)
A 100,000-Year-Old Ochre-Processing Workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa (2011) (429)
An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa (2012) (272)
Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments (2017) (245)
Extending the chronology of deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa, back to 140 ka using optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartz. (2006) (229)
Optical dating of dune sand from Blombos Cave, South Africa: I--multiple grain data. (2003) (216)
New ages for the post-Howiesons Poort late and final Middle Stone Age at Sibudu, South Africa (2008) (191)
Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe (2013) (185)
Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating of individual grains of quartz from archeological deposits (2007) (178)
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 (2010) (169)
New excavations of Middle Stone Age deposits at Apollo 11 Rockshelter, Namibia: stratigraphy, archaeology, chronology and past environments (2010) (164)
Interpretation of single grain D-e distributions and calculation of D-e (2006) (158)
Sibudu Cave: background to the excavations, stratigraphy and dating (2006) (148)
Stone tools and foraging in northern Madagascar challenge Holocene extinction models (2013) (129)
New ages for Middle and Later Stone Age deposits at Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania: optically stimulated luminescence dating of quartz and feldspar grains. (2012) (127)
Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave (2019) (122)
Review and assessment of the potential of post-IR IRSL dating methods to circumvent the problem of anomalous fading in feldspar luminescence (2014) (119)
The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya). (2014) (116)
The archaeology, chronology and stratigraphy of Madjedbebe (Malakunanja II): A site in northern Australia with early occupation. (2015) (115)
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 (2013) (114)
Luminescence chronologies for coastal and marine sediments (2008) (114)
Climate change not to blame for late Quaternary megafauna extinctions in Australia (2016) (111)
Timing of archaic hominin occupation of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia (2019) (107)
Optical dating of dune sand from Blombos Cave, South Africa: II--single grain data. (2003) (107)
Optical dating in archaeology: thirty years in retrospect and grand challenges for the future (2015) (106)
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. (2012) (106)
Late-surviving megafauna in Tasmania, Australia, implicate human involvement in their extinction (2008) (100)
Equivalent dose distributions from single grains of quartz at Sibudu, South Africa: context, causes and consequences for optical dating of archaeological deposits (2008) (95)
The last interglacial sea-level high stand on the southern Cape coastline of South Africa (2010) (94)
Melting ice sheets 400,000 yr ago raised sea level by 13 m: Past analogue for future trends (2012) (94)
Single-grain OSL dating at La Grotte des Contrebandiers ('Smugglers' Cave'), Morocco: improved age constraints for the Middle Paleolithic levels (2011) (93)
An OSL chronology for the sedimentary deposits from Pinnacle Point Cave 13B--a punctuated presence. (2010) (92)
Continental aridification and the vanishing of Australia's megalakes (2011) (87)
The Cyrenaican Prehistory Project 2008: the second season of investigations of the Haua Fteah cave and its landscape, and further results from the initial (2007) fieldwork (2000) (84)
Timing and dynamics of Late Pleistocene mammal extinctions in southwestern Australia (2010) (84)
Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal: Background to the excavations of Middle Stone Age and Iron Age occupations (2004) (83)
An improved single grain OSL chronology for the sedimentary deposits from Diepkloof Rockshelter, Western Cape, South Africa (2015) (78)
Still Bay and serrated points from Umhlatuzana Rock Shelter, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa (2010) (78)
Interpreting human behavior from depositional rates and combustion features through the study of sedimentary microfacies at site Pinnacle Point 5-6, South Africa. (2015) (76)
Afromontane foragers of the Late Pleistocene: Site formation, chronology and occupational pulsing at Melikane Rockshelter, Lesotho (2012) (73)
Testing Times: old and new chronologies for the Howieson's poort and still bay industries in environmental context (2008) (73)
On the industrial attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb. (2013) (71)
Depositional and sea-level history from MIS 6 (Termination II) to MIS 3 on the southern continental shelf of South Africa (2018) (67)
Late Quaternary mega-lakes fed by the northern and southern river systems of central Australia: Varying moisture sources and increased continental aridity (2012) (66)
Denisovan DNA in Late Pleistocene sediments from Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau (2020) (64)
New Excavations at the Site of Contrebandiers Cave, Morocco (2012) (62)
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) (2011) (61)
Beyond the Levant: First Evidence of a Pre-Pottery Neolithic Incursion into the Nefud Desert, Saudi Arabia (2013) (60)
Development of the SAR TT-OSL procedure for dating Middle Pleistocene dune and shallow marine deposits along the southern Cape coast of South Africa (2011) (56)
Paleoanthropologically significant South African sea caves dated to 1.1–1.0 million years using a combination of U–Pb, TT-OSL and palaeomagnetism (2013) (56)
Towards an Accurate and Precise Chronology for the Colonization of Australia: The Example of Riwi, Kimberley, Western Australia (2016) (56)
Single-grain OSL chronologies for the Still Bay and Howieson's Poort industries and the transition between them: Further analyses and statistical modelling. (2017) (56)
Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago (2018) (55)
Archaeological evidence for two separate dispersals of Neanderthals into southern Siberia (2020) (51)
Unearthing Neanderthal population history using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from cave sediments (2021) (50)
Distal tephras of the eastern Lake Victoria Basin, Equatorial East Africa: correlations, chronology, and a context for early modern humans (2015) (50)
Extending the age limit of luminescence dating using the dose- dependent sensitivity of MET-pIRIR signals from K-feldspar (2013) (49)
Catalysts for Stone Age innovations (2009) (47)
Potential of establishing a ‘global standardised growth curve’ (gSGC) for optical dating of quartz from sediments (2015) (47)
What caused extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna of Sahul? (2016) (46)
Continuity of mammalian fauna over the last 200,000 y in the Indian subcontinent (2014) (44)
Pleistocene archaeology and chronology of putslaagte 8 (PL8) Rockshelter, Western Cape, South Africa (2015) (44)
Evaluation of SAR procedures for De determination using single aliquots of quartz from two archaeological sites in South Africa (2006) (42)
Construction of a ‘global standardised growth curve’ (gSGC) for infrared stimulated luminescence dating of K-feldspar (2015) (41)
Putslaagte 1 (PL1), the Doring River, and the later Middle Stone Age in southern Africa's Winter Rainfall Zone (2014) (41)
Investigation of the applicability of standardised growth curves for OSL dating of quartz from Haua Fteah cave, Libya (2016) (41)
On the dose dependency of the bleachable and non-bleachable components of IRSL from K-feldspar: Improved procedures for luminescence dating of Quaternary sediments (2013) (41)
Pleistocene sediment DNA reveals hominin and faunal turnovers at Denisova Cave (2021) (40)
Last Interglacial Age for aeolian and marine deposits and the Nahoon fossil human footprints, Southeast Coast of South Africa (2009) (38)
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 (2013) (37)
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 (2012) (37)
A single-aliquot luminescence dating procedure for K-feldspar based on the dose-dependent MET-pIRIR signal sensitivity (2014) (36)
Luminescence characteristics and dose distributions for quartz and feldspar grains from Mumba rockshelter, Tanzania (2012) (35)
Testing of a single grain OSL chronology across the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition at Les Cottés (France) (2015) (32)
Archaeology: Progress and pitfalls in radiocarbon dating (2006) (32)
Hafting of Middle Paleolithic tools in Latium (central Italy): New data from Fossellone and Sant’Agostino caves (2019) (31)
Criteria for assessing the quality of Middle Pleistocene to Holocene vertebrate fossil ages (2015) (30)
Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul (2019) (30)
Variability in quartz OSL signals caused by measurement uncertainties: Problems and solutions (2017) (28)
The origin and development of the Nyl River floodplain wetland, Limpopo Province, South Africa: trunk–tributary river interactions in a dryland setting (2011) (27)
Archaeological Reconnaissance for Middle Stone Age Sites Along the Pondoland Coast, South Africa (2013) (27)
Human history written in stone and blood (2009) (27)
The chronostratigraphy of the Haua Fteah cave (Cyrenaica, northeast Libya) - Optical dating of early human occupation during Marine Isotope Stages 4, 5 and 6. (2017) (25)
Migration of Pleistocene shorelines across the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: Evidence from dated sub-bottom profiles and archaeological shellfish assemblages (2020) (25)
The age of three Middle Palaeolithic sites: Single-grain optically stimulated luminescence chronologies for Pech de l'Azé I, II and IV in France. (2016) (25)
The chronological, sedimentary and environmental context for the archaeological deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa (2020) (25)
Hominin and animal activities in the microstratigraphic record from Denisova Cave (Altai Mountains, Russia) (2019) (24)
Stochastic models support rapid peopling of Late Pleistocene Sahul (2021) (21)
Technical considerations and methodology for creating high-resolution, color-corrected, and georectified photomosaics of stratigraphic sections at archaeological sites (2015) (21)
A comprehensive database of quality-rated fossil ages for Sahul’s Quaternary vertebrates (2016) (19)
First chronological, Palaeoenvironmental, and archaeological data from the Baden-Baden fossil spring complex in the western Free State, South Africa (2015) (18)
FosSahul 2.0, an updated database for the Late Quaternary fossil records of Sahul (2019) (17)
Revisiting an arid LGM using fluvial archives: a luminescence chronology for palaeochannels of the Murrumbidgee River, south‐eastern Australia (2018) (17)
A late Quaternary vertebrate deposit in Kudjal Yolgah Cave, south‐western Australia: refining regional late Pleistocene extinctions (2016) (16)
Optical dating and soil micromorphology at MacCauley's Beach, New South Wales, Australia (2015) (16)
Unexpected Convergent Evolution of Nasal Domes between Pleistocene Bovids and Cretaceous Hadrosaur Dinosaurs (2016) (16)
Single-grain dating of potassium-rich feldspar grains: Towards a global standardised growth curve for the post-IR IRSL signal (2018) (15)
A re-examination of a human femur found at the Blind River Site, East London, South Africa: Its age, morphology, and breakage pattern (2008) (15)
Reply to comments on Clarkson et al. (2017) ‘Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago’ (2018) (14)
Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeology and stratigraphy of the southern Nejd, Oman (2015) (14)
Optical dating of K-feldspar grains from Middle Pleistocene lacustrine sediment at Marathousa 1 (Greece) (2018) (14)
Beta dose variability and its spatial contextualisation in samples used for optical dating: An empirical approach to examining beta microdosimetry (2018) (13)
Dating, Paleoenvironments, and Archaeology: A Progress Report on the Sunnyside 1 Site, Clarens, South Africa (2008) (13)
Archaeological evidence for indigenous human occupation of Southern Arabia at the Pleistocene/ Holocene transition: The case of al-Hatab in Dhofar, Southern Oman (2015) (12)
A worked bone assemblage from 120,000–90,000 year old deposits at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco (2021) (12)
Assessing the time of final deposition of Youngest Toba Tuff deposits in the Middle Son Valley, northern India (2014) (11)
A high-resolution late Quaternary depositional history and chronology for the southern portion of the Lake Mungo lunette, semi-arid Australia (2020) (11)
Establishing standardised growth curves (SGCs) for OSL signals from individual grains of quartz: A continental-scale case study (2020) (10)
An improved multiple-aliquot regenerative-dose (MAR) procedure for post-IR IRSL dating of K-feldspar (2017) (10)
Were environmental or demographic factors the driving force behind Middle Stone Age innovations in southern Africa (2010) (10)
Multidisciplinary Studies of Chagyrskaya Cave – A Middle Paleolithic Site in Altai (2018) (9)
FIRST CHRONOLOGICAL, PALAEOENVIRON- MENTAL, AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA FROM THE BADEN-BADEN FOSSIL SPRING COMPLEX IN THE WESTERN FREE STATE, SOUTH AFRICA (2015) (8)
Dating in landscape, archaeology (2008) (8)
Single-Grain Quartz OSL Characteristics: Testing for Correlations within and between Sites in Asia, Europe and Africa (2019) (7)
Comparing interglacials in eastern Australia: A multi-proxy investigation of a new sedimentary record (2021) (7)
Winds of change: Climate variability in a mild glacial on the east coast of South Africa, inferred from submerged aeolianites and the archaeological record of Sibudu (2022) (7)
Nouvelles données morpho-stratigraphiques et géochronologiques sur le cordon littoral externe (SIM 5-c) de Rabat–Témara, Maroc (2016) (7)
Validation of the LnTn method for De determination in optical dating of K-feldspar and quartz (2020) (6)
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 (2014) (5)
Robberg Material Procurement and Transport in the Doring River Catchment: Evidence from the Open-Air Locality of Uitspankraal 9, Western Cape, South Africa (2020) (4)
Composite grains from volcanic terranes: Internal dose rates of supposed ‘potassium-rich’ feldspar grains used for optical dating at Liang Bua, Indonesia (2021) (4)
Human occupation of the Kimberley coast of northwest Australia 50,000 years ago (2022) (4)
Here's the three-pronged approach we're using in our own research to tackle the reproducibility issue (2017) (4)
Beta dose heterogeneity in sediment samples measured using a Timepix pixelated detector and its implications for optical dating of individual mineral grains (2022) (4)
Palaeochannels of Australia's Riverine Plain - Reconstructing past vegetation environments across the Late Pleistocene and Holocene (2020) (4)
Timelines for Human Evolution and Dispersals (2018) (4)
OCTOPUS database (v.2) (2022) (3)
Modelling heterogeneously bleached single-grain equivalent dose distributions: Implications for the reliability of burial dose determination (2020) (3)
Bayesian analysis of De distributions in optical dating: Towards a robust method for dealing with outliers (2022) (3)
Calibration of a QEM-EDS system for rapid determination of potassium concentrations of feldspar grains used in optical dating (2021) (3)
Establishing a pIRIR procedure for De determination of composite mineral grains from volcanic terranes: A case study of sediments from Liang Bua, Indonesia (2021) (3)
Addendum: FosSahul 2.0, an updated database for the Late Quaternary fossil records of Sahul (2021) (2)
Corrigendum to "On the industrial attributions of the Aterian and Mousterian of the Maghreb" [J. H. Evol. 64 (2013) 194–210] (2013) (2)
Optical dating of sediment samples from Chagyrskaya Cave (2018) (2)
Human use of marine resources, pigments, and bladelets at Pinnacle Point Site 13B (South Africa) during the Middle Pleistocene (2008) (2)
Cave life histories of non-anthropogenic sediments help us understand associated archaeological contexts (2020) (2)
Natural variations in the properties of TL and IRSL emissions from metamorphic and volcanic K-feldspars from East Africa: Assessing their reliability for dating (2012) (2)
Buried tools and pigments tell a new history of humans in Australia for 65,000 years (2017) (2)
OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE ( OSL ) DATING (2004) (2)
Chronostratigraphy of a 270-ka sediment record from Lake Selina, Tasmania: Combining radiometric, geomagnetic and climatic dating (2021) (2)
New Data on the Context of the Middle Paleolithic Bone Tools from Abri Peyrony and Pech-de-l’Azé I (France) (2013) (1)
OCTOPUS Database v.2: The SahulArch Radiocarbon collection (2021) (1)
The last interglacial sea-level high stand on the southern Cape Coastline of 1 South Africa 2 3 (2016) (1)
OCTOPUS Database v.2: The SahulArch OSL collection (2021) (1)
SahulArch: A geochronological database for the archaeology of Sahul (2023) (1)
Late Quaternary mega-lakes of central Australia: evidence of varying moisture sources. (2010) (1)
Late Quaternary mega-lakes of central Australia: varying moisture sources and increased continental aridity. (2010) (0)
Pinnacle Point 5-6 and Diepkloof Rockshelter (South Africa): Testing the OSL ages and constructing a standardised MSA chronology (2015) (0)
Luminescence dating, single-grain dose distribution (2015) (0)
Neandertal toolmakers left a leatherworking legacy (2013) (0)
Dating fluvial archives of the Riverine Plain, Southeastern Australia (2016) (0)
Evidence for short MSA occupation events at PP9 (Mossel Bay, South Africa) at 133ka and 85ka: Evidence for early systematic exploitation of marine resources during single occupation events (2008) (0)
FosSahul 2.0, an updated database for the Late Quaternary fossil records of Sahul (2019) (0)
Chronostratigraphy of long lacustrine sedimentary records from Tasmania, Australia (2019) (0)
Unexpected Convergent Evolution of Nasal Domes between Pleistocene Bovids and Cretaceous Hadrosaur Dinosaurs (2016) (0)
Johann Carl Vogel (7 September 1932–30 January 2012) (2012) (0)
Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave (2019) (0)
Archaeological science in Australia: integrating across disciplines and scales of analysis (2012) (0)
Did Neanderthals and Modern Humans meet? – Reexamining the chronology of sediments in Vindija Cave (Croatia) by using single-grain optically stimulated luminescence (2010) (0)
Author Correction: Hominin and animal activities in the microstratigraphic record from Denisova Cave (Altai Mountains, Russia) (2022) (0)
A timeline for the Denisovans, an enigmatic group of archaic humans (2019) (0)
Late Pleistocene evolution of Robe Range, southern Australia – The timing and carbonate source dynamics of coastal dune development (2023) (0)
Murrup Tamboore: community-led archaeological investigations at the former Keilor Archaeological Area (2021) (0)
Excavations, Sur veys and Heritage Management in Victoria (2021) (0)
Marine geophysics reveals the character of the now submerged Paleo-Agulhas Plain (2015) (0)
Timing of archaic hominin occupation of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia (2019) (0)
Two bursts of human innovation in southern Africa during the Middle Stone Age may belmked to population growth and early migration off the continent (2016) (0)
Minimum founding populations for the first peopling of Sahul (2019) (0)
Chronostratigraphy of sediment cores from Lake Selina, southeastern Australia: Radiocarbon, optically stimulated luminescence, paleomagnetism, authigenic beryllium isotopes and elemental data (2022) (0)
Diverse stone artefacts around Lake Woods, Central Northern Territory, Australia (2021) (0)
Fresh clues to the life and times of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient group of humans (2019) (0)
II y a 100.000 ans, un atelier pour la préparation et le stockage de mélanges pigmentés (2014) (0)
Constraining the timing of Holocene glacial retreat in Ny-Alesund, Svalbard using quartz optical dating on sorted circle (2009) (0)
STRATIGRAPHIE, SEDIMENTOLOGIE ET AGE DE LA FORMATION DU CORDON LITTORAL « POST-OULJIEN » DE TEMARA (SUD-OUEST DE RABAT, MAROC) (2014) (0)

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