| Archaeological evidence for the emergence of language, symbolism, and music–an alternative multidisciplinary perspective F d'Errico, C Henshilwood, G Lawson, M Vanhaeren, AM Tillier, M Soressi, ... Journal of World Prehistory 17, 1-70, 2003 | 892 | 2003 |
| Early evidence of San material culture represented by organic artifacts from Border Cave, South Africa F d’Errico, L Backwell, P Villa, I Degano, JJ Lucejko, MK Bamford, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (33), 13214-13219, 2012 | 489 | 2012 |
| Middle stone age bone tools from the Howiesons Poort layers, Sibudu Cave, South Africa L Backwell, F d'Errico, L Wadley Journal of Archaeological Science 35 (6), 1566-1580, 2008 | 404 | 2008 |
| Evidence of termite foraging by Swartkrans early hominids LR Backwell, F d'Errico Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (4), 1358-1363, 2001 | 354 | 2001 |
| Border cave and the beginning of the later stone age in South Africa P Villa, S Soriano, T Tsanova, I Degano, TFG Higham, F d’Errico, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 109 (33), 13208-13213, 2012 | 253 | 2012 |
| Geological and taphonomic context for the new hominin species Homo naledi from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa PHGM Dirks, LR Berger, EM Roberts, JD Kramers, J Hawks, ... Elife 4, e09561, 2015 | 197 | 2015 |
| Identifying regional variability in Middle Stone Age bone technology: The case of Sibudu Cave F d'Errico, LR Backwell, L Wadley Journal of Archaeological Science 39 (7), 2479-2495, 2012 | 177 | 2012 |
| Criteria for identifying bone modification by termites in the fossil record LR Backwell, AH Parkinson, EM Roberts, F d'Errico, JB Huchet Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 337, 72-87, 2012 | 152 | 2012 |
| Earliest evidence of personal ornaments associated with burial: the Conus shells from Border Cave F d'Errico, L Backwell Journal of Human Evolution 93, 91-108, 2016 | 144 | 2016 |
| Possible evidence of bone tool shaping by Swartkrans early hominids F d'Errico, LR Backwell Journal of Archaeological Science 30 (12), 1559-1576, 2003 | 141 | 2003 |
| Early hominid bone tools from Drimolen, South Africa L Backwell, F d'Errico Journal of Archaeological Science 35 (11), 2880-2894, 2008 | 125 | 2008 |
| New australopithecus robustus fossils and associated U-Pb dates from Cooper's cave (Gauteng, South Africa) DJ de Ruiter, R Pickering, CM Steininger, JD Kramers, PJ Hancox, ... Journal of Human Evolution 56 (5), 497-513, 2009 | 123 | 2009 |
| Assessing the function of early hominin bone tools F d'Errico, L Backwell Journal of Archaeological Science 36 (8), 1764-1773, 2009 | 107 | 2009 |
| The first use of bone tools: a reappraisal of the evidence from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania LR Backwell, F d’Errico Palaeontologia africana 40 (9), 95-158, 2004 | 102 | 2004 |
| The antiquity of bow-and-arrow technology: evidence from Middle Stone Age layers at Sibudu Cave L Backwell, J Bradfield, KJ Carlson, T Jashashvili, L Wadley, F d'Errico antiquity 92 (362), 289-303, 2018 | 97 | 2018 |
| Cooked starchy rhizomes in Africa 170 thousand years ago L Wadley, L Backwell, F d’Errico, C Sievers Science 367 (6473), 87-91, 2020 | 78 | 2020 |
| Multiproxy record of late Quaternary climate change and Middle Stone Age human occupation at Wonderkrater, South Africa LR Backwell, TS McCarthy, L Wadley, Z Henderson, CM Steininger, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 99, 42-59, 2014 | 70 | 2014 |
| New excavations at border cave, KwaZulu-natal, South Africa LR Backwell, F d'Errico, WE Banks, P de La Peña, C Sievers, D Stratford, ... Journal of Field Archaeology 43 (6), 417-436, 2018 | 66 | 2018 |
| Probable human hair found in a fossil hyaena coprolite from Gladysvale cave, South Africa L Backwell, R Pickering, D Brothwell, L Berger, M Witcomb, D Martill, ... Journal of Archaeological Science 36 (6), 1269-1276, 2009 | 66 | 2009 |
| The origin of bone tool technology and the identification of early hominid cultural traditions L Backwell, F d’Errico From tools to symbols: from early hominids to modern humans, 238-275, 2005 | 64 | 2005 |
