Explanipedia

Site Formation History of Widgingarri Shelter 1, Northwestern Australia and Investigation of Postdepositional Disturbance With Single‐Grain OSL Dating and Soil Micromorphology Open

Wanchese M. Saktura, Zenobia Jacobs, Sam Lin, Sue O’Connor, Richard G. Roberts , et al. · 2025

Widgingarri Shelter 1 (WS1) is a rock shelter site within a small escarpment and preserves evidence of late Pleistocene and Holocene human activity. The site was first excavated in 1985 and again in 2022. Here, we present the stratigraphy …

A 150,000-year lacustrine record of the Indo-Australian monsoon from northern Australia Open

Michael I. Bird, Michael Brand, Rainy Comley, Xennephone Hadeen, Zenobia Jacobs , et al. · 2025

Pleistocene chronology and history of hominins and fauna at Denisova Cave Open

Zenobia Jacobs, Elena I. Zavala, Bo Li, Kieran O’Gorman, Michael V. Shunkov , et al. · 2025

A high-resolution chronology for the archaeological deposits at Pinnacle Point 5–6, Western Cape Province, South Africa Open

Zenobia Jacobs, Panagiotis Karkanas, B. Patrick Fahey, Erich C. Fisher, Curtis W. Marean · 2025

No One Home? New Evidence for MIS 3 Occupations in the Western Cape (South Africa) from Mertenhof Rock Shelter Open

Manuel Will, Zenobia Jacobs, Alex Mackay · 2024

Southern Africa features an intensively studied Stone Age sequence, though one with geographical and temporal gaps. The archaeology of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3 remains understudied, particularly between ~ 50 and 25 ka. This period enco…

Visualisation en ligne des données de : FosSahul (Paléolithique-Holocène) avec l'application web archeoViz Open

archeoViz platform maintainers, Katharina J. Peters, Frédérik Saltré, Tobias Friedrich, Zenobia Jacobs , et al. · 2024

Online data visualisation of: FosSahul (Paleolithic-Holocene) using the archeoViz web application

Visualisation en ligne des données de : SahulArch Radiocarbon collection (Paléolithique-Holocène) avec l'application web archeoViz Open

archeoViz platform maintainers, Wanchese M. Saktura, Emma Rehn, Lauren Linnenlucke, Henry Munack , et al. · 2024

Online data visualisation of: SahulArch Radiocarbon collection (Paleolithic-Holocene) using the archeoViz web application

Author Correction: Early human occupation of Australia’s eastern seaboard Open

Shaun Adams, Kasih Norman, Justine Kemp, Zenobia Jacobs, Michael Costelloe , et al. · 2024

Correlations between quartz OSL dose-response curve and TL glow curve characteristics, and their implications for equivalent dose estimation Open

Rosaria B. K. Saktura, Bo Li, Richard G. Roberts, Zenobia Jacobs · 2024

Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating of quartz using the single-aliquot regenerative-dose (SAR) procedure requires construction of dose-response curves (DRCs). The shapes of DRCs and their characteristic saturation doses (D0 valu…

No one home? New evidence for MIS 3 occupations in the Western Cape (South Africa) from Mertenhof Rock Shelter Open

Manuel Will, Zenobia Jacobs, Alex Mackay · 2024

Southern Africa features an intensively studied Stone Age sequence, though one with geographical and temporal gaps. The archaeology of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 3 remains understudied, particularly between ~ 50 − 25 ka. This period encomp…

Heinrich events drove major intensification of the Indo-Australian monsoon over the last 150,000 years Open

Michael I. Bird, Michael Brand, Rainy Comley, Xennephone Hadeen, Zenobia Jacobs , et al. · 2024

Nearly two thirds of the world’s population depend on monsoon rainfall. Monsoon failure and extreme precipitation have affected societies for millennia. The distribution and amount of monsoon precipitation is predicted to change as the cli…

A Bayesian hierarchical age model for single-grain optical dating of feldspars Open

Bo Li, Zenobia Jacobs, Mariana Sontag-González, Kieran O’Gorman, Richard G. Roberts · 2024

The distribution of equivalent dose (De) values of individual feldspar grains is affected by a range of variables, including internal and external dose rates, residual doses, and uncertainties associated with luminescence behaviours and me…

Late Pleistocene emergence of an anthropogenic fire regime in Australia’s tropical savannahs Open

Michael I. Bird, Michael Brand, Rainy Comley, Xiao Fu, Xennephone Hadeen , et al. · 2024

At the time of European arrival on the Australian continent, sophisticated Indigenous societies practiced land management across Australia’s extensive tropical savannahs. Fire was one of the main tools people used to manipulate fuel loads …

A new OSL dose model to account for post-depositional mixing of sediments Open

Luke A. Yates, Zach Aandahl, Barry W. Brook, Zenobia Jacobs, Bo Li , et al. · 2024

In applications of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating to unconsolidated sediments, the burial age of a sample of grains is estimated using statistical models of the distribution of the experimentally determined equivalent doses…

Early human occupation of Australia’s eastern seaboard Open

Shaun Adams, Kasih Norman, Justine Kemp, Zenobia Jacobs, Michael Costelloe , et al. · 2024

<span>Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1 – stratigraphy, chronology, and archaeological find density from MIS 3 to MIS 1 on the edge of the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain (south coast, South Africa)</span> Open

Naomi Cleghorn, Ximena S. Villagrán, Rosaria B. K. Saktura, Zenobia Jacobs · 2024

The Middle Stone Age Sequence at Klipfonteinrand 1 (KFR1), Western Cape, South Africa Open

Alex Mackay, Rosaria B. K. Saktura, Corey A. O’Driscoll, Kelsey C. Boyd, Ben Marwick , et al. · 2023

The rock shelter site Klipfonteinrand 1 (KFR1), located on the edge of southern Africa’s Fynbos biome, was initially excavated by John Parkington in 1969. Due to difficulties resolving the stratigraphic sequence, the lack of age estimates,…

A new OSL dose model to account for post-depositional mixing of sediments Open

Luke A. Yates, Zach Aandahl, Barry W. Brook, Zenobia Jacobs, Bo Li , et al. · 2023

In applications of optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating to unconsolidated sediments, the burial age of a sample of grains is estimated using statistical models of the distribution of the experimentally determined equivalent doses…

RETRACTED: Early Human Occupation of Australia’s Eastern Seaboard Open

Shaun Adams, Kasih Norman, Justine Kemp, Zenobia Jacobs, Michael Costelloe , et al. · 2023

The authors have requested that this preprint be removed from Research Square.

The Middle Stone Age sequence at Klipfonteinrand 1 (KFR1), Western Cape, South Africa Open

Alex Mackay, Rosaria B. K. Saktura, Corey A. O’Driscoll, Kelsey C. Boyd, Ben Marwick , et al. · 2023

The rock shelter site Klipfonteinrand 1 (KFR1), located on the edge of southern Africa’s Fynbos biome, was initially excavated by John Parkington in 1969. Due to difficulties resolving the stratigraphic sequence, the lack of age estimates,…

SahulArch: A geochronological database for the archaeology of Sahul Open

Wanchese M. Saktura, Emma Rehn, Lauren Linnenlucke, Henry Munack, Rachel Wood , et al. · 2023

Reliable chronological frameworks for archaeological sites are essential for accurate interpretations of the past. Geochronology represents the core of interdisciplinary research because it allows integration of diverse data on a common ti…

OCTOPUS database (v.2) Open

Alexandru T. Codilean, Henry Munack, Wanchese M. Saktura, Tim J. Cohen, Zenobia Jacobs , et al. · 2022

OCTOPUS v.2 is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant web-enabled database that allows users to visualise, query, and download cosmogenic radionuclide, luminescence, and radiocarbon ages and denudation rates associated with erosiona…

Comment on essd-2022-50 Open

Alexandru T. Codilean, Henry Munack, Wanchese M. Saktura, Tim J. Cohen, Zenobia Jacobs , et al. · 2022

Abstract. OCTOPUS v.2 is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant web-enabled database that allows users to visualise, query, and download cosmogenic radionuclide, luminescence, and radiocarbon ages and denudation rat…

Human occupation of the Kimberley coast of northwest Australia 50,000 years ago Open

Kasih Norman, Ceri Shipton, Sue O’Connor, Wudugu Malanali, Peter Collins , et al. · 2022

The peopling of Sahul (the combined landmass of New Guinea and Australia) is a topic of much debate. The Kimberley region of Western Australia holds many of Australia's oldest known archaeological sites. Here, we review the chronological a…

Chronostratigraphy of sediment cores from Lake Selina, southeastern Australia: Radiocarbon, optically stimulated luminescence, paleomagnetism, authigenic beryllium isotopes and elemental data Open

Agathe Lisé‐Pronovost, Michael‐Shawn Fletcher, Quentin Simon, Zenobia Jacobs, Patricia Gadd , et al. · 2022

OCTOPUS Database v.2 Open

Alexandru T. Codilean, Henry Munack, Wanchese M. Saktura, Tim J. Cohen, Zenobia Jacobs , et al. · 2022

OCTOPUS v.2 is an Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant web-enabled database that allows users to visualise, query, and download cosmogenic radionuclide, luminescence, and radiocarbon ages and denudation rates associated with erosiona…

Author Correction: Hominin and animal activities in the microstratigraphic record from Denisova Cave (Altai Mountains, Russia) Open

Mike W. Morley, Paul Goldberg, Vladimir A. Uliyanov, М.B. Kozlikin, Michael V. Shunkov , et al. · 2022

OCTOPUS Database v.2: The SahulArch TL collection Open

Wanchese M. Saktura, Henry Munack, Alexandru T. Codilean, Zenobia Jacobs, A. Williams , et al. · 2021

Database of published thermoluminescence (TL) ages for archaeological records from Sahul. Sample locations were obfuscated within a radius of 25 km and spatial data includes sample locations as circular polygons. The data uses the WGS84/Ps…

OCTOPUS Database v.2: The SahulArch Radiocarbon collection Open

Wanchese M. Saktura, Henry Munack, Alexandru T. Codilean, Rachel Wood, Fiona Petchey , et al. · 2021

Database of published radiocarbon ages for archaeological records from Sahul. Sample locations were obfuscated within a radius of 25 km and spatial data includes sample locations as circular polygons. The data uses the WGS84/Pseudo-Mercato…

A worked bone assemblage from 120,000–90,000 year old deposits at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco Open

Emily Y. Hallett, Curtis W. Marean, Teresa E. Steele, Estéban Álvarez Fernández, Zenobia Jacobs , et al. · 2021

The emergence of Homo sapiens in Pleistocene Africa is associated with a profound reconfiguration of technology. Symbolic expression and personal ornamentation, new tool forms, and regional technological traditions are widely recogn…

Zenobia Jacobs YOU? Author Swipe