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M. Chazan

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h-index: 31
Works: 137
Citations: 3,628

Most-cited papers

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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Early Evidence for Brilliant Ritualized Display: Specularite Use in the Northern Cape (South Africa) between ∼500 and ∼300 Ka
Ian Watts, M. Chazan, Jayne Wilkins
2016Current Anthropology133 citations Open access
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Toward a Long Prehistory of Fire
M. Chazan
2017Current Anthropology59 citations
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Technological Trends in the Acheulean of Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa
M. Chazan
201549 citations Open access
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Deposition and Diagenesis in the Earlier Stone Age of Wonderwerk Cave, Excavation 1, South Africa
P. Goldberg, F. Berna, M. Chazan
201547 citations
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New chronology for the southern Kalahari Group sediments with implications for sediment-cycle dynamics and early hominin occupation
A. Matmon, A. Hidy, S. Vainer, O. Crouvi +9 more
2015Quaternary Research47 citations
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Fire in the Early Palaeolithic: Evidence from burnt small mammal bones at Cueva Negra del Estrecho del Río Quípar, Murcia, Spain
S. Rhodes, M. J. Walker, A. López-Jímenez, M. López-Martínez +3 more
201645 citations
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Past and Present at Wonderwerk Cave (Northern Cape Province, South Africa)
L. Horwitz, M. Chazan
201541 citations Open access
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Archeology, Environment, and Chronology of the Early Middle Stone Age Component of Wonderwerk Cave
M. Chazan, F. Berna, J. Brink, M. Ecker +4 more
202039 citations
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The palaeoecological context of the Oldowan–Acheulean in southern Africa
M. Ecker, J. Brink, L. Rossouw, M. Chazan +2 more
2018Nature Ecology & Evolution35 citations Open access
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The use of OSL dating in unstructured sands: the archaeology and chronology of the Hutton Sands at Canteen Kopje (Northern Cape Province, South Africa)
M. Chazan, N. Porat, T. Sumner, L. Horwitz
2013Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences35 citations
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New Chronology and Stratigraphy for Kathu Pan 6, South Africa
V. Lukich, N. Porat, G. Faershtein, S. Cowling +1 more
2019Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology33 citations
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Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology. Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology. Edited by Michael J. O’Brien, Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Eren. Cambridge (Massachusetts): MIT Press. $50.00. x + 294 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-262-03783-9. 2018.
M. Chazan
2019The Quarterly review of biology33 citations
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World Prehistory and Archaeology
M. Chazan
201533 citations Open access
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Kathu Pan 1 points and the assemblage-scale, probabilistic approach: a response to Rots and Plisson, “Projectiles and the abuse of the use-wear method in a search for impact”
Jayne Wilkins, Benjamin J. Schoville, Kyle S. Brown, M. Chazan
201533 citations
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Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep.
K. Daly, Victoria E. Mullin, Andrew J. Hare, Áine Halpin +63 more
2025Science30 citations Open access
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Palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of Kathu Pan, South Africa, based on sedimentological data
V. Lukich, S. Cowling, M. Chazan
2020Quaternary Science Reviews26 citations
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Kathu Townlands: A High Density Earlier Stone Age Locality in the Interior of South Africa
S. Walker, V. Lukich, M. Chazan
2014PLoS ONE26 citations Open access
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Magnetostratigraphy and cosmogenic dating of Wonderwerk Cave: New constraints for the chronology of the South African Earlier Stone Age
R. Shaar, A. Matmon, L. Horwitz, Y. Ebert +5 more
202124 citations
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Radiocarbon Dates Constrain the Timing of Environmental and Cultural Shifts in the Holocene Strata of Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa
M. Ecker, J. Brink, M. Chazan, L. Kolska-Horwitz +1 more
2017Radiocarbon: An International Journal of Cosmogenic Isotope Research23 citations
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Butchering with small tools: the implications of the Evron Quarry assemblage for the behaviour of Homo erectus
M. Chazan
2013Antiquity22 citations
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The Huqoq Excavation Project: 2014–2017 Interim Report
J. Magness, Shua Kisilevitz, M. Grey, Dennis J. Mizzi +10 more
2018Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental research20 citations Open access
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Hidden signatures of early fire at Evron Quarry (1.0 to 0.8 Mya)
Zane Stepka, I. Azuri, L. Horwitz, M. Chazan +1 more
2022Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America19 citations Open access
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The owl that never left! Taphonomy of Earlier Stone Age small mammal assemblages from Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)
M. D. Marin-Monfort, S. García-Morato, P. Andrews, D. Avery +3 more
202116 citations Open access
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NEUTRON TOMOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF INCISIONS ON PREHISTORIC STONE SLABS: A CASE STUDY FROM WONDERWERK CAVE, SOUTH AFRICA*
L. Jacobson, F. de Beer, R. Nshimirimana, L. Horwitz +1 more
201315 citations
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The Geometric Kebaran occupation and lithic assemblage of Wadi Mataha, Southern Jordan
D. Macdonald, M. Chazan, J. Janetski
201614 citations
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Understanding the Impact of Trampling on Rodent Bones
Y. Fernández-Jalvo, Lucía Rueda, F. Fernández, S. García-Morato +6 more
2022Quaternary12 citations Open access
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Early hominin group size: A perspective from Bestwood 1, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
M. Chazan
202110 citations
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Palaeotopography of a Palaeolithic landscape at Bestwood 1, South Africa, from ground-penetrating radar and magnetometry
K. S. Papadimitrios, C. Bank, S. Walker, M. Chazan
2019South African Journal of Science10 citations Open access
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Technological radiation and the process of technological change at the end of the Levantine Lower Paleolithic
M. Chazan
201610 citations
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An Overview of Recent Research at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa
M. Chazan
201410 citations
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Single grain TT-OSL ages for the Earlier Stone Age site of Bestwood 1 (Northern Cape Province, South Africa)
Mailys Richard, M. Chazan, N. Porat
20209 citations Open access
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Renewed excavations at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa
M. Chazan, L. Horwitz, M. Ecker, Candice Koopowitz +3 more
2017Evolutionary Anthropology (print)9 citations
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Stone tools from the inside out: radial point distribution
Andrew R. Riddle, M. Chazan
20148 citations
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Mugharat an-Nachcharini: A specialized sheep-hunting camp reveals high-altitude habitats in the earliest Neolithic of the Central Levant
S. Rhodes, E. Banning, M. Chazan
2020PLoS ONE7 citations Open access
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The Reality of Artifacts
M. Chazan
20187 citations
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Techno-logic & Technology
É. Boëda, M. Chazan
20236 citations
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Exploring the Later Stone Age at a micro-scale: New high-resolution excavations at Wonderwerk Cave
S. Rhodes, P. Goldberg, M. Ecker, L. Horwitz +2 more
2021Quaternary International6 citations
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The Fauresmith and Archaeologicalsy Stematics
M. Chazan
20155 citations
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Characterizing the Meghalayan Stage in southern Africa: A multiproxy record of paleoenvironmental change at the southern margin of the Kalahari
M. Sobol, M. Chazan, L. Scott, S. Finkelstein
20214 citations
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Deposition and Diagenesis in the Earlier Stone Age of Wonderwerk Cave, Excavation 1, South Africa
P. Goldberg, F. Berna, M. Chazan
2015African Archaeological Review4 citations
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New evidence for Early Pleistocene use of fire at Wonderwerk Cave (South Africa)
M. D. Marin-Monfort, Candice Shaw, F. Natalio, Liron Grossman +8 more
2026PLoS ONE3 citations Open access
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2020Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology3 citations
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Geology/archaeology in action: a personal perspective
M. Chazan
2017Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences3 citations
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A holocene n-alkane stable isotope record from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa and its implications for the later stone age record
M. Ecker, Sara Rhodes, Nils Andersen, L. Horwitz +2 more
2025Scientific Reports2 citations Open access
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Kathu Pan 6: Observations on the First Known Buried High-Density Open-Air Holocene Occupation on the Southern Margin of the Kalahari Basin
W. Black, Precious Chiwara-Maenzanise, L. Horwitz, S. J. Walker +1 more
2023Journal of African Archaeology2 citations Open access
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Geological and Archeological Insight into Site Formation Processes and Acheulean Occupation at Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
Paul Goldberg, Sara Rhodes, M. Chazan
2023Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology2 citations
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Mining on the frontier: Archaeological excavation of the historical component at Canteen Kopje, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
M. Chazan, A. Sumner, L. Horwitz, D. Morris
2021Quaternary International2 citations
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Effect of Two Different Protective Surface Materials on Ground Penetrating Radar Signal Characteristics
R. Jacob, F. Berna, T. Urban, M. Chazan
2018International Conference on Grounds Penetrating Radar2 citations
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The Late Pleistocene and Holocene palaeoenvironmental context of Wonderwerk Cave in the southern Kalahari, South Africa
L. Scott, Margaret Avery, M. Bamford, F. Berna +10 more
20142 citations
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