W Archer

Biographic Data

ID	31911
NAME	W Archer
GIVEN NAMES	W
FAMILY NAME	Archer
SIGNATURE	ARCHER W
AFFILIATIONS	University of Cape Town
ORCID	0000-0003-1174-0605
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	28
TOTAL CITATIONS	742
WORKS AS AUTHOR	28
WORKS AS EDITOR	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1910
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	12

Stone Age archaeology of the Riet River dongas, Free State, South Africa
Open AccessBenoît Longet, W Archer et al.ARTICLESouthern African Field Archaeology2026
Recent research on the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa’s central interior underscores the pivotal role played by this region in the emergence and cultural evolution of African Homo sapiens. In the central interior, specifically the Grassland and Savanna Biomes of South Africa’s Free State Province, the earliest southern African Homo sapiens fossil originates from the site of Florisbad. Despite this, archaeological data remain sparse, hinderin…
Fire, temperature control, and silcrete heat treatment at Diepkloof and Mertenhof Rock Shelters, West Coast, South Africa
Open AccessW Archer, A Mackay et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2026
A Predictive Model for the Non-Destructive Assessment of Stone Age Silcrete Heat Treatment Strategies
Open AccessW Archer, Darya Presnyakova et al.ARTICLEJournal of Paleolithic Archaeology2023
Late Acheulean occupations at Montagu Cave and the pattern of Middle Pleistocene behavioral change in Western Cape, southern Africa
Open AccessW Archer, Darya Presnyakova et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2023Cited by: 2References: 133
Machine learning, bootstrapping, null models, and why we are still not 100% sure which bone surface modifications were made by crocodiles
Open AccessShannon J P Mcpherron, W Archer et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2022
Quantifying differences in hominin flaking technologies with 3D shape analysis
Open AccessW Archer, Igor Djakovic et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2021Cited by: 18References: 53
The Middle to Later Stone Age transition at Panga ya Saidi, in the tropical coastal forest of eastern Africa
Open AccessCeri Shipton, J Blinkhorn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2021Cited by: 20References: 100
What is ‘in situ’? A reply to Harmand et al. (2015)
Open AccessW Archer, Vera Aldeias et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2020
Earliest known Oldowan artifacts at >2.58 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia, highlight early technological diversity
Open AccessD R Braun, Vera Aldeias et al.ARTICLEProceedings of the National…2019
Significance Humans are distinguished from all other primates by their reliance on tool use. When this uniquely human feature began is debated. Evidence of tool use in human ancestors now extends almost 3.3 Ma and becomes prevalent only after 2.6 Ma with the Oldowan. Here, we report a new Oldowan locality (BD 1) that dates prior to 2.6 Ma. These earliest Oldowan tools are distinctive from the 3.3 Ma assemblage and from materials that modern nonhu…
A missing piece of the Papio puzzle
Open AccessFelipe I Martínez, Cristian Capelli et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2019Cited by: 8References: 56
Year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest
Open AccessCeri Shipton, Patrick Roberts et al.ARTICLENature Communications2018
The Middle to Later Stone Age transition in Africa has been debated as a significant shift in human technological, cultural, and cognitive evolution. However, the majority of research on this transition is currently focused on southern Africa due to a lack of long-term, stratified sites across much of the African continent. Here, we report a 78,000-year-long archeological record from Panga ya Saidi, a cave in the humid coastal forest of Kenya. Fo…
The Matatiele Archaeology and Rock Art (Mara) Program Excavations
Hugo Pinto, W Archer et al.ARTICLEJournal of African Archaeology2018Cited by: 3References: 21
The rock shelter Mafusing 1 was excavated in 2011 as part of the Matatiele Archaeology and Rock Art or MARA research programme initiated in the same year. This programme endeavours to redress the much-neglected history of this region of South Africa, which until 1994 formed part of the wider ‘Transkei’ apartheid homeland. Derricourt’s 1977 Prehistoric Man in the Ciskei and Transkei constituted the last archaeological survey in this area. However,…
Site fragmentation, hominin mobility and LCT variability reflected in the early Acheulean record of the Okote Member, at Koobi Fora, Kenya
Open AccessDarya Presnyakova, D R Braun et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2018Cited by: 48References: 113
A geometric morphometric relationship predicts stone flake shape and size variability
Open AccessW Archer, Cornel M Pop et al.ARTICLEArchaeological and Anthropological…2018Cited by: 41References: 38
International audience
The context of hominin behaviour at Elandsfontien in the Mid-Pleistocene
Open AccessD R Braun, D Braun et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2016Cited by: 2
What is Still Bay? Human biogeography and bifacial point variability
Open AccessW Archer, Cornel M Pop et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2016Cited by: 57References: 90
A Core Reduction Experiment Finds No Effect of Original Stone Size and Reduction Intensity on Flake Debris Size Distribution
Open AccessC Lin, Sam C Lin et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2016Cited by: 26References: 26
Studies have long noted the influence of stone package size and reduction intensity on lithic assemblage composition, particularly in the form of flake size distributions. However, it remains difficult to distinguish objectively the effect of either factor in archaeological contexts without controlling for the variation in one of the two variables. Here we report on an experimental study designed to test the null hypotheses that original stone si…
An experimental assessment of the influences on edge damage to lithic artifacts
Open AccessShannon J P Mcpherron, D R Braun et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2014Cited by: 56References: 19
Early Pleistocene aquatic resource use in the Turkana Basin
Open AccessW Archer, D R Braun et al.ARTICLEJournal of Human Evolution2014Cited by: 36References: 88
The MSA sequence of Diepkloof and the history of southern African Late Pleistocene populations
Open AccessGuillaume Porraz, J Parkington et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2013Cited by: 74References: 63
Technological successions in the Middle Stone Age sequence of Diepkloof Rock Shelter, Western Cape, South Africa
Open AccessGuillaume Porraz, Pierre-Jean Texier et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2013Cited by: 148References: 49
Heat treatment in the South African Middle Stone Age
Open AccessPatrick Schmidt, Guillaume Porraz et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2012Cited by: 96References: 20
Variability in bifacial technology at Elandsfontein, Western cape, South Africa
Open AccessW Archer, D R BraunARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2009Cited by: 106References: 19
The Future of India
Open AccessRobert Mcafee Brown, W ArcherARTICLEGeographical Review1920
America Through English Eyes
W ArcherARTICLECurrent History1917
Essay| April 01 1917 America Through English Eyes William Archer William Archer English Dramatist, Essayist, and Critic Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1917) 6_Part-1 (1): 78–80. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1917.6P1.1.78 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Ico…