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C. Marean — researcher profile on SciRah

h-index: 62
Works: 207
Citations: 15K

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Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time
B. Demarchi, Shaun A. Hall, T. Roncal-Herrero, C. Freeman +32 more
2016eLife221 citations Open access
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The transition to foraging for dense and predictable resources and its impact on the evolution of modern humans
C. Marean
2016Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences132 citations Open access
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Origins of the Human Predatory Pattern: The Transition to Large-Animal Exploitation by Early Hominins
Jessica C. Thompson, S. Carvalho, C. Marean, Z. Alemseged
2019Current Anthropology125 citations Open access
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Strontium isotope investigation of ungulate movement patterns on the Pleistocene Paleo-Agulhas Plain of the Greater Cape Floristic Region, South Africa
S. Copeland, H. Cawthra, Erich C. Fisher, J. Lee-Thorp +4 more
2016118 citations Open access
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An Evolutionary Anthropological Perspective on Modern Human Origins
C. Marean
201598 citations Open access
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Depositional and sea-level history from MIS 6 (Termination II) to MIS 3 on the southern continental shelf of South Africa
H. Cawthra, Z. Jacobs, J. Compton, Erich C. Fisher +2 more
201896 citations Open access
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The Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: Temporal and spatial variation in an extraordinary extinct ecosystem of the Pleistocene of the Cape Floristic Region
C. Marean, R. Cowling, J. Franklin
2020Quaternary Science Reviews86 citations Open access
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Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba eruption about 74,000 years ago
E. Smith, Z. Jacobs, R. Johnsen, M. Ren +12 more
2018Nature79 citations Open access
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Paleodistribution modeling in archaeology and paleoanthropology
J. Franklin, A. Potts, Erich C. Fisher, R. Cowling +1 more
201579 citations Open access
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Downscaling Last Glacial Maximum climate over southern Africa
F. Engelbrecht, C. Marean, R. Cowling, C. Engelbrecht +12 more
201977 citations Open access
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Lithic technological responses to Late Pleistocene glacial cycling at Pinnacle Point Site 5-6, South Africa
Jayne Wilkins, Kyle S. Brown, Simen Oestmo, Telmo Pereira +3 more
2017PLoS ONE76 citations Open access
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Middle and Later Stone Age chronology of Kisese II rockshelter (UNESCO World Heritage Kondoa Rock-Art Sites), Tanzania
C. Tryon, J. Lewis, Kathryn L. Ranhorn, A. Kwekason +6 more
2018PLoS ONE73 citations Open access
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Geological and soil maps of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain for the Last Glacial Maximum
H. Cawthra, R. Cowling, S. Andó, C. Marean
202067 citations Open access
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Describing a drowned Pleistocene ecosystem: Last Glacial Maximum vegetation reconstruction of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain
R. Cowling, A. Potts, J. Franklin, G. Midgley +2 more
202059 citations Open access
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Differentiating between cutting actions on bone using 3D geometric morphometrics and Bayesian analyses with implications to human evolution
E. Otárola-Castillo, M. Torquato, H. Hawkins, E. James +4 more
201856 citations Open access
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Late Quaternary environmental change in the Southern Cape, South Africa, from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in faunal tooth enamel from Boomplaas Cave
J. Sealy, J. Lee-Thorp, E. Loftus, J. T. Faith +1 more
201656 citations Open access
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A new research strategy for integrating studies of paleoclimate, paleoenvironment, and paleoanthropology
C. Marean, Robert J. Anderson, M. Bar-Matthews, Kerstin Braun +10 more
2015Evolutionary Anthropology (print)56 citations Open access
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Climate-mediated shifts in Neandertal subsistence behaviors at Pech de l'Azé IV and Roc de Marsal (Dordogne Valley, France).
J. Hodgkins, C. Marean, Alain Turq, D. Sandgathe +2 more
2016Journal of Human Evolution51 citations Open access
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THE MOST INVASIVE SPECIES OF ALL.
C. Marean
2015Scientific American51 citations
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Modern soil phytolith assemblages used as proxies for Paleoscape reconstruction on the south coast of South Africa
I. Esteban, J. D. de Vynck, Elzanne Singels, J. Vlok +5 more
201750 citations Open access
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Palaeoecology of giraffe tracks in Late Pleistocene aeolianites on the Cape south coast
C. Helm, H. Cawthra, R. Cowling, J. D. de Vynck +3 more
201848 citations Open access
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A New Pleistocene Hominin Tracksite from the Cape South Coast, South Africa
C. Helm, R. McCrea, H. Cawthra, M. Lockley +5 more
2018Scientific Reports46 citations Open access
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Late Pleistocene records of speleothem stable isotopic compositions from Pinnacle Point on the South African south coast
Kerstin Braun, M. Bar-Matthews, A. Matthews, A. Ayalon +6 more
2018Quaternary Research45 citations
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Phytoliths as an indicator of early modern humans plant gathering strategies, fire fuel and site occupation intensity during the Middle Stone Age at Pinnacle Point 5-6 (south coast, South Africa)
I. Esteban, C. Marean, Erich C. Fisher, P. Karkanas +2 more
2018PLoS ONE44 citations Open access
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The trajectory of bone surface modification studies in paleoanthropology and a new Bayesian solution to the identification controversy.
Jacob A. Harris, C. Marean, K. Ogle, Jessica C. Thompson
2017Journal of Human Evolution43 citations Open access
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Pleistocene vertebrate tracksites on the Cape south coast of South Africa and their potential palaeoecological implications
C. Helm, H. Cawthra, R. Cowling, J. D. de Vynck +4 more
202042 citations
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Foraging potential of underground storage organ plants in the southern Cape, South Africa.
Elzanne Singels, A. Potts, K. Esler, R. Cowling +2 more
2016Journal of Human Evolution42 citations Open access
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Chronometric investigations of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in the Zagros Mountains using AMS radiocarbon dating and Bayesian age modelling.
L. Becerra-Valdivia, K. Douka, D. Comeskey, B. Bazgir +7 more
2017Journal of Human Evolution41 citations
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Return rates from intertidal foraging from Blombos Cave to Pinnacle Point: Understanding early human economies.
J. D. de Vynck, R. Anderson, Chloe Atwater, R. Cowling +4 more
2016Journal of Human Evolution41 citations Open access
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A worked bone assemblage from 120,000–90,000 year old deposits at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco
E. Hallett, C. Marean, T. Steele, E. Álvarez-Fernández +7 more
2021iScience39 citations Open access
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Migration of Pleistocene shorelines across the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: Evidence from dated sub-bottom profiles and archaeological shellfish assemblages
H. Cawthra, R. Anderson, J. D. de Vynck, Z. Jacobs +3 more
202039 citations Open access
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Seasonal availability of edible underground and aboveground carbohydrate resources to human foragers on the Cape south coast, South Africa
J. D. de Vynck, R. Cowling, A. Potts, C. Marean
2016PeerJ36 citations Open access
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The Middle Stone Age human fossil record from Klasies River Main Site.
F. Grine, S. Wurz, C. Marean
2017Journal of Human Evolution35 citations Open access
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Submerged shorelines and landscape features offshore of Mossel Bay, South Africa
H. Cawthra, J. Compton, Erich C. Fisher, M. MacHutchon +1 more
2015Special Publications34 citations
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Large mammals of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain showed resilience to extreme climate change but vulnerability to modern human impacts
J. Venter, Christopher F. Brooke, C. Marean, H. Fritz +1 more
202031 citations
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Comparison of climate and environment on the edge of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain to the Little Karoo (South Africa) in Marine Isotope Stages 5–3 as indicated by speleothems
Kerstin Braun, M. Bar-Matthews, A. Matthews, A. Ayalon +6 more
202031 citations Open access
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Palaeoenvironments and plant availability during MIS 6 to MIS 3 on the edge of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (south coast, South Africa) as indicated by phytolith analysis at Pinnacle Point
I. Esteban, C. Marean, R. Cowling, Erich C. Fisher +2 more
202030 citations Open access
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Adaptive foraging behaviours in the Horn of Africa during Toba supereruption
J. Kappelman, L. Todd, C. A. Davis, T. Cerling +60 more
2024Nature26 citations
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The ecomorphology of the shell of extant turtles and its applications for fossil turtles
Laura Dziomber, Walter G. Joyce, C. Foth, D. Adams +154 more
2020PeerJ26 citations Open access
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The foraging potential of the Holocene Cape south coast of South Africa without the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain
C. Wren, S. Botha, J. D. de Vynck, M. Janssen +9 more
202025 citations Open access
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An isotopic test of the seasonal migration hypothesis for large grazing ungulates inhabiting the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain
J. Hodgkins, C. Marean, J. Venter, L. Richardson +8 more
2020Quaternary Science Reviews23 citations Open access
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Seasonal scheduling of shellfish collection in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of southern Africa.
E. Loftus, J. Lee-Thorp, M. Leng, C. Marean +1 more
2019Journal of Human Evolution23 citations Open access
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Past and present distributions and community evolution of Muridae and Soricidae from MIS 9 to MIS 1 on the edge of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (south coast, South Africa)
Thalassa Matthews, C. Marean, N. Cleghorn
202020 citations Open access
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Size variation in Tachyoryctes splendens (East African mole-rat) and its implications for late Quaternary temperature change in equatorial East Africa
J. Faith, D. Patterson, Nick Blegen, Chris O'Neill +3 more
201619 citations Open access
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Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave
E. Pomeroy, C. Hunt, T. Reynolds, Dlshad Abdulmutalb +25 more
2020Evolutionary Anthropology (print)18 citations Open access
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The resilience to human foraging of intertidal resources on the south Cape coast of South Africa and the implications for pre-historic foragers
J. D. de Vynck, M. Difford, R. Anderson, C. Marean +2 more
202014 citations Open access
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A new approach to identify heat treated silcrete near Pinnacle Point, South Africa using 3D microscopy and Bayesian modeling
J. Murray, Jacob A. Harris, Simen Oestmo, Miles Martin +1 more
202012 citations
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Discovery of cryptotephra at Middle–Upper Paleolithic sites Arma Veirana and Riparo Bombrini, Italy: a new link for broader geographic correlations
Jayde N. Hirniak, E. Smith, R. Johnsen, Ming-Bo Ren +14 more
2019Journal of Quaternary Science12 citations Open access
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The pinnacle point shell midden complex: A mid-To late holocene record of later stone age coastal foraging along the southern cape coast of South Africa
J. Mcgrath, N. Cleghorn, Betina Gennari, Struan Henderson +7 more
201512 citations
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Further human fossils from the Middle Stone Age deposits of Die Kelders Cave 1, Western Cape Province, South Africa.
Frederick E. Grine, C. Marean, J. Faith, W. Black +4 more
2017Journal of Human Evolution11 citations
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