Publications
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Refereed Journal Articles
2021 Wilkins, Jayne, Benjamin J. Schoville, Robyn Pickering, Luke Gliganic, Benjamin Collins, Kyle S. Brown, Jessica von der Meden*, Wendy Khumalo, Michael C. Meyer, Sechaba Maape, Alexander F. Blackwood, Amy Hatton. Innovative Homo sapiens behaviours 105,000 years ago in a wetter Kalahari. Nature 592: 248–252.
Open Access: https://rdcu.be/chP3q
2021 Schoville, Benjamin, Kyle Brown, Jayne Wilkins. A Lithic Provisioning Model as a Proxy for Landscape Mobility in the Southern and Middle Kalahari. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
2020 Wilkins, Jayne. Is it time to retire NASTIES in southern Africa? Moving beyond the cultural historic framework for Middle Stone Age lithic assemblage variability. Lithic Technology 45: 295-307.
2020 Wilkins, Jayne. Learner-driven innovation in the stone tool technology of early Homo sapiens. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, e40:1-15.
2020 Wilkins, Jayne, Benjamin J. Schoville, Kyle S. Brown, Luke Gliganic, Michael C. Meyer, Emma Loftus, Robyn Pickering, Benjamin Collins, Alexander Blackwood, Simangaliso Makalima, Amy Hatton, Sechaba Maape. Fabric analysis and chronology at Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter, southern Kalahari Basin: Evidence for in situ, stratified Middle and Later Stone Age deposits Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. 1-26.
2020 Hatton, Amy, Benjamin J. Schoville, Jayne Wilkins. A quantitative analysis of wear distributions on Middle Stone Age marine shell beads from Blombos Cave, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 29: 102137
2018 Eugene Smith, Zenobia Jacobs, Racheal Johnsen, Minghua Ren, Erich C. Fisher, Simen Oestmo, Jayne Wilkins, Jacob A. Harris, Panagiotis Karkanas, Shelby Fitch, Amber Ciravolo, Deborah Keenan, Naomi Cleghorn, Christine S. Lane, Thalassa Matthews and Curtis W. Marean. Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba super-volcanic eruption ~74,000 years ago. Nature 555:511
2017 Benjamin Collins, Jayne Wilkins, Christopher Ames. Preliminary analysis of the Holocene occupations from the renewed excavations at Grassridge Rockshelter, Eastern Cape, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 72 (206); 162-170.
2017 Schoville, Benjamin J., Jayne Wilkins, Terrence Ritzman, Simen Oestmo, and Kyle S. Brown. The Performance of Heat-treated Silcrete Backed Pieces in Actualistic and Controlled Complex Projectile Experiments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 14: 302-317.
2017 Wilkins, Jayne, Kyle S. Brown, Simen Oestmo, Telmo Pereira, Kathryn L. Ranhorn, Benjamin J. Schoville, and Curtis W. Marean. Lithic technological responses to Late Pleistocene glacial cycling at Pinnacle Point Site 5-6, South Africa. Plos One. 12 (3):e0174051.
2017 Wilkins, Jayne. Middle Pleistocene Lithic Raw Material Foraging Strategies at Kathu Pan 1, Northern Cape, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 11: 169-188.
2016 Schoville, Benjamin J., Kyle S. Brown, Jake Harris, and Jayne Wilkins. New experiments and a model driven approach for interpreting Middle Stone Age lithic point function using the edge damage distribution method. Plos One 11 (10) e0164088.
2016 Watts, Ian, Michael Chazan, Jayne Wilkins. Early evidence for brilliant ritualized display: specularite use in the Northern Cape (South Africa) between ~500 ka and ~300 ka. Current Anthropology 57: 287-310.
2015 McGrath, James R., Naomi Cleghorn, Betina Gennari Struan Henderson, Katharine Kyriacou, Cindy Nelson-Viljoen, Peter Nilssen, Leesha Richardson, Christopher Shelton, Jayne Wilkins, and Curtis W. Marean. The Pinnacle Point Shell Midden Complex: A Mid- to Late Holocene Record of Later Stone Age Coastal Foraging Along the Southern Cape Coast Of South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 70(202): 209-219.
2015 Wilkins, Jayne, Benjamin J. Schoville, Kyle S. Brown, Michael Chazan. Kathu Pan 1 points and the assemblage-scale, probabilistic approach: A response to Rots and Plisson, “Projectiles and the abuse of the use-wear method in a search for impact”. Journal of Archaeological Science 54, 294-299.
2014 Wilkins, Jayne, Benjamin J. Schoville, Kyle S. Brown. An Experimental Investigation of the Functional Hypothesis and Evolutionary Advantage of Stone-Tipped Spears. Plos One 9 (8) e104514.
2014 Oestmo, Simen, Benjamin J. Schoville, Jayne Wilkins, and Curtis W. Marean. A Middle Stone Age (MSA) Paleosol Landscape near the Pinnacle Point caves, Vleesbaai, South Africa. Quaternary International 350, 147-168
2012 Wilkins, Jayne, Benjamin J. Schoville, Kyle S. Brown, and Michael Chazan. Evidence for Early Hafted Hunting Technology. Science 338, 942-946.
2012 Wilkins, Jayne, and Michael Chazan. Blade Production ~500 thousand years ago at Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: Support for a Multiple Origins Hypothesis for early Middle Pleistocene Blade Technologies. Journal of Archaeological Science 39, 1883-1900.
2010 Wilkins, Jayne, Luca Pollarolo, and Kathleen Kuman. Prepared Core Reduction at the site of Kudu Koppie, northern South Africa: Temporal patterns across the Earlier and Middle Stone Age Boundary. Journal of Archaeological Science 37, 1279-1292.
2010 Pollarolo, Luca, Jayne Wilkins, Kathleen Kuman, and L. Galetti. Site formation at Kudu Koppie: a late Earlier and Middle Stone Age site in northern Limpopo Province, South Africa. Quaternary International 216, 151-161.
2010 Wilkins, Jayne. Style, Symboling, and Interaction in Middle Stone Age Society. vis-a-vis: Explorations in Anthropology 10 (1), 102-125.
2006 Mercader, Julio, Raquel Marti, Jayne Wilkins, and Kent D. Fowler. The Eastern Periphery of the Yoruba Cultural Sphere: Ceramics from the Lowland Rainforests of Southern Cameroon. Current Anthropology 47 (1), 173-184.
Edited Volumes
2010 Macdonald, Danielle and Jayne Wilkins, editors Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Proceedings of the 2010 Graduate Students Lithics Symposium. Special Issue of vis-à-vis: Explorations in Anthropology 10 (2), 119 pp.
2009 Wilkins, Jayne and Kirsten Anderson, editors. Tools of the Trade: Methods, Techniques, and Innovative Approaches in Archaeology. University of Calgary Press. Calgary. 315 pp.
Book Chapters
2020 Wilkins, Jayne. Archaeological evidence for human social learning and sociality in the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa. In Editors, Celia Deane-Drummond and Augustin Fuentes. Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology: Dialogues in Wisdom, Humility, and Grace. Routledge Press. 119-141
2018 Wilkins, Jayne. The Point is the Point: Emulative social learning and weapon manufacture in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa. In Eds. O’Brien, M., Buchanan, B., and Eren, M., Convergent Evolution and Stone Tool Technology. MIT Press. 153-173.
2016 Wilkins, Jayne, and Benjamin J. Schoville. Edge damage on 500-thousand-year-old spear tips from Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: the combined effects of spear use and taphonomic processes. In R. Iovita and K. Sano (Eds.), Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry: Springer. 101-117.
Encyclopedia Entries
2015 Wilkins, Jayne. Weapons, stone. In M. C. Beaudry and K. Metheny (Eds), The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia. Rowman and Littlefield: London.
2014 Wilkins, Jayne. Lucy. In C. Smith (Ed), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer Reference: 4561-4564.
Other Publications
2020 Ranhorn, Kathryn L., Pargeter, Justin, Premo, L. S., PaST Network Collaborators. Investigating the evolution of human social learning through collaborative experimental archaeology. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 2020:1-3.
2012 Chazan, Michael, Jayne Wilkins, David Morris, and Francesco Berna. Bestwood 1: a newly discovered Earlier Stone Age living surface near Kathu, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Antiquity Project Gallery 086.
Refereed Journal Articles
2021 Wilkins, Jayne, Benjamin J. Schoville, Robyn Pickering, Luke Gliganic, Benjamin Collins, Kyle S. Brown, Jessica von der Meden*, Wendy Khumalo, Michael C. Meyer, Sechaba Maape, Alexander F. Blackwood, Amy Hatton. Innovative Homo sapiens behaviours 105,000 years ago in a wetter Kalahari. Nature 592: 248–252.
Open Access: https://rdcu.be/chP3q
2021 Schoville, Benjamin, Kyle Brown, Jayne Wilkins. A Lithic Provisioning Model as a Proxy for Landscape Mobility in the Southern and Middle Kalahari. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory.
2020 Wilkins, Jayne. Is it time to retire NASTIES in southern Africa? Moving beyond the cultural historic framework for Middle Stone Age lithic assemblage variability. Lithic Technology 45: 295-307.
2020 Wilkins, Jayne. Learner-driven innovation in the stone tool technology of early Homo sapiens. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2, e40:1-15.
2020 Wilkins, Jayne, Benjamin J. Schoville, Kyle S. Brown, Luke Gliganic, Michael C. Meyer, Emma Loftus, Robyn Pickering, Benjamin Collins, Alexander Blackwood, Simangaliso Makalima, Amy Hatton, Sechaba Maape. Fabric analysis and chronology at Ga-Mohana Hill North Rockshelter, southern Kalahari Basin: Evidence for in situ, stratified Middle and Later Stone Age deposits Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. 1-26.
2020 Hatton, Amy, Benjamin J. Schoville, Jayne Wilkins. A quantitative analysis of wear distributions on Middle Stone Age marine shell beads from Blombos Cave, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 29: 102137
2018 Eugene Smith, Zenobia Jacobs, Racheal Johnsen, Minghua Ren, Erich C. Fisher, Simen Oestmo, Jayne Wilkins, Jacob A. Harris, Panagiotis Karkanas, Shelby Fitch, Amber Ciravolo, Deborah Keenan, Naomi Cleghorn, Christine S. Lane, Thalassa Matthews and Curtis W. Marean. Humans thrived in South Africa through the Toba super-volcanic eruption ~74,000 years ago. Nature 555:511
2017 Benjamin Collins, Jayne Wilkins, Christopher Ames. Preliminary analysis of the Holocene occupations from the renewed excavations at Grassridge Rockshelter, Eastern Cape, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 72 (206); 162-170.
2017 Schoville, Benjamin J., Jayne Wilkins, Terrence Ritzman, Simen Oestmo, and Kyle S. Brown. The Performance of Heat-treated Silcrete Backed Pieces in Actualistic and Controlled Complex Projectile Experiments. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 14: 302-317.
2017 Wilkins, Jayne, Kyle S. Brown, Simen Oestmo, Telmo Pereira, Kathryn L. Ranhorn, Benjamin J. Schoville, and Curtis W. Marean. Lithic technological responses to Late Pleistocene glacial cycling at Pinnacle Point Site 5-6, South Africa. Plos One. 12 (3):e0174051.
2017 Wilkins, Jayne. Middle Pleistocene Lithic Raw Material Foraging Strategies at Kathu Pan 1, Northern Cape, South Africa. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 11: 169-188.
2016 Schoville, Benjamin J., Kyle S. Brown, Jake Harris, and Jayne Wilkins. New experiments and a model driven approach for interpreting Middle Stone Age lithic point function using the edge damage distribution method. Plos One 11 (10) e0164088.
2016 Watts, Ian, Michael Chazan, Jayne Wilkins. Early evidence for brilliant ritualized display: specularite use in the Northern Cape (South Africa) between ~500 ka and ~300 ka. Current Anthropology 57: 287-310.
2015 McGrath, James R., Naomi Cleghorn, Betina Gennari Struan Henderson, Katharine Kyriacou, Cindy Nelson-Viljoen, Peter Nilssen, Leesha Richardson, Christopher Shelton, Jayne Wilkins, and Curtis W. Marean. The Pinnacle Point Shell Midden Complex: A Mid- to Late Holocene Record of Later Stone Age Coastal Foraging Along the Southern Cape Coast Of South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 70(202): 209-219.
2015 Wilkins, Jayne, Benjamin J. Schoville, Kyle S. Brown, Michael Chazan. Kathu Pan 1 points and the assemblage-scale, probabilistic approach: A response to Rots and Plisson, “Projectiles and the abuse of the use-wear method in a search for impact”. Journal of Archaeological Science 54, 294-299.
2014 Wilkins, Jayne, Benjamin J. Schoville, Kyle S. Brown. An Experimental Investigation of the Functional Hypothesis and Evolutionary Advantage of Stone-Tipped Spears. Plos One 9 (8) e104514.
2014 Oestmo, Simen, Benjamin J. Schoville, Jayne Wilkins, and Curtis W. Marean. A Middle Stone Age (MSA) Paleosol Landscape near the Pinnacle Point caves, Vleesbaai, South Africa. Quaternary International 350, 147-168
2012 Wilkins, Jayne, Benjamin J. Schoville, Kyle S. Brown, and Michael Chazan. Evidence for Early Hafted Hunting Technology. Science 338, 942-946.
2012 Wilkins, Jayne, and Michael Chazan. Blade Production ~500 thousand years ago at Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: Support for a Multiple Origins Hypothesis for early Middle Pleistocene Blade Technologies. Journal of Archaeological Science 39, 1883-1900.
2010 Wilkins, Jayne, Luca Pollarolo, and Kathleen Kuman. Prepared Core Reduction at the site of Kudu Koppie, northern South Africa: Temporal patterns across the Earlier and Middle Stone Age Boundary. Journal of Archaeological Science 37, 1279-1292.
2010 Pollarolo, Luca, Jayne Wilkins, Kathleen Kuman, and L. Galetti. Site formation at Kudu Koppie: a late Earlier and Middle Stone Age site in northern Limpopo Province, South Africa. Quaternary International 216, 151-161.
2010 Wilkins, Jayne. Style, Symboling, and Interaction in Middle Stone Age Society. vis-a-vis: Explorations in Anthropology 10 (1), 102-125.
2006 Mercader, Julio, Raquel Marti, Jayne Wilkins, and Kent D. Fowler. The Eastern Periphery of the Yoruba Cultural Sphere: Ceramics from the Lowland Rainforests of Southern Cameroon. Current Anthropology 47 (1), 173-184.
Edited Volumes
2010 Macdonald, Danielle and Jayne Wilkins, editors Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Proceedings of the 2010 Graduate Students Lithics Symposium. Special Issue of vis-à-vis: Explorations in Anthropology 10 (2), 119 pp.
2009 Wilkins, Jayne and Kirsten Anderson, editors. Tools of the Trade: Methods, Techniques, and Innovative Approaches in Archaeology. University of Calgary Press. Calgary. 315 pp.
Book Chapters
2020 Wilkins, Jayne. Archaeological evidence for human social learning and sociality in the Middle Stone Age of Southern Africa. In Editors, Celia Deane-Drummond and Augustin Fuentes. Theology and Evolutionary Anthropology: Dialogues in Wisdom, Humility, and Grace. Routledge Press. 119-141
2018 Wilkins, Jayne. The Point is the Point: Emulative social learning and weapon manufacture in the Middle Stone Age of South Africa. In Eds. O’Brien, M., Buchanan, B., and Eren, M., Convergent Evolution and Stone Tool Technology. MIT Press. 153-173.
2016 Wilkins, Jayne, and Benjamin J. Schoville. Edge damage on 500-thousand-year-old spear tips from Kathu Pan 1, South Africa: the combined effects of spear use and taphonomic processes. In R. Iovita and K. Sano (Eds.), Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry: Springer. 101-117.
Encyclopedia Entries
2015 Wilkins, Jayne. Weapons, stone. In M. C. Beaudry and K. Metheny (Eds), The Archaeology of Food: An Encyclopedia. Rowman and Littlefield: London.
2014 Wilkins, Jayne. Lucy. In C. Smith (Ed), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer Reference: 4561-4564.
Other Publications
2020 Ranhorn, Kathryn L., Pargeter, Justin, Premo, L. S., PaST Network Collaborators. Investigating the evolution of human social learning through collaborative experimental archaeology. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 2020:1-3.
2012 Chazan, Michael, Jayne Wilkins, David Morris, and Francesco Berna. Bestwood 1: a newly discovered Earlier Stone Age living surface near Kathu, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Antiquity Project Gallery 086.
