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Overview

Curtis W. Marean is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Social Sciences. Within these broad categories, Marean's work covers several subfields including Anthropology, Atmospheric Science, Archeology, Paleontology, and Ecology.

The main topics that Marean focuses on include:

  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
  • Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

Marean has published in a number of academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Quaternary Research
  • iScience
  • Nature
  • Journal of Human Evolution

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Marean include:

  • Richard M. Cowling
  • Colin D. Wren
  • Erich C. Fisher
  • Jan A. Venter
  • Kerstin Braun

Notable recent papers published by Marean and collaborators are:

  • The Palaeo-Agulhas Plain: Temporal and spatial variation in an extraordinary extinct ecosystem of the Pleistocene of the Cape Floristic Region, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • A worked bone assemblage from 120,000-90,000 year old deposits at Contrebandiers Cave, Atlantic Coast, Morocco, 2021, iScience
  • An isotopic test of the seasonal migration hypothesis for large grazing ungulates inhabiting the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Adaptive foraging behaviours in the Horn of Africa during Toba supereruption, 2024, Nature
  • Micromammal and macromammal stable isotopes from a MIS 6 fossil hyena den (Pinnacle Point site 30, south coast, South Africa) reveal differences in relative contribution of C4 grasses to local and regional palaeovegetation on the Palaeo-Agulhas Plain, 2020, Quaternary Science Reviews

Best Publications

  • Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene

    Curtis W. Marean;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Jocelyn Bernatchez;Erich Fisher

  • Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia

    Shannon P. McPherron;Zeresenay Alemseged;Curtis W. Marean;Jonathan G. Wynn

  • Blind tests of inter-analyst correspondence and accuracy in the identification of cut marks, percussion marks and carnivore tooth marks on bone surfaces

    Robert J. Blumenschine;Curtis W. Marean;Salvatore D. Capaldo

  • Fire As an Engineering Tool of Early Modern Humans

    Kyle S. Brown;Kyle S. Brown;Curtis W. Marean;Andy I. R. Herries;Andy I. R. Herries;Zenobia Jacobs

  • An early bone tool industry from the Middle Stone Age at Blombos Cave, South Africa: Implications for the origins of modern human behaviour, symbolism and language

    Christopher S. Henshilwood;Francesco D'errico;Curtis W. Marean;Richard G. Milo

  • Characteristics of an Early Hominid Scavenging Niche [and Comments and Reply]

    Robert J. Blumenschine;Henry T. Bunn;Valerius Geist;Fumiko Ikawa-Smith

  • Captive hyaena bone choice and destruction, the Schlepp effect and olduvai archaeofaunas

    Curtis W. Marean;Lillian M. Spencer;Robert J. Blumenschine;Salvatore D. Capaldo

  • Pinnacle Point Cave 13B (Western Cape Province, South Africa) in context: The Cape Floral kingdom, shellfish, and modern human origins.

    Curtis W. Marean

  • Late PlioceneHomoand Oldowan Tools from the Hadar Formation (Kada Hadar Member), Ethiopia

    William Kimbel;R. C. Walter;Donald Johanson;Kaye Reed

  • An early and enduring advanced technology originating 71,000 years ago in South Africa

    Kyle S. Brown;Kyle S. Brown;Curtis W. Marean;Zenobia Jacobs;Benjamin J. Schoville

  • Impact of carnivore ravaging on zooarchaeological measures of element abundance

    Curtis W. Marean;Lillian M. Spencer

  • Mousterian large-mammal remains from Kobeh Cave behavioral implications for Neanderthals and early modern humans

    Curtis W. Marean;Soo Yeun Kim

  • Meat eating and human evolution

    Curtis W. Marean

  • Measuring the post-depositional destruction of bone in archaeological assemblages

    Curtis W. Marean

  • Middle and Late Pleistocene paleoscape modeling along the southern coast of South Africa

    Erich C. Fisher;Miryam Bar-Matthews;Antonieta Jerardino;Curtis W. Marean

  • A high resolution and continuous isotopic speleothem record of paleoclimate and paleoenvironment from 90 to 53 ka from Pinnacle Point on the south coast of South Africa

    Miryam Bar-Matthews;Curtis W. Marean;Zenobia Jacobs;Panagiotis Karkanas

  • Explaining the “Klasies Pattern”: Kua Ethnoarchaeology, the Die Kelders Middle Stone Age Archaeofauna, Long Bone Fragmentation and Carnivore Ravaging

    Laurence E. Bartram;Curtis W. Marean

  • Shellfish gathering, marine paleoecology and modern human behavior: perspectives from cave PP13B, Pinnacle Point, South Africa.

    Antonieta Jerardino;Curtis W. Marean

  • Zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of the Die Kelders Cave 1 Layers 10 and 11 Middle Stone Age larger mammal fauna

    Curtis W Marean;Yoshiko Abe;Carol J Frey;Robert C Randall

  • Bone Density and Long Bone Representation in Archaeological Faunas: Comparing Results from CT and Photon Densitometry

    Y.M. Lam;Xingbin Chen;Curtis W. Marean;Carol J. Frey

  • Mousterian large-mammal remains from Kobeh cave : Behavioral implications for Neanderthals and early modern humans. Commentaries. Author's reply

    C. W. Marean;Soo Yeun Kim;R. J. Blumenschine;N. J. Conard

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard M. Cowling
Richard M. Cowling Nelson Mandela University
Zenobia Jacobs
Zenobia Jacobs University of Wollongong
Andy I.R. Herries
Andy I.R. Herries La Trobe University
Janet Franklin
Janet Franklin San Diego State University
Julia A. Lee-Thorp
Julia A. Lee-Thorp University of Oxford
Miryam Bar-Matthews
Miryam Bar-Matthews Geological Survey of Israel
Shannon P. McPherron
Shannon P. McPherron Max Planck Society
Marco A. Janssen
Marco A. Janssen Arizona State University
Paul Goldberg
Paul Goldberg Boston University
Francois Engelbrecht
Francois Engelbrecht University of the Witwatersrand

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