Anthony E Marks

Biographic Data

ID	109970
NAME	Anthony E Marks
GIVEN NAMES	Anthony E
FAMILY NAME	Marks
SIGNATURE	MARKS A E
AFFILIATIONS	Southern Methodist University
ORCID	0000-0003-0195-0203
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	49
TOTAL CITATIONS	516
AUTHOR COUNT	49
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	12

Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa
Open AccessJeffrey I Rose, Vitaly I Usyk et al.ARTICLEJournal of Paleolithic Archaeology2025Cited by: 2References: 26
Over the past fifteen years, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has mapped 272 Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic sites in southern Oman, each exhibiting some extent of Nubian Levallois technology. This study describes a representative sample of 15 such assemblages and conducts quantitative analyses to explore variability in core reduction strategies, metric proportions, and post-depositional surface modifications. Lithic taphonomy provides insi…
Mapping lateral stratigraphy at Palaeolithic surface sites: A case study from Dhofar, Oman
Open AccessJeffrey I Rose, Y H Hilbert et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2024Cited by: 7References: 22
Open-air accumulations of chipped stone debris are a common feature in arid landscapes, yet despite their prevalence, such archives are often dismissed as uninformative or unreliable. In the canyonlands of Dhofar, southern Oman, lithic surface scatters are nearly ubiquitous, including extensive, multi-component workshops associated with chert outcrops. These sites typically display chronologically diagnostic features that correspond to distinct t…
Examining the distribution of Middle Paleolithic Nubian cores relative to chert quality in southern (Nejd, Dhofar) and south‐central (Duqm, Al Wusta) Oman
Open AccessM I Eren, Michelle Bebber et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2024Cited by: 3References: 69
Lithic raw material properties are often invoked to explain the presence, absence, form, or ontogeny of Paleolithic stone tools. Here, we explore whether the frequency of the Middle Paleolithic Nubian core form and core‐reduction systems co‐varies with toolstone quality in two neighboring regions in Oman: the southern region of Nejd, Dhofar, and the south‐central region of Duqm, Al Wusta. Specifically, we predicted that if raw material difference…
The Complex Taxonomy of ‘Nubian’ in Context
Open AccessE Hallinan, Anthony E MarksARTICLEJournal of Paleolithic Archaeology2023Cited by: 10References: 42
The meaning of the word ‘Nubian’ in Middle Palaeolithic archaeology has changed markedly since its first published use in 1965 in the context of the Nubian rescue campaign in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Initially referring to two types of prepared point cores, ‘Nubian’ later became attached to a widespread technocomplex in the 1990s and in more recent research describes a specific Levallois reduction strategy. In this review, we situate ‘N…
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in Southern Oman from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Neolithic
Open AccessJeffrey I Rose, Vitaly I Usyk et al.ARTICLEPaléorient2023Cited by: 5References: 48
Ongoing archaeological investigations in the Dhufār region of southern Oman have mapped some 800 lithic findspots distributed across the Dhufār Mountains, Nejd Plateau, and the southern Rub' al Khali Desert. These include extensive lithic workshops, specialized activity sites, as well as isolated armatures and cores. The array of lithic reduction strategies represents successive stages of technological evolution from the Pleistocene to the Holoce…
Introduction: A Personal Trip into Arabian Prehistory: Past, Present and Future
Open AccessAnthony E Marks, Anthony MarksARTICLEPaléorient2023References: 16
The path I have taken toward Arabian prehistory has been long and circuitous. Having been in the field in Iran and Israel, while an undergraduate in the 1950s, my attention when I got my PhD was focused on the Levant. Consequently, my first step toward Arabian prehistory was both unintentional and unlikely. In the fall of 1960, while a first-year graduate student at Columbia University, my mentor Ralph Solecki asked whether I wanted to go into th…
The nature of Nubian: Developing current global perspectives on Nubian Levallois technology and the Nubian complex
Open AccessE Hallinan, Omry Barzilai et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Anthropology Issues…2022Cited by: 14References: 3
Weapons in transition: Reappraisal of the origin of complex projectiles in the Levant based on the Boker Tachtit stratigraphic sequence
Open AccessAlla Yaroshevich, D Kaufman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2021Cited by: 21References: 35
Year-Old Geometric Microliths Reveal Glacial Refugium in Dhofar, Southern Oman
Open AccessJeffrey I Rose, Y H Hilbert et al.ARTICLEJournal of Paleolithic Archaeology2019
Reflections on Levantine Upper Palaeolithic Studies: Past and Present
Anthony E MarksCHAPTERMore than Meets the Eye2017
Nubian Complex reduction strategies in Dhofar, southern Oman
Open AccessVitaly I Usik, Jeffrey I Rose et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2012Cited by: 70References: 16
Between 2010 and 2012, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has located and mapped 260 Nubian Complex occurrences across Dhofar, southern Oman. Many of these lithic assemblages are technologically homologous to the Late Nubian Industry found in Africa, while others may represent a local industry derived from classic Nubian Levallois technology. The purpose of this paper is to describe the various reduction strategies encountered at a sample of Nubia…
The Paleolithic of Arabia in an Inter-regional Context
Anthony E MarksCHAPTER2010
Stasis and Change During the Crimean Middle Paleolithic
Anthony E Marks, Victor Chabai et al.CHAPTERTransitions Before the Transition2006
Later Middle Pleistocene human remains from the Almonda Karstic system, Torres Novas, Portugal
Open AccessE Trinkaus, Anthony E Marks et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2003Cited by: 31References: 11
Le gisement pléistocène moyen de Galeria Pesada (Estrémadure, Portugal): Premiers résultats
Open AccessAnthony E Marks, Jean Philip Brugal et al.ARTICLEPaléo2002
Les fouilles de la grotte de Galeria Pesada (complexe karstique d’Almonda, Torres Novas) livrent de riches assemblages lithiques et osseux datés du Pléistocène moyen final (fouilles 1997-1999). Les ensembles lithiques sont caractérisés par une combinaison d’outils classiques de l’Acheuléen, d’une abondante série d’outils bifaciaux (foliacés, petits bifaces asymétriques, Keilmesser, etc.) et de nombreux racloirs, souvent en quartz. Cette industrie…
Age of the Middle Palaeolithic Site of Rosh Ein Mor, Central Negev, Israel: Implications for the Age Range of the Early Levantine Mousterian of the Levantine Corridor
Open AccessW J Rink, Daniel Richter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2002Cited by: 30References: 10
Stone tool function at the paleolithic sites of Starosele and Buran Kaya III, Crimea: Behavioral implications
Open AccessBruce L Hardy, Bruce Hardy et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2001
Stone tools are often the most abundant type of cultural remains at Paleolithic sites, yet their function is often poorly understood. Investigations of stone tool function, including microscopic use-wear and residue analyses, were performed on a sample of artifacts from the Paleolithic sites of Starosele (40,000–80,000 years BP) and Buran Kaya III (32,000–37,000 years BP). The Middle Paleolithic levels at Starosele exhibit a typical variant of th…
Tool Standardization in the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic: A Closer Look (with comments)
Open AccessAnthony E Marks, Anthony Marks et al.ARTICLECambridge Archaeological Journal2001Cited by: 24
It has been postulated that one difference between Neanderthals and anatomically modern people lies in a ‘clearer mental template’ of flaked stone tools on the part of modern people. This is thought to have been manifested in greater tool standardization during the Upper Palaeolithic than in the Middle Palaeolithic. Testing of this hypothesis, using three samples of a characteristic Upper Palaeolithic tool class — burins — from one Middle Palaeol…
The Archaeology of the Wadi Al-Hasa, West Central Jordan, Vol. 1: Surveys, Settlement Patterns and Paleoenvironments . Nancy R. Coinman
Anthony E MarksARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research1999
Prehistoric Cultural Ecology and Evolution: Insights from Southern Jordan:Prehistoric Cultural Ecology and Evolution: Insights from Southern Jordan
Open AccessAnthony E MarksARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1997
Prehistoric Cultural Ecology and Evolution: Insights from Southern Jordan
Open AccessAnthony E MarksARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1997
Prehistoric Cultural Ecology and Evolution: Insights from Southern Jordan. Donald O. Henry. New York: Plenum Press, 1995. 466 pp
Starosele and the Starosele Child: New Excavations, New Results
Anthony E Marks, K Monigal et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1997Cited by: 15
The Neanderthal Legacy: An Archaeological Perspective from Western Europe . Paul Mellars
Anthony E MarksARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research1996
On Proprietary Rights in Archaeology: Some Unresolved Issues
Philip L Kohl, Aleksandr Formozov et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1996
Site Identification and Correlation Using Geoarchaeological Methods at the Cabeço do Porto Marinho (CPM) Locality, Rio Maior, Portugal
Open AccessBrooks B Ellwood, Francis B Harrold et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science1994Cited by: 5

Prehistory and Paleoenvironments in the Central Negev Israel
Anthony E MarksBOOKPrehistory and Paleoenvironments…1983Cited by: 138
Nubian Complex reduction strategies in Dhofar, southern Oman
Open AccessVitaly I Usik, Jeffrey I Rose et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2012Cited by: 70References: 16
Between 2010 and 2012, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has located and mapped 260 Nubian Complex occurrences across Dhofar, southern Oman. Many of these lithic assemblages are technologically homologous to the Late Nubian Industry found in Africa, while others may represent a local industry derived from classic Nubian Levallois technology. The purpose of this paper is to describe the various reduction strategies encountered at a sample of Nubia…
Later Middle Pleistocene human remains from the Almonda Karstic system, Torres Novas, Portugal
Open AccessE Trinkaus, Anthony E Marks et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2003Cited by: 31References: 11
Age of the Middle Palaeolithic Site of Rosh Ein Mor, Central Negev, Israel: Implications for the Age Range of the Early Levantine Mousterian of the Levantine Corridor
Open AccessW J Rink, Daniel Richter et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2002Cited by: 30References: 10
The Mousterian of Ksar Akil: Levels XXVIA through XXVIIIB
Anthony E Marks, Philip VolkmanARTICLEPaléorient1986Cited by: 30
L'étude détaillée des collections moustériennes de Ksar Akil (campagne 1947), conservées au Peabody Museum (Univ. Harvard) et à l'Institut d'archéologie (Univ. de Londres) a révélé une image plus complexe que celle traditionnellement admise. Bien que seuls les six niveaux supérieurs aient livré du matériel en nombre suffisant pour permettre une analyse fine, il est apparu clairement du point de vue typologique et technologique que les deux niveau…
Toward a New Outline of the Soviet Central Asian Paleolithic [and Comments and Reply]
Vadim A Ranov, Richard S Davis et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1979Cited by: 26References: 3
The ideas about the distribution of the earliest sites in Soviet Central Asia and the character of Paleolithic industries which have been formed by Western archaeologist through the works of Movius, Klein, and Chard are now in need of revision because of the appearance of new material. The increasing possibility of worldwide synchronization of geological and climatological events permits the comparison of the subdivisions of the Soviet Central As…
Tool Standardization in the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic: A Closer Look (with comments)
Open AccessAnthony E Marks, Anthony Marks et al.ARTICLECambridge Archaeological Journal2001Cited by: 24
It has been postulated that one difference between Neanderthals and anatomically modern people lies in a ‘clearer mental template’ of flaked stone tools on the part of modern people. This is thought to have been manifested in greater tool standardization during the Upper Palaeolithic than in the Middle Palaeolithic. Testing of this hypothesis, using three samples of a characteristic Upper Palaeolithic tool class — burins — from one Middle Palaeol…
Weapons in transition: Reappraisal of the origin of complex projectiles in the Levant based on the Boker Tachtit stratigraphic sequence
Open AccessAlla Yaroshevich, D Kaufman et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2021Cited by: 21References: 35
Upper Pleistocene Prehistory in Portuguese Estremadura: Results of Preliminary Research
Anthony E Marks, Nuno Bieho et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1994Cited by: 19References: 7
The Upper Pleistocene prehistory of Portugal is among the least known of any area of Western Europe. Recent survey and excavations have revealed that southern Portuguese Estremadura may well be as rich in the full range of prehistoric sites as any part of Iberia. Numerous open and cave sites with intact cultural deposits have been located that range from the Mousterian through the early Neolithic. While the work is ongoing, there is now good evid…
Starosele and the Starosele Child: New Excavations, New Results
Anthony E Marks, K Monigal et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1997Cited by: 15
The nature of Nubian: Developing current global perspectives on Nubian Levallois technology and the Nubian complex
Open AccessE Hallinan, Omry Barzilai et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Anthropology Issues…2022Cited by: 14References: 3
The archaeology of the Eastern Sahel, Sudan: Preliminary results
Open AccessRodolfo Fattovich, Anthony E Marks et al.ARTICLEAfrican Archaeological Review1984Cited by: 13References: 3
The Complex Taxonomy of ‘Nubian’ in Context
Open AccessE Hallinan, Anthony E MarksARTICLEJournal of Paleolithic Archaeology2023Cited by: 10References: 42
The meaning of the word ‘Nubian’ in Middle Palaeolithic archaeology has changed markedly since its first published use in 1965 in the context of the Nubian rescue campaign in southern Egypt and northern Sudan. Initially referring to two types of prepared point cores, ‘Nubian’ later became attached to a widespread technocomplex in the 1990s and in more recent research describes a specific Levallois reduction strategy. In this review, we situate ‘N…
Terminal Pleistocene and Holocene hunters and gatherers in the eastern Sudan
Open AccessAnthony E MarksARTICLEAfrican Archaeological Review1987Cited by: 10References: 4
Survey and Excavations in the Dongola Reach, Sudan
Anthony E Marks, Joel L Shiner et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1968Cited by: 10
The Prehistory of the Central Nile Valley as Seen from Its Eastern Hinterlands: Excavations at Shaqadud, Sudan
Anthony E Marks, Abbas S Mohammed-Ali et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1985Cited by: 9
Excavations at the midden and cave complex of Shaqadud in the savannah 50 km east of the Nile Valley, Central Sudan, have documented an almost continuous sequence of occupations from 7500 B.P. to 3500 B.P. Although until about 4000 B.P. these occupations have correlates in the Nile Valley, it is clear that at Shaqadud people had adapted primarily to grasslands and were not merely Nilotic folk exploiting the savannah after the summer rains, as has…
The Harif Point: A New Tool Type from the Terminal Epipaleolithic of the Central Negev, Israel
Anthony E MarksARTICLEPaléorient1973Cited by: 8
Description of a new tool Type: the Harif Point. The site, where it was found, on the western border of the central Negev, has been dated by three radiocarbon determinations to the last quarter of the 9th mil. B.C. It is a small, usually unifacial tool, consisting of two major retouched elements
Rosh Ein Mor, an Open-Air Mousterian Site in the Central Negev, Israel
Anthony E Marks, Harvey Crew et al.ARTICLECurrent Anthropology1972Cited by: 8
Mapping lateral stratigraphy at Palaeolithic surface sites: A case study from Dhofar, Oman
Open AccessJeffrey I Rose, Y H Hilbert et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2024Cited by: 7References: 22
Open-air accumulations of chipped stone debris are a common feature in arid landscapes, yet despite their prevalence, such archives are often dismissed as uninformative or unreliable. In the canyonlands of Dhofar, southern Oman, lithic surface scatters are nearly ubiquitous, including extensive, multi-component workshops associated with chert outcrops. These sites typically display chronologically diagnostic features that correspond to distinct t…
Settlement Patterns and Intrasite Variability in the Central Negev, Israel 1
Open AccessAnthony E MarksARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist1971Cited by: 6References: 1
Settlement pattern studies in two areas within the Central Negev reveal variations seemingly related to local resources. Near Avdat, the availability of flint may have attracted Middle Paleolithic peoples while Upper Paleolithic occupations are densest and largest near perennial springs. In the Har Harif, no Middle Paleolithic occupations are documented, and the paucity of springs in the survey area is paralleled by the sparse Upper Paleolithic o…
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in Southern Oman from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Neolithic
Open AccessJeffrey I Rose, Vitaly I Usyk et al.ARTICLEPaléorient2023Cited by: 5References: 48
Ongoing archaeological investigations in the Dhufār region of southern Oman have mapped some 800 lithic findspots distributed across the Dhufār Mountains, Nejd Plateau, and the southern Rub' al Khali Desert. These include extensive lithic workshops, specialized activity sites, as well as isolated armatures and cores. The array of lithic reduction strategies represents successive stages of technological evolution from the Pleistocene to the Holoce…
Site Identification and Correlation Using Geoarchaeological Methods at the Cabeço do Porto Marinho (CPM) Locality, Rio Maior, Portugal
Open AccessBrooks B Ellwood, Francis B Harrold et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science1994Cited by: 5
Examining the distribution of Middle Paleolithic Nubian cores relative to chert quality in southern (Nejd, Dhofar) and south‐central (Duqm, Al Wusta) Oman
Open AccessM I Eren, Michelle Bebber et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2024Cited by: 3References: 69
Lithic raw material properties are often invoked to explain the presence, absence, form, or ontogeny of Paleolithic stone tools. Here, we explore whether the frequency of the Middle Paleolithic Nubian core form and core‐reduction systems co‐varies with toolstone quality in two neighboring regions in Oman: the southern region of Nejd, Dhofar, and the south‐central region of Duqm, Al Wusta. Specifically, we predicted that if raw material difference…
Lithic Miniaturization and Technological Innovation on the Southern Dispersal Route Out of Africa
Open AccessJeffrey I Rose, Vitaly I Usyk et al.ARTICLEJournal of Paleolithic Archaeology2025Cited by: 2References: 26
Over the past fifteen years, the Dhofar Archaeological Project has mapped 272 Middle Stone Age/Middle Palaeolithic sites in southern Oman, each exhibiting some extent of Nubian Levallois technology. This study describes a representative sample of 15 such assemblages and conducts quantitative analyses to explore variability in core reduction strategies, metric proportions, and post-depositional surface modifications. Lithic taphonomy provides insi…
The prehistory of shaqadud in the Western Butana, Central Sudan: A preliminary report
Abbas S Mohammed-Ali, Abbas Mohammed‐ali et al.ARTICLENorwegian Archaeological Review1984Cited by: 1References: 5
(1984). The prehistory of shaqadud in the Western Butana, Central Sudan: A preliminary report. Norwegian Archaeological Review: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 52-59