Listed per year in alphabetical order. Copies can be obtained from the relevant members of our group, or from your local library. * = former student.
2024
Pickering, R., Ervens, B., Jesus-Rydin, C., Wingate, L., Beniest, A., Mazibuko, N., Septhon, A. & Panieri, G. (2023). How language can be a path away from neo-colonialism in geoscience. Nature Geoscience, 16(12), 1071-1072.
Razafimanantsoa, A. H. I., & Razanatsoa, E. (2024). Modern pollen rain reveals differences across forests, open and mosaic landscapes in Madagascar. Plants, People, Planet.
Weij, R., Sniderman, J. K., Woodhead, J. D., Hellstrom, J. C., Brown, J. R., Drysdale, R. N., Reed, E., Bourne, S. & Gordon, J. (2024). Elevated Southern Hemisphere moisture availability during glacial periods. Nature, 626(7998), 319-326.
2023
Edwards, T. R., Pickering, R., Mallett, T. L., & Herries, A. I. (2023). Challenging the antiquity of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa: Geochronological evidence restricts the age of Eurotomys bolti and Parapapio to less than 2.3 Ma at Waypoint 160, Bolt's Farm. Journal of Human Evolution, 178, 103334.
Kirsten, K. L., Pretorius, L., Meadows, M. E., Weij, R., Aquino-López, M., Antonopoulos, H. G., Dubazana, Y., Qadeer, A., Finch, J. & Bao, K. (2023). The depositional history of the Knysna estuary since European colonization in the context of sea level and human impacts. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 1120460.
Madupe, P. P., Koenig, C., Patramanis, I., Rüther, P. L., Hlazo, N., Mackie, M., Hlazo, N. Mackie, M., Tawane, M., Krueger, J., Taurozzi, A.J., Troché, G., Kibii, J., Pickering, R., Dickinson, M., Sahle, Y., Kgotleng, D., Musiba, C., Manthi, F., Bell, L., DuPlessis, M., Gilbert, C., Zipfel, B., Kuderna, L.F.K, Lizano, E., Welker, F., Kyriakidou, P, Cox, J., Mollereau, C., Tokarski, C., Blackburn, J., Ramos-Madrigal, J., Marques-Bonet, T., Penkman, K., Zanolli, C., Schroeder, L., Racimo, F., V. Olsen, J., Ackermann, R.R., & Cappellini, E. (2023). Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability within southern African Paranthropus. bioRxiv, 2023-07.
Pickering, R. & Khosa, R.R., 2023. The geological period that no one talks about: menstruation in the field. European Geological Union blogs, GeoBlog, published 12 May 2023
Qadeer, A., Ajmal, Z., Hanxia, L., Ran, D., Bekele, T.G., Kirsten, K.L., Liu, S., Liu, M., Zhifeng, H., Jing, D. and Wang, S., 2023. Influence of habitats and physicochemical factors on trophic transfer processes of antibiotics in a freshwater ecosystem: Application of stable isotopes and human health risks. Science of The Total Environment, 863, p.160765.
Ranhorn, K. L., Mavuso, S. S., Colarossi, D., Dogandžić, T., O'Brien, K., Ribordy, M., Ssebuyungo, C., Warren, S., Harris, J.W., Braun, D.R. & Ndiema, E. (2023). By the lakeshore: Multi-scalar geoarchaeology in the Turkana Basin at GaJj17, Koobi Fora (Kenya). Quaternary Science Reviews, 317, 108257.
Winkler, S., Mbele, V. Khosa, R., Corbett L.B., Bierman, P., Hidy, A., Brown, T., Makhubela, T.V., Kramers, J.K., Tooth, S. (2023). 10Be at iThemba LABS using a silicon nitride membrane stack as absorber for isobar suppression. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 540 (2023) 102–109.
Schoville, B. J., Chiwara-Maenzanise, P., Otárola-Castillo, E., & Wilkins, J. (2023). Function, Style, and Standardization: Is the Proximal or Distal End of a Middle Stone Age Point More Variable?. Lithic Technology, 48 (4), 393-407.
2022
Arnold, L.J., Guilarte, V., Duval, M., Demuro, M., Weij, R. and Reed, E.H., 2022. ESR and OSL dating of fossil-bearing deposits from Naracoorte Cave Complex palaeontological sites, south Australia. Quaternary Geochronology, 69, p.101270.
Arnold, L.J., Demuro, M., Power, R., Duval, M., Guilarte, V., Weij, R., Woodhead, J., White, L., Bourne, S. and Reed, E.H., 2022. Examining sediment infill dynamics at Naracoorte cave megafauna sites using multiple luminescence dating signals. Quaternary Geochronology, p.101301.
Engel, J. Pickering, R. 2022. The role of inherited Pb in controlling the quality of speleothem U-Pb ages. Quaternary Geochronology, 67, 101243.
Horwitz, L.K., Avery, M.D., Bamford, M.K., Berna, F., Brink, J.S., Ecker, M., Fernandez-Jalvo, Y., Goldberg, P., Hoit, S., Lee-Thorp, J., Matmon, A., Pickering, R., Porat, N., Rossouw, L., Scott, L., Shaar, R., Chazan, M. 2022. Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province: an Early-Middle Pleistocene paleoenvironmental sequence for the interior of South Africa. In, Reynolds, S.C & Bode, R (eds), African Paleoecology and Human Evolution, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 142-160
Makhubela, T.V., Mavuso, S.S. 2022. Chapter 3: An Overview of the geology of paleoanthropological and archaeological sites of South Africa. Stratigraphy and Timescales.
Oluwagbemi, O.O., Hamutoko, J.T., Fotso-Nguemo, T.C., Lokonon, B.O.K., Emebo, O. and Kirsten, K.L., 2022. Towards resolving challenges associated with climate change modelling in Africa. Applied Sciences, 12(14), p.7107.
Pickering, R., Edwards, T.R. 2022. The geology and dating of the South African Paranthropus-bearing cave deposits. In: Wood, B., Constantino, P., Reed, K. (Eds.) Paranthropus: the forgotten lineage. Springer.
Pickering, R., Ackermann, R., Black, W. 2022, Why we need diverse storytellers of human evolution. Better Science Op-Ed, Daily Maverick, https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-10-25-why-we-need-diverse-storytellers-of-human-evolution/
Pickering, R., 2022. It’s time to change human evolution research, TEDxJohannesburgSalon, https://youtu.be/cjRXwHCUQf0
Pickering, R., Khosa, R.R., Hashibi, S., Tostevin, R. 2022. How can we ensure that everyone enjoys their geological field training? Geobulletin, Geological Society of South Africa, 65,4, 4-6
Qadeer, A., Kirsten, K.L., Ajmal, Z., Jiang, X. and Zhao, X., 2022. Rebuttal to Comment on “Alternative Plasticizers As Emerging Global Environmental and Health Threat: Another Regrettable Substitution?” Focus on DINCH as an Example. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(8), 5294–5297.
Qadeer, A., Kirsten, K.L., Ajmal, Z., Jiang, X. and Zhao, X., 2022. Alternative Plasticizers As Emerging Global Environmental and Health Threat: Another Regrettable Substitution?. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(3), 1482–1488.
Qadeer, A., Anis, M., Ajmal, Z., Kelly L. Kirsten, K.L., Usman, M., Khosa, R.R., Liu, M., Jiang, X., Zhao, X. (2022). Sustainable development goals under threat? Multidimensional impact of COVID-19 on our planet and society outweigh short term global pollution reduction. Sustainable Cities and Society, 83, 103962.
Woodhead, J., Sniderman, K., Hellstrom, J., Weij, R., MacGregor, C., Dickson, B., Drysdale, R., Delane, M., Henke, D., Bastian, L. and Baynes, A., 2022. Timescales of speleogenesis in an evolving syngenetic karst: The Tamala Limestone, Western Australia. Geomorphology, 399, p.108079.
Weij, R., Woodhead, J. D., Sniderman, J. K., Hellstrom, J. C., Reed, E., Bourne, S., Drysdale, R.N. & Pollard, T. J. (2022). Cave opening and fossil accumulation in Naracoorte, Australia, through charcoal and pollen in dated speleothems. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1), 210.
Wurz, S., Pickering, R., & Mentzer, S. M. (2022). U-Th dating, taphonomy, and taxonomy of shell middens at Klasies River main site indicate stable and systematic coastal exploitation by MIS 5c-d. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, 1001370.
2021
Braun, D., Faith, J.T., Douglass, M.J., Davies, B., Power, M.J., Aldeias, V., Conard, N., Cutts, R., DeSantis, L.R.G., Dupont, L., Esteban, I., Kandel, A., Levin, N., Luyt, J., Parkington, J., Pickering, R., Quick, L., Sealy, J. & Stynder, D. 2021. Ecosystem Engineering in the Quaternary of the West Coast of South Africa. Evolutionary Anthropology, 30, 50-62, DOI: 10.1002/evan.21886
Green, H*., Gleadow, A., Levchenko, V.A., Finch, D., Myers, C., McGovern, J., Heaney, P., Pickering, R., 2021. Dating correlated microlayers in oxalate accretions from rock art shelters: new archives of paleoenvironments and human activity, Science Advances, 7: eabf3632
Mehlhorn, P., Viehberg, F., Kirsten, K., Newman, B., Frenzel, P., Gildeeva, O., Green, A., Hahn, A. and Haberzettl, T., 2021. Spatial distribution and consequences of contaminants in harbour sediments–A case study from Richards Bay Harbour, South Africa. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 172, p.112764.
Pickering, R., Edwards, T.R. 2021. Factors controlling age quality in U-Pb dated Plio-Pleistocene speleothems from South Africa: the good, the bad and the ugly. Chemical Geology, 579, 120364
Pickering, R., Herries, A., Woodhead, J.D., Hellstrom, J.C., Green, H.E*., Paul, P., Ritzman, T., Strait, D.S., Schoville, B.J., Hancox, J. 2021. Reply to: Clusters of flowstone ages are not supported by statistical evidence. Nature, 594 (7863), E11, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03587-z
Wilkins, J., Schoville, B.J., Pickering, R., Gliganic, L., Collins, B., Brown, K.S., von der Meden, J., Khumalo, W*., Meyer, M.C., Maape, S., Blackwood, A., Hatton, A. 2021. Innovative symbolic and technological behaviours 105,000 years ago in a wetter Kalahari. Nature, 592, 248–252
2020
Deininger, M., McDermott, F., Cruz, F.W., Bernal, J.P., Mudelsee. M., Vonhof, H., Millo, C., Spötl, C., Treble, P.C., Pickering, R., Scholz, D. 2020. Inter-hemispheric synchroneity of Holocene precipitation anomalies controlled by Earth’s latitudinal insolation gradients, Nature Communications, 11(1), 5447
Edwards, T. R., Pickering, R., Mallett, T. L., Herries, A. I. R. 2020. Reconstructing the depositional history and age of fossil-bearing palaeokarst: a multidisciplinary example from the Terminal Pliocene Aves Cave Complex, Bolt’s Farm, South Africa. Results in Geophsyical Science, 1-4,
Faith, J.T., Braun, D., Davies, B., DeSantis, L.R.G., Douglass, M.J., Esteban, I., Hare, V., Luyt, J., Pickering, R., Power, M.J., Sealy, J. & Stynder, D. 2020. Ecometrics and the paleoecological implications of Pleistocene faunas from the western coastal plains of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa, Journal of Quaternary Science, 35(8), 1007-1020
Herries, A.I.R., Martin, J.M, Leece, A.B., Adams, J.W., Boschian, G., Joannes-Boyau, R., Edwards, T.R*., Mallett, T., Massey, J, Murszewski, A., Neuebauer, S., Pickering, R., Strait, D., Armstrong, B.J., Baker, S., Caruana, M.V., Denham, T., Hellstrom, J., Moggi-Cecchi, J., Mokobane, S., Penzo-Kajewski1, P., Rovinsky, D.S., Schwartz, G.T., Stammers, R.C., Wilson, C., Woodhead, J.D., Menter, C. 2020. Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa." Science, 368(6486): eaaw7293.
Kirsten, K. L., Kasper, T., Cawthra, H. C., Strobel, P., Quick, L. J., Meadows, M. E., and Haberzettl, T., 2020. Holocene variability in climate and oceanic conditions in the winter rainfall zone of South Africa—inferred from a high resolution diatom record from Verlorenvlei. Journal of Quaternary Science, 35(4), 572-581.
Murungi, M.L. and Bamford, M.K., 2020. Revised taxonomic interpretations of Cyperaceae phytoliths for (paleo) botanical studies with some notes on terminology. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 275, p.104189.
Murungi, M., 2020. People and plants in the Stone Age. Quest, 16(1), pp.28-30.
Pickering, R., Herries, A.I.R. 2020. A new multidisciplinary age of 2.61–2.07 Ma for the Sterkfontein Member 4 australopiths In: Ward, C., Richmond, B., Zipfel, B. (Eds.) Hominin Postcranial Remains from Sterkfontein, South Africa, 1936-1995. USA: Oxford University Press, pp. 21-30
Scott, M*., Le Roux, P., Sealy, J., Pickering, R., 2020. Lead and strontium isotopes as a dietary tracer in southwestern South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 116, 5/6
Sifogeorgaki, I., Klinkenberg, V., Esteban, I., Murungi, M., Carr, A.S., van den Brink, V.B. and Dusseldorp, G.L., 2020. New excavations at Umhlatuzana Rockshelter, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a stratigraphic and taphonomic evaluation. African Archaeological Review, 37(4), pp.551-578.
Weij, R., Woodhead, J., Hellstrom, J. and Sniderman, K., 2020. An exploration of the utility of speleothem age distributions for palaeoclimate assessment. Quaternary Geochronology, 60, p.101112.
Wilkins, J., Schoville, B.J., Brown, K.S., Gliganic, L., Meyer, M.C., Loftus, E., Pickering, R., Collins, B., Blackwood, A., Makalima, S., Hatton, A., Maape, S., 2020. Fabric analysis and chronology at Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter, southern Kalahari Basin: Evidence for in situ, stratified Middle and Later Stone Age deposits. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, DOI: 10.1007/s41982-020-00050-9
2019
Comas-Bru, L., Harrison, S.P., Werner, M., Rehfeld, K., Scroxton, N., Veiga-Pires, C., members SISAL working group, 2019. Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change since the last glacial, Clim. Past 15, 1557-1579.
Braun, K., Nehme, C., Pickering, R., Rogerson, M., Scroxton, N. (2019) A window into Africa’s past hydroclimates: the SISAL_V1 database contribution, Quaternary, 2, 4, doi:10.3390/quat2010004
Cordova, C., Kirsten, K., Scott, L., Meadows, M. and Luecke, A., 2019. Multi-proxy evidence of Late-Holocene paleoenvironmental change at Princessvlei, South Africa: The effects of fire, herbivores, and humans. Quaternary Science Reviews, 221, 105896.
Edwards, T.R., Armstrong, B.J., Birket-Rees, J., Blackwood, A.F., Herries, A.I.R., Penzo-Kajewski, P., Pickering, R., Adams, J.W., (2019). Combining legacy data with new drone and DGPS mapping to identify the provenance of Plio-Pleistocene fossils from Bolt’s Farm, Cradle of Humankind (South Africa), PeerJ, 7, e6202, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6202
Haberzettl, T., Kirsten, K.L., Kasper, T., Franz, S., Reinwarth, B., Baade, J., Daut, G., Meadows, M.E., Su, Y. and Mäusbacher, R., 2019. Using 210Pb-data and paleomagnetic secular variations to date anthropogenic impact on a lake system in the Western Cape, South Africa. Quaternary Geochronology, 51, pp.53-63.
Humphries, M., Kirsten, K. and McCarthy, T.S., 2019. Rapid changes in the hydroclimate of southeast Africa during the mid- to late-Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 212, pp.178-186.
Kurpiel, R*., Pickering, R., Maas, R., Stern, N. (2019). Discrete Pb isotope signatures for silcrete sources from the Willandra Lakes region, Australia: a new method for provenancing silcrete artefacts, Journal of Archaeological Science: reports, 23, 62-71.
Pickering, R., Herries, A., Woodhead, J.D., Hellstrom, J.C., Green, H.E*., Paul, P., Ritzman, T., Strait, D.S., Schoville, B.J., Hancox, J. (2019) South African hominin record restricted to dry phases as demonstrated by U-Pb dated flowstones. Nature, 565, 7738, 226-229.
Weij, R., Reijmer, J.J., Eberli, G.P. and Swart, P.K., 2019. The limited link between accommodation space, sediment thickness, and inner platform facies distribution (Holocene–Pleistocene, Bahamas). The Depositional Record, 5(3), pp.400-420.
2018
Atsawawanunt, K., Comas-Bru, L., Amirnezhad Mozhdehi, S., Deininger, M., Harrison, S.P., Baker, A., Boyd, M., Kausha, N., Masood Ahmed, S., Arienzo, M., Brahim, Y., Bajo, P., Braun, K., Burstyn, Y., Chawchai1, S., Duan, W., Hatvani, I., Hu, J., Kern, Z., Labuhn, I., Lachniet, M., Lechleiter, F.A., Lorrey, A., Pérez-Mejías, C., Pickering, R., Scroxton, N. and SISAL Working Group Members. 2018. The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems. Earth System Science Data, 10(#), 1687-1713
Herries, AIR., Murszewski, A., Pickering, R., Mallett, T., Joannes-Boyau,R., Armstrong, B., Adams, J., Baker, S., Blackwood, A., Penzo-Kajewski, P., Kappen, P., Leece, A.B., Martin, J., Rovinsky, D., Boschian, G. 2018. Geoarchaeological and 3D visualisation approaches for contextualising in-situ fossil bearing palaeokarst in South Africa: A case study from the ∼2.61 Ma Drimolen Makondo, Quaternary International, 484, 90-110
Kirsten, K.L., Fell, J., Frenzel, P., Meschner, S., Kasper, T., Wündsch, M., Meadows, M. and Haberzettl, T., 2018. The spatial heterogeneity of micro-and meioorganisms and their significance in understanding coastal system dynamics. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 213, pp.98-107.
Kirsten, K.L., Haberzettl, T., Wündsch, M., Frenzel, P., Meschner, S., Smit, A.J., Quick, L.J., Mäusbacher, R. and Meadows, M.E., 2018. A multiproxy study of the oceanatmospheric forcing and the impact of sea-level changes on the southern Cape coast, South Africa during the Holocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 496, pp.282-291.
Quick, L.J., Chase, B.M., Wündsch, M., Kirsten, K.L., Chevalier, M., Mäusbacher, R., Meadows, M.E. and Haberzettl, T., 2018. A high‐resolution record of Holocene climate and vegetation dynamics from the southern Cape coast of South Africa: pollen and microcharcoal evidence from Eilandvlei. Journal of Quaternary Science, 33(5), pp.487-500.
Wündsch, M., Haberzettl, T., Cawthra, H.C., Kirsten, K.L., Quick, L.J., Zabel, M., Frenzel, P., Hahn, A., Baade, J., Daut, G. and Kasper, T., 2018. Holocene environmental change along the southern Cape coast of South Africa–Insights from the Eilandvlei sediment record spanning the last 8.9 kyr. Global and Planetary Change, 163, pp.51-66.
Wurz, S., Bentsen, S., Van Pletzen-Vos, L., Reynard, J. , Brenner M. , Mentzer, S., Pickering, R. Green, H.E*. 2018. Connections, culture and environments 100 000 years ago at Klasies River main site. Quaternary International, 495, 102-115
2017
Gomes, M., Humphries, M.S., Kirsten, K.L., Green, A.N., Finch, J.M. and De Lecea, A.M., 2017. Diatom-inferred hydrological changes and Holocene geomorphic transitioning of Africa's largest estuarine system, Lake St Lucia. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 192, pp.170-180.
Murungi, M.L., McGlynn, G. and Lejju, J.B., 2017. Alpine grassland palaeoecology of the Virunga Volcanoes, East Africa: a new phytolith record from Mt. Muhavura. Quaternary International, 434, pp.102-116.
Pickering, R., 2017, U-series dating, Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, Gilbert, A. (editor), Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 992-1001.
2016
Hahn, A., Compton, J.S., Meyer-Jacob, C., Kirsten, K.L., Lucasssen, F., Mayo, M.P., Schefuß, E. and Zabel, M., 2016. Holocene paleo-climatic record from the South African Namaqualand mudbelt: A source to sink approach. Quaternary International, 404, pp.121-135.
Kirsten, K.L. and Meadows, M.E., 2016. Late-Holocene palaeolimnological and climate dynamics at Princessvlei, South Africa: evidence from diatoms. The Holocene, 26(9), pp.1371-1381.
Pickering, R., 2016, Uranium-Lead (U-Pb) dating of stalagmites from the Azokh Cave Complex. In Azokh Cave and the Transcaucasian Corridor. Fernández-Jalvo, Y., Andrews, P., King, T., Yepiskoposyan, L. (Eds), Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series, Dordrecht: Springer, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24924-7, pp. 335-338
Quick, L.J., Meadows, M.E., Bateman, M.D., Kirsten, K.L., Mäusbacher, R., Haberzettl, T. and Chase, B.M., 2016. Vegetation and climate dynamics during the last glacial period in the fynbos-afrotemperate forest ecotone, southern Cape, South Africa. Quaternary International, 404, pp.136-149.
Wadley, L., Murungi, M.L., Witelson, D., Bolhar, R., Bamford, M., Sievers, C., Val, A. and De La Pena, P., 2016. Steenbokfontein 9KR: a middle stone age spring site in Limpopo, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin, 71(204), pp.130-145.
Wündsch, M., Haberzettl, T., Meadows, M.E., Kirsten, K.L., Kasper, T., Baade, J., Daut, G., Stoner, J.S. and Mäusbacher, R., 2016. The impact of changing reservoir effects on the 14 C chronology of a Holocene sediment record from South Africa. Quaternary Geochronology, 36, pp.148-160.
Wündsch, M., Haberzettl, T., Kirsten, K.L., Kasper, T., Zabel, M., Dietze, E., Baade, J., Daut, G., Meschner, S., Meadows, M.E. and Mäusbacher, R., 2016. Sea level and climate change at the southern Cape coast, South Africa, during the past 4.2 kyr. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 446, pp.295-307.
2015
Green, H*., Pickering, R, Drysdale, R., Johnson, B., Hellstrom, J. 2015. Evidence for global teleconnections in a late Pleistocene speleothem record of water balance and vegetation change at Sudwala Cave, South Africa, Quaternary Science Reviews, 110, 114-130
Hellstrom, J., Pickering, R., 2015. Recent advances and future prospects of the U-Th and U-Pb dating applicable to archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Science, 56, 32-40
Murungi, M.L. and Bamford, M.K., 2015. Palaeoenvironments at Sibudu Cave, South Africa: preliminary results from phytoliths. Supplemento Vol. CXL, p.59.
Pickering, R. 2015. Middle – Lower Pleistocene U-Pb ages for buried speleothems from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa. African Archaeological Review, 32, 645-668.
Porraz, G., Val, A., Dayet, L., De La Pena, P., Douze, K., Miller, C.E., Murungi, M.L., Tribolo, C., Schmid, V.C. and Sievers, C., 2015. Bushman Rock Shelter (Limpopo, South Africa): a perspective from the edge of the Highveld. South African Archaeological Bulletin, 70(202), pp.166-179.
Rosenberger, A.L., Pickering, R., Green, H*., Cooke, S.B., Tallman, M., Morrow, A. Rimoli, R. 2015. 1.3±0.11 Ma ages for underwater remains constrain antiquity and longevity of Dominican primate Antillothrix bernensis, Journal of Human Evolution, 88, 85-96.
2014
Haberzettl, T., Baade, J., Compton, J., Daut, G., Dupont, L., Finch, J., Frenzel, P., Green, A., Hahn, A., Hebbeln, D. Helmschrot, J., Humphries, M., Kasper, T., Kirsten, K., Mäusbacher, R., Meadows, M., Meschner, S., Quick, L., Schefuß, E., Wündsch, M. and Zabel, M. 2014. Paleoenvironmental investigations using a combination of terrestrial and marine sediments from South Africa-The RAIN (Regional Archives for Integrated iNvestigations) approach. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I, pp.55-73.
2013
Braun, D.R., Levin, N.E., Stynder, D., Herries, A.I.R., Archer, W., Forrest, F., Roberts, D.L., Bishop, L.C., Matthews, T., Lehmann, S.B., Pickering, R., Fitzsimmons, K., 2013. Mid-Pleistocene Hominin occupation at Elandsfonein, Western Cape, South Africa, Quaternary Science Reviews, 82, 145-166.
Braun, D. R., Levin, N. E., Roberts, D., Stynder, D., Forrest, F., Herris, A. I., Mathews, T., Bishop, L. C. Archer, W., Pickering, R., 2013. Initial Investigations of Acheulean Hominin Behaviour at Elandsfontein. In: The Archaeology of the West Coast of South Africa (eds. A Jerardino, A Malan, D Braun). Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 10-23.
Green, H*., Woodhead, J.D., Hellstrom, J., Pickering, R., Drysdale, R., 2013. Re-analysis of key evidence in the case for a hemispherically synchronous response to the Younger Dryas climatic event. Journal of Quaternary Science, 28, 8-12.
Herries, A.I.R., Pickering, R., Adams, J.W., Curnoe, D., Warr, G., Latham, A.G., Shaw, J. 2013. A multi-disciplinary perspective on the age of Australopithecus in southern Africa. In: Reed, K.E., Fleagle, J.G., Leakey, R. (Eds.) Paleoecology of Australopithecus. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology series, pp. 21-48
Pickering, R., Jacobs, Z., Herries, A.I.R., Karkanas, P., Bar-Matthews, M., Woodhead, J.D., Kappen, P., Fisher, E., Marean, C.W., 2013. Paleoanthropologically Significant South African Sea Caves dated to 1.0 Million Years using a combination of U-Pb, TT-OSL and palaeomagnetism. Quaternary Science Reviews, 65, 39-52.
Reinwarth, B., Franz, S., Baade, J., Haberzettl, T., Kasper, T., Daut, G., Helmschrot, J., Kirsten, K.L., Quick, L.J., Meadows, M.E. and Mäusbacher, R., 2013. A 700‐year record on the effects of climate and human impact on the southern Cape coast inferred from lake sediments of Eilandvlei, Wilderness Embayment, South Africa. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, 95(4), pp.345-360.
Sowman, M., Scott, D., Green, L.J.F., Hara, M.M., Hauck, M., Kirsten, K., Paterson, B., Raemaekers, S., Jones, K., Sunde, J. and Turpie, J.K., 2013. Shallow waters: social science research in South Africa's marine environment. African Journal of Marine Science, 35(3), pp.385-402.
2012
Murungi, M.L., 2012. Late Holocene vegetation dynamics of the Virunga Volcanoes of South-western Uganda: Evidence from Phytolith analysis. Quaternary International, (279-280), p.345.
Woodhead, J.D., Hellstrom, J., Pickering, R., Drysdale, R., Paul, B, Bajo. 2012. P. U and Pb variability in older speleothems and strategies for their chronology. 2012. Quaternary Geochronology, 14, 105-113
Woodhead, J.D., Pickering, R. 2012. Beyond 500 ka: progress and prospects in the U-Pb chronology of speleothems, and their application to studies in palaeoclimate, human evolution, biodiversity and tectonics. Chemical Geology, 322–323, 290–299.
2011
Pickering, R., Dirks, P.H.G.M., Jinnah, Z., de Ruiter, D.J., Churchill, S.E., Herrires, A.I.R., Woodhead, J.D., Hellstrom, J.C., Berger, L.R. 2011. Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and implications for the origins of Genus Homo. Science 333, 1421-1423.
Pickering, R., Kramers, J.D., Hancox, P.J., deRuiter, D.J., Woodhead, J.D., 2011. Contemporary flowstone development links early hominin bearing cave deposits in South Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 306, 23-32.
2010
Pickering, R. & Kramers, J.D. 2010. A re-appraisal of the stratigraphy and new U-Pb dates at the Sterkfontein hominin site, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 56, 70-86.
Pickering, R., Kramers, J.D., Partridge, T., Kodolanyi, J., Pettke, T. 2010. U–Pb dating of calcite–aragonite layers in speleothems from hominin sites in South Africa by MC-ICP-MS. Quaternary Geochronology, 5 (5), 544-558.
Dirks, P.H.G.M., Kibii, J.M., Kuhn, B.F., Steininger, C., Churchill, S.E., Kramers, J.D., Pickering, R., Farber, D.L., Meriaux, A-S., Herries, A.I.R., King, G.C.P. & Berger, L.R. 2010. Geological setting and age of Australopithecus sediba from Southern Africa. Science, 328, 205-208.
2009
Fleitmann, D., Cheng, H., Badertscher, S., Edwards, R.L., Mudelsee, M., Göktürk, O.M., Fankhauser, A., Pickering, R., Raible, C.C., Matter, A., Kramers, J. & Tüysüz, O. 2009. Timing and climatic impact of Greenland interstadials recorded in stalagmites from northern Turkey. Geophysical Research Letters, 36(19), L19707.
de Ruiter, D.J., Pickering, R., Steininger, C.M., Kramers, J.D., Hancox, P.J., Churchill, S.E. & Berger, L.R. 2009. New Australopithecus robustus fossils and associated U-Pb dates from Cooper’s Cave (Gauteng, South Africa). Journal of Human Evolution, 56, 5, 497-513.
Backwell, L.R., Pickering, R., Brothwell, D., Berger, L.R., Witcomb, M., Martill, D., Penkman, K. & Wilson, A. 2009. Probable human hair found in a fossil hyaena coprolite from Gladysvale cave, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science. 36(6): 1269-1276.
Berger, L.R., Pickering, R., Kuhn, B., Backwell, L.R., Hancox, P.J., Kramers, J.D., & Boshoff, P. 2009. A Mid-Pleistocene in situ fossil brown hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea) latrine from Gladysvale Cave, South Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 279, 3-4, 131-136.
Sutton, M., Pickering, T.R., Pickering, R., Brain., C.K., Clarke, R.J., Heaton, J.L. & Kuman, K. 2009 Newly Discovered Fossil- and Artifact-Bearing Deposits, Uranium-Series Ages and Plio- Pleistocene Hominids at Swartkrans Cave, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 57, 688-696.
2008
Hajdas, I., Ivy-Ochs, S., Pickering, R., Preusser, F. 2008. Recent developments in Quaternary dating methods. Geographica Helvetia 1, 1-5.
2007
Pickering, R., Hancox, P.J., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Grün R., Mortimer, G.E., McCulloch, M. & Berger, L.R. 2007. Stratigraphy, U-series chronology and palaeoenvironments at Gladysvale Cave: insights into the climatic control of South African hominin bearing caves, South Africa, Journal of Human Evolution, 53, 602-619.
Ustaszewski, M., Herwegh, M., McClymont, A.F., Pfiffner, A.O., Pickering, R. & Preusser, F. 2007. Unravelling the evolution of an Alpine to post-glacially active fault in the Swiss Alps, Journal of Structural Geology, 29, 1943-1959.
2006
Hall, G., Pickering, R., Lacruz, R., Hancox, P.J., Berger, L.R & Schmid, P. 2006. An Acheulean handaxe from Gladysvale Cave Site, Gauteng, South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 102, 103-105.
Pickering, R. 2006. Regional geology, setting and sedimentology of the Middle Stone Age deposits at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Southern African Humanities 18 (1): 123-29.
2024
Pickering, R., Ervens, B., Jesus-Rydin, C., Wingate, L., Beniest, A., Mazibuko, N., Septhon, A. & Panieri, G. (2023). How language can be a path away from neo-colonialism in geoscience. Nature Geoscience, 16(12), 1071-1072.
Razafimanantsoa, A. H. I., & Razanatsoa, E. (2024). Modern pollen rain reveals differences across forests, open and mosaic landscapes in Madagascar. Plants, People, Planet.
Weij, R., Sniderman, J. K., Woodhead, J. D., Hellstrom, J. C., Brown, J. R., Drysdale, R. N., Reed, E., Bourne, S. & Gordon, J. (2024). Elevated Southern Hemisphere moisture availability during glacial periods. Nature, 626(7998), 319-326.
2023
Edwards, T. R., Pickering, R., Mallett, T. L., & Herries, A. I. (2023). Challenging the antiquity of the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa: Geochronological evidence restricts the age of Eurotomys bolti and Parapapio to less than 2.3 Ma at Waypoint 160, Bolt's Farm. Journal of Human Evolution, 178, 103334.
Kirsten, K. L., Pretorius, L., Meadows, M. E., Weij, R., Aquino-López, M., Antonopoulos, H. G., Dubazana, Y., Qadeer, A., Finch, J. & Bao, K. (2023). The depositional history of the Knysna estuary since European colonization in the context of sea level and human impacts. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 11, 1120460.
Madupe, P. P., Koenig, C., Patramanis, I., Rüther, P. L., Hlazo, N., Mackie, M., Hlazo, N. Mackie, M., Tawane, M., Krueger, J., Taurozzi, A.J., Troché, G., Kibii, J., Pickering, R., Dickinson, M., Sahle, Y., Kgotleng, D., Musiba, C., Manthi, F., Bell, L., DuPlessis, M., Gilbert, C., Zipfel, B., Kuderna, L.F.K, Lizano, E., Welker, F., Kyriakidou, P, Cox, J., Mollereau, C., Tokarski, C., Blackburn, J., Ramos-Madrigal, J., Marques-Bonet, T., Penkman, K., Zanolli, C., Schroeder, L., Racimo, F., V. Olsen, J., Ackermann, R.R., & Cappellini, E. (2023). Enamel proteins reveal biological sex and genetic variability within southern African Paranthropus. bioRxiv, 2023-07.
Pickering, R. & Khosa, R.R., 2023. The geological period that no one talks about: menstruation in the field. European Geological Union blogs, GeoBlog, published 12 May 2023
Qadeer, A., Ajmal, Z., Hanxia, L., Ran, D., Bekele, T.G., Kirsten, K.L., Liu, S., Liu, M., Zhifeng, H., Jing, D. and Wang, S., 2023. Influence of habitats and physicochemical factors on trophic transfer processes of antibiotics in a freshwater ecosystem: Application of stable isotopes and human health risks. Science of The Total Environment, 863, p.160765.
Ranhorn, K. L., Mavuso, S. S., Colarossi, D., Dogandžić, T., O'Brien, K., Ribordy, M., Ssebuyungo, C., Warren, S., Harris, J.W., Braun, D.R. & Ndiema, E. (2023). By the lakeshore: Multi-scalar geoarchaeology in the Turkana Basin at GaJj17, Koobi Fora (Kenya). Quaternary Science Reviews, 317, 108257.
Winkler, S., Mbele, V. Khosa, R., Corbett L.B., Bierman, P., Hidy, A., Brown, T., Makhubela, T.V., Kramers, J.K., Tooth, S. (2023). 10Be at iThemba LABS using a silicon nitride membrane stack as absorber for isobar suppression. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 540 (2023) 102–109.
Schoville, B. J., Chiwara-Maenzanise, P., Otárola-Castillo, E., & Wilkins, J. (2023). Function, Style, and Standardization: Is the Proximal or Distal End of a Middle Stone Age Point More Variable?. Lithic Technology, 48 (4), 393-407.
2022
Arnold, L.J., Guilarte, V., Duval, M., Demuro, M., Weij, R. and Reed, E.H., 2022. ESR and OSL dating of fossil-bearing deposits from Naracoorte Cave Complex palaeontological sites, south Australia. Quaternary Geochronology, 69, p.101270.
Arnold, L.J., Demuro, M., Power, R., Duval, M., Guilarte, V., Weij, R., Woodhead, J., White, L., Bourne, S. and Reed, E.H., 2022. Examining sediment infill dynamics at Naracoorte cave megafauna sites using multiple luminescence dating signals. Quaternary Geochronology, p.101301.
Engel, J. Pickering, R. 2022. The role of inherited Pb in controlling the quality of speleothem U-Pb ages. Quaternary Geochronology, 67, 101243.
Horwitz, L.K., Avery, M.D., Bamford, M.K., Berna, F., Brink, J.S., Ecker, M., Fernandez-Jalvo, Y., Goldberg, P., Hoit, S., Lee-Thorp, J., Matmon, A., Pickering, R., Porat, N., Rossouw, L., Scott, L., Shaar, R., Chazan, M. 2022. Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province: an Early-Middle Pleistocene paleoenvironmental sequence for the interior of South Africa. In, Reynolds, S.C & Bode, R (eds), African Paleoecology and Human Evolution, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 142-160
Makhubela, T.V., Mavuso, S.S. 2022. Chapter 3: An Overview of the geology of paleoanthropological and archaeological sites of South Africa. Stratigraphy and Timescales.
Oluwagbemi, O.O., Hamutoko, J.T., Fotso-Nguemo, T.C., Lokonon, B.O.K., Emebo, O. and Kirsten, K.L., 2022. Towards resolving challenges associated with climate change modelling in Africa. Applied Sciences, 12(14), p.7107.
Pickering, R., Edwards, T.R. 2022. The geology and dating of the South African Paranthropus-bearing cave deposits. In: Wood, B., Constantino, P., Reed, K. (Eds.) Paranthropus: the forgotten lineage. Springer.
Pickering, R., Ackermann, R., Black, W. 2022, Why we need diverse storytellers of human evolution. Better Science Op-Ed, Daily Maverick, https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-10-25-why-we-need-diverse-storytellers-of-human-evolution/
Pickering, R., 2022. It’s time to change human evolution research, TEDxJohannesburgSalon, https://youtu.be/cjRXwHCUQf0
Pickering, R., Khosa, R.R., Hashibi, S., Tostevin, R. 2022. How can we ensure that everyone enjoys their geological field training? Geobulletin, Geological Society of South Africa, 65,4, 4-6
Qadeer, A., Kirsten, K.L., Ajmal, Z., Jiang, X. and Zhao, X., 2022. Rebuttal to Comment on “Alternative Plasticizers As Emerging Global Environmental and Health Threat: Another Regrettable Substitution?” Focus on DINCH as an Example. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(8), 5294–5297.
Qadeer, A., Kirsten, K.L., Ajmal, Z., Jiang, X. and Zhao, X., 2022. Alternative Plasticizers As Emerging Global Environmental and Health Threat: Another Regrettable Substitution?. Environmental Science & Technology. 56(3), 1482–1488.
Qadeer, A., Anis, M., Ajmal, Z., Kelly L. Kirsten, K.L., Usman, M., Khosa, R.R., Liu, M., Jiang, X., Zhao, X. (2022). Sustainable development goals under threat? Multidimensional impact of COVID-19 on our planet and society outweigh short term global pollution reduction. Sustainable Cities and Society, 83, 103962.
Woodhead, J., Sniderman, K., Hellstrom, J., Weij, R., MacGregor, C., Dickson, B., Drysdale, R., Delane, M., Henke, D., Bastian, L. and Baynes, A., 2022. Timescales of speleogenesis in an evolving syngenetic karst: The Tamala Limestone, Western Australia. Geomorphology, 399, p.108079.
Weij, R., Woodhead, J. D., Sniderman, J. K., Hellstrom, J. C., Reed, E., Bourne, S., Drysdale, R.N. & Pollard, T. J. (2022). Cave opening and fossil accumulation in Naracoorte, Australia, through charcoal and pollen in dated speleothems. Communications Earth & Environment, 3(1), 210.
Wurz, S., Pickering, R., & Mentzer, S. M. (2022). U-Th dating, taphonomy, and taxonomy of shell middens at Klasies River main site indicate stable and systematic coastal exploitation by MIS 5c-d. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, 1001370.
2021
Braun, D., Faith, J.T., Douglass, M.J., Davies, B., Power, M.J., Aldeias, V., Conard, N., Cutts, R., DeSantis, L.R.G., Dupont, L., Esteban, I., Kandel, A., Levin, N., Luyt, J., Parkington, J., Pickering, R., Quick, L., Sealy, J. & Stynder, D. 2021. Ecosystem Engineering in the Quaternary of the West Coast of South Africa. Evolutionary Anthropology, 30, 50-62, DOI: 10.1002/evan.21886
Green, H*., Gleadow, A., Levchenko, V.A., Finch, D., Myers, C., McGovern, J., Heaney, P., Pickering, R., 2021. Dating correlated microlayers in oxalate accretions from rock art shelters: new archives of paleoenvironments and human activity, Science Advances, 7: eabf3632
Mehlhorn, P., Viehberg, F., Kirsten, K., Newman, B., Frenzel, P., Gildeeva, O., Green, A., Hahn, A. and Haberzettl, T., 2021. Spatial distribution and consequences of contaminants in harbour sediments–A case study from Richards Bay Harbour, South Africa. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 172, p.112764.
Pickering, R., Edwards, T.R. 2021. Factors controlling age quality in U-Pb dated Plio-Pleistocene speleothems from South Africa: the good, the bad and the ugly. Chemical Geology, 579, 120364
Pickering, R., Herries, A., Woodhead, J.D., Hellstrom, J.C., Green, H.E*., Paul, P., Ritzman, T., Strait, D.S., Schoville, B.J., Hancox, J. 2021. Reply to: Clusters of flowstone ages are not supported by statistical evidence. Nature, 594 (7863), E11, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03587-z
Wilkins, J., Schoville, B.J., Pickering, R., Gliganic, L., Collins, B., Brown, K.S., von der Meden, J., Khumalo, W*., Meyer, M.C., Maape, S., Blackwood, A., Hatton, A. 2021. Innovative symbolic and technological behaviours 105,000 years ago in a wetter Kalahari. Nature, 592, 248–252
2020
Deininger, M., McDermott, F., Cruz, F.W., Bernal, J.P., Mudelsee. M., Vonhof, H., Millo, C., Spötl, C., Treble, P.C., Pickering, R., Scholz, D. 2020. Inter-hemispheric synchroneity of Holocene precipitation anomalies controlled by Earth’s latitudinal insolation gradients, Nature Communications, 11(1), 5447
Edwards, T. R., Pickering, R., Mallett, T. L., Herries, A. I. R. 2020. Reconstructing the depositional history and age of fossil-bearing palaeokarst: a multidisciplinary example from the Terminal Pliocene Aves Cave Complex, Bolt’s Farm, South Africa. Results in Geophsyical Science, 1-4,
Faith, J.T., Braun, D., Davies, B., DeSantis, L.R.G., Douglass, M.J., Esteban, I., Hare, V., Luyt, J., Pickering, R., Power, M.J., Sealy, J. & Stynder, D. 2020. Ecometrics and the paleoecological implications of Pleistocene faunas from the western coastal plains of the Cape Floristic Region, South Africa, Journal of Quaternary Science, 35(8), 1007-1020
Herries, A.I.R., Martin, J.M, Leece, A.B., Adams, J.W., Boschian, G., Joannes-Boyau, R., Edwards, T.R*., Mallett, T., Massey, J, Murszewski, A., Neuebauer, S., Pickering, R., Strait, D., Armstrong, B.J., Baker, S., Caruana, M.V., Denham, T., Hellstrom, J., Moggi-Cecchi, J., Mokobane, S., Penzo-Kajewski1, P., Rovinsky, D.S., Schwartz, G.T., Stammers, R.C., Wilson, C., Woodhead, J.D., Menter, C. 2020. Contemporaneity of Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and early Homo erectus in South Africa." Science, 368(6486): eaaw7293.
Kirsten, K. L., Kasper, T., Cawthra, H. C., Strobel, P., Quick, L. J., Meadows, M. E., and Haberzettl, T., 2020. Holocene variability in climate and oceanic conditions in the winter rainfall zone of South Africa—inferred from a high resolution diatom record from Verlorenvlei. Journal of Quaternary Science, 35(4), 572-581.
Murungi, M.L. and Bamford, M.K., 2020. Revised taxonomic interpretations of Cyperaceae phytoliths for (paleo) botanical studies with some notes on terminology. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 275, p.104189.
Murungi, M., 2020. People and plants in the Stone Age. Quest, 16(1), pp.28-30.
Pickering, R., Herries, A.I.R. 2020. A new multidisciplinary age of 2.61–2.07 Ma for the Sterkfontein Member 4 australopiths In: Ward, C., Richmond, B., Zipfel, B. (Eds.) Hominin Postcranial Remains from Sterkfontein, South Africa, 1936-1995. USA: Oxford University Press, pp. 21-30
Scott, M*., Le Roux, P., Sealy, J., Pickering, R., 2020. Lead and strontium isotopes as a dietary tracer in southwestern South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 116, 5/6
Sifogeorgaki, I., Klinkenberg, V., Esteban, I., Murungi, M., Carr, A.S., van den Brink, V.B. and Dusseldorp, G.L., 2020. New excavations at Umhlatuzana Rockshelter, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: a stratigraphic and taphonomic evaluation. African Archaeological Review, 37(4), pp.551-578.
Weij, R., Woodhead, J., Hellstrom, J. and Sniderman, K., 2020. An exploration of the utility of speleothem age distributions for palaeoclimate assessment. Quaternary Geochronology, 60, p.101112.
Wilkins, J., Schoville, B.J., Brown, K.S., Gliganic, L., Meyer, M.C., Loftus, E., Pickering, R., Collins, B., Blackwood, A., Makalima, S., Hatton, A., Maape, S., 2020. Fabric analysis and chronology at Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter, southern Kalahari Basin: Evidence for in situ, stratified Middle and Later Stone Age deposits. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, DOI: 10.1007/s41982-020-00050-9
2019
Comas-Bru, L., Harrison, S.P., Werner, M., Rehfeld, K., Scroxton, N., Veiga-Pires, C., members SISAL working group, 2019. Evaluating model outputs using integrated global speleothem records of climate change since the last glacial, Clim. Past 15, 1557-1579.
Braun, K., Nehme, C., Pickering, R., Rogerson, M., Scroxton, N. (2019) A window into Africa’s past hydroclimates: the SISAL_V1 database contribution, Quaternary, 2, 4, doi:10.3390/quat2010004
Cordova, C., Kirsten, K., Scott, L., Meadows, M. and Luecke, A., 2019. Multi-proxy evidence of Late-Holocene paleoenvironmental change at Princessvlei, South Africa: The effects of fire, herbivores, and humans. Quaternary Science Reviews, 221, 105896.
Edwards, T.R., Armstrong, B.J., Birket-Rees, J., Blackwood, A.F., Herries, A.I.R., Penzo-Kajewski, P., Pickering, R., Adams, J.W., (2019). Combining legacy data with new drone and DGPS mapping to identify the provenance of Plio-Pleistocene fossils from Bolt’s Farm, Cradle of Humankind (South Africa), PeerJ, 7, e6202, https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6202
Haberzettl, T., Kirsten, K.L., Kasper, T., Franz, S., Reinwarth, B., Baade, J., Daut, G., Meadows, M.E., Su, Y. and Mäusbacher, R., 2019. Using 210Pb-data and paleomagnetic secular variations to date anthropogenic impact on a lake system in the Western Cape, South Africa. Quaternary Geochronology, 51, pp.53-63.
Humphries, M., Kirsten, K. and McCarthy, T.S., 2019. Rapid changes in the hydroclimate of southeast Africa during the mid- to late-Holocene. Quaternary Science Reviews, 212, pp.178-186.
Kurpiel, R*., Pickering, R., Maas, R., Stern, N. (2019). Discrete Pb isotope signatures for silcrete sources from the Willandra Lakes region, Australia: a new method for provenancing silcrete artefacts, Journal of Archaeological Science: reports, 23, 62-71.
Pickering, R., Herries, A., Woodhead, J.D., Hellstrom, J.C., Green, H.E*., Paul, P., Ritzman, T., Strait, D.S., Schoville, B.J., Hancox, J. (2019) South African hominin record restricted to dry phases as demonstrated by U-Pb dated flowstones. Nature, 565, 7738, 226-229.
Weij, R., Reijmer, J.J., Eberli, G.P. and Swart, P.K., 2019. The limited link between accommodation space, sediment thickness, and inner platform facies distribution (Holocene–Pleistocene, Bahamas). The Depositional Record, 5(3), pp.400-420.
2018
Atsawawanunt, K., Comas-Bru, L., Amirnezhad Mozhdehi, S., Deininger, M., Harrison, S.P., Baker, A., Boyd, M., Kausha, N., Masood Ahmed, S., Arienzo, M., Brahim, Y., Bajo, P., Braun, K., Burstyn, Y., Chawchai1, S., Duan, W., Hatvani, I., Hu, J., Kern, Z., Labuhn, I., Lachniet, M., Lechleiter, F.A., Lorrey, A., Pérez-Mejías, C., Pickering, R., Scroxton, N. and SISAL Working Group Members. 2018. The SISAL database: a global resource to document oxygen and carbon isotope records from speleothems. Earth System Science Data, 10(#), 1687-1713
Herries, AIR., Murszewski, A., Pickering, R., Mallett, T., Joannes-Boyau,R., Armstrong, B., Adams, J., Baker, S., Blackwood, A., Penzo-Kajewski, P., Kappen, P., Leece, A.B., Martin, J., Rovinsky, D., Boschian, G. 2018. Geoarchaeological and 3D visualisation approaches for contextualising in-situ fossil bearing palaeokarst in South Africa: A case study from the ∼2.61 Ma Drimolen Makondo, Quaternary International, 484, 90-110
Kirsten, K.L., Fell, J., Frenzel, P., Meschner, S., Kasper, T., Wündsch, M., Meadows, M. and Haberzettl, T., 2018. The spatial heterogeneity of micro-and meioorganisms and their significance in understanding coastal system dynamics. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 213, pp.98-107.
Kirsten, K.L., Haberzettl, T., Wündsch, M., Frenzel, P., Meschner, S., Smit, A.J., Quick, L.J., Mäusbacher, R. and Meadows, M.E., 2018. A multiproxy study of the oceanatmospheric forcing and the impact of sea-level changes on the southern Cape coast, South Africa during the Holocene. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 496, pp.282-291.
Quick, L.J., Chase, B.M., Wündsch, M., Kirsten, K.L., Chevalier, M., Mäusbacher, R., Meadows, M.E. and Haberzettl, T., 2018. A high‐resolution record of Holocene climate and vegetation dynamics from the southern Cape coast of South Africa: pollen and microcharcoal evidence from Eilandvlei. Journal of Quaternary Science, 33(5), pp.487-500.
Wündsch, M., Haberzettl, T., Cawthra, H.C., Kirsten, K.L., Quick, L.J., Zabel, M., Frenzel, P., Hahn, A., Baade, J., Daut, G. and Kasper, T., 2018. Holocene environmental change along the southern Cape coast of South Africa–Insights from the Eilandvlei sediment record spanning the last 8.9 kyr. Global and Planetary Change, 163, pp.51-66.
Wurz, S., Bentsen, S., Van Pletzen-Vos, L., Reynard, J. , Brenner M. , Mentzer, S., Pickering, R. Green, H.E*. 2018. Connections, culture and environments 100 000 years ago at Klasies River main site. Quaternary International, 495, 102-115
2017
Gomes, M., Humphries, M.S., Kirsten, K.L., Green, A.N., Finch, J.M. and De Lecea, A.M., 2017. Diatom-inferred hydrological changes and Holocene geomorphic transitioning of Africa's largest estuarine system, Lake St Lucia. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 192, pp.170-180.
Murungi, M.L., McGlynn, G. and Lejju, J.B., 2017. Alpine grassland palaeoecology of the Virunga Volcanoes, East Africa: a new phytolith record from Mt. Muhavura. Quaternary International, 434, pp.102-116.
Pickering, R., 2017, U-series dating, Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology, Gilbert, A. (editor), Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 992-1001.
2016
Hahn, A., Compton, J.S., Meyer-Jacob, C., Kirsten, K.L., Lucasssen, F., Mayo, M.P., Schefuß, E. and Zabel, M., 2016. Holocene paleo-climatic record from the South African Namaqualand mudbelt: A source to sink approach. Quaternary International, 404, pp.121-135.
Kirsten, K.L. and Meadows, M.E., 2016. Late-Holocene palaeolimnological and climate dynamics at Princessvlei, South Africa: evidence from diatoms. The Holocene, 26(9), pp.1371-1381.
Pickering, R., 2016, Uranium-Lead (U-Pb) dating of stalagmites from the Azokh Cave Complex. In Azokh Cave and the Transcaucasian Corridor. Fernández-Jalvo, Y., Andrews, P., King, T., Yepiskoposyan, L. (Eds), Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series, Dordrecht: Springer, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24924-7, pp. 335-338
Quick, L.J., Meadows, M.E., Bateman, M.D., Kirsten, K.L., Mäusbacher, R., Haberzettl, T. and Chase, B.M., 2016. Vegetation and climate dynamics during the last glacial period in the fynbos-afrotemperate forest ecotone, southern Cape, South Africa. Quaternary International, 404, pp.136-149.
Wadley, L., Murungi, M.L., Witelson, D., Bolhar, R., Bamford, M., Sievers, C., Val, A. and De La Pena, P., 2016. Steenbokfontein 9KR: a middle stone age spring site in Limpopo, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin, 71(204), pp.130-145.
Wündsch, M., Haberzettl, T., Meadows, M.E., Kirsten, K.L., Kasper, T., Baade, J., Daut, G., Stoner, J.S. and Mäusbacher, R., 2016. The impact of changing reservoir effects on the 14 C chronology of a Holocene sediment record from South Africa. Quaternary Geochronology, 36, pp.148-160.
Wündsch, M., Haberzettl, T., Kirsten, K.L., Kasper, T., Zabel, M., Dietze, E., Baade, J., Daut, G., Meschner, S., Meadows, M.E. and Mäusbacher, R., 2016. Sea level and climate change at the southern Cape coast, South Africa, during the past 4.2 kyr. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 446, pp.295-307.
2015
Green, H*., Pickering, R, Drysdale, R., Johnson, B., Hellstrom, J. 2015. Evidence for global teleconnections in a late Pleistocene speleothem record of water balance and vegetation change at Sudwala Cave, South Africa, Quaternary Science Reviews, 110, 114-130
Hellstrom, J., Pickering, R., 2015. Recent advances and future prospects of the U-Th and U-Pb dating applicable to archaeology, Journal of Archaeological Science, 56, 32-40
Murungi, M.L. and Bamford, M.K., 2015. Palaeoenvironments at Sibudu Cave, South Africa: preliminary results from phytoliths. Supplemento Vol. CXL, p.59.
Pickering, R. 2015. Middle – Lower Pleistocene U-Pb ages for buried speleothems from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa. African Archaeological Review, 32, 645-668.
Porraz, G., Val, A., Dayet, L., De La Pena, P., Douze, K., Miller, C.E., Murungi, M.L., Tribolo, C., Schmid, V.C. and Sievers, C., 2015. Bushman Rock Shelter (Limpopo, South Africa): a perspective from the edge of the Highveld. South African Archaeological Bulletin, 70(202), pp.166-179.
Rosenberger, A.L., Pickering, R., Green, H*., Cooke, S.B., Tallman, M., Morrow, A. Rimoli, R. 2015. 1.3±0.11 Ma ages for underwater remains constrain antiquity and longevity of Dominican primate Antillothrix bernensis, Journal of Human Evolution, 88, 85-96.
2014
Haberzettl, T., Baade, J., Compton, J., Daut, G., Dupont, L., Finch, J., Frenzel, P., Green, A., Hahn, A., Hebbeln, D. Helmschrot, J., Humphries, M., Kasper, T., Kirsten, K., Mäusbacher, R., Meadows, M., Meschner, S., Quick, L., Schefuß, E., Wündsch, M. and Zabel, M. 2014. Paleoenvironmental investigations using a combination of terrestrial and marine sediments from South Africa-The RAIN (Regional Archives for Integrated iNvestigations) approach. Zentralblatt für Geologie und Paläontologie, Teil I, pp.55-73.
2013
Braun, D.R., Levin, N.E., Stynder, D., Herries, A.I.R., Archer, W., Forrest, F., Roberts, D.L., Bishop, L.C., Matthews, T., Lehmann, S.B., Pickering, R., Fitzsimmons, K., 2013. Mid-Pleistocene Hominin occupation at Elandsfonein, Western Cape, South Africa, Quaternary Science Reviews, 82, 145-166.
Braun, D. R., Levin, N. E., Roberts, D., Stynder, D., Forrest, F., Herris, A. I., Mathews, T., Bishop, L. C. Archer, W., Pickering, R., 2013. Initial Investigations of Acheulean Hominin Behaviour at Elandsfontein. In: The Archaeology of the West Coast of South Africa (eds. A Jerardino, A Malan, D Braun). Archaeopress, Oxford, pp. 10-23.
Green, H*., Woodhead, J.D., Hellstrom, J., Pickering, R., Drysdale, R., 2013. Re-analysis of key evidence in the case for a hemispherically synchronous response to the Younger Dryas climatic event. Journal of Quaternary Science, 28, 8-12.
Herries, A.I.R., Pickering, R., Adams, J.W., Curnoe, D., Warr, G., Latham, A.G., Shaw, J. 2013. A multi-disciplinary perspective on the age of Australopithecus in southern Africa. In: Reed, K.E., Fleagle, J.G., Leakey, R. (Eds.) Paleoecology of Australopithecus. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology series, pp. 21-48
Pickering, R., Jacobs, Z., Herries, A.I.R., Karkanas, P., Bar-Matthews, M., Woodhead, J.D., Kappen, P., Fisher, E., Marean, C.W., 2013. Paleoanthropologically Significant South African Sea Caves dated to 1.0 Million Years using a combination of U-Pb, TT-OSL and palaeomagnetism. Quaternary Science Reviews, 65, 39-52.
Reinwarth, B., Franz, S., Baade, J., Haberzettl, T., Kasper, T., Daut, G., Helmschrot, J., Kirsten, K.L., Quick, L.J., Meadows, M.E. and Mäusbacher, R., 2013. A 700‐year record on the effects of climate and human impact on the southern Cape coast inferred from lake sediments of Eilandvlei, Wilderness Embayment, South Africa. Geografiska Annaler: Series A, Physical Geography, 95(4), pp.345-360.
Sowman, M., Scott, D., Green, L.J.F., Hara, M.M., Hauck, M., Kirsten, K., Paterson, B., Raemaekers, S., Jones, K., Sunde, J. and Turpie, J.K., 2013. Shallow waters: social science research in South Africa's marine environment. African Journal of Marine Science, 35(3), pp.385-402.
2012
Murungi, M.L., 2012. Late Holocene vegetation dynamics of the Virunga Volcanoes of South-western Uganda: Evidence from Phytolith analysis. Quaternary International, (279-280), p.345.
Woodhead, J.D., Hellstrom, J., Pickering, R., Drysdale, R., Paul, B, Bajo. 2012. P. U and Pb variability in older speleothems and strategies for their chronology. 2012. Quaternary Geochronology, 14, 105-113
Woodhead, J.D., Pickering, R. 2012. Beyond 500 ka: progress and prospects in the U-Pb chronology of speleothems, and their application to studies in palaeoclimate, human evolution, biodiversity and tectonics. Chemical Geology, 322–323, 290–299.
2011
Pickering, R., Dirks, P.H.G.M., Jinnah, Z., de Ruiter, D.J., Churchill, S.E., Herrires, A.I.R., Woodhead, J.D., Hellstrom, J.C., Berger, L.R. 2011. Australopithecus sediba at 1.977 Ma and implications for the origins of Genus Homo. Science 333, 1421-1423.
Pickering, R., Kramers, J.D., Hancox, P.J., deRuiter, D.J., Woodhead, J.D., 2011. Contemporary flowstone development links early hominin bearing cave deposits in South Africa. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 306, 23-32.
2010
Pickering, R. & Kramers, J.D. 2010. A re-appraisal of the stratigraphy and new U-Pb dates at the Sterkfontein hominin site, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 56, 70-86.
Pickering, R., Kramers, J.D., Partridge, T., Kodolanyi, J., Pettke, T. 2010. U–Pb dating of calcite–aragonite layers in speleothems from hominin sites in South Africa by MC-ICP-MS. Quaternary Geochronology, 5 (5), 544-558.
Dirks, P.H.G.M., Kibii, J.M., Kuhn, B.F., Steininger, C., Churchill, S.E., Kramers, J.D., Pickering, R., Farber, D.L., Meriaux, A-S., Herries, A.I.R., King, G.C.P. & Berger, L.R. 2010. Geological setting and age of Australopithecus sediba from Southern Africa. Science, 328, 205-208.
2009
Fleitmann, D., Cheng, H., Badertscher, S., Edwards, R.L., Mudelsee, M., Göktürk, O.M., Fankhauser, A., Pickering, R., Raible, C.C., Matter, A., Kramers, J. & Tüysüz, O. 2009. Timing and climatic impact of Greenland interstadials recorded in stalagmites from northern Turkey. Geophysical Research Letters, 36(19), L19707.
de Ruiter, D.J., Pickering, R., Steininger, C.M., Kramers, J.D., Hancox, P.J., Churchill, S.E. & Berger, L.R. 2009. New Australopithecus robustus fossils and associated U-Pb dates from Cooper’s Cave (Gauteng, South Africa). Journal of Human Evolution, 56, 5, 497-513.
Backwell, L.R., Pickering, R., Brothwell, D., Berger, L.R., Witcomb, M., Martill, D., Penkman, K. & Wilson, A. 2009. Probable human hair found in a fossil hyaena coprolite from Gladysvale cave, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science. 36(6): 1269-1276.
Berger, L.R., Pickering, R., Kuhn, B., Backwell, L.R., Hancox, P.J., Kramers, J.D., & Boshoff, P. 2009. A Mid-Pleistocene in situ fossil brown hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea) latrine from Gladysvale Cave, South Africa. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 279, 3-4, 131-136.
Sutton, M., Pickering, T.R., Pickering, R., Brain., C.K., Clarke, R.J., Heaton, J.L. & Kuman, K. 2009 Newly Discovered Fossil- and Artifact-Bearing Deposits, Uranium-Series Ages and Plio- Pleistocene Hominids at Swartkrans Cave, South Africa. Journal of Human Evolution, 57, 688-696.
2008
Hajdas, I., Ivy-Ochs, S., Pickering, R., Preusser, F. 2008. Recent developments in Quaternary dating methods. Geographica Helvetia 1, 1-5.
2007
Pickering, R., Hancox, P.J., Lee-Thorp, J.A., Grün R., Mortimer, G.E., McCulloch, M. & Berger, L.R. 2007. Stratigraphy, U-series chronology and palaeoenvironments at Gladysvale Cave: insights into the climatic control of South African hominin bearing caves, South Africa, Journal of Human Evolution, 53, 602-619.
Ustaszewski, M., Herwegh, M., McClymont, A.F., Pfiffner, A.O., Pickering, R. & Preusser, F. 2007. Unravelling the evolution of an Alpine to post-glacially active fault in the Swiss Alps, Journal of Structural Geology, 29, 1943-1959.
2006
Hall, G., Pickering, R., Lacruz, R., Hancox, P.J., Berger, L.R & Schmid, P. 2006. An Acheulean handaxe from Gladysvale Cave Site, Gauteng, South Africa. South African Journal of Science, 102, 103-105.
Pickering, R. 2006. Regional geology, setting and sedimentology of the Middle Stone Age deposits at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Southern African Humanities 18 (1): 123-29.
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