Category Archives: Peer-reviewed publications

Winterhalder, R., Green, C., Faul, I., Henderson, A., Mothulatshipi, S., Segadika, P., & Ecker, M., 2026. Connecting survey data with targeted test excavations to understand lithic artefacts in the landscape of the southern Kalahari, Botswana. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 0, 1–39. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2026.2627127

Politt, S.S., Pribliczki, H., Dickinson, M.R., Andersen, N., Henderson, A., Morris, D., Makarewicz, C.A., Penkman, K., Ecker, M., 2025. Insights into the Middle Pleistocene fauna of South Africa: Zooarchaeology, stable isotopes and dating of Pniel 6. Journal of Quaternary Science 40, 1120–1139. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.70002

Faul, I., Grandfield, T., Dreibrodt, S., Mothulatshipi, S., Segadika, P., Green, C., Frouin, M., Ecker, M., 2025. Dune, outcrop, and pan sediments from the southern Kalahari Basin: A geoarchaeological case study from the Kgalagadi district, Botswana. safa 20. https://doi.org/10.36615/safa.20.3408.2025

Ecker, M., Rhodes, S., Andersen, N., Horwitz, L.K., Chazan, M., Makarewicz, C.A., 2025. A holocene n-alkane stable isotope record from Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa and its implications for the later stone age record. Sci Rep 15, 14667. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-99054-0 Read here the press release of the University of Kiel for this paper.

Kelley, D.I., Sato, H., Ecker, M., Burton, C.A., Capurucho, J.M.G., Bates, J., 2024. Niche-dependent forest and savanna fragmentation in Tropical South America during the Last Glacial Maximum. npj biodivers 3, 23. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44185-024-00056-4