| Emergence of modern human behavior: Middle Stone Age engravings from South Africa CS Henshilwood, F d'Errico, R Yates, Z Jacobs, C Tribolo, GAT Duller, ... Science 295 (5558), 1278-1280, 2002 | 1463 | 2002 |
| Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene CW Marean, M Bar-Matthews, J Bernatchez, E Fisher, P Goldberg, ... Nature 449 (7164), 905-908, 2007 | 1192 | 2007 |
| Human occupation of northern Australia by 65,000 years ago C Clarkson, Z Jacobs, B Marwick, R Fullagar, L Wallis, M Smith, ... Nature 547 (7663), 306-310, 2017 | 1165 | 2017 |
| Middle stone age shell beads from South Africa C Henshilwood, F d'Errico, M Vanhaeren, K Van Niekerk, Z Jacobs Science 304 (5669), 404-404, 2004 | 852 | 2004 |
| A 100,000-year-old ochre-processing workshop at Blombos Cave, South Africa CS Henshilwood, F d’Errico, KL Van Niekerk, Y Coquinot, Z Jacobs, ... science 334 (6053), 219-222, 2011 | 781 | 2011 |
| Fire as an engineering tool of early modern humans KS Brown, CW Marean, AIR Herries, Z Jacobs, C Tribolo, D Braun, ... Science 325 (5942), 859-862, 2009 | 714 | 2009 |
| Ages for the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa: implications for human behavior and dispersal Z Jacobs, RG Roberts, RF Galbraith, HJ Deacon, R Grun, A Mackay, ... Science 322 (5902), 733-735, 2008 | 670 | 2008 |
| Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from Pleistocene sediments V Slon, C Hopfe, CL Weiß, F Mafessoni, M De La Rasilla, C Lalueza-Fox, ... Science 356 (6338), 605-608, 2017 | 441 | 2017 |
| An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa KS Brown, CW Marean, Z Jacobs, BJ Schoville, S Oestmo, EC Fisher, ... Nature 491 (7425), 590-593, 2012 | 407 | 2012 |
| Neandertals made the first specialized bone tools in Europe M Soressi, SP McPherron, M Lenoir, T Dogandžić, P Goldberg, Z Jacobs, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110 (35), 14186-14190, 2013 | 307 | 2013 |
| Extending the chronology of deposits at Blombos Cave, South Africa, back to 140 ka using optical dating of single and multiple grains of quartz Z Jacobs, GAT Duller, AG Wintle, CS Henshilwood Journal of Human Evolution 51 (3), 255-273, 2006 | 290 | 2006 |
| Interpretation of single grain De distributions and calculation of De Z Jacobs, GAT Duller, AG Wintle Radiation Measurements 41 (3), 264-277, 2006 | 271 | 2006 |
| Advances in optically stimulated luminescence dating of individual grains of quartz from archeological deposits Z Jacobs, RG Roberts Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews: Issues, News, and …, 2007 | 250 | 2007 |
| New ages for the post-Howiesons Poort, late and final Middle stone age at Sibudu, South Africa Z Jacobs, AG Wintle, GAT Duller, RG Roberts, L Wadley Journal of Archaeological Science 35 (7), 1790-1807, 2008 | 247 | 2008 |
| Optical dating of dune sand from Blombos Cave, South Africa: II—single grain data Z Jacobs, GAT Duller, AG Wintle Journal of Human Evolution 44 (5), 613-625, 2003 | 243 | 2003 |
| New excavations of Middle Stone Age deposits at Apollo 11 Rockshelter, Namibia: stratigraphy, archaeology, chronology and past environments R Vogelsang, J Richter, Z Jacobs, B Eichhorn, V Linseele, RG Roberts Journal of African Archaeology 8 (2), 185-218, 2010 | 240 | 2010 |
| Timing of archaic hominin occupation of Denisova Cave in southern Siberia Z Jacobs, B Li, MV Shunkov, MB Kozlikin, NS Bolikhovskaya, ... Nature 565 (7741), 594-599, 2019 | 238 | 2019 |
| 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 M Bar-Matthews, CW Marean, Z Jacobs, P Karkanas, EC Fisher, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 29 (17-18), 2131-2145, 2010 | 236 | 2010 |
| Age estimates for hominin fossils and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic at Denisova Cave K Douka, V Slon, Z Jacobs, CB Ramsey, MV Shunkov, AP Derevianko, ... Nature 565 (7741), 640-644, 2019 | 215 | 2019 |
| Sibudu Cave: background to the excavations, stratigraphy and dating L Wadley, Z Jacobs Southern African Humanities 18 (1), 1-26, 2006 | 204 | 2006 |
