Selected Publications

Research & review papers:

McBrearty, S. 1999. Earliest stone tools in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. In Whybrow, P. & Hill, A., eds., Fossil Vertebrates of Arabia. Yale University Press, pp. 373-388.

Sally McBrearty 2007. Down with the Revolution. In Paul Mellars, Katie Boyle, Ofer Bar-Yosef & Chris Stringer, Editors Rethinking the Human Revolution. McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 133-151.

Tryon, C. & McBrearty, S. 2006. Tephrostratigraphy of the Bedded Tuff Member (Kapthurin Formation, Kenya) and the nature of archaeological change in the later Middle Pleistocene. Quaternary Research 65:492-507.

McBrearty, S. & Tryon, C. 2005. From Acheulian to Middle Stone Age in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya. In Hovers E. & Kuhn, S., Editors Transitions before the Transition: Evolution and Stability in the Middle Paleolithic and Middle Stone Age . New York: Springer, pp. 257-277.

McBrearty, S. 2005. The Kapthurin Formation: What we know now that we didn't know then. In Lieberman, D.E., Smith, R. J., & Kelley, J. Eds., Interpreting the Past: Essays on Human Primate, and Mammal Evolution in Honor of David Pilbeam. Boston: Brill, pp. 263-274.

McBrearty, S. & Jablonski, N. 2005. First fossil chimpanzee. Nature 437:105-108.

Tryon, C. A. & S. McBrearty. 2002. Tephrostratigraphy and the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42:211-235.

Deino, A. & S. McBrearty. 2002. 40Ar/39Ar chronology for the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42:185-210.

McBrearty, S. 2001. The Middle Pleistocene of East Africa. In Barham, L. H. & Robson-Brown, K., eds., Human Roots: Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene , pp. 81-97 . Bristol, UK: Western Academic & Specialist Press.

McBrearty, S. & A. Brooks. 2000. The Revolution That Wasn't: a New Interpretation of the Origin of Modern Human Behavior. Journal of Human Evolution 39:453-563.

McBrearty, S 1999. Archaeology of the Kapthurin Formation. In Andrews, P., and P. Banham, eds. Late Cenozoic Environments and Hominid Evolution: a Tribute to Bill Bishop. London: Geological Society of London, pp. 143-156.

McBrearty, S. 1999. Earliest stone tools in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. In Whybrow, P. & Hill, A., eds., Fossil Vertebrates of Arabia. Yale University Press, pp. 373-388.

McBrearty, S., L.C. Bishop, T. Plummer, R. Dewar & N. Conard. 1998. Tools underfoot: Human trampling as an agent of lithic artifact modification. American Antiquity 63: 108-129.

McBrearty, S. 1997. Behavior and environments of early African hominids In Vogel, J, ed., Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa. Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press, pp. 269-275.

McBrearty, S., L.C. Bishop, & J.D. Kingston. 1996. Variability in traces of Middle Pleistocene hominid behavior in the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya . Journal of Human Evolution 30 :563-580.

McBrearty, S. 1993. Reconstructing environmental conditions surrounding the appearance of modern Homo sapiens in Africa. In Abonyi, S., ed ., Culture and Environment: a Fragile Coexistence . University of Calgary: Archaeological Association, pp. 145-154.

McBrearty, S. 1993. Lithic artifacts from Abu Dhabi's Western Region, Tribulus 3:13-14.

McBrearty, S. 1993. Sangoan technology and habitat at Simbi, Kenya. Nyame Akuma 38:34-39.

McBrearty, S. & M. Moniz. 1991. Prostitutes or providers? Hunting, tool use, and sex roles in earliest Homo . In Walde, D. & N. Willow, eds., The Archaeology of Gender, University of Calgary: Archaeological Association, pp. 71-82.

PUBLICATIONS, Research & Review Papers , continued:

McBrearty, S. 1991. Recent research in western Kenya and its implications for the status of the Sangoan industry. In Clark, J.D., ed ., Cultural Beginnings: Approaches to Understanding Early Hominid Lifeways in the African Savanna . Bonn: Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, Forschunginstitut fur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte, Monographien 19:159-176.

McBrearty, S. 1990. The origin of modern humans. Man 25:399-418.

McBrearty, S. 1990. Consider the humble termite: termites as agents of postdepositional disturbance at African archaeological sites. Journal of Archaeological Science 17:111-143.

McBrearty, S. 1989. Cutlery & carnivory. Journal of Human Evolution 18:277-282.

McBrearty, S. 1988. The Sangoan-Lupemban and Middle Stone Age sequence at the Muguruk site, western Kenya. World Archaeology 19:379-420.

McBrearty, S. 1987. Une evaluation du Sangoen: son age, son environnement et son rapport avec l'origine de l'Homo sapiens . L'Anthropologie 91:127-140.

McBrearty, S. 1986. The Archaeology of the Muguruk Site, Western Kenya. Ph.D. thesis, University of Illinois. University Microfilms.

McBrearty, S., T. G. Wynn & S. A. C. Waane. 1984. The archaeology of the Mbeya Region, southwestern Tanzania. Azania 9:128-132.

McBrearty, S., T. G. Wynn & S. A. C. Waane. 1982. Mbeya Region archaeological survey. Tanzania Notes & Records 88/89:15-32, 96.

McBrearty, S. 1981. Songhor: a Middle Stone Age site in western Kenya. Quaternaria 23:171-190.

McBrearty, S. 1978. The Isimila site and the status of East African paleolithic research. Steward Journal of Anthropology 10:25-46.

 

PUBLICATIONS Short Reports, Reviews, Abstracts:

Ashley, G. M., Hover, V. C., Driese, S. G., Roure, C. A., McBrearty, S., Owen, R. B., & Renaut, R. W. 2007. A changing landscape in the semi-arid tropics: insights from paleosols, East African Rift, Kenya. Geological Society of America (abstract).

Tryon, C. & McBrearty, S. 2004. New Middle Stone Age sites from the southern Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya. Paleoanthropology (abstract, online).

McBrearty, S. 2003. Patterns of technological change at the origin of Homo sapiens . Before Farming 3 (9):1-5.

McBrearty, S. 2003. Comment on Henshilwood, C.S. & Marean, C.W. The origin of modern human behavior: critique of the models and their test implications. Current Anthropology 44:641-642.

McBrearty, S. 2003. Comment on Hovers, E., Ilani, S., Bar-Yosef, O. & Vandermeersch, B. An early case of color symbolism: Ochre use by modern humans in Qafseh Cave. Current Anthropology 44:514.

Fisher, R. E. & McBrearty, S. 2002. The Comparative Morphology of Hominin Postcranial Remains from the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo District, Kenya. American Journal of Physical Anthropology S34:70.

Tryon, C. & McBrearty, S. 2002. The Middle Stone Age of the southern Kapthurin Formation, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 42:A37.

McBrearty, S., Deino, A., Tryon, C. 2001. Chronology of Middle Pleistocene events in the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 40:A14 (abstract)

 

 

PUBLICATIONS Short Reports, Reviews, Abstracts, continued:

McBrearty, S. & C. Tryon. 2001. Resolving the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition through tephrostratigraphy in the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya. Nyame Akuma 54:52 (abstract).

McBrearty, S. 2000. Review of Boxgrove: A Middle Pleistocene Hominid Site at Eartham Quarry, Boxgrove, West Sussex, M. B. Roberts and S. A. Parfitt, with contributors, 1999, London: English Heritage Archaeological Report 17. Geoarchaeology : An International Journal 15:819-822.

McBrearty, S. 2000. Identifying the Acheulian to Middle Stone Age transition in the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 38:A20 (abstract).

McBrearty, S. 1999. Review of the Biennial meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, May 20-24, Syracuse, New York. Evolutionary Anthropology 8:1-3.

McBrearty, S., B. Brown, A. Deino, J.D. Kingston, & and S. Ward. 1999. Anatomy, context, age, and affinities of hominids from the Kapthurin Formation, Baringo, Kenya. Journal of Human Evolution 36:A12 (abstract).

McBrearty, S. 1993. Comment on Stern, N. The structure of the Lower Pleistocene archaeological record. Current Anthropology 34:218.

McBrearty, S. 1993. Review of Ju/Wasi: Bushmen of the Kalahari. Temporary installation, Harvard University Peabody Museum. American Anthropologist 95:258-259.

McBrearty, S. 1992. The Sangoan record at Simbi, Kenya. Nyame Akuma 37:50-51 (abstract).

McBrearty, S. 1992. Lithic artifacts. In Whybrow, P.J. ed., Paleontological and Geological Study on the Miocene Rocks of the Western Region, Abu Dhabi. British Museum (Natural History): First report to the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, the Abu Dhabi Company for Onshore Oil Operations & the Al Ain Museum, pp. 38-40.

McBrearty, S. 1992. Review of Sperber, G.H., ed. From Apes to Angels: Essays in Anthropology in Honor of Philip Tobias. New York: Wiley-Liss. American Journal of Human Biology 8:695-698.

McBrearty, S. 1991. Introduction to human evolution. NLA News 7:1-3.

McBrearty, S. 1991. Review of Willis, Delta. The Hominid Gang. New York: Pantheon. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 84:224-225.

McBrearty, S. 1990. Review of Willoughby, P. R. Spheroids and Battered Stones in the African Early and Middle Stone Age. Oxford: B.A.R. International Series 321, 987. Journal of Human Evolution 19:331-332.

McBrearty, S. 1989. Review of Ohel, M. Y. The Acheulian of the Yiron Plateau, Israel. Oxford: B.A.R. International Series 307, 1986. Journal of Human Evolution 18:414-415.

McBrearty, S. 1989. Review of Tattersall, I., E. Delson, & J. van Couvering. Encyclopedia of Human Evolution & Prehistory. New York: Garland Press, 1988. AmericanScientist 77:379.

McBrearty, S. 1988. Review of Foley, Robert. Another Unique Species: Patterns in Human Evolutionary Ecology. Harlow: Longman, 1987. Bioscience 38: 648-649.

McBrearty, S. 1988. Reconstructing behavior of late middle Pleistocene hominids in western Kenya (abstract). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 75:247.

McBrearty, S. 1986. The Sangoan industry of western Kenya . The Longest Record: the Human Career in Africa. Berkeley, Abstracts, p. 59.

McBrearty, S. 1984. Archaeology and the archdemon. Kenya Past & Present 16:28-32.

McBrearty, S. T. G. Wynn & S. A. C. Waane. 1976. Field report. Nyame Akuma 9:15-16.

 

News coverage, commentaries, quotes, reviews of work (selected)

Gibbons 2009. Oldest Blades Recovered. ScienceNOW (402): 2

Wade, N. 2006. Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors. New York: Penguin.

Cann, R. 2006. Review of Wade, N. 2006. Before the Dawn. Science 313:174.

Gosline, A. 2006. Ancient beads imply culture older than we thought. New Scientist (UK) 22 June.

Fossil chimpanzee coverage, 2006:

Garnier, L. Quel est le plus vieil ancêtre de l'homme? Science et Vie (Paris) 235:20-23 (Juin)

Fossil chimpanzee coverage, 2005. Print: Times of London; San Francisco Chronicle; La Folha, Sao Paolo, Brazil; San Jose Mercury News; The Oympian, Olympia Washington; UConn Advance; Knight-Ridder Newspapers: Grand Forks Herald; San Luis Obispo Tribune; Centre Daily Times, PA; Lexington KY News; Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC; Tallahassee Democrat; Kansas City Star, MO ; Duluth News Tribune, MN; Charlotte Observer, NC ; Macon Telegraph, GA ; Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA; Biloxi Sun Herald; Monterey County Herald, CA; Record-Searchlight, Redding, CA. Web : Nature, Science, BBC, National Geographic, New Scientist, MSNBC, Live Science, Natural History Museum (London), Scientific American, Science & Technology Center, Museum of Science, Boston, Discovery Channel, La Borsa Italia Roma.

Smaglik, P. 2005. Making the Paper. Nature 437 : xiii-xiii, 1 st September var pat = "CMG"; var cat2 = "nature"; var test = cat2.match(pat); if (!test) { //document.write("\(01 Sep 2005\)"); document.write("\(01 Sep 2005\)"); } .

Anon. 2005. If this is a man. The Economist, December 20.

Wong, Kaye. 2005. The morning of the modern mind. Scientific American. June, pp. 86-95.

Labi, Aisha. 2005. Anthropologist in Germany resigns amid falsification accusations. Chronicle of Higher Education. March 11.

Hotz, R.L. 2004. With Ancient Jewelry, It's the Thought That Counts. Los Angeles Times, April 16.

Vergano, D. 2003. Carved ivory figures go back a few years –30,000 or so. USA Today , December 18, page 11D.

Bower, B. 1002. Stone age code red. Science News 164:277-278

Randerson, J. 2003. The dawn of human race uncovered. New Scientist 178:4-5, 11 June.

Mayell, H. 2003. When did 'modern' behavior emerge in humans? National Geographic News, February 20. Posted to www.news.nationalgeographic.com

Korkmaz, H. H. 2003. Ilk Insanlar Vahsi miydi? Posted to www.sizinti.com.tr, the website of Aylik Ilim Kültür Dergisi (Turkey).

Auerbach, J. 2002. Editor's choice, McBrearty & Brooks, 2001, 'The revolution that wasn't.' Category: Historiography, pre-10,000 BC, Blackwell Publishing. Posted to www.history-compass.com.

Wade, N. 2002. Geneticists Track More of Earliest Humans' First Itineraries. Science Times section, New York Times, 12 November.

Wilford, J. N. 2002. When humans became human. Science Times section, New York Times, 26 February, pages D1, D5.

Balter, M. 2002. What made humans modern? Science 295:1219-1225.

Fullagar, R. 2002. Becoming human. Australian Association of Consulting Archaeologists Newsletter 89:14-15 (Reprint of Hickey, 2001).

Hickey, G. 2001. Becoming Human. Nature Australia 27:10-11.

 

News coverage, commentaries, quotes, reviews of work (selected, continued):

Wade, N. 2000. The origin of the Europeans. Science Times section, New York Times, 14 November, pages D1, D9.

Ritter, M. 2000. Oyster cult: coastal way of life existed 125,000 years ago for ancient humans. Associated Press, April 3. Posted to ABC News.com

Clark, J. D. 1999. Review of Vogel, J., ed., Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa . Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press. Journal of Field Archaeology 26:443-453.

Holden, C. 1998. No last word on language origins. Science 282:1455-1458.

Gutin, J.A. 1996. Do Kenya tools root birth of modern thought in Africa? Science 270:1118-1119.

Bower, B. 1995. Africa's ancient cultural roots. Science News 148:378.

Marlett, A. 1995. 1995 from the rear. Northeast Magazine, Sunday Hartford Courant, p.10.

Anon. Older tools found. Atlanta Journal Constitution , Dec. 16.

Katz, A. 1995. UConn anthropologist traces civilization to ancient Africa. New Haven Register , Nov. 17, Front page.

Grant, S. 1995. Discovery of tools suggests early humans more advanced. Hartford Courant , Nov. 17.

Allman, W. 1996. First genius: the dawn of creativity. U.S. News & World Report 120:52-58.

Texier, P.-J. 1996. Production en serie. Pour la Science (France) 223:22.

Um ancestral totalmente fora to lugar. Super (Brazil) Feb 1996, p. 8.