Lucinda Ruth Backwell - Publications

Affiliations: 
CNRS - Université de Bordeaux 

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Year Citation  Score
2022 d'Errico F, Backwell LR, Wadley L, Geis L, Queffelec A, Banks WE, Doyon L. Technological and functional analysis of 80-60 ka bone wedges from Sibudu (KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa). Scientific Reports. 12: 16270. PMID 36175454 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-20680-z  0.772
2021 Hanon R, d'Errico F, Backwell L, Prat S, Péan S, Patou-Mathis M. New evidence of bone tool use by Early Pleistocene hominins from Cooper’s D, Bloubank Valley, South Africa Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 39: 103129. DOI: 10.1016/J.JASREP.2021.103129  0.404
2020 Wadley L, Esteban I, de la Peña P, Wojcieszak M, Stratford D, Lennox S, d'Errico F, Rosso DE, Orange F, Backwell L, Sievers C. Fire and grass-bedding construction 200 thousand years ago at Border Cave, South Africa. Science (New York, N.Y.). 369: 863-866. PMID 32792402 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Abc7239  0.719
2020 Wadley L, Backwell L, d'Errico F, Sievers C. Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago. Science (New York, N.Y.). 367: 87-91. PMID 31896717 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aaz5926  0.611
2020 Backwell L, Huchet J, Jashashvili T, Dirks PHGM, Berger LR. Termites and necrophagous insects associated with early Pleistocene (Gelasian) Australopithecus sediba at Malapa, South Africa Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 560: 109989. DOI: 10.1016/J.Palaeo.2020.109989  0.524
2018 Backwell L, Bradfield J, Carlson KJ, Jashashvili T, Wadley L, d'Errico F. The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave Antiquity. 92: 289-303. DOI: 10.15184/Aqy.2018.11  0.625
2018 Backwell LR, d'Errico F, Banks WE, Peña Pdl, Sievers C, Stratford D, Lennox SJ, Wojcieszak M, Bordy EM, Bradfield J, Wadley L. New Excavations at Border Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Journal of Field Archaeology. 43: 417-436. DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2018.1504544  0.632
2018 Val A, Backwell LR, Dirks PHGM, d'Errico F, Berger LR. Reconstruction of the burial position of two hominin skeletons (Australopithecus sediba) from the early Pleistocene Malapa cave site, South Africa Geoarchaeology-An International Journal. 33: 291-306. DOI: 10.1002/Gea.21635  0.743
2017 Puech E, Urrego DH, Goñi MFS, Backwell L, d’Erricoc F. Vegetation and environmental changes at the Middle Stone Age site of Wonderkrater, Limpopo, South Africa Quaternary Research. 88: 313-326. DOI: 10.1017/Qua.2017.42  0.376
2017 Backwell L, Steininger C, Neveling J, Abdala F, Pereira L, Mayer E, Rossouw L, Peña Pdl, Brink J. Holocene large mammal mass death assemblage from South Africa Quaternary International. 495: 49-63. DOI: 10.1016/J.Quaint.2017.11.055  0.508
2016 d'Errico F, Backwell L. Earliest evidence of personal ornaments associated with burial: the Conus shells from Border Cave. Journal of Human Evolution. 93: 91-108. PMID 27086058 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2016.01.002  0.602
2016 Randolph-Quinney PS, Backwell LR, Berger LR, Hawks J, Dirks PHGM, Roberts EM, Nhauro G, Kramers JD. Response to Thackeray (2016) - The possibility of lichen growth on bones of Homo naledi: Were they exposed to light? South African Journal of Science. 112: 16-20. DOI: 10.17159/Sajs.2016/A0177  0.418
2016 Zhang S, d'Errico F, Backwell LR, Zhang Y, Chen F, Gao X. Ma'anshan cave and the origin of bone tool technology in China Journal of Archaeological Science. 65: 57-69. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2015.11.004  0.697
2015 Wadley L, Trower G, Backwell L, d'Errico F. Traditional Glue, Adhesive and Poison Used for Composite Weapons by Ju/'hoan San in Nyae Nyae, Namibia. Implications for the Evolution of Hunting Equipment in Prehistory. Plos One. 10: e0140269. PMID 26509730 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0140269  0.602
2015 Dirks PH, Berger LR, Roberts EM, Kramers JD, Hawks J, Randolph-Quinney PS, Elliott M, Musiba CM, Churchill SE, de Ruiter DJ, Schmid P, Backwell LR, Belyanin GA, Boshoff P, Hunter KL, et al. Geological and taphonomic context for the new hominin species Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa. Elife. 4. PMID 26354289 DOI: 10.7554/Elife.09561  0.459
2015 Val A, Dirks PH, Backwell LR, d'Errico F, Berger LR. Taphonomic Analysis of the Faunal Assemblage Associated with the Hominins (Australopithecus sediba) from the Early Pleistocene Cave Deposits of Malapa, South Africa. Plos One. 10: e0126904. PMID 26061082 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0126904  0.774
2014 Backwell LR, McCarthy TS, Wadley L, Henderson Z, Steininger CM, Bonita deKlerk, Barré M, Lamothe M, Chase BM, Woodborne S, Susino GJ, Bamford MK, Sievers C, Brink JS, Rossouw L, et al. Multiproxy record of late Quaternary climate change and Middle Stone Age human occupation at Wonderkrater, South Africa Quaternary Science Reviews. 99: 42-59. DOI: 10.1016/J.Quascirev.2014.06.017  0.632
2013 Taru P, Backwell L. Identification of fossil hairs in Parahyaena brunnea coprolites from Middle Pleistocene deposits at Gladysvale cave, South Africa Journal of Archaeological Science. 40: 3674-3685. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2013.04.031  0.361
2012 Villa P, Soriano S, Tsanova T, Degano I, Higham TF, d'Errico F, Backwell L, Lucejko JJ, Colombini MP, Beaumont PB. Border Cave and the beginning of the Later Stone Age in South Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109: 13208-13. PMID 22847432 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1202629109  0.656
2012 d'Errico F, Backwell L, Villa P, Degano I, Lucejko JJ, Bamford MK, Higham TF, Colombini MP, Beaumont PB. Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109: 13214-9. PMID 22847420 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1204213109  0.703
2012 D'Errico F, Backwell L, Villa P, Degano I, Lucejko JJ, Bamford MK, Higham TFG, Colombini MP, Beaumont PB. Reply to Evans: Use of poison remains the most parsimonious explanation for Border Cave castor bean extract Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 109: E3291-E3292. DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1214711109  0.544
2012 Barré M, Lamothe M, Backwell L, McCarthy T. Optical dating of quartz and feldspars: A comparative study from Wonderkrater, a Middle Stone Age site of South Africa Quaternary Geochronology. 10: 374-379. DOI: 10.1016/J.Quageo.2012.01.009  0.34
2012 Backwell LR, Parkinson AH, Roberts EM, d'Errico F, Huchet J. Criteria for identifying bone modification by termites in the fossil record Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 337: 72-87. DOI: 10.1016/J.Palaeo.2012.03.032  0.701
2012 d'Errico F, Backwell LR, Wadley L. Identifying regional variability in Middle Stone Age bone technology: The case of Sibudu Cave Journal of Archaeological Science. 39: 2479-2495. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2012.01.040  0.696
2010 Kuczumow A, Cukrowska E, Stachniuk A, Gawęda R, Mroczka R, Paszkowicz W, Skrzypiec K, Falkenberg R, Backwell L. Erratum to “Investigation of chemical changes in bone material from South African fossil hominid deposits” [J. Archaeol. Sci. 37 (2010) 107–115] Journal of Archaeological Science. 37: 2377. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2010.03.014  0.342
2010 Kuczumow A, Cukrowska E, Stachniuk A, Gawęda R, Mroczka R, Paszkowicz W, Skrzypiec K, Falkenberg R, Backwell L. Investigation of chemical changes in bone material from South African fossil hominid deposits Journal of Archaeological Science. 37: 107-115. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2009.09.020  0.464
2010 McCarthy TS, Ellery WN, Backwell L, Marren P, Klerk Bd, Tooth S, Brandt D, Woodborne S. The character, origin and palaeoenvironmental significance of the Wonderkrater spring mound, South Africa Journal of African Earth Sciences. 58: 115-126. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jafrearsci.2010.02.004  0.421
2009 de Ruiter DJ, Pickering R, Steininger CM, Kramers JD, Hancox PJ, Churchill SE, Berger LR, Backwell L. New Australopithecus robustus fossils and associated U-Pb dates from Cooper's Cave (Gauteng, South Africa). Journal of Human Evolution. 56: 497-513. PMID 19443017 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jhevol.2009.01.009  0.431
2009 Berger LR, Pickering R, Kuhn B, Backwell L, Hancox PJ, Kramers JD, Boshoff P. A Mid-Pleistocene in situ fossil brown hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea) latrine from Gladysvale Cave, South Africa Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 279: 131-136. DOI: 10.1016/J.Palaeo.2009.05.004  0.359
2009 d'Errico F, Backwell L. Assessing the function of early hominin bone tools Journal of Archaeological Science. 36: 1764-1773. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2009.04.005  0.684
2009 Backwell L, Pickering R, Brothwell D, Berger L, Witcomb M, Martill D, Penkman K, Wilson A. Probable human hair found in a fossil hyaena coprolite from Gladysvale cave, South Africa Journal of Archaeological Science. 36: 1269-1276. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2009.01.023  0.408
2008 Backwell L, d'Errico F. Early hominid bone tools from Drimolen, South Africa Journal of Archaeological Science. 35: 2880-2894. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2008.05.017  0.683
2008 Backwell L, d'Errico F, Wadley L. Middle Stone Age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa Journal of Archaeological Science. 35: 1566-1580. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jas.2007.11.006  0.696
2003 d'Errico F, Henshilwood C, Lawson G, Vanhaeren M, Tillier AM, Soressi M, Bresson F, Maureille B, Nowell A, Lakarra J, Backwell L, Julien M. Archaeological evidence for the emergence of language, symbolism, and music - An alternative multidisciplinary perspective Journal of World Prehistory. 17: 1-70. DOI: 10.1023/A:1023980201043  0.737
2003 d'Errico F, Backwell LR. Possible evidence of bone tool shaping by Swartkrans early hominids Journal of Archaeological Science. 30: 1559-1576. DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4403(03)00052-9  0.69
2001 Backwell LR, d'Errico F. Evidence of termite foraging by Swartkrans early hominids. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 98: 1358-1363. DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.98.4.1358  0.693
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