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Alex Mackay

36 works· latest 2025· 5 institutionscluster: provisionalORCID 0000-0002-6396-0821

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Ages for the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa: Implications for Human Behavior and Dispersal2008 · 531 citations
Coalescence and fragmentation in the late Pleistocene archaeology of southernmost Africa2014 · 235 citations
The relative contributions of ecstasy and cannabis to cognitive impairment2000 · 225 citations
Engraved ochre from a Middle Stone Age context at Klein Kliphuis in the Western Cape of South Africa2008 · 156 citations
The Hybrid Origin of “Modern” Humans2015 · 144 citations

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Robberg Lithic Technology from Knysna Eastern Heads Cave 1

Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology·2025·5 authors

4citations

Replicability in Lithic Analysis

American Antiquity·2023·13 authors·Open access

44citations

Variability in Silcrete Heat Treatment at Klein Kliphuis Shelter, South Africa, and Its Role in Core Reduction

Lithic Technology·2023·3 authors

9citations

Environmental influences on human innovation and behavioural diversity in southern Africa 92–80 thousand years ago

Nature Ecology & Evolution·2022·18 authors·Open access

39citations

Reconstructing Middle Stone Age mobility patterns from raw material transfers in South Africa’s Still Bay (77–70 ka) technocomplex

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences·2021·4 authors

9citations

Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa

Science Advances·2021·28 authors·Open access

Investigating the Formation History of Surface Archaeology in the Doring River Valley, South Africa

The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology·2021·5 authors

0citations

Comparative analysis of Middle Stone Age artifacts in Africa (CoMSAfrica)

Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews·2019·12 authors·Open access

32citations

Small, Sharp, and Standardized: Global Convergence in Backed-Microlith Technology

The MIT Press eBooks·2018·4 authors·chapter

62citations

Climatic controls on Later Stone Age human adaptation in Africa's southern Cape

Journal of Human Evolution·2017·8 authors·Open access

66citations

Three arcs: observations on the archaeology of the Elands Bay and northern Cederberg landscapes

Research Online (University of Wollongong)·2016·1 author·Open access

13citations

Mid to Late Quaternary Landscape and Environmental Dynamics in the Middle Stone Age of Southern South Africa

Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthroplogy series/Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series·2016·3 authors·chapter

46citations

Technological Change and the Importance of Variability: The Western Cape of South Africa from MIS 6-2

Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthroplogy series/Vertebrate paleobiology and paleoanthropology series·2016·1 author·chapter

18citations

The Hybrid Origin of “Modern” Humans

Evolutionary Biology·2015·3 authors

144citations

Varsche Rivier 003, a new Middle Stone Age site in southern Namaqualand, South Africa

Research Online (University of Wollongong)·2012·4 authors

34citations

Two Holocene rock shelter deposits from the Knersvlakte, southern Namaqualand, South Africa

Research Online (University of Wollongong)·2011·5 authors

30citations

History and selection in the late pleistocene archaeology of the Western Cape, South Africa

ANU Open Research (Australian National University)·2009·1 author·thesis·Open access

45citations